As shown by the fierce debate unleashed recently by the decision by Stellenbosch University to award an honorary degree posthumously to Bram Fischer, this extraordinary man remains an important and relevant presence.

As shown by the fierce debate unleashed recently by the decision by Stellenbosch University to award an honorary degree posthumously to Bram Fischer, this extraordinary man remains an important and relevant presence. Stephen Clingman's biography of Bram Fischer, first pubished in 1998, is a passionate study of an Afrikaner dissident who was one of the founding fathers of the liberation struggle in South Africa and whose power to provoke an intense response is as apparent today as in the past.