Vuyisile mini biography

          Vuyisile Mini (8 April – 6 November ) was a trade unionist, Umkhonto we Sizwe activist, singer and one of the first African National Congress.!

          Trade unionist, Secretary of SACTU, member of ANC and MK, singer and one of the first ANC members to be executed by the apartheid state.

        1. Vuyisile Mini.
        2. Vuyisile Mini (8 April – 6 November ) was a trade unionist, Umkhonto we Sizwe activist, singer and one of the first African National Congress.
        3. Vuyisile Mini was a trade unionist, Umkhonto we Sizwe activist, singer and one of the first African National Congress members to be executed by apartheid South Africa.
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        5. Vuyisile Mini

          Musical artist

          Vuyisile Mini (8 April 1920 – 6 November 1964) was a trade unionist, Umkhonto we Sizwe activist, singer and one of the first African National Congress members to be executed by apartheid South Africa.

          Early life

          Mini was born in 1920 in Tsomo in rural Transkei. Mini's father who was born in Tsomo and later moved to Port Elizabeth as a young man was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles, which inspired Mini, at 17, to take part in bus fare and rent increase protests.

          He was also active in campaigns against forced removals of Black people from Korsten (where he lived) to Kwazakhele.

          Vuyisile Mini was a talented musician, composer, and political activist who used his music as a tool for resistance against the oppressive apartheid regime.

          After completing elementary school, he worked as a labourer and trade union organiser.

          Trade union career

          His union comrades knew Mini as the "organizer of the unorganized", because of his courage and tireless efforts to organize workers across Eastern Cape during the increasingly repressive 1950s.

          Mini was tasked by the South Afri