The Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… members of the Left Opposition were involved in trade union work. They were succeeded by Max Gordon, a Trotskyist … from Cape Town, and had built the first major black trade union movement in the Transvaal. At a later stage, after … no movement in the country. [2] After a resurgent trade union movement was built, bringing thousands of workers onto …