George Bizos - 1927 to 2020
Nelson Mandela and George Bizos were lifelong friends.
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George Bizos with Ndileka Mandela, Nelson Mandela's granddaughter (right) at a Foundation event.
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Human rights activist Graça Machel with her husband Nelson Mandela and their friend George Bizos.
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George Bizos at a Foundation event in October 2018 at which an online archival collection of the hundreds of documents that were used to compile a semi-autobiographical account of Nelson Mandela’s years as South African President was launched.
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George Bizos, who passed away in September 2020, spent a lifetime using the law to save lives and promote human rights.
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Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer (left) with George Bizos at a book launch at the Foundation.
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George Bizos at a dialogue marking the 20th anniversary of the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission, hosted by the Foundation in 2018.
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George Bizos spent his lifetime defending human rights and the rule of law.
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"Isu" Back row, L to R: Verne Harris (Nelson Mandela Foundation), anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, human rights lawyer and judge Arthur Chaskalson, George Bizos, anti-apartheid activist Laloo Chiba, and Rivonia trialist Denis Goldberg. Front: American author Richard Stengel, Nelson Mandela,former Cabinet Minister Pallo Jordan and mining magnate Nicky Oppenheimer,
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George Bizos attends at a roundtable discussion.
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George Bizos with Foundation CE Sello Hatang at a Foundation event.
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George Bizos was Nelson Mandela's lifelong friend, and took avid interest in the Foundation's events.
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George Bizos speaks at one of the Foundation's many events. He was a regular attendee.
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George Bizos attends the Foundation's memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, in April 2018.
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George Bizos attends the Foundation's memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in April 2018.
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Human rights activist Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow, and George Bizos attend the Foundattion's memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in April 2018.
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George Bizos always took an active interest in current affairs, and attended many of the Foundation's events. Here he speaks at a Foundation dialogue.
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Old friends, human rights activist Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela's wife, and George Bizos, at the Foundattion's memorial service for Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in April 2018.
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George Bizos greets activiist-poet Willie Kgositsile at a Foundation event.
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George Bizos with fellow human rights lawyer Arthur Chaskalson. The two men were part of the Rivonia Trial defence team in 1963-4.
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Rivinia trialist Denis Goldberg shares a laugh with George Bizos.
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George Bizos and Ahmed Kathrada (left) attend a Foundation event.
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George Bizos with Foundation CE Sello Hatang at an event during the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
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