Graham Michael Lesch (1936-2007) was a South Africanactivist, who fought for human rights from all angles.
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland); and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 57 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages, nine of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (Coloured) ancestry.
He saw himself as a white man in Africa, here to set right the wrongs of his tribal line. He was a religious man that shared a deep spirituality with the ancestral heritage of the African continent. He found no greater enemy than the apartheid government. He spent much of the period between 1952 and 1974 labeled a notorious criminal and incarcerated, suffering torture and starvation.
Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap, which encouraged state repression of Black African, Coloured, and Asian South Africans for the benefit of the nation's minority white population. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day.
He fled South Africa in 1969 by foot in a failed attempt to join the Pan Africanist Congress. In 1975 he married Jenny Clark. Jenny had polio as a child and is 95% physically disabled. Dennis was never involved in any political party and saw himself as fighting for freedom, justice and equality from the unwavering truths of his heart. “Man who has experienced the inhumanities of the system institutions and survives in normal society will come to realise that he is specially chosen by a higher power.”
He wrote his autobiography shortly before his death, and his ashes are scattered on Karl Marx's grave.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary.
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