Frederick John Harris (4 July 1937 – 1 April 1965) was a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid campaigner who turned to terrorism and was executed after a bomb attack on a railway station.
Harris was represented at trial by David Soggot, who later became one of South Africa's most prominent civil rights lawyers.
[4] A memorial to remember Harris's life was held around the 40th anniversary of his death at Freedom Park in Pretoria.
[5] All those executed for such crimes were honoured by South Africa's president, Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of the launch of the Gallows Museum at the C Max Pretoria Central Correctional Centre on 15 December 2011: "The 134 men were terrorists or trouble makers to the authorities then.
But to their people and families, they were freedom fighters who wanted to see a free, democratic and non-sexist South Africa.