Braam Fischer

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Braam Fischer was born in a conservative Afrikaner family in the Free State South Africa (dates?).He studied in Stellenbosch and in Oxford and became a lawyer. Although he outwardly worked with the white minority apartheid regime, he secretly supported and aided Nelson Mandela and the ANC , plus he became the leader of the communist party in South Africa. He was eventually discovered to be leading this double life and eventually was arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act and jailed, together with Mandela and others (see Rivonia Trials). He died in prison. Today he is hailed as a national hero (not by Afrikaners, many of whom have labelled him a traitor, "veraaier")[1][2]

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  1. ^ South African Communist Party
  2. ^ People's Weekly World - Address by the Secretary-General of the ANC to the 12th Congress of the SACP
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