Alexander Larman

Homage to Sydney Kentridge, South Africa’s courtroom giant

Kentridge’s passionate defence of Nelson and Winnie Mandela among many other victims of apartheid is vividly conveyed by Thomas Grant

Sydney Kentridge at the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture at the University of Cape Town, 2011. [Getty Images]
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  • The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

    Thomas Grant

    John Murray, pp. 335, £25

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