On 25 January 1965, Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, failed to arrive in court, forfeited his bail and disappeared. He went underground and was only recaptured in November to stand trial for conspiring to commit sabotage and being a member of the banned organisation, the South African Communist Party (SACP). Bram Fischer was a lawyer of Afrikaner descent, a dedicated cadre of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and notable for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures.
Abraham (Bram) Louis Fischer was born on 23 April 1908 from a prominent Afrikaner family; his father was Percy Fischer, a judge president of the Orange Free State, and his grandfather was Abraham Fischer, a Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony and later a member of the Cabinet of the Union of South Africa. Prior to studying at University of Oxford (New College) as a Rhodes scholar during the 1930s, Bram was schooled at Grey College and Grey University College in Bloemfontein.
Fischer joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1940s and soon rose to leadership positions. The CPSA had a close relationship with the African National Congress (ANC) and in 1943, Fischer co-authored revisions to the constitution of the ANC. In 1946 he was charged with incitement arising out of his position as a leader of the CPSA and the African Mine Workers’ Strike of that year. After the CPSA was banned in 1950, he became Chairman of the illegal South African Communist Party
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Very interesting!he was total different and dedicated to the struggle and committed to his duties as a communist activist and its’clearly shows that he doesn’t like to support his fellow white people who hated his confidence of being non racist