Remembering Mandela’s fight for equal rights

Remembering Mandela’s fight for equal rights
Remembering Mandela’s fight for equal rights

Remembering Mandela’s fight for equal rights

WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information. Sign up for our newsletters to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
As a civil-rights attorney, international-law professor and member of the African National Congress, Albie Sachs fought against the injustice of apartheid and helped draft South Africa’s post-apartheid constitution. As a young man, he worked as an attorney, defending people charged under racist statutes and repressive security laws. Nelson Mandela appointed him to the country’s Constitutional Court in 1994, just after the country’s first democratic election, which brought Mandela to power. Sachs tells us what Mandela’s death means for South Africans and the fight for justice not only in South Africa but around the globe. (Photo: Flickr/ViewAfrica.com)