Albert nzula biography

South African politician and activist

Albert Nzula (1905 – 17 January 1934) was a South African politician and activist.

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Nzula was the first black secretary general of the Communist Party of South Africa.^[1] His home town, Rouxville, honoured him by opening a library named after him.

Early life

Nzula was born in Rouxville in the Orange River Colony (currently known as Free State province) in 1905.

He was born of an ethnic Nguni background but his family was brought up in a Sotho culture. He was a student at the Bensonvale Institution in Herschel before completing his education at Lovedale where he qualified as a teacher.

Albert Nzula was a South African politician and activist.

Albert Nzula was a South African politician and activist.

Albert Nzula was born in Rouxville, in the Orange Free State in He received his formal education at Bensonvale in Herschel and at Lovedale.

Albert Nzula ( – 17 January ) was a South African politician and activist.

He was born on the 16th November, at Rouxville in the.

By then his alias had become Tom Jackson, a name he had seen on a sign in South Africa.

After graduation, he moved to Aliwal North and that is where his political career resumed.

Political career

He became secretary of a local branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) in Aliwal North.

He moved to Evaton and taught at Wilberfoce. During his stay there, he joined the Communist Party