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Author | : Stephen Clingman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Apartheid |
ISBN | : 9781431407521 |
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A passionate study of an Afrikaner dissident who was one of the founding fathers of the liberation struggle in South Africa and whose power to provoke an intense response is as apparent today as in the past.
Author | : Stephen Clingman |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780864866776 |
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A passionate study of an Afrikaner dissident who was one of the founding fathers of the liberation struggle in South Africa and whose power to provoke an intense response is as apparent today as in the past.
Author | : Chris Van Wyk |
Publisher | : Awareness Publishing |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Anti-apartheid movements |
ISBN | : 177008164X |
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Author | : Harry Kalmer |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1776146441 |
Download The Bram Fischer Waltz Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Although widely known as the Afrikaner communist who saved Nelson Mandela from the gallows, very little is known about Bram Fischer the man. Fischer was a respected Senior Advocate at the Johannesburg Bar who chose to side with the oppressed and went underground to join the armed struggle. He was arrested on 5 November 1965 after almost ten months on the run. ‘I owed it to the political prisoners, to the banished, to the silenced and to those under house arrest not to remain a spectator, but to act.’ These words spoken by Bram Fischer in his statement from the dock during his treason trial were followed by a life sentence. Scion of a proudly Afrikaner family that included a prime minister and a judge president of the Orange Free State, he would seem to be an unlikely hero of the liberation movement. Uncompromising in his political beliefs and driven by an unshakeable integrity and a commitment to the dream of a non-racial democracy, Fischer was also humorous, fun-loving and a family man, devoted to his wife and children. The many facets of this remarkable man are reflected in The Bram Fischer Waltz, Harry Kalmer’s lyrical tribute. A brief and intense work, with the protagonist as narrator, this one person play takes the audience through a roller coaster of emotions as it tells Fischer’s story. The play won The Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award when it premiered in English at 2013 the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and was awarded the Adelaide Tambo Award for Human Rights in the Arts in 2014. The text is supplemented by a foreword by George Bizos and an introduction by the playwright, reflecting on the path that led him to write the play, and an afterword by Yvonne Malan, entitled ‘The Power of Moral Courage’.
Author | : Martin Meredith |
Publisher | : Jonathan Ball Publishers |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1868427196 |
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Martin Meredith documents the remarkable life of Bram Fischer in his biography Fischer's Choice. Fischer was born into an aristocratic Afrikaans family but became one of South Africa's leading revolutionaries. Regarded in his youth as having a brilliant career ahead of him, he rebelled not only against the apartheid system but also against his own Afrikaner people. As a defence lawyer, Fischer managed to save Mandela from the death penalty demanded by state prosecutors for his sabotage activities. He played a remarkable role in the underground movement aimed at overthrowing the government. To the very last, even when all the other conspirators had been arrested or fled into exile, Fischer held out, sought for months by the security police. His single-handed efforts ended inevitably in failure. Sentenced to life imprisonment, he was cast into solitary confinement, the government continued to regard him as a potentially dangerous influence even when he was dying of cancer, refusing all appeals to release him until the last few weeks of his life. Set against the dramatic background of two massive historical struggles, one by the Afrikaans, the other by the Africans, Fischer's life contains all the ingredients of a political thriller.
Author | : Christian Action |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Apartheid |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Communists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Naomi Mitchison |
Publisher | : Kennedy & Boyd |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781849212144 |
Download A Life for Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Naomi Mitchison's account of the life and work of the Afrikaner lawyer and political activist Bram Fischer (1908-1975) was first published in 1973, two years before his death. She writes from the perspective of her own experience - gained during regular visits and a commitment to Southern Africa, particularly Botswana, from the 1960s onwards - to present the key elements and actors in the story of the country and the peoples of South Africa. Above all, of Bram Fischer, who gave up a life of privilege to oppose, professionally and underground, the Government's 'monstrous policy' of apartheid.
Author | : Bram Fischer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Trials (Political crimes and offenses) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan Kirkaldy |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783030839208 |
Download Everyday Communists in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the role of social movements in the Southern African liberation struggle, through the lens of two ‘everyday communists’. Focusing on the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the author explores the lives of Ivan and Lesley Schermbrucker, whose contribution to the party was more clandestine than that of leaders such as Bram Fischer and Joe Slovo. They represent how ‘ordinary’ people could play significant roles based on stances more rooted in common decency and morality than in Marxist theory. The book also sheds light on the interplay between transnational and national tendencies during the liberation movement, particularly between the 1940s and the 1960s. The Schermbruckers changed their views in response to the shifting national and international political landscape, the rise of Stalinism, and the flight of South African activists into exile from the 1960s. Both fluent in African languages, they were able to create relationships of trust with African members of the CPSA. Examining tensions and conflicts during the liberation struggle, this book provides fresh insights into ‘underground’ activism.