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Rebecca Lan
… with Ray Alexander to discuss working for the trade union movement but was advised by Ray to finish her studies. … Secretary of the 12 600-strong Food and…
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… 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…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… 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…
BiographyElliot Shabangu
… of the UDF Transvaal. When the Black and Allied Workers Union (BAWU) split Shabangu became involved in the offshoot, the Construction and Allied Workers…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
… ), and the ANC-aligned South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU) and later the armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto … intelligence to the ANC exile. He was a…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
… He recruited bakery workers to join the Bakery Workers’ Union and broader liberation movements. His leadership … he left South Africa to attend Lenin School…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
… an organizer in the South African Railway and Harbours Union (SARHWU) which was linked to the South African Congress … to disrupt anti apartheid activities…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
… 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’…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… Council. In 1948, she established the Women’s Progressive Union that worked hand-in-hand with the Institute of Race … took up nursing as a profession. The…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… a trade unionist, a member of General and Allied Workers Union (GAWU), and a shop steward which meant she was a target … factories in the northern suburbs…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… prompted Mamagobo to report Atlas Screw to the SACTU, the union he e represented. The trade union decided to take Atlas Screw to court for not complying ……
Excerpts from Rev. Frank Chikane’s (Chancellor of National Orders) speech at the Award Ceremony of the New National Orders, Union Buildings, Pretoria, 2 December 2003
… speech at the Award Ceremony of the New National Orders, Union Buildings, Pretoria, 2 December 2003 …
Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, monarch of the British Empire (thus also of the Union of SA at the time), is born at
… Victoria, monarch of the British Empire (thus also of the Union of SA at the time), is born at …
The Union Jack is lowered for the last time in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of Rhodesia becomes Zimb
… The Union Jack is lowered for the last time in Africa on this day …
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… of Clements Kadalie's Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), and Harry Gwala , a young teacher in Mabhida's … underground party urged Mabhida to…
BiographyR. Daniel
… Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a …
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… contribution to the Second World War Mattheus Uys Krige (1910-1987) can certainly be counted among the most dynamic … this article focuses exclusively on…
BiographyJoseph Booth
… Natal in 1896 he presented plans for an African Christian Union, which would establish industrial missions; these in … drew up ambitious plans for a system…
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
… trade unionism when became part of the Electrical Workers Union affiliated to the National Council of Trade Unions. In … General Secretary for the Metal and…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
… truck driver and joined the racially mixed Lorry Drivers' Union, serving as a member of its executive. He joined the … in 1961, he helped found the African…
BiographyNomvula Paula Mokonyane
… and leader of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA, now South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union …
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
… August 1956 , she led the Natal contingent of women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against the … of child care facilities. Dorothy was awarded…
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
… of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu). In the 1980s, he was one of many young … a member of National Education Health & Allied…
Mary Matilda Brown
… Brown was elected by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of the Cape Colony to be a member of its executive council. She served as the Union’s…
BiographyManasseh Tebatso Moerane
… Ngubane made an abortive attempt to establish a National Union of African Youth in Natal. In 1943 he participated in … he played a prominent role in the…
BiographyPercy Fitzpatrick
… and was released trust. Later served as a member of the Union Parliament. …
BiographyJames J. Majoro
… was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the … member and secretary of the African…
BiographyTerry Bell
… of the short-lived non-racial South African Journalists’ Union (SAJU). As a political activist, he was a member of the … launched by the South African Metal…
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… department. In August 1982, Cusa resolved to form National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and in December Ramaphosa became … to the formations of the Congress of…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… of the local ANC and secretary of the Mine Workers Union at the time. In 1957 Curtis married Rose Magors, a … He was elected Honorary Vice President of the…