Mark Shope

Mark Williams Shope SCOB (1919–1998) was a South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist. He rose to prominence as the chairman of the African Laundry Workers' Union between 1952 and 1963 and he was the second general secretary of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). He was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress and an Umkhonto we Sizwe commissar.