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Bram Fischer

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Abram Fischer, commonly known as Bram Fischer, (23 April 1908 Bloemfontein – 8 May 1975 Bloemfontein) was a South African lawyer of Afrikaner descent, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia Trial. [1]

53 relations: Abraham Fischer, Advocate, African National Congress, Afrikaners, Airports Company South Africa, Antjie Krog, Apartheid, Arthur Chaskalson, Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein Airport, Burger's Daughter, Country of My Skull, Grahamstown, Grey College, Bloemfontein, Harold Hanson, House arrest, Jan Smuts, Jean van de Velde (director), Lawyer, Lenin Peace Prize, Liliesleaf Farm, London, Long Walk to Freedom, Mail & Guardian, Nadine Gordimer, Naomi Mitchison, National Arts Festival, Nelson Mandela, Netherlands, New College, Oxford, Nobel Prize, Orange Free State, Orange River Colony, Percy Yutar, Pretoria Central Prison, Rhodes House, Rhodes Scholarship, Rivonia Trial, Robben Island, Robert Resha, Ruth First, Sharpeville massacre, South African Communist Party, Soviet Union, Stellenbosch University, Sunday Times Literary Awards, Sydney Kentridge, University of Oxford, University of the Free State, Victoria Cross, ..., Volga River, 1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike, 1956 Treason Trial. Expand index (3 more) »

Abraham Fischer

Abraham Fischer (1850–1913) was a South African statesman.

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Advocate

An advocate in this sense is a professional in the field of law.

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African National Congress

The African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing political party.

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Afrikaners

Afrikaners are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Airports Company South Africa

Airports Company of South Africa Limited (ACSA) is a South African airport management company.

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Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog (born 23 October 1952) is a South African poet, academic, and writer.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Arthur Chaskalson

Arthur Chaskalson SCOB, (24 November 1931 – 1 December 2012) was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005.

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Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.

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Bloemfontein Airport

Bram Fischer International Airport is primary airport located in Bloemfontein, a city in the Free State province of South Africa.

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Burger's Daughter

Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape.

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Country of My Skull

Country of My Skull is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog primarily about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

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Grahamstown

Grahamstown, never known as Makhanda (Grahamstad, iRhini) is a town of about 70,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

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Grey College, Bloemfontein

Grey College is a public school for boys located in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa, one of the 23 Milner Schools.

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Harold Hanson

Harold Joseph Hanson (9 August 1904 – 17 February 1973) was an eminent South African advocate (QC) and Senior Member of the Johannesburg Bar Council.

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House arrest

In justice and law, house arrest (also called home confinement, home detention, or, in modern times, electronic monitoring) is a measure by which a person is confined by the authorities to a residence.

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Jan Smuts

Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (24 May 1870 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher.

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Jean van de Velde (director)

Jean van de Velde (born 14 March 1957) is a Dutch film director and screenwriter.

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Lawyer

A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.

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Lenin Peace Prize

The International Lenin Peace Prize (международная Ленинская премия мира, mezhdunarodnaya Leninskaya premiya mira) was a Soviet Union award named in honor of Vladimir Lenin.

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Liliesleaf Farm

Liliesleaf Farm in northern Johannesburg, South Africa, was the farm used secretly by African National Congress activists in the 1960s and was the location where many prominent African National Congress leaders were arrested, leading to the Rivonia Trial.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Long Walk to Freedom

Long Walk to Freedom is an autobiography written by South African President Nelson Mandela, and first published in 1994 by Little Brown & Co.

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Mail & Guardian

The Mail & Guardian is a South African weekly newspaper, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison, CBE (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet.

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National Arts Festival

The National Arts Festival (NAF) is an annual festival of performing arts in Grahamstown, South Africa.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Orange Free State

The Orange Free State (Oranje-Vrijstaat, Oranje-Vrystaat, abbreviated as OVS) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which later became a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa.

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Orange River Colony

The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War.

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Percy Yutar

Percy Yutar (29 July 1911 – 13 July 2002) was South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general.

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Pretoria Central Prison

Pretoria Central Prison (official name: Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre) is a large prison in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, operated by the South African Department of Correctional Services.

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Rhodes House

Rhodes House is part of the University of Oxford in England.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after the Anglo-South African mining magnate and politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

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Rivonia Trial

The Rivonia Trial took place in South Africa between 9 October 1963 and 12 June 1964.

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Robben Island

Robben Island (Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa.

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Robert Resha

Robert Resha (1920-1974) was a South African journalist and political dissident.

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Ruth First

Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Sharpeville massacre

The Sharpeville massacre was an event which occurred on 21 March 1960, at the police station in the South African township of Sharpeville in Transvaal (today part of Gauteng).

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South African Communist Party

The South African Communist Party (SACP) is a communist party in South Africa.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University (Universiteit Stellenbosch) is a public research university situated in Stellenbosch, a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.

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Sunday Times Literary Awards

The Sunday Times Literary Awards are composed of two awards, fiction and non-fiction, given by the South African newspaper the Sunday Times.

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Sydney Kentridge

Sir Sydney Kentridge KCMG, QC (born 5 November 1922) is a South African-born former lawyer, judge and member of the English Bar.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of the Free State

The University of the Free State is a multi campus public university in Bloemfontein, the capital of the Free State and the judicial capital of South Africa.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.

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Volga River

The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe.

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1946 African Mine Workers' Union strike

The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa.

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1956 Treason Trial

The Treason Trial was a trial in Johannesburg in which 156 people, including Nelson Mandela, were arrested in a raid and accused of treason in South Africa in 1956.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Fischer

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