Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate
eventREF E-0011315Revised

Event record

Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born

Date
28 Aug 1908
Updated
25 Aug 2020
Eli Weinberg cartoon

On 28 August 1908 Eli Weinberg was born in Libau, Latvia. Weinberg was a trade unionist and communist party member. He co-founded the African Garment Workers' Union in Cape Town and he was jailed and banned several times under Apartheid law. Besides his role as an activist, Weinberg was also a renowned photographer. He died on 18 July 1982 in exile in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Search events by date

What happened on your birthday?
View more events from this day

How we know this

  1. 01Verwey: New Dictionary of South African Biography.
  2. 02Remembered, (1908 - 1981), "Obituary for Eli Weinberg (1908 - 1981)", from Remembered, [Online] available at remembered.co.za [Accessed : 22 August 2013]

Last updated · 25 Aug 2020

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011315

South African History Online (2011) 'Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011315 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011315, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011315. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0011315.

Further reading

Oudtshoorn, Western Cape Place

Oudtshoorn, Western Cape

The division of Oudtshoorn was originally part of the District of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in...
Popular Content
Sol Plaatje University Place

Sol Plaatje University

Sol Plaatje University (SPU) opened in 2014 (AS SEEN IN PHOTO), the first of two new universities to be established in.....
Popular Content
Namibia Place

Namibia

Namibia, a former German colony, is situated towards the north west of South Africa.
Popular Content
Greyton, Western Province Place

Greyton, Western Province

This Village of Greyton, in the Cape, was established in 1852. Although the first plots of land were only sold in 1854.
Popular Content
Tulbagh, Western Cape Place

Tulbagh, Western Cape

On 1 February 1808 the territory North of the Great Berg river was annexed to the new District of Tulbagh, and declared....
Popular Content
Franschhoek, Western Cape Place

Franschhoek, Western Cape

Originally known as the Valley of the Huguenots, a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by...
Popular Content

SAHO is free because readers fund it. Donate →