Abram Fischer fails to arrive in court

Date: 25 Jan 1965
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and disappears. He went underground and only recaptured in November to stand trial for conspiring to commit sabotage and being a member of the banned organisation, the Communist Party of South Africa. He was served with life imprisonment. Click here to read Fischer's statement from the dock.

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01SAHO, General South African History Timeline, from South African History Online, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 20 December 2013]
02SAHO, Abram "Bram" Fisher, from South African History Online, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 20 December 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Abram Fischer fails to arrive in court. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012035

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