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Zwelinzima Vaviis General Secretary of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and Vice-Chairperson of the Millennium Labour Council .

Vavi was born on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape, with a mineworker father and four brothers, seven sisters.

He does not know his birth-date. He was a child labourer, looking for work among neighbouring farms.

In 1987 Vavi worked in a gold-mining territory of Klerksdorp and Orkney. He was a uranium plant clerk at Vaal Reefs mine, and joined the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) as an organizer.

He was fired from AngloGold in 1987 following a massive miners’ strike which crippled the Chamber of Mines.

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He then joined Cosatu as a volunteer.

In 1988, he became COSATU’s regional secretary for the Western Transvaal. In 1992 he took up the position of National Organizing Secretary. he served as COSATU’s Deputy General Secretary from 1993 to 1999.

Vavi took centre stage in the four-month negotiation that p