Lionel Forman

Born: 30 November 1926
Died: 02-October 1959
Updated: 22 Jul 2026

Summary

journalist, author, barrister and member of the COD and SACP

Born in 1926 in Rosettenville Forman was a barrister and a journalist. He was author of the first book on the trial, 'You Can Hang For Treason'. Forman headed the South African Student delegation to international conferences. He was also an editor of Advance and New Age and a co-author of 'The South African Treason Trial ' and a member of the South African Congress of Democrats, as well as a member of the Communist Party of South Africa. He was an accused in the 1956 Treason Trial. His indictment was quashed in 1959. Lionel Forman died in October 1959.

How we know this

01From Protest To Challenge, Political Profiles Volume 4, p29

Last updated · 22 Jul 2026

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South African History Online. (2011, February 17). Lionel Forman. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0008078

South African History Online (2011) 'Lionel Forman', South African History Online, 17 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0008078 (Accessed: 22 July 2026).

South African History Online, Lionel Forman [website], https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0008078, (accessed 22 July 2026).

"Lionel Forman." South African History Online, 17 Feb. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0008078. Accessed 22 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Lionel Forman." South African History Online. February 17, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/zu/ref/B-0008078.