Naledzani Mashapa: National student leader, champion of worker rights and fierce non-racialist

From leading the South African Students Congress, to working in the trade union movement, Mashapa – who died recently – ‘eschewed high government offices and blue lights’ in his commitment to the struggles of the masses.

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