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While strike violence may have declined in comparison with the 1980s, it does remain a persistent feature of South African industrial relations. This chapter represents a significant minority of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) members who may support the use of violence against non-strikers, or who may have an ambivalent attitude to the use of such violence. It explores the reasons for the persistence of strike violence, by supplementing the quantitative data gathered through the membership survey, with a qualitative study of strike violence that took place in the public health sector during the wider public service strike in 2007. The chapter ends with the argument that the limits to institutionalization cannot be understood only with reference to the dynamics within the field of industrial relations, but that institutionalisation implies acceptance by all parties of the underlying social order, of which industrial relations is simply one component. Keywords:2007 public service strike; COSATU; qualitative data; quantitative data
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