By the 1970s Lucy Mvubelo had become a powerful force in the black South African Labor Union Movement. Born in Johannesburg in 1920 she first joined the Garment Workers Union in 1946 and eventually became the first black woman on the National Executive Council of the Trade Union Council of South Africa. Ten years later she helped organize one of the largest anti-apartheid demonstrations to that point, some 20,000 people who marched in Pretoria to protest pass laws. In her address, which was prepared for (but not delivered) to the International Labor Organization meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 15, 1973, she outlines what other workers groups around the world can do to undermine Apartheid.
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