Product Description: Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life...read more

Product Description: From a young age Albie Sachs played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. As a result he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye...read more

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Product Description: This books covers the important human rights issue in South Africa with a view toward a future democratic South Africa. Topics covered include: free speech, judges and gender, the family, children's rights, the South African legal system, land issues, and the future constitutional position of white South Africans...read more

An anti-apartheid activist, horribly maimed in an assassination attempt, gives a deeply moving account of his long struggle to survive and to heal--physically and psychically

"A literate, informative, vivid, and most poignant account of what happens to a society when it officially insists on a legal order that systematically denies the overwhelming majority of its population the minimum requirements of justice."--Richard A. Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University