Shulamith Muller
Synopsis
Attorney, Member of the South African Communist Party, National General Secretary of the National Union of Distributive Workers, a member of the Congress of Democrats and the Civil Rights League and an attorney in the 1956 Treason Trial
First name
Shulamith
Last name
Muller
Date of birth
11-December-1922
Location of birth
Pretoria, Transvaal,South Africa
Date of death
July 1978
Location of death
Swaziland
Gender
Female
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948. She joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the early 1940s and was “listed” as a Communist by the apartheid regime in 1951, appearing on The List at No. 208. She married fellow Communist Party member, and trade unionist, Mike Muller in 1943.