Connie September

Born: 26 June 1959
Updated: 28 Jun 2024

Summary

Trade Unionist, Deputy President COSATU, member of the ANC and Member of Parliament, Minister of Human Settlements.

Cornelia “Connie” September was born 26 June 1959 in the Western Cape and grew up on the West Coast where her mother would send her for holidays. September began her political activism in the trade union and labour movement. She worked as factory worker in Salt River with little interest in politics or trade unions. This changed in 1982, when she attended a meeting for the community newspaper Grassroots, where politics and workers’ rights were discussed. Subsequently, she became an active member of community organisations in the Cape.

How we know this

01Connie September from the Factory Floor, from South African History Online, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed 7 August 2013]
02Ms Connie September Human Settlements Minister, from the Department of Human Settlements, [online], Available at www.dhs.gov.za [Accessed 7 August 2013]

Last updated · 28 Jun 2024

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2013, August 7). Connie September. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/af/ref/B-0096276

South African History Online (2013) 'Connie September', South African History Online, 7 August. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/af/ref/B-0096276 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Connie September [website], https://sahistory.org.za/af/ref/B-0096276, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Connie September." South African History Online, 7 Aug. 2013, https://sahistory.org.za/af/ref/B-0096276. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Connie September." South African History Online. August 7, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/af/ref/B-0096276.