This article was written by Grace Garrott and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
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The submissions for the Albert Luthuli Oral History 2019 competition.
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Joseph Zenzele Mavi
Born:
1938
in Transkei,South Africa
Died:
1982
(Car accident)
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in the Transkei in 1938,Mavi matriculated at St John's High School and moved to Johannesburg in 1957,taking a series of semi-skilled jobs and gaining political experience working for Bantu Federation of South Africa,an early civic association.In 1970,when working as a truck driver,he was elected to the executive of the African Transport Worker's Union (ATWU),and in 1975 became its president.
The ATWU was a parallel union for blacks within th
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This article was written by Larkin Dobson and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
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This article was written by P.J. Van den Branden and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project