int56. Brian Hurwitz

Brian Hurwitz grew up in South Africa and came to Britain in the late 1970s. He joined the Anti-Apartheid Movement as a local group activist, campaigning for a consumer boycott and for the release of Southern African political prisoners. As a qualified solicitor, he was a founder member of Lawyers Against Apartheid. After 1994, Brian went back to South Africa and worked for the Land Claims Commission. Since his return to Britain in 1999, he has been active in ACTSA (Action for Southern Africa).

This is a complete transcript of an interview carried out as part of a research project on the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, conducted by Dr Matt Graham (History programme, University of Dundee) and Dr Christopher Fevre (International Studies Group, University of the Free State) See https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13619462.2021.1976154