Serving the Next Generation

"The Commonwealth in the 21st Century: A Strange Alchemy of Life and Law"

This event is part of the lecture series to mark the 60th Anniversary of both the institute and the modern commonwealth

Speaker: Justice Alblie Sachs

Albie Sachs has been a Justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court since 1994. A lawyer and anti-apartheid activist, Sachs is also the author of several books on various subjects including human rights, culture, gender and the environment. His books include ‘The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs’ covering his time in solitary confinement in apartheid South Africa; and his struggle after losing his right arm in a car bomb in Maputo recounted in ‘The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter’. In his most recent book ‘Free Diary of Albie Sachs’ (Random House South Africa 2004) Sachs says the challenge was to write about happiness instead of pain and suffering. In recent years he has been passionate about the architecture and décor of the ‘Peoples Palace’- the Constitutional Court of South Africa.