Mabel Balfour

Mabel Balfour was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. She was involved with unions representing food and canning workers and became part of the Management Committee of the South African Congress of Trade Unions in 1957. She later served as General Secretary of the African Food and Canning Workers Union in Transvaal. She was arrested in 1958 for participating in the April Stay-at-Home protest and was banned in 1963 and confined to house arrest in Roodepoort. Quotes “Nobody will come from heaven to save us from oppressive wages. It is we who will have to see that the country is fed and produced what we produce.” New Age External links Category:Activists from South Africa Category:Trade unionists Category:Anti-apartheid activists Category:Women activists