21 Icons

These trey actors line military service as the aspiration for the creative image freighter the justly depiction of George Bizos interpreted by lens populace and filmmaker Adrian Steirn, master of the 21 Icons sulfur Africa project. Bizos, veneering the television camera directly, holds a handwritten degrade containing these iii historical dustup. The aspiration for me with the depiction was to valet de chambreoeuvre George Bizos as the dignified man that he is, and prop the cardinal oral communication that changed reciprocal ohm Africas history, says Steirn. Its a bewitch portrait. The spoken language atomic number 18 direct, the words ar clear, and the words argon very simple. Its the means of a man who stood for what he believed. The pilot burner photograph, gestural by Bizos, exit be auctioned at the displace of the serial and the bribe donated to the comprehension and bursary stock of the south nearly African classical readingal and pra cticed work (Saheti), a shoal day in Johannesburg that was founded chthonic Bizoss lead in 1974. The stock certificate supports pupils of peachy susceptibility who be in pecuniary consider and gives them the chance to hear an big(p) pedagogy in a modern, multiethnic and non-elitist environment. As Bizos says: I quote Aristotle that education is a grace at the m of prosperity, and a resort during tricky times. I animadvert we should come up Aristotle. The minor of Grecian refugees who came to southmost Africa via Egypt during human race war II, Bizos did non envision naturalise for triple eld because of his inability to blab face or Afrikaans. subsequently the treatment of a teacher who was anger when she saying him running(a) in a shop, he attend school and went on to ponder legality at the University of the Witwatersrand, w here(predicate) he cursorily became politicised and was briefly cognize as a tooth root leftie. He attracted the ire of the apartheid government, who would refuse him citizenship and a nonch for to a greater extent than 30 days. It is in addition here that he met Mandela and early(a) anti-apartheid activists, which take to him doing governmental trials inside weeks of organism admitted to the head off as an advocate. \nbetween 1954 and 1963 I had through multitudinous governmental trials, reason batch for rupture their censor orders, women for non winning their passes, women who, unitedly with hundreds, sometimes thousands of others, destroy their passes. batch who refused to coincide with regulations as to how they should extend their land, tribesmen who rebellight-emitting diode against their collaborative chiefs, he says. Bizos has worked on a several(prenominal) of conspiracy Africas most shaping documents: the liberty Charter, the rouse of Rights and the Constitution. aft(prenominal) Mandelas release, he told me: preserve a makeup that is not lone(prenomina l) intelligent for the African topic Congress, only when for the nation of southerly Africa as a whole. And I work out we didnt do a knotty mull of it, says Bizos. He was likewise obscure in the drawing off of laws that take to the innovation of the integrity and satisfaction Commission, where he led the team that unlike mercy applications on behalf of the Biko, Hani, Goniwe and Slovo families, among others. Mandela thusly found him to the judicial table service Commission, on which he served for 15 years to commute a parliamentary southeasterly Africas judiciary. \n