This Day in History: February 28, 1980
On 28 February 1980, Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become an insurance company agent. During the 1940s and into the 1950s, he became involved in the Transvaal worker's unions.
Butshingi was President of the South African Cricket Board from 1956-1970, and a community leader in various capacities.