By Lebone Rodah Mosima
The South African judiciary said on Thursday it was mourning the death of Western Cape High Court Judge Taswell Papier, who died on Tuesday at 64 after a distinguished legal career.
The Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) said Papier studied law at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) during the turbulent 1980s as a committed student activist and dedicated scholar.
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He was also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Programme in 1994 and obtained an LLM in Human Rights there in 1995.
“He later opened his own practice in Mitchells Plain, where he served the poor and vulnerable across Western Cape townships,” the OCJ said.
“As an attorney, he represented thousands of students and school learners arrested by apartheid police during protests, as well as members of liberation
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