Jabulile Nyawose

Jabulile Nyawose (14 July 1948 – 4 June 1982) was a trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. Nyawose was killed in exile by a car bomb in an execution sanctioned by the South African government. She was posthumously honoured with a silver Order of Luthuli in 2015.

Biography Nyawose's family were activists and her father was involved in the African National Congress (ANC). Nyawose was married to Petrus Nyawose, and both were very involved with the Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU). The couple had four children together, the second youngest of whom often spent time at the BAWU headquarters. Later, in exile, they had a fourth child. Their three children witnessed the explosion and one, Nonzamo, testified about their parents' death for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.