E-mail us a comment on this writer. (Comments may be edited and used on this website.) About the author Albie Sachs was appointed to South Africa’s newly-established Constitutional Court by President Nelson Mandela in 1994. Earlier, as a member of the ANC’s Constitutional Committee and of that organisation’s National Executive, he took an active part in the formulation of South Africa’s new constitution. His legal career began as an advocate in 1957 and has extended to academic positions at several universities including Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, where he was appointed Professor of Law in 1977. He later served as Director of Research in the Ministry of Justice in Mozambique, where he was almost killed in 1988 by a car bomb planted by South African secret agents. Albie Sach’s first autobiographical work The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, was dramatised for the Royal Shakespeare Company and broadcast by the BBC. Another autobiographical volume, The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter, is presently being filmed for the cinema. Albie Sach’s inspirations African songs The Blood Knot by Athol Fugard Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner The Constitutional Court, Johannesburg From an article in The Guardian of 26 August 2006 by Maya Jaggi Title published by Random House SA The Free Diary of Albie Sachs home   writers   books   contact   buy   rights all content © Umuzi, Random House Struik this website designed and maintained by Guanaco.co.za