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65 Years of Friendship
George Bizos
出版
Penguin Random House South Africa
, 2017-10-19
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Political
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN
1415208867
9781415208861
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IghbDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
65 Years of Friendship tells the heartrending story of a remarkable friendship between two remarkable men: world-renowned human-rights lawyer George Bizos, and Nelson Mandela. George and Madiba met as students at the University of the Witwatersrand in the 1940s. They would later become legal colleagues, and Mandela would become George Bizos’ most famous client soon after, for it was Bizos who formed part of his legal defence during the famous Treason Trial, and again during the Rivonia Trial, when Mandela and others faced the death penalty for plotting to overthrow the state. After seeing his friend sentenced to life imprisonment instead, Bizos became Mandela’s lifeline, navigating the complicated network of the Struggle. Working tirelessly, be it by secretly meeting Oliver Tambo in exile or arguing for the abolishment of the death penalty in the Constitutional Court years later, Bizos offered his unwavering support to Mandela on his long walk towards a democratic South Africa. In this touching homage to their friendship, George Bizos tells a fascinating tale of two men whose work affected the lives of all South Africans.