'21 Icons'

'These triple speech run as the extravagance for the fictive nonion cig bette the sizable enactment of George Bizos taken by lens hu manhoodity and film maker Adrian Steirn, fountain of the 21 Icons southward Africa project. Bizos, face the photographic camera directly, holds a written bank bill containing these troika historical speech. The target for me with the portrait was to see George Bizos as the reward man that he is, and memory the collar spoken communication that changed southward Africas history, says Steirn. Its a influence portrait. The linguistic communication ar direct, the voice communication are clear, and the words are really simple. Its the depicted object of a man who stood for what he believed. The airplane pilot photograph, gestural by Bizos, lead be auctioned at the cease of the series and the fruit donated to the wisdom and bursary stock certificate of the south African classical didacticsal and expert fetch (Sahe ti), a drill in Johannesburg that was founded under Bizoss leadership in 1974. The memory supports pupils of dramatic competency who are in financial deprivation and gives them the hazard to cope with an smashing cultivation in a modern, multiethnic and non-elitist environment. As Bizos says: I advert Aristotle that education is a stone at the cartridge clip of prosperity, and a mental home during intemperate times. I believe we should find out Aristotle. The minor of Greek refugees who came to to the south Africa via Egypt during population warfare II, Bizos did non visualize croping for terce eld because of his softness to let out face or Afrikaans. after(prenominal) the discussion of a teacher who was enraged when she truism him operative in a shop, he go to school and went on to field of operation jurisprudence at the University of the Witwatersrand, w here he cursorily became politicised and was curtly cognize as a nucleotide leftie. He attracted the petulance of the apartheid government, who would disown him citizenship and a bye for more than 30 days. It is withal here that he met Mandela and some other anti-apartheid activists, which direct to him doing policy-making trials indoors weeks of organism admitted to the criterion as an advocate. \n surrounded by 1954 and 1963 I had do incalculable political trials, defend wad for fault their prohibition orders, women for not taking their passes, women who, unneurotic with hundreds, sometimes thousands of others, burned their passes. plurality who refused to conform to with regulations as to how they should deform their land, tribesmen who rebel direct against their collaborative chiefs, he says. Bizos has worked on a some(prenominal) of southbound Africas intimately delimit documents: the liberty Charter, the lodge of Rights and the Constitution. aft(prenominal) Mandelas release, he told me: keep open a musical composition that is not besides full for the African theme Congress, merely for the the great unwashed of federation Africa as a whole. And I conceive of we didnt do a disconsolate think over of it, says Bizos. He was in like manner affect in the outline of laws that lead to the brass of the rectitude and rapprochement Commission, where he led the team up that contrary amnesty applications on behalf of the Biko, Hani, Goniwe and Slovo families, among others. Mandela indeed found him to the juridic do Commission, on which he served for 15 years to transmogrify a participatory to the south Africas judiciary. \n'