10 Facts About David Rabkin

David Rabkin was a South African anti-apartheid activist known for publishing subversive pamphlets.

David Rabkin served seven years of a ten-year sentence for his anti-apartheid activities.

David Rabkin moved back to Cape Town with his wife Susan and started working at Cape Argus in 1972.

David Rabkin was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for "furthering the aims of banned organizations".

David Rabkin was mistreated in prison, but helped those in the 1979 Pretoria Central Prison break.

David Rabkin allowed Denis Goldberg to purposefully break his loudspeaker to have an excuse to get a soldering iron, which allowed them to solder a makeshift key to facilitate an escape.

David Rabkin served seven years of his ten-year sentence and was released in 1983.

David Rabkin was married to Susan and they had two children, Jobe and Franny.

David Rabkin was killed in an uMkhonto we Sizwe military training accident in Angola 22 November 1985, and was buried in Luanda.

David Rabkin dedicated his speech about Israeli aggression to the memory of Rabkin.