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Zwelinzima Joseph Vavi was born on 20 December 1962 on a farm in Hanover, Northern Cape. His father was a mineworker.

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Vavi has four brothers and seven sisters. He is the 10th child in a family of 12. Until he was baptised, he did not know the date of his birthday. He was a child labourer, looking for work on neighbouring farms.

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He matriculated in 1983. He attended Maritaaz Technical College where he obtained a secretarial qualification.

Vavi’s career in the labour movement started in 1984 when he was working as a clerk on a gold minethe Uranium plant of Vaal Reefs no 8 shaft. In 1987, Vavi worked in the gold-mining area of Klerksdorp and Orkney in the North West Province.

He was also a uranium plant clerk at Vaal Reefs mine, and joined the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) as an organizer in 1987 at the Klerksdorp region in the North West Province. Subsequently, he was fired from AngloGold following a massive miners' strike. He then joined Congress of th