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Bram Fischer, Afrikaner, lawyer and anti-apartheid activist, was born OTD in 1908. After defending Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial in 1963 and 64, he was put on trial himself by the apartheid government and sentenced to life imprisonment. 1./
Bram Fischer, Afrikaner, lawyer and anti-apartheid activist, was born OTD in 1908. After defending Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial in 1963 and 64, he was put on trial himself by the apartheid government and sentenced to life imprisonment. 1./
His wife, Molly a niece of Jan Smuts, was an anti-apartheid activist in her own right. She was one of over 1500 South Africans detained without trial during the state of emergency imposed after the Sharpeville Massacre.
Photo credit - National Museum Publications Archive.
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