John Gomomo

Phumzile John Gomomo (25 October 1945 – 22 January 2008) was a South African unionist and activist.

He left school in standard 6 (grade 8) because of family poverty, and subsequently completed his matriculation through correspondence courses.

He was working at Volkswagen as a welder when he became chairperson of the factory's shop stewards committee, leading strikes there in 1980 and 1982.

He was elected regional chairperson of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), of which NAAWU was an affiliate.

In 1986 he was part of a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) delegation that met with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, and in 1989 was again in a COSATU group that briefed Nelson Mandela in prison.