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Joshua Makue

Born in 1909 Makue was a teacher and tailor. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union after being refused enrolment as an engineering student at the University of the Witwatersrand because the course was not open to blacks. He joined the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment
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Born in 1909 Makue was a teacher and tailor. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union after being refused enrolment as an engineering student at the University of the Witwatersrand because the course was not open to blacks. He joined the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment