Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s. After obtaining a diploma in Agriculture, he moved to Cape Town where he began working in a laundry. It was here that he became deeply involved in the trade union movement and worked alongside Oscar Mpetha and Ray Alexander Simons among others. In 1954 he joined the African Laundry Workers' Union.
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Biography record
Archibald Mncedisi Sebeko
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjmcadie/5606094290 [Accessed: 13 December 2011]
- Born
- 3 March 1928
- Died
- 27 March 2018
- Updated
- 23 Aug 2019
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjmcadie/5606094290 [Accessed: 13 December 2011]
How we know this
- 01The Presidency Republic of South Africa, ‘Archibald Sibeko also known as Zola Zembe’, [online], available at www.thepresidency.gov.za[Accessed: 13 December 2011]
- 02Ontario Public Service Union, ‘OPSEU honours South African Freedom Fighter’, [online] available at www.opseu.org[Accessed: 13 December 2011]
- 03South African History Online, ‘The Treason Trialists, 1956’, [online] available at www.sahistory.org.za[Accessed: 13 December 2011]
- 04Archibald Sibeko (1928 - ), [online], from South Africa Overcoming Apartheid Building Democracy, Available at http://www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu [Accessed: 13 December 2011]
Last updated · 23 Aug 2019
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