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Leibbrandt, Robey
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Robey Leibbrandt was an Olympic boxer, winning the light heavyweight bronze medal for South Africa at the 1934 Empire Games. He later returned to Berlin to study Sports. He joined the German Army during the Second World War, was trained as a paratrooper and dropped on the Cape Town coast in 1941. He formed the Nasionaal Sosialistiese Rebelle, drumming up anti-British support until his arrest in 1943, after which he was sentenced to death for high treason. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by General Smuts.