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Alexander P. Maduna

… Kadalie  began to build the  Industrial Commercial Workers Union  (ICU) in Natal in 1924, he appointed Maduna provincial …

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Stanley Silwana

… he helped organise the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  (ICU) in the early 1920s and, together with  Thomas … helped organise the Industrial and…

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Emsley Manne Dipico

… (since 1995) Patron of the Griqualand West Rugby Football Union (since 7 May 1996) Honorary President of Kimberley … Democratic Front (UDF) Regional…

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1924-2002

Makholeka Matthews Meyiwa

… at Alcan Aluminium Meyiwa became involved in the trade union movement, this led him to join the African National … Mabhida and Harry Gwala , and became…

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Paula Ensor

… politically active. She became a leader in the National Union of South African Students  (NUSAS) and active in the …

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Janub Gool

… after helping to found the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa, she fled South Africa in 1963 with  …

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1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… group became a student organisation - The Durban Students Union, which was affiliated to the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM). The Durban Student Union…

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1960

Khela Ngobese

… schooling, he attended the Khanya Theological Institute Union Correspondence College.He started painting at the age …

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1880

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

… paper of the  Independent Industrial Commercial Union  (ICU). In 1930 he was arrested in connection with the … Africa, the paper of the Independent…

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1913-1969

C. J. Mayekiso

… and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist and a leader of the  African …

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1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… to his political activism and joined a BCM-aligned trade union, the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers Union (BAMCWU). He became the regional…

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1915-2006

Hilda Bernstein

… in organisations associated with the struggle for National Union of Distributive Workers. She was a member of the South … She was one of the organisers of…

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1925-2015

Ruth Mompati

… at Vryburg Higher Primary School. She was in the students’ union in Tygerberg as well as the North West District Teachers’ Union. The issues then were the…

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Theodore B. Lujiza

… a branch of the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  in mid-1922. The two men became friends immediately. …

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1881-1969

Daniël Francois Malherbe

… Languages at Grey University College in Bloemfontein in 1910. Here he advised the Afrikaanse …

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Eddie J. Khaile

… secretary of the  Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union  (ICU), based in Cape Town, and also was recruited into …

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1923-2004

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

… worked as a labourer, a clerk, and a stevedore.He became a union organiser for the African Textile Workers in Port … Organiser for the African Textile…

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1882-1960

Mary Fitzgerald

… moved to Johannesburg as a typist for the Mine Worker’s Union. She got drawn into the plight of the miners and soon …

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1960

Ismail Vadi

… vice-president of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) from 1990 to 1994. He is currently a Member of … vice-president of the South African…

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1975

Tikkie Sibisi

… the ritual of Sangoma training) His father was a welder at Union Carriage and did freelance photography on weekends. He …

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1958-1985

Vernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng

… before was deployed to  South African Congress of Trade Union  (SACTU) underground machinery in Botswana. Nkadimeng …

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1929-2000

Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty

… as shop steward. He was dismissed because of his trade union work. He subsequently joined a cigarette wholesaler where he formed the Trade Union of Allied…

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1952

Glenn Moss

… leadership positions both on campus, and in the National Union of South African Students (Nusas). These included … for the Industrial Aid Society, but was…

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Phindile Mfethi

… to the Transkei.Former trade unionist with the National Union of Textile Workers and Secretary of the IAS; detained …

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1961

Janet Mary Cherry

… Cherry was elected General Secretary of the  National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). At that time, she … also served as a voluntary worker for the…

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1939

Marcus Solomon

… Island. Solomon played rugby for the City Suburban Rugby Union, which was Christian Coloured, in contrast to the Muslim Western Province Rugby Union. However…

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2018

Vondela Landingwe

… under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the apartheid era. He was also a …

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1922

George Edward Peake

… II , he became an active member of the Building Workers' Union. SACPO was founded in 1953, and Peake served as the … in World War II,  active member of the…

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