Albert Thomas Nzula ( Eng. Albert Nzula ; 1903 or November 16, 1905, Roxville, Orange Free State - January 17, 1934, Moscow , USSR [1] ) - South African politician, activist of the labor and communist movement of South Africa, Marxist , journalist.
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Biography
Belonged to the Zulus . He was educated in missionary schools in Bensonvale and Lowendale, receiving a teacher’s diploma, after which he moved to Alival-North, Transvaal, where he worked as a teacher, translator and secretary of the local branch of workers in industry and trade; later he moved to Evaton, where he got a job as a teacher at the Wilberforce Mission School, after some time he received the post of its director.
From a young age, he actively participated in the activities of the African National Congress, and in August 1928 joined the Communist Party of South Africa , where he quickly gained a reputation as a talented speaker and gained fame; as a result of this event, he began to be persecuted by anti-communists and was forced to resign as headmaster of a school in Evanton and move to Johannesburg, where he began to teach at a black evening school organized by the communists. Soon, agents of the secret police of South Africa entered the school and accused him of “inciting racial hatred”, arresting and putting him on trial in April 1929, as a result of which, however, Nzula was only fined [2]
Due to his oratorical abilities and ideological ideology, Nzula was elected, despite his young age, in 1929 as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa, and then Secretary of the African Federation of Trade Unions and, together with Edward Roux, Secretary of the League for the Rights of the Indigenous Population. Under his leadership, mass protests of the black population against racism, oppression and discrimination were organized.
In 1930, he began to rapidly lose his authority due to progressive alcoholism, as a result of which he lost the post of Secretary of the Central Committee, however, becoming a member of the Central Council of the Profintern as a representative of the progressive trade unions of South Africa (also known as the “Federation of Non-European Trade Unions”). In 1931, he left for Moscow to study at the Lenin School, and there he became an author and a member of the editorial board of the Comintern magazine The Negro Worker , which was a body of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers. He wrote his work under the pseudonym Ted Jackson. While in the USSR, he wrote, in particular, the book “The Land of Diamonds and Slaves” (1932) and co-authored the work “Forced Labor and the Labor Movement in Negro Africa” (1933).
He died in Moscow from, according to the official version, pneumonia. Nevertheless, there is a version that he could have been killed by the Soviet special services because of suspicions of sympathy for Trotskyism [3] (about which he talked about while intoxicated).
Notes
- ↑ Albert Nzula | South African History Online
- ↑ Africa: ME. Ivan Izosinovich Potskhin, 1963. Page 79.
- ↑ The death of Albert Nzula and the silence of George Padmore unopened (link unavailable) . Date of treatment March 26, 2014. Archived March 27, 2014.
Links
- Nzula Albert Thomas - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .