# Benjamin Burombo

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{{Short description|Labor union leader (b. 1909, d. 1959)}}
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'''Benjamin Burombo''' (1909 - 10 April 1958) was a [labor union](/source/labor_union) leader and black nationalist in [Southern Rhodesia](/source/Southern_Rhodesia), now [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe). Born in [Buhera](/source/Buhera) in [Manicaland](/source/Manicaland), he worked in [South Africa](/source/South_Africa), and then in [Bulawayo](/source/Bulawayo), where he formed the British African National Voice Association in 1947.<ref>Robert Cary and Diana Mitchell, 1980, 'Benjamin Burombo, ''African Nationalist Leaders in Zimbabwe, Who's Who'', Salisbury: Cannon Press, online at https://www.colonialrelic.com/biographies/benjamin-burombo/, accessed 12 November 2018</ref> Better known as the [African Workers Voice Association](/source/African_Workers_Voice_Association), the union was notable for its role in the 1948 general strike and campaigned against the 1951 Native Land Husbandry Act.<ref>Ngwabi Bhebe, 1989, ''Benjamin Burombo: African politics in Zimbabwe, 1947-1958'', Harare: College Press</ref> The Act was intended to privatise communal lands.<ref>Harold Nelson, 1983, ''Zimbabwe: A Country Study'', Washington, pp. 137–153</ref> Burombo died at a relatively young age, in the aftermath of an operation to remove a brain tumor. His funeral and burial at the Bulawayo Old Cemetery was a major public event, drawing as many as 15,000 people according to some estimates.<ref>Ngwabi Bhebe, 1989, ''Benjamin Burombo: African politics in Zimbabwe, 1947-1958'', Harare: College Press</ref>

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