People/labour leader

T. W. Thibedi

T. W. Thibedi, labour leader, from South Africa. Linked to gold.

Legacy

Described by Roux as for some years the only African communist in South Africa, he organised African workers' unions in the 1920s. After expulsion he worked with Bunting to launch an African mineworkers' union, a task the left achieved a decade later.1

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Partner ofSidney Percival BuntingTwo organisers who tried to launch an African mineworkers' union a decade early.1

Sources

  1. T W Thibedi South African History Online

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