S2E7: slices of life - above it all

The End of Apartheid - South Africa’s Human Spirit

The apartheid legal system came under the Truth Commission’s gavel in October 1997. It wanted to know how did judges and lawyers co-operate or collude with the National Party government? Why did South Africa’s learned men uphold unjust laws? And why did they fail to protect the human rights of all South Africans? But the men who could have answered these questions decided to boycott the hearing. South Africa’s first black chief justice, Ismail Mahomed, said there was no need for the judges to account for their actions in person and in public. Angie Kapelianis compiled this collage of criticism levelled at the judges.

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/slicesright.htm#above

"I saw your mother" - Jeremy Cronin

Transcript: http://www.sabctruth.co.za/sabctruth/slicesright.htm#saw

slices of life - the imprisonment under apartheid of all south africans - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually

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