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Graeme Bloch: a life of commitment and love

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. ....

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OBITUARY | At the forefront of the struggle, Graeme Bloch was a shining beacon

OBITUARY | At the forefront of the struggle, Graeme Bloch was a shining beacon
He helped form the End Conscription Campaign and was part of the launch of the United Democratic Front
11 April 2021 - 17:55 By Chris Barron
Graeme Bloch, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 65, was at the cutting edge of the struggle against apartheid in the Western Cape.
When he was 20, he was detained for two weeks and banned for five years for leading University of Cape Town students on a “solidarity march” after the June 1976 uprisings. When his banning order was lifted in 1981 he immediately resumed open anti-apartheid activism, becoming a founding member of the Detainee Parents Support Committee the same year. In 1983 he was part of the formation of the End Conscription Campaign, an organisation that rejected military service under the apartheid government. ....

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