Graham Michael Lesch

Who was Graham Michael Lesch?

Graham Michael Lesch was a South African activist, who fought for human rights from all angles.

He saw himself as a white man in Africa, here to set right the wrongs of his tribal line. He was a religious man that shared a deep spirituality with the ancestral heritage of the African continent. He found no greater enemy than the apartheid government. He spent much of the period between 1952 and 1974 labeled a notorious criminal and incarcerated, suffering torture and starvation.

He fled South Africa in 1969 by foot in a failed attempt to join the Pan Africanist Congress. In 1975 he married Jenny Clark. Jenny had polio as a child and is 95% physically disabled. Dennis was never involved in any political party and saw himself as fighting for freedom, justice and equality from the unwavering truths of his heart. “Man who has experienced the inhumanities of the system institutions and survives in normal society will come to realise that he is specially chosen by a higher power.”

He wrote his autobiography shortly before his death, and his ashes are scattered on Karl Marx's grave.