George Bizos has been hailed as a towering legal mind who remained committed to the fight for justice until his last days. Someone who knew and worked with Bizos over the decades is Advocate Dali Mpofu, who spoke to Thembekile Mrototo.
JOHANNESBURG - The death of veteran struggle lawyer George Bizos has left many heartbroken, including the scores of struggle families he represented over the decades and top legal practitioners he coached and inspired.Graca Machel has described Bizos and Nelson Mandela as two souls with an uncompromising zest for justice.
She says Bizos and Madiba - in different trenches - complemented each other in a remarkable journey of six decades of brotherhood.
When, in 2012, police mowed down 34 miners in one of the most brutal acts by post-apartheid security forces, Bizos was there. Advocate Tembeja Ngcukaitobi spoke on how Bizos supported the families and represented them during the duration of the Farlam commission of inquiry, and how disappointed Bizos was as he had always hoped something like that would never happen in a free South Africa.Source
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