Christina Jasson’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African trade unionist
Is Activist
Trade unionist
From South Africa
Type Activism
Gender female
Birth

1 January 1928

Age 93 years

Christina ‘Chrissie’ Jasson was a South African clerk and trade unionist from Port Elizabeth, who stood accused of treason at the Rivonia Trial.

Early life

Christina Jasson was born in 1928. She worked as a clerk in Port Elizabeth.

Political activism

Her political activism involved leading several strikes and she was active in the trade union movement where she organised food, canning workers and textile workers. She worked alongside Leslie Massina, Raymond Mhlaba, Wilton Mkwayi, Vuyisile Mini and Frances Baard.

She worked as the acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee between 1954 to 1955. Jasson was elected onto the national executive committee of the Federation of South African Women at the founding conference held in the Trade Hall in Johannesburg, on April 17 1954. She participated in the 1955 founding conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) representing the Textile Workers Industrial Union. She was an executive committee member of the SACTU National Conference in 1956.

She was pregnant when she was accused of treason and stood trial at the Rivonia Trial.She was amongst the second string of co-conspirators. The 156 accused were arrested and taken to the Johannesburg prison, known as ‘the Fort’, where males and females were separated. Little is known of the conditions that the women faced during their time in prison. Her daughter was born during the trial proceedings. The charges of treason were dropped. She passed away in 1999.

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