Bram Fischer

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Abram Louis 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. As Nelson Mandela has said in Long Walk to Freedom, Fischer was one of the bravest foes of apartheid because he gave up more than others: a life of privilege that would have resulted from his pedigreed Afrikaner birthright and a virtually guaranteed senior position in the apartheid government if he had wanted it. Instead, he chose a very different path as is described below. In Country of My Skull Antjie Krog writes, "He was so much braver than the rest of us, he paid so much more, his life seems to have touched the lives of so many people - even after his death."