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Abraham Louis Fischer (23 April 1908 – 8 May 1975) was a South African Communist lawyer of Afrikaner descent with partial Anglo-African ancestry from his paternal grandmother, notable for anti- apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela, at the Rivonia Trial.
May 7, 2019 · Published: May 7, 2019 9:22am EDT. In October 1963 Nelson Mandela and nine of his African National Congress (ANC) comrades went on trial in South Africa’s capital Pretoria on charges of sabotage....
Synopsis: Lawyer and Chairman of the SACP. First Name: Abram "Bram" Last Name: Fischer. Date of Birth: 23-April-1908. Location of Birth: Orange Free State, South Africa. Date of Death: 08 May 1975. Location of Death: Bloemfontein,Orange Free State, South Africa. Gender: Male.
Bram Fischer’s Legacy. Nelson Mandela’s leadership steered South Africa to the end of apartheid rule. But the remarkable rapprochement between the races can be traced to Mandela’s friendship with an Afrikaner Nationalist who helped save the country. By Sir Nicholas Stadlen. Bram Fischer, Johannesburg, circa 1963.
April 23, 2008 – Abraham “Bram” Fischer, who was born on April 23, 1908 into the Afrikaner establishment, is remembered, 100 years later, as a hero in the struggle against apartheid.
Feb 9, 2022 · The Bi-annual Bram Fischer Lecture takes place on 10 February 2022 to celebrate and honour his life. Like many events over the past two years, it will be a virtual lecture, making it accessible...
May 14, 2020 · Bram Fischer was born in 1908 in South Africa to an eminent Afrikaner nationalist family. Like his father and grandfather before him, Bram became a lawyer and seemed destined for eminence as a future Prime Minister or Chief Justice. His path, however, took a different turn.
23 April, Abram (Bram) Fischer is born in Orange Free State to an auspicious family that includes Abraham Fischer, Brams grandfather, who was State Secretary of the Free State Republic and the only Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in 1907, and his father Percy Fischer, who later became Judge President of the Orange Free State.
Feb 14, 2013 · Bram Fischer once said that it was everyone's duty to stand our ground and to oppose the South African government's "monstrous policy of apartheid" with every means in our power. Well, the human rights defenders of Africa are standing firm and staring down monsters — just as Bram Fischer did.
Bram Fischer. (April 23, 1908 - May 8, 1975) Lawyer and political activist. Abram, or Bram, Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, his father being a Judge President of the Orange Free State Supreme Court.
