Prof Lucien van der Walt spoke on "Working Class Heritage: The Creation of the Working Class and its Struggles in South Africa" for the Heritage Day event of the Sundays River Valley Farm Workers Forum. Also present was the Kouga Farm Workers Re-union. The event was held on Saturday 26 September at the Masizakhe Community Hall, in Nomathamsanqa township, Addo, Eastern Cape.
The Sundays River Valley Farm Workers Forum provides education and training on workers' rights, representation and works with like-minded organisations to improve the plight of farm workers and dwellers. Lucien's talk looked at some significant moments in the rise of the workers' movement, and the lessons of the radical 1920s Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union of Africa (ICU) and the 1980s "workerist" Federation of South African Trade Unions of South Africa (FOSATU) for farmworkers' struggles today.