This Day in History: 29 July 1961
James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and president of the South African Coloured People's Organisation from 1957-1959, dies in Cape Town.
Source:
Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC.