Skip to main content
Menu

Personal Information

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

Document Preview

Your browser doesn't support embedded PDFs. Click here to download the PDF.

Document Preview

Your browser doesn't support embedded PDFs. Click here to download the PDF.

Document Preview

Your browser doesn't support embedded PDFs. Click here to download the PDF.