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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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
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…
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 ……
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
BiographyJoseph Mpoza
… He played a leading role in Worcester strikes and trade union campaigns. …
BiographyJoseph Mpoza
… He played a leading role in Worcester strikes and trade union campaigns. …
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…
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…
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…
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…