PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa says Priscilla Jana was an outstanding and fearless human rights lawyer who devoted her practice to fighting the apartheid regime, defending a broad range of struggle leaders and asserting the rights of marginalised South Africans.
Jana, who was also the deputy Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission, passed away on Saturday at the age of 76.
Several organisations have sent messages of condolence on her passing.
Jana was one of the attorneys that represented former president Nelson Mandela while he was on Robben Island.
She also defended Solomon Mahlangu and played a pivotal role in engineering international awareness and protest against the execution of the Umkhonto we Sizwe cadre, who was sentenced to death and eventually executed.
Together with Advocate Reagan Jacobus, they defended many other anti-apartheid trialists, including Anton Lubowski in Namibia.
They also kept close contact with the later ANC president Oliver Tambo, when it
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