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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 · 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...
Advocate Abram "Bram" Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 in the Orange Free State. He was born into a prominent Afrikaans family, son of Percy Ulrich Fischer, at the time a member of the Bloemfontein Bar.
Apr 23, 2008 · 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. He eschewed the privileges of the elite environment he grew up in and which guaranteed him a top position in the apartheid firmament.
Jul 1, 2022 · "In 1964 Bram Fischer led the defence of Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial. In 1966 Fischer was himself sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa for his political activities against the policies of apartheid.
Bram completes a Bachelor of Arts degree with distinctions in economics and history and then begins a part-time law degree at Grey while simultaneously working as a registrar in the Supreme Court of the Orange Free State to the Judge-President, Sir Etienne de Villiers.
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. His grandfather had also been a Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony and Bram proceeded to study law.
Bram Fischer was born in 1908 into a highly placed Afrikaner family. During the Anglo- Boer War, his grandfather served as a close confidante of President Steyn of the Orange Free State.
He is the great unsung hero of the early phase of the struggle against apartheid. He led the defense team at the Rivonia Trial and, with his brilliant conduct of the defense, saved Mandela, Sisulu, Govan Mbeki (father of Thabo, who later succeeded Mandela as the second president of a free South Africa), and the other defendants from the gallows.
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.
