Denis Goldberg

Goldberg was a Jew, communist, subversive and revolutionary who came unstuck when he was captured in Rivonia and sent to trial. He got four life stretches.

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He is a Jewish South African social campaigner, who was active in the struggle against apartheid and was imprisoned along with other key members of the anti-apartheid movement.

He grew up in Cape Town and studied for a degree in Civil Engineering. As member of the South African Communist Party, an organization which was suppressed by the apartheid regime which came to power in 1948, he joined other leading white [ read that as Jewish - Editor ] members in forming the Congress of Democrats, of which he became leader. This in turn allied itself with the African National Congress and other 'non-racial' congresses in the Congress Alliance. He was detained in 1960 and spent four months in prison without trial.
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When the underground armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe was founded in 1961, Goldberg became a technical officer. In 1963 he was arrested at the Rivonia headquarters of their army. He was sentenced in 1964 at the end of the famous Rivonia Trial to four terms of life imprisonment. He was the only white member of Umkhonto we Sizwe to be arrested and sentenced in the Rivonia Trial to life imprisonment.
UNQUOTE ex  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Goldberg
 

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Goldberg

 

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