The NTESU logo was adopted at the Inaugural Congress of the Union in February 1998.

Designed by John Landman of the NTESU (Rhodes) Branch it has the following representation.

The “Plum Red” colouring represents one of the traditional colourings of Academic Gowns. The red colour if you want to use it is colour number PMS 221 from the Printer's Pantone® colour chart. To get a better image in graphic packages or on the web here are the fill colour settings in three forms : RGB, HSV and HTML notation.

R	140
G	12
B	12
H	0
S	91
V	55
HTML	8c0c0c

The three arrows groupings represent aspects of the educational sector.

Universities, Universities of Technology and Related Institutions

Within each of these groupings are the several aspects found in each

Labour, Administrations, Students

General workers, Academic workers and Services workers

There are a large range of tri-partite groupings such as these that could apply