Denis Goldberg

Denis Goldberg ( born April 11, 1933, Cape Town ) is a South African activist who campaigned against apartheid and received as a defendant of the Rivonia process awareness.

Life

Goldberg grew up in a Jewish family in Cape Town, where he completed a degree in civil engineering from. As a member of the South African Communist Party ( SACP ), which was suppressed by the apartheid regime, he was co-founder of the Congress of Democrats ( Congress of Democrats ), an organization of white communists with about 200 members, who supported the African National Congress ( ANC). For his contribution Goldberg was arrested in 1960 without trial for four months.

As Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, was founded in 1961, Goldberg joined him in as an engineer officer. In 1963 he became the provisional headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a farm in Rivonia, near Johannesburg, was arrested and charged in the same trial for high treason and sabotage and sentenced to four life sentences.

When White came Goldberg, unlike his co-defendants black as Nelson Mandela, not on the infamous prison island Robben Iceland, but in a segregiertes prison in Pretoria in custody. There he completed three distance learning, his dismissal in 1985 after 22 years interrupted his law studies.

After his release, Goldberg went first to Israel, then into exile in London, where his family lived for many years. There he worked until 1994 in the London branch of the ANC, its representation at the United Nations, he took over.

Goldberg returned to South Africa in 2002 and worked for several years as a special advisor to the then Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Ronnie Kasrils. He was awarded the 2009 Order of Luthuli in silver and 2011 for his work for international understanding, the Federal Cross of Merit. Goldberg is a member of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Awards

  • 2009: Order of Luthuli in Silver
  • 2011: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class

Works

  • 2010: The job. A Life for Freedom in South Africa. Association A, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-935936-90-3

Publications

  • What a great life, a tribute to Nelson Mandela, July 2013
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