Best known in South Africa as one of the founders of the African National Council’s military wing – Umkhonto we Sizwe – in 1961, Arthur Goldreich sacrificed his white privileges in a tenacious fight for freedom and equality in that country. He died of Alzheimer on 24th May 2011, aged 82. JOANITTER KAGORO

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Arthur Goldreich was an intelligent person since his childhood. When aged 11, and the only Jewish student at a South African school, he was offended when his school started teaching German during World War II (between 1939 and 1945)......