Esther Barsel

Esther Barsel (born 17 October 1924, in Raguva, Lithuania; died 6 October 2008, in Johannesburg) was a South African political activist and long-standing member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). She was a member of both her local African National Congress branch and the SACP's Johannesburg Central Branch. Quotes Quite sort of comfortable English liberalism which finds faults in stereotyping Afrikaaners and so on. Keenly felt sense of racial injustice. In those days, we were probably quite significant organizations. Certainly the most significant thing blacks were doing, in theory and in practice. I have nothing against a unitary state if it simply means that every body exercises one man one vote wherever they are and sometimes, which they call provinces but there has to be one parliament which exercises final polite~ control and power. There must be a political governing body, the body which exercises final firm political power and control. I'm not entirely comfortable with being a lawyer but there are a lot of advantages to it. The work I'm doing I enjoy and I can't think of an alternative to it that would enable me to give the kind of support and input in another form. Law gives you a, a lot of protection for yourself. Your Worship, under these circumstances I simply wrote down what the police told me. It was the most galling three days of my life External Links https://www.saha.org.za/nonracialism/transcript_of_interview_with_fink_haysom.htm