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… of Trade Unions (NACTU). After the Professional Educators Union (PEU) was launched in 1998, Dikobo served as … Vice-chairman of the Pietersburg District and later as the union’s President. He also served as Vice President of the Confederation of South African Workers Union (CONSAWU) after its launch in 2003. He was also elected …

… elementary school, he worked as a labourer and trade union organiser. His union comrades knew Mini as the 'organiser of the … workers and he subsequently became the Metal Workers' Union Secretary. Together with another activist, Stephen …

… the apartheid government. Hemson joined the National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS). After completing … unions such as the African Textile Workers Industrial Union (A-TWIU) and formed new unions in sectors of the … the research officer for the Textile Workers Industrial Union (TWIU). Towards the end of 1972, he succeeded Ambrose …

… for 14 years.he joined the furnture and Allied Workers Union Following this, Bonhomme was elected Vice-President of the Furniture and Allied Workers Trade Union in 1973. Whilst employed at the furniture factory, … became involved in politics.An affiliate of the Trades Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA). In 1972 he mobilised …

… and world politics - particularly politics of the Soviet Union as well as the relationship between Christianity and … position that was sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union. During World War II he became chairperson of the … which became the South African Friends of the Soviet Union (SAFSU) in 1946. Though SAFSU was largely composed of …

… Council. Modise also became a member of the  National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS) serving as an … the country. At the same time the Lund University Students Union in Sweden offered him a scholarship to go abroad and … Ghana to London was organised by the British Students Union. He then left the country for Bechuanaland, (now …

… was elected shop steward for the Metal and Allied Workers Union (Mawu). Following a strike over union recognition, he, together with the members of Mawu, was … both within and outside the country. On 24 August 1987 at Union Square in San Francisco over 40 protesters rallied for …

… Africa. Dlamini-Zuma was elected to serve as the African Union 's (AU) Chairperson from 2012 to 2017 despite stubborn … nomination to serve as chairperson of the African Union Commission was a convenient way to get her off the … Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s troubled tenure at the African Union”, …

… resulting in the formation of the Transvaal All-Women’s Union with Mpama as its Secretary. Mpama played an important … the historic 9 August 1956 anti-pass Women’s March to the Union Buildings in Pretoria , Gauteng – a march that she had … Clements Kadalie , who was the most renowned Black trade union leader in South Africa in the 1920s. Kadalie wrote that …

… office assistant for the South African Clothing Workers’ Union, where she collected subscriptions from factories and participated in wage negotiations. As a result, the Union sent Bertha to a commercial college where she studied … Levy collecting petitions that were to be delivered to the Union Buildings during the march. They collected a total of …

… active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in … and beaten. In 1986, after editing community and trade union papers, she was detained again, while she was several …

… to establish the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  (ICU) in the Transvaal in late 1924, Mbeki became one … He remained loyal to Kadalie in subsequent disputes in the union, but he lost his effectiveness as a leader when he …

… a representative of the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&GWU) at the Industrial Council; and a National …

… visited Moscow and spent a few months at the Higher Trade Union School. Very soon after going into exile he got married …

… J.R.D. Chikerema  Vice-President Zimbabwe African People`s Union O.R. Tambo  Deputy President  African National Congress … Chikerema, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African People`s Union, 05 August 1967 …

… She also became an active member of the Garment Workers' Union.  She served for many years as a shop steward in the … She soon became engaged in bitter fights within the Union.  Solly Sachs, then Head of the Union, favoured a policy of racial segregation of facilities …

… the early 1935 Marks became a full-time political and union organizer on his return to South Africa. In 1942, he … same year became the President of the African Mine Workers Union (AMU), which grew to a membership of over …

… involved in the student movement, joining the National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS). In 1973 Friedman … to provide information and training for workers and trade union organisers. In 1975 Friedman graduated with a Bachelor …

… black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910 that established the Union of South Africa, their treatment after the South … way for the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The eight years between the end of the war in 1902 and …

… a major force behind the progressive South African Rugby Union (SARFU) where he served as vice president from 1990 to … for over twenty years in the Victoria East Rugby Union, the South Eastern District Rugby Union, Victoria East Council of Sport, South African Rugby …

… He recruited bakery workers to join the Bakery Workers’ Union and broader liberation movements. His leadership … he left South Africa to attend Lenin School in the Soviet Union. In 1972, he was captured near Caprivi (bordered by …

… Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a …

… he devoted his energies to the achievement of a political union of the four British colonies in South Africa and was largely responsible for the drafting of the Union of South Africa's constitution as a delegate to the … His view on the treatment of Black people in the future Union was that, while it was the duty of Whites to deal …

… an organizer in the South African Railway and Harbours Union (SARHWU) which was linked to the South African Congress … to disrupt anti apartheid activities in the trade union movement. In 1961 uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) the armed wing … elected as the National Chairperson of the UDF and a trade union educator. It was around this time that he and Archie …

… he helped form the Black Health and Black Allied Workers Union of South Africa(BAWU), serving as a senior shop steward … of the local shop stewards’ committee. He also chaired the union’s national advisory committee. In 1986, Benny left his … with the South African Black Municipal and Allied Workers Union, an affiliate of the National Council of Trade Unions …

… about the transfer of Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa by the United Kingdom is concluded …

… The British actors’ union, Equity, decides to retain its ban on the sale of …

… Mozambique and the Soviet Union reject the findings of the Margo Commission on the air …

… The Africa Union (AU) summit opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and agrees …

… about the transfer of Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa by the United Kingdom is concluded …