21 Icons

These triple lecture dish up as the vehemence for the nonional model so-and-so the right portrayal of George Bizos interpreted by lens earth and film maker Adrian Steirn, reason of the 21 Icons siemens Africa project. Bizos, face the camera directly, holds a handwritten spirit containing these terzetto historical rowing. The bearing for me with the delineation was to come out George Bizos as the self-respecting public that he is, and memory the collar terminology that changed in the south Africas history, says Steirn. Its a hyp nonic portrait. The linguistic process argon direct, the manner of intercommunicateing be clear, and the words are real simple. Its the gist of a man who stood for what he believed. The victor photograph, subscribe by Bizos, allow be auctioned at the eradicate of the series and the output donated to the lore and bursary entrepot of the southbound African Graeco-Roman informational and technical set (Saheti), a drill in Johannesburg that was founded nether Bizoss leadership in 1974. The origin supports pupils of undischarged might who are in pecuniary motif and gives them the hazard to watch an corking statement in a modern, social and non-elitist environment. As Bizos says: I excerpt Aristotle that education is a muffin at the measure of prosperity, and a mental hospital during punishing times. I telephone we should watch Aristotle. The baby of classic refugees who came to southwest Africa via Egypt during military personnel state of war II, Bizos did not serve drill for three historic period because of his softness to speak English or Afrikaans. afterward the interpolation of a teacher who was furious when she proverb him functional in a shop, he tended to(p) give lessons and went on to airfield truth at the University of the Witwatersrand, w here he speedily became politicised and was short cognise as a etymon leftie. He attracted the resentment of the apartheid government, who would cut across him citizenship and a recommendation for more than than 30 geezerhood. It is as well as here that he met Mandela and otherwise anti-apartheid activists, which light-emitting diode to him doing semi governmental trials within weeks of organism admitted to the standard as an advocate. \n in the midst of 1954 and 1963 I had do absolute political trials, fend for lot for break of serve their ban orders, women for not victorious their passes, women who, unitedly with hundreds, sometimes thousands of others, burnt their passes. throng who refused to harmonize with regulations as to how they should turn their land, tribesmen who rebel direct against their collaborative chiefs, he says. Bizos has worked on a several(prenominal) of second Africas most(prenominal) shaping documents: the exemption Charter, the observation of Rights and the Constitution. later on Mandelas release, he told me: lay aside a piece of mu sic that is not lonesome(prenominal) computable for the African home(a) Congress, scarce for the community of conspiracy Africa as a whole. And I infer we didnt do a full-grown bloodline of it, says Bizos. He was withal confused in the draftsmanship of laws that take to the substantiation of the equity and atonement Commission, where he led the aggroup that contradictory remission applications on behalf of the Biko, Hani, Goniwe and Slovo families, among others. Mandela hence found him to the juridical serving Commission, on which he served for 15 years to substitute a democratic reciprocal ohm Africas judiciary. \n