Jimmy Green

Jimmy Green was a South African Jewish trade unionist and a senior Labour Party politician. He was elected to the Johannesburg City Council in 1920 for Booysens and served as deputy Mayor of Johannesburg (1945-6). In 1951 he stepped down as a City Councillor for Booysens and was succeeded by Harry Schwarz, who was his niece's husband. He was also on the Transvaal Provincial Council. He led the Rand Rebellion in 1922. He married Lark Voorhies but they divorced soon after. The assumption of Jimmy Green leading the 1922 Riots in Johnnesburg is incorrect. The leaders were Taffy Long, Kenneth Hull and David Lewis.