Rosalie Bloch

Rosalie Bloch (1933 - 2018)

Brief overview:

Rosalie (84), and her long-time partner Aubrey Jackson (94), were found murdered in their home in Mowbray, Cape Town on Saturday, May 5th 2018. (multiple murder, see Aubrey Jackson)

Testimony shared by family member on discussion forum.

"Rosalie Bloch and Aubrey Jackson murdered in 2018 - https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/distraught-son-finds-rosalie-bl...

POSTED BY JAMES JACKSON | DECEMBER 9, 2019"

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
  • The couple has a total of 10 children, including struggle veteran and education expert Graeme Bloch. Bloch is married to former politician Cheryl Carolus.
• Funeral/Memorial
  • Their memorial service was held at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town on Thursday 17th May 2018
• The Farm/Smallholding
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

Additional Biographical Information:

Born Rosalie Freedman in Cape Town in 1933, she attended Good Hope Seminary High School and studied at UCT to become an attorney. Bloch worked at Prisman and Wilson Attorneys for much of her career and then at Ernst & Young as a legal adviser.

She married her first husband Cecil Bloch on June 25, 1953 and they had seven children: six sons Shaun, Guy, Lance, Nigel, Hugh, Graeme and a daughter Erica. Her late husband Cecil Bloch, was a professor in plastic surgery at UCT, who did pioneering work around burn wounds and micro surgery on hands.

They divorced in 1977 and Rosalie later began a 30-year-long relationship with Jackson, a divorced engineer with three children, Suzanne, Lynne and Lawrence.

Bloch said his mother was a practising attorney, and an activist against apartheid in her own right, in addition to mothering seven children. She was also a member of the Black Sash, and Women for Peace, and often had to drop everything, pick up her lawyer's bag and go to the aid of detainees who had been nabbed.

This included her own son Graeme, now an education expert, and Graeme's wife, former United Democratic Front activist-turned-businessperson Cheryl Carolus.

Links to Media articles:

• http://archive.fo/0uCq6
• http://archive.fo/KPrVW
• http://archive.fo/VBl24
• http://archive.fo/UyG2n
• http://archive.vn/m21Wm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20191008141213/https://www.blacksash.or...
• SABC News report