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- Harry_Schwarz abstract "Harry Heinz Schwarz (13 May 1924 – 5 February 2010) was a South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid in South Africa, who eventually served as the South African ambassador to the United States during the country’s transition to majority rule.Schwarz rose from the childhood poverty he experienced as a German Jewish refugee to become a lawyer and a member of the Transvaal Provincial Council, where from 1963 to 1974, he was Leader of the Opposition. In the 1964 Rivonia Trial he was a defence lawyer. Advocating a more aggressive political opposition to the National Party's racial policies in the 1960s and 1970s, as Leader of the United Party in Transvaal and leader of the liberal "Young Turks", he clashed with the United Party establishment. He pioneered the call in white politics for a negotiated end to apartheid and in 1974 signed the Mahlabatini Declaration of Faith with Mangosuthu Buthelezi for a non-racial democratic society in South Africa. He was in the opposition for over 40 years and was a founding member of the Democratic Party. In light of his record, his appointment as South African Ambassador to the United States in 1990 was widely heralded as symbolic of the government's commitment to ending apartheid, and played a significant role in renewing the nation's image as the new democratic South Africa.As a South African Air Force World War II veteran during the 1950s, Schwarz co-founded the Torch Commando, an ex-soldiers' movement to protest against the disenfranchisement of coloured people in South Africa. Described as South Africa's "most feisty politician" and a political "maverick", he was known for his parliamentary clashes with the apartheid government over its racial and economic policies. In his political career spanning 43 years, in which he gained respect from across the political spectrum, he never lost an election. In 1988 he received the Order for Meritorious Service and received several Honorary Doctorates. He was also one of the South African Jewish community's foremost leaders and spoke out strongly against anti-semitism.Schwarz was described by the University of Stellenbosch as "one of the conceptual and moral fathers of the new South Africa" in the sense that he had not only been one of apartheid's most prominent opponents, but his ideas and the initiatives he had taken had played a key role in the development of the concept of a negotiated democracy in South Africa, based on the principles of freedom and justice. Nelson Mandela, a friend of his whom he visited while in prison, described him as a "champion of the poor".".
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- Harry_Schwarz activeYearsEndDate "1991-02-06".
- Harry_Schwarz activeYearsEndDate "1995-01-12".
- Harry_Schwarz activeYearsStartDate "1974-04-24".
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- Harry_Schwarz almaMater University_of_the_Witwatersrand.
- Harry_Schwarz birthDate "1924-05-13".
- Harry_Schwarz birthPlace Cologne.
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- Harry_Schwarz country Barbados.
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- Harry_Schwarz deathPlace Johannesburg.
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- Harry_Schwarz orderInOffice "13th".
- Harry_Schwarz orderInOffice "1st".
- Harry_Schwarz party Democratic_Party_(South_Africa).
- Harry_Schwarz party Progressive_Federal_Party.
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- Harry_Schwarz party United_Party_(South_Africa).
- Harry_Schwarz president F._W._de_Klerk.
- Harry_Schwarz president Nelson_Mandela.
- Harry_Schwarz religion Judaism.
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- Harry_Schwarz birthName "Harry Heinz Schwarz".
- Harry_Schwarz birthPlace Cologne.
- Harry_Schwarz birthPlace Weimar_Republic.
- Harry_Schwarz children "Jonathan, Allan & Michael Schwarz".
- Harry_Schwarz country "Barbados".
- Harry_Schwarz country "United States".
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- Harry_Schwarz dateOfDeath "2010-02-05".
- Harry_Schwarz deathDate "2010-02-05".
- Harry_Schwarz deathPlace "Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa".
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- Harry_Schwarz honorificPrefix Excellency.
- Harry_Schwarz name "Schwarz, Harry".
- Harry_Schwarz office Minister_of_Defence_and_Military_Veterans.
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- Harry_Schwarz party Democratic_Party_(South_Africa).
- Harry_Schwarz party Progressive_Federal_Party.
- Harry_Schwarz party Progressive_Reform_Party_(South_Africa).
- Harry_Schwarz party Reform_Party_(South_Africa).
- Harry_Schwarz party United_Party_(South_Africa).
- Harry_Schwarz placeOfBirth Cologne.
- Harry_Schwarz placeOfBirth Weimar_Republic.
- Harry_Schwarz placeOfDeath "Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa".
- Harry_Schwarz preceded Piet_Koornhof.
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- Harry_Schwarz preceded "John Jaminan".
- Harry_Schwarz preceded "Marais Steyn".
- Harry_Schwarz president F._W._de_Klerk.
- Harry_Schwarz president Nelson_Mandela.
- Harry_Schwarz profession "Solicitor, banker".
- Harry_Schwarz religion Judaism.
- Harry_Schwarz shortDescription "South African activist".
- Harry_Schwarz spouse "Annette Louise Schwarz".
- Harry_Schwarz succeeded "Alf Widman".
- Harry_Schwarz succeeded "Douglas Gibson".