The son of anti-apartheid defence lawyer Denis Kuny has been interviewed for a position as a judge in the Gauteng division of the high court.
Commissioner Griffith Madonsela had earlier quizzed Steven about what was written on his CV about him being an executive member of Advocates for Transformation — an unusual feat, Madonsela said, for a white lawyer.It was then that Mpofu revealed that his father had represented many political prisoners, some of them killed by the apartheid regime.
“I am very aware of the painful past we come from and how it lives with us today. It’s not something we can forget about. It has informed my life in every way,” he said. “One of the reasons I became a public defender was because I was aware of the fact that people did not have access to lawyers,” he added.
But, he said, he had always been a defender of black people's rights. He told the commission that several years ago, he represented 400 mineworkers before the labour court after they were dismissed “because they were not Zulu”.He won that case.
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