Albie Sachs

Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs (born 30 January 1935) is an activist and a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Early life

Sachs was born into a South African family of Lithuanian Jewish background. He attended the South African College School (SACS) in Cape Town. As a second year law student at the University of Cape Town, where he earned his LLB, he took part in the Defiance Campaign. Three years later, in 1955, he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown, where the Freedom Charter was adopted.

Sachs started practice as an advocate at the Cape Bar aged 21, defending people charged under racial statutes and security laws under South African apartheid. After being arrested and placed in solitary confinement for over five months for his work in the freedom movement, Albie Sachs went into exile in England, where he completed a PhD from Sussex University, and later Mozambique. In 1988, in Maputo, Mozambique, he lost an arm and his sight in one eye when a bomb was placed in his car. After the bombing, he devoted himself to the preparations for a new democratic constitution for South Africa. He returned to South Africa and served as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the African National Congress.

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Lopsided music contracts are a discordant note

Mail Guardian South Africa 29 Jan 2025
In the constitutional court case of Barkhuizen vs Napier, Justice Albie Sachs, in his dissenting judgment, expressed reservations about standard-form contracts, noting they often impose one party’s will rather than being based on mutual consent ... ....

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Mail Guardian South Africa 10 Dec 2024
Oppressive conditions lead to various responses among those at the receiving end ... ‘I’m in jail’ ... Photo ... Others, like Dulcie September and Ruth First, suffered extrajudicial execution, or were maimed, like Albie Sachs and Michael Lapsley ... ....

Honouring the memory of Mandisi Titi: a reflection on struggle and society

Independent online (SA) 09 Dec 2024
Justice Albie Sachs captures such moments eloquently, reiterating Nelson Mandela’s profound statement, “It is in your hands now.” While Mandela spoke of averting rivers of blood by coming to the ...

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The Daily Mail 29 Sep 2024
... Albies, hosted by The Clooney Foundation for Justice, in New York ... The Albies were named after anti-apartheid hero Justice Albie Sachs and seek to recognise people who defend justice around the world.

George Clooney plays photographer at star-studded charity event

AOL 27 Sep 2024
The Albies are named after anti-apartheid hero Justice Albie Sachs, who received a lifetime achievement award at the charity’s inaugural fundraiser in 2022, according to the Clooney Foundation For Justice website ... .

George Clooney fools around with camera at fundraiser

RTE 27 Sep 2024
The Albies are named after anti-apartheid hero Justice Albie Sachs, who received a lifetime achievement award at the charity’s inaugural fundraiser in 2022, according to the Clooney Foundation For Justice website.

George Clooney can't stop gushing over his wife Amal Clooney, on New York red carpet

Hindustan Times 27 Sep 2024
The Albies, named in honour of South African Justice Albie Sachs, recognizes individuals who have committed their lives to fight for justice.

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The Daily Mail 27 Sep 2024
The Elizabeth star arrived at the glittering event, The Albies, with her eldest son Dashiell on her arm ... The Albies were named after anti-apartheid hero Justice Albie Sachs and seek to recognise people who defend justice around the world.

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The Times/The Sunday Times 05 Sep 2024
Raj Chada, a partner at the London firm Hodge Jones & Allen, successfully represented Trudi Warner, a retired social worker ... Raj Chada. The absurdity of the prosecution ... Albie Sachs, a lawyer with the African National. UK. Law. Related articles. COURTS.

GWU hosts African Diaspora Film Festival, shattering Olympic glass ceilings and diversifying jury duty

Wtop 29 Jul 2024
toggle audio on and off. change volume. download audio. WTOP's Jason Fraley previews the African Diaspora International Film Fest in D.C. (Part 1) ... It’s also celebrating nearly two decades in D.C ... Albie Sachs and the New South Africa” (2014).

'Decent, generous and giving': Community honors late human rights lawyer

Detroit Free Press 30 Jun 2024
Goodman died Nov ... 20, 2023 ... U.S. Rep ... South African lawyer and activist Albie Sachs, a longtime friend of Goodman, shared a message via video. "He had a generosity and a happiness of spirit, a geniality that could make up with people," Sachs said.

Challenge Met, says New York art museum director

Mail Guardian South Africa 05 Jun 2024
Tall and smartly dressed in a business suit, Vienna-born Hollein listened as former judge Albie Sachs recalled the life of the avuncular political activist for whom the arts centre is named ... “We have over 1.5 million objects in our care.”.

Meet society’s basic needs or discontent will grow

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 May 2024
National confidence is a good thing ... The confidence I mean is a low-level daily contentment in ordinary lives ... I never forgot a remark from Albie Sachs, the anti-apartheid activist who lost an arm and an eye to the South African security services ... .

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Business Day 03 May 2024
Instead, he must refer it “back to the National Assembly for reconsideration” ... In the New Clicks judgment by the apex court justice Albie Sachs said there were many ways in which public participation could be facilitated. “What matters is that ... .

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