Shula Marks

Stories by: Shula Marks

AWG Champion poses in a studio portrait taken around 1925. (Photograph courtesy of UKZN Campbell Collection)

From the Archive | Champion, beer and the state

AWG Champion, head of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU Yase Natal), challenged municipal policies in Durban prohibiting domestic beer making.

By: Shula Marks
7 Feb 2019

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Allison Wessels George Champion (2nd from left), leader of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Natal. (Photograph supplied by UKZN Campbell Collections)

From the Archive | The arch agitator of the Union

A firebrand and a diplomat, Allison Champion, one-time head of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU Yase Natal), was a man of contradictions and enormous influence.

By: Shula Marks
31 Jan 2019