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Oscar Mpetha
Oscar Mafakafaka MpethaOMSS was born in Mount Fletcher 5 August 1909 and died on 15 November 1994. He was a South African trade unionist and political activist.
Personal life
Mpetha was educated at local schools and at Adams College. In the 1930s, he married Rose Constance Nombunga Mpetha, they had two children. He died on 15 November 1994 at his Gugulethu home.[1] he is the great grandfather of Kayelin Nhlanhla Mpetha.
Political career
In 1934 he went to Cape Town as a migrant worker.
He started his union activities when he was a road labourer in 1940[2] and began working as an assistant foreman. He had also previously been employed as a dock worker, waiter, hospital orderly, and later as a factory worker.[3]
He joined the Food and Canning Workers' Union when he worked at a fish canning factory in Laaiplek,[4] he was involved as a trade unionist and political leader in the AFCWU in the late 1940s and early 1950s and in 1951 he became the General Secretary. In 1954, he joined the Communist Party,&# Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, where he was employed as a dock worker, waiter, hospital orderly, road worker, and later as a factory worker. In the late 1940s he helped to organise the African Food and Canning Workers' Union and in 1951 became its general secretary. He joined the African National Congress ANC in 1951 and in 1958 was chosen president of the Cape ANC in a disputed election. He was subject to bans from 1954 into the 1960s and was detained during the 1960 state of emergency. In 1983 he was convicted of terrorism and of inciting a riot at a squatter camp in August 1980 during which two whites were killed. He was sentenced to five years in prison. While he was making an unsuccessful appeal of his sentence, he was selected to be one of three co-presidents of the United Democratic Front (UDF), an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. Oscar was only released in October 1989 with other Rivonia political prisoners. He spent most of his senten Oscar Mpetha was a South African trade union leader and founder member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). In 1980 he was arrested after taking part in protests in Nyanga, Cape Town, in which two people were killed. After a long trial he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and eventually released in 1989 soon after his 80th birthday. This leaflet was produced by the AAM and the British Transport and General Workers Union.•
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tu33. ‘Free Oscar Mpetha!’
Category: Trade unionists Author: Anti-Apartheid Movement and Transport and General Workers Union Copyright: AAM Archives Committee Holding Institution: AAM Archive, Bodleian Library Catalogue: MSS AAM 315 Date/Year: 1988
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