A labour union strike is looming in the Eastern Cape provincial legislature following a dispute between the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) and speaker Helen Sauls-August. Sauls-August and Nehawu are at loggerheads over the employment of a senior manager in the legislature.
Nokhanime Thomas was an Eastern Cape-born liberation struggle veteran, a trade unionist and an underground operative in the ANC military wing, uMkhonto weSizwe. Born in Duncan Village’s Tsolo location in East London in 1940, Mamtshawe, as Thomas was affectionately known, was a community leader and unionist.