E-mail a friendJanuary 26, 2006
South African Constitutional Court Justice and civil rights hero Albie Sachs describes his country post apartheid.
Justice Albie Sachs
Justice Albie Sachs
Justice Albie Sachs sits on South Africa's Constitutional Court. A civil rights lawyer, he was a member of the outlawed African National Congress. In '66, he went into exile in England, where he studied and taught law. He was also a law professor in Mozambique and nearly killed by a Security Police-planted car bomb. In '92, he returned to South Africa and helped draft its new constitution. Justice Sachs is founding director of the South African Constitution Studies Centre and the author of many books on human rights.
