Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement, died on 16 January in Cape Town at the age of 75. During apartheid, she began to organise women in her employer’s garage and went on to become the president of the first global union led by women.
The late Ben Turok would probably have had much to say as the current party negotiation process unfolds. South Africa needs his voice, and that of more like him, now more than ever. His legacy will be marked at the inaugural Ben Turok Memorial Lecture. The late Ben Turok would probably have had.