DITSELA aims to contribute to strengthening the labour movement by:

• Promoting workers’ education as part of the broader education and training discourse
• Providing quality non-formal and formal workers’ education that encourages critical thinking, activism and transformation of education and of society
• Supporting the development of organisational and educational capacity to build a strong workers’ movement
• Advancing the unity and solidarity of the working class locally, on the continent and globally
• Upholding the traditional union values of democracy, collectivism, equality, human rights and the dignity of labour
• Collaborating with the workers’ education movement locally and globally