Though Basil D’Oliveira, who has died aged 80 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease, was one of the greatest cricketers ever to come out of South Africa, he will be best remembered for the dramatic role he played in helping to defy apartheid in sport. As a mixed-race – in South African terms, “coloured” – player
Geoff Budlender Bram Fisher Memorial Lecture
PEOPLE’S POWER AND THE COURTS Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture, 2011 Geoff Budlender PDF Version The topic of my lecture is People’s Power and the Courts. In the mode of all good preachers, The Freedom Charter proclaims: “The People Shall Govern!”I start with a text. In fact I have three: The question which I want to










