Solomon Rasmeni

Solomon Mandlenkosi Rasmeni (born 17 September 1953) is a South African politician and former trade unionist. Formerly an organiser for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the Western Transvaal, he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009. Before that, he was a member of the North West caucus of the Senate during the first democratic Parliament.

Early life and union activism Rasmeni was born on 17 September 1953 in Sterkspruit in the former Cape Province. He was a mineworker in the Western Transvaal, from 1975 in Klerksdrop, where he worked at Vaal Reefs. He was also arrested on several occasions. Also in the early 1990s, after the ANC was unbanned by the apartheid government, he served as the party's regional chairperson in the Western Transvaal. though he left his seat before the end of the legislative term. In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to the National Assembly, he was highly ranked on the ANC's party list on both occasions: second on the North West list in 1999 and first in 2004. He left Parliament after the 2009 general election.

Personal life He married Rachel Rasmeni in 1981.