The late veteran labour journalist, analyst and organiser, Terry Bell, is being remembered as a principled man who worked to bring unions closer to workers and their struggles. Bell died on Wednesday, 25 March 2026, at Robert Sobukwe Town, in the Eastern Cape, at the age of 83.
Unionist, educator, journalist, author, analyst and organiser - these are some of the positions Terry Bell held as a true professional. He died suddenly while hiking with his daughter.
He and Ceiren went up on a mountain, standing on the mountain, looking down, and he said to her, Barbara would have loved this and then dropped dead. They tried to revive him, but they couldnt. The prognosis is that he died of a heart attack up on the mountain, says Bells brother, Neill Gordon Bell.
