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s the world grapples with the assertion of the rule of law, from Israeli-Palestine to the conflict in Ukraine, now more than we ever we need to see people with integrity and intellectual rigour being at the forefront of the struggle for human rights triumph against the indignations of injustice — to borrow an idea from Che Guevara.
Improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person; and Build a united and democratic South Africa able to take its rightful place as a sovereign state in the family of nations.” Following in the footsteps of heroes like Sol Plaatje and Richard W Msimang-who were barristers in the early 1900s, Adv. Duma Nokwe was a fierce, yet intellectually to highlight the 1913 land grab legislation, and he was unrelenting in his intellectual synthesis of the best of Marxists and African nationalism to develop a unique brand of revolutionary intellectualism to confront the vicissitudes of his era, and ultimately of our educational, legal and political struggles.
On 8 August 1956, he was refused permission by the then Natives Commissioner, Assembly, to occupy the council’s chamber at His Majesty’s Building in Johannesburg, because of the Group Areas Act. It is a great honour that this group is named after a distinguished legal and political giant. The constitutional court makes a point about the honour of historic names in the case of City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality v Afriforum and Another.
In the past 20 years, you have kept Duma alive in our hearts and minds and been at the heart of the nation and the legal profession’s transformation.
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