Candidate Attorneys at the LRC Winter Law School Programme
The Winter Law School Programme was a five-week programme that commenced on the 17th of June and ended on the 18th of July. The Mandela Institute of the School of Law at the University of Witwatersrand worked together with the Seattle University School of Law to offer this programme. There were lecturers from Wits University as well as from the University of Seattle.
Since 1979 the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has played a pivotal role in the realisation of human rights by providing free legal services to poor and marginalised communities and individuals, who often lack the protection of the law.
Are you surprised you were never bumped off during the apartheid years? I had threats. Some dirty tricks were perpetrated against me and members of my family. But I always took an optimistic attitude. I didn't have guards or make any special arrangements. I'm rather fatalistic. If they want to get you, they'll get you.
