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May 12, 2015
Mandela: a lawyer for all seasons
Today one wonders what value any writer could add to the ocean of ink spilled about Nelson Mandela. Maybe it's his example as a practicing lawyer. By Dan Lawton
As a student, I learned of Nelson Mandela's imprisonment on Robben Island, in South
Africa during apartheid. A South African court had condemned Mandela to a term of
life imprisonment after his conviction of charges related to sabotage and violent
revolution, in 1964. In the 1970s and '80s, it seemed to me a given that Mandela,
a husband and father as well as a revolutionary, would ...
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