Graeme Bloch: a life of commitment and love A leader in the fight against apartheid, he went on to write about the centrality of education and its failure to lift poor children out of the trap of a ‘second economy’ 12 April 2021 - 05:00 Trevor Manuel and Pippa Green Graeme Bloch at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection in Johannesburg, January 14 2013. Picture: ROBERT TSHABALALA
Shortly before his 21st birthday, Graeme Bloch was banned by the apartheid government. The restrictions meant he could not be with more than one person at a time, travel out of his magisterial district or attend educational institutions.