AWG Champion (4 December 1893, near the Tugela River mouth KwaZulu-Natal – 1975), was a South African trade unionist, activist, writer and public intellectual.
[1] Soon after joining the ICU in the Transvaal in 1925 Champion became second in command of the union and moved to Durban.
In 1927 when the union began to break apart he formed and led the ICU yase Natal, which became a powerful organisation in Durban and wider KwaZulu-Natal.
[2] He then became a leading figure in the African National Congress becoming the acting president-general in 1946–1947.
[1] In 1951 he lost the contest for the presidency of the Natal section of the ANC to Albert Luthuli[3] after which he ran a store and became an influential convservative figure in Natal, with close relations to the Zulu royal family.