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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Bram Fischer

1908 - 1975

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Abraham Louis Fischer (23 April 1908 – 8 May 1975) was a South African Communist lawyer of Afrikaner descent with partial Anglo-African ancestry from his paternal grandmother, notable for anti-apartheid activism and for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures, including Nelson Mandela, at the Rivonia Trial. Following the trial, he was himself put on trial accused of furthering communism. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and diagnosed with cancer while in prison. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bram Fischer has received more than 314,789 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bram Fischer is the 518th most popular social activist (down from 442nd in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 149th in 2019) and the 9th most popular South African Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bram Fischer ranks 518 out of 538Before him are Bogaletch Gebre, Dolores Huerta, Beyers Naudé, Iqbal Masih, Frances Willard, and James Larkin. After him are Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Yolanda King, Hu Jia, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Emily Davies, and Robert Emmet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Bram Fischer ranks 353Before him are Branislav Hrnjiček, Marceline Day, Víctor Peralta, Carl Shy, Raymond Scott, and Imogene Coca. After him are Theodore Roethke, Carl Laemmle Jr., Fidel Ortiz, Antony Tudor, George Simpson, and David Marshall. Among people deceased in 1975, Bram Fischer ranks 229Before him are Anatoly Blagonravov, George R. Price, Lancelot Hogben, Lionel Tertis, Kay Johnson, and Evelyn Brent. After him are Joseph Calleia, Fidel Ortiz, Frithjof Sælen, Alice Catherine Evans, Marjorie Main, and Larry Parks.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Bram Fischer ranks 164 out of 374Before him are Karel Schoeman (1939), John Langalibalele Dube (1871), Thomas Shardelow (1931), Ahmed Kathrada (1929), Beyers Naudé (1915), and Sol Plaatje (1876). After him are Gordon Hodgson (1904), Grace Mugabe (1965), Enoch Sontonga (1873), Caster Semenya (1991), Christian Gitsham (1888), and Griselda Pollock (1949).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In South Africa

Among social activists born in South Africa, Bram Fischer ranks 9Before him are Evelyn Mase (1922), Frances Ames (1920), Devdas Gandhi (1900), Denis Goldberg (1933), Ted Grant (1913), and Beyers Naudé (1915). After him are Albertina Sisulu (1918), Kumi Naidoo (1965), Nkosi Johnson (1989), and Ayakha Melithafa (2002).