Albie Sachs: Freedom Fighter to Judge

Albie Sachs is a prominent figure in South Africa, a well-known fighter against apartheid, who paid for it with time in solitary confinement, exile, and hospital, after an attempt on his life. He trained as a lawyer in the 1950s, specialising in civil rights - and ended up as a judge, helping to write the new South Africa's constitution that recognised equality between blacks and whites.

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(Picture: Albie Sachs, the anti-apartheid activist. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)