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
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.
It was at the end of 1976 — a tumultuous year which had seen epoch-changing student uprisings that began in Soweto and quickly spread throughout the country. Bloch was one of a group of student leaders at UCT who rallied mainly white students in support of black students soon after the protests had reached Cape Town...
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