Dean Michael Weeder burning incense during the funeral service of Graeme Bloch at St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town. Struggle activist and education expert Graeme Bloch was honoured and remembered for his bravery, courage and heroism during his funeral at St Georges Cathedral on Friday. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)
Struggle activist and education expert Graeme Bloch was honoured and remembered for his bravery, courage and heroism during his funeral at St Georges Cathedral on Friday.
Struggle activist and education expert Graeme Bloch was honoured and remembered for his bravery, courage and heroism during his funeral at St Georges Cathedral on Friday. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)Cheryl Carolus (centre) at her husbands funeral. Struggle activist and education expert Graeme Bloch was honoured and remembered for his bravery, courage and heroism during his funeral at St Georges Cathedral on Friday. Graeme, who was battling a neurodegenerative disease, passed away last Friday, with his wife activist Cheryl Carolus by his side Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)ANC activists, friends and family at the funeral service for Graeme Bloch. Struggle activist and education expert Graeme Bloch was honoured and remembered for his bravery, courage and heroism during his funeral at St Georges Cathedral on Friday. Graeme, who was battling a neurodegenerative disease, passed away last Friday, with his wife activist Cheryl Carolus by his side Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)
Cape Town, April 16 (ANA) Struggle activist and education expert Graeme Bloch was honoured and remembered for his bravery, courage and heroism during his funeral at St Georges Cathedral on Friday.
Graeme, who was battling a neurodegenerative disease, passed away last Friday, with his wife activist Cheryl Carolus by his side.
Bloch played a role in the formation of the End Conscription Campaign, later a member of the United Democratic Front (UDF), and was detained and arrested several times for his involvement in the democratic movement.
He was banned from 1976 to 1981.
A graduate of UCT, where he specialised in economic history, Bloch lectured at UWC for several years, and was a ministerial appointment to the UWC Council between 2003 and 2006.
He was a project manager at the Joint Education Trust and an executive member of the UDF and National Education Crisis Committee (NECC) in the 1980s.
Lance Bloch said that he got to know his brother Graeme a lot better after his social media post announcing Graeme’s death went viral.
South Africa – Cape Town – 16 April 2021 – Lance Bloch paying tribute to his brother Graeme Bloch. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency(ANA)
He added that President Cyril Ramaphosa had also offered a state funeral for Bloch, which the family declined.
