Jimmy Green

This article is about the South African labour activist. For the North Carolina politician, see James C. Green. For the golfer, see Jimmy Green (golfer). For other uses, see Jim Green (disambiguation).

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