Archibald “Archie” Sibeko. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjmcadie/5606094290 [Accessed: 13 December 2011]
Synopsis
Agricultural officer, trade union organiser, National Executive Committee member of SACTU, member of the African National Congress, 1956 Treason Trialist.
First name
Archibald
Middle name
Mncedisi
Last name
Sebeko
Date of birth
03-March-1928
Location of birth
Kwezana Village, Eastern Cape,South Africa
Date of death
27-March-2018
Location of death
Eastern Cape,South Africa
Gender
Male
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s. After obtaining a diploma in Agriculture, he moved to Cape Town where he began working in a laundry. It was here that he became deeply involved in the trade union movement and worked alongside Oscar Mpetha and Ray Alexander Simons among others. In 1954 he joined the African Laundry Workers' Union.