The diocese supported the anti-apartheid campaign under his tenure and the one of his successor, Bruce Read Evans.
Because of his role in helping to plan the anti-apartheid campaign of 1952, he was jailed again and banned from political activity.
The growing anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa and the current crackdown on dissent there may increase Congressional support for additional sanctions.
They toppled the organization's president, whom they considered overly timid, and put the anti-apartheid campaign on a more confrontational course.
Early presidents of the organisation included Phillip Tobias elected in 1948, who presided over the organisation's first anti-apartheid campaign.
At this time there were many students at the so-called "white" universities who supported the organisation because of its anti-apartheid campaigns.
During the 1970s, Burgmann became actively involved in 'radical' politics, most notably the anti-apartheid campaign, and the campaign for aboriginal land rights.
It also seemed to me 15 years ago that there was an element of shadowboxing or playacting in the Western anti-apartheid campaign.
He earned an ovation in Congress by stressing themes that unite his anti-apartheid campaign with America's own struggles to broaden democracy.
He also said the casualties included those incurred in violence related to the anti-apartheid campaign against the white-led Government and common crimes, but gave no breakdown.