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Bram Fischer

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South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908-1975)

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Abram Fischer 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.

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Bram Fischer International Airport, Bloemfontein, South Africa.Bram Fischer International Airport, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Awards 2

1931Rhodes Scholarship
Lenin Peace Prize

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Abram Fischer 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. Following the trial, he was himself put on trial accused of furthering communism. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and diagnosed with cancer while in prison. The South African Prisons Act was extended to include his brother's house in Bloemfontein, where he died two months later.

Country
South Africa
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 1975 · aged 67
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18 languages

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