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… Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He … headmaster announced that students would be learning a foreign language, German. The implication was clear, many … hoped and believed that Hitler would win the war. When Goldreich's teacher distributed the German "textbook", …

… known as the Rivonia trialists. Her brother, James Kantor a lawyer, was later also arrested but acquitted in the … cells of her husband, Harold Wolpe , along with Arthur Goldreich , Mosie Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat . She smuggled … to buy freedom for Harold and the three others – Arthur Goldreich, Mosie Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat. The sensational …

… Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in … Johannesburg and detained top ANC leaders. Wolpe, Arthur Goldreich , Abdulhay Jassat and Mosie Moolla escaped from a … one of the nation's largest manhunts. For days Wolpe and Goldreich, both white Communists, hid in safe houses until …

… Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the   Transvaal Indian Congress  (TIC), which was … as their legal representatives and were acquitted after a six months’ trial. Jassat was arrested again during the … met with two Rivonia trialists, Harold Wolpe and Arthur Goldreich. They together befriended a policeman whom they …

… 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by  Nelson Mandela  and  Walter Sisulu . It was a play on his surname and a reference to his slight physique … of Mosie Moolla, Abdulhay Jassat , Wolpe and  Arthur Goldreich . Shirish Nanabhai recalled that, “Every child …

… A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, … in Cape Town , Cape Province (now Western Cape) in 1903 on a ‘poor ship’ from Lithuania, escaping the Russian pogrom … – Moosa Moolla , Harold Wolpe , Charlie Jassat, and Arthur Goldreich – from Marshall Square Police Station in …

… the Bar in 1924. He was involved in the Springbok Legion a sort of an auxiliary body, although he was not in the army. … in this, and according to Hilda Watts (Bernstein) , he was a left wing radical. Berrangé joined the Communist Party of … no one was prosecuted for membership in the SACP. Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe , following their arrest at …

… Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was a companion of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi . He was … a key role in planning and executing the escape of Arthur Goldreich , Harold Wolpe , Mosie Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat …

… on 26 February 1927 in Johannesburg to Abraham Kantor, a lawyer and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor … James Kantor & Partners, in Johannesburg. He excelled as a divorce lawyer. He usually represented the wife and, at a … , Govan Mbeki , Raymond Mhlaba , Ahmed Kathrada , Arthur Goldreich , Dennis Goldberg and Lionel ‘Rusty’ Bernstein. …

… town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export business. The family was forced to relocate to Bloemhof, a nearby town, following the Great Depression of the 1930s. … along with  Abdulhay Jassat , Harold Wolpe and  Arthur Goldreich . Mosie then left the country illegally, and made …

… Reggie Vandeyar was born into a poor family on 15 July 1931 in Newclare. His father was … Vandeyar attended the Bree Street Indian Primary School, a few hundred metres away from the … Square Police Station with ‘Mosey’ Moolla , Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe.    After being tortured Chiba, …

… He was, according to subsequent president FW de Klerk , ‘a thick-set man with heavy jowls and intense blue eyes who … for his deadpan sense of humour and his quick wit’. He was a passionate Afrikaner Nationalist who early in his life … opposition forces On July 11 1963 the police raided Arthur Goldreich’s farm in Rivonia and arrested him, his wife, …