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Abram "Bram" Fischer. 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.
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 · Bram Fischer was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 1966. At his trial, he invoked his Afrikaner pedigree as a driving force for his opposition to apartheid. Fischer told the...
Abram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975. 1908. 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 ...
The lawyer Bram Fischer fought against South Africa’s policy of apartheid, or racial discrimination. He was imprisoned after helping to save Nelson Mandela and other black leaders from execution. Fischer was also a leader of the South African Communist Party (SACP).
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.
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.
Mar 16, 2011 · South African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism. During the 1940s, Bram Fischer served on the Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP).
Jul 16, 2018 · In 1998 Stephen Clingman’s award-winning Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary was published. A documentary Love, Communism, Revolution and Rivonia: Bram Fischer’s Story was widely acclaimed.
