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Clements Kadalie
Clements Kadalie was a trade unionist from Nyasaland, now Malawi, who founded the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in Cape Town in 1919. Under his leadership the ICU became the first mass movement of black workers in South Africa in the 1920s, before it split and declined at the end of the decade. He later led an independent branch of the union in East London.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Clements Kadalie. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/clements-kadalie
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