John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in the village of Maruping in

Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality is an administrative area in the John Taolo Gaetsewe District of the Northern Cape in South Africa. Segonyana is the Setswana name of a spring, commonly known as Eye of Kuruman. Main places The 2001 census divid ...

. He was active in the African National Union of Laundry and Dry Cleaning Workers He was the last elected General Secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. He went to London after he was banned where he worked with Archie Sibeko and others. He relaunched the SACTU journal, Workers` Unity from London. He died in Botswana in December 1988. In his honour the Kgalagadi District Municipality was renamed the JohnTaolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in 2008.

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