Edwin Cameron: The judge who made the invisible visible

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Judge Edwin Cameron donned his green robes for the last time on Tuesday, ending a majestic 25-year innings on the Bench, the last of them on the Constitutional Court.

Judge Edwin Cameron bowed out by delivering a judgment regarded as a win for the rights of labour tenants in the Hilton College land in securing judicial scrutiny over the administration of land reform.

I hope to get to call him “Edwinsky” again as he let me do over 30 years ago.

At the time, I worked as a library assistant at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies to hustle up some money to pay for my legal studies. I was a terrible law student but my time at the campaigning public interest centre gave me access to and insight into the activist lawyers who were both fighting the system and drawing up the blueprint of what a future society would look like.

These were people like John Dugard (the international lawyer and jurist), Halton Cheadle (who drafted the country’s labour laws), Thandi Orleyn (now a decorated director of boards and activist for women’s empowerment), Gilbert Marcus (the leading advocate and free expression campaigner) and Fink Haysom (UN special representative to Somalia) and later they would be joined by the brilliant legal scholar just back from Oxford University, Edwin Cameron.
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A personal memory: Edwin Cameron: The judge who made the invisible visible

Judge Edwin Cameron donned his green robes for the last time on Tuesday, ending a majestic 25-year innings on the Bench, the last of them on the Constitutional Court.
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jack_spratt said:
For the UNISA haters:
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Apparently Judge Cameron came from a humble economic background: https://www.news24.com/Columnists/G...sition-so-we-could-all-learn-from-it-20190821
Chief Justice, we are here today because Justice Cameron played a very important role in developing and shaping our jurisprudence as an academic, legal practitioner, judge of both the High Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal as well a justice of this court. He did all these despite the fact that he comes from a very humble family, a family which qualifies to be classified as poor. Against all odds he managed to rise within the ranks of the legal profession until he presided in the highest court in our country.
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i live in an interesting neighborhood

edwin & his "partner" are frequent visitors to a neighbor.
dali tambo & his wife often come by cycling on their tandem bicycle.
el presidente likes to go on walkabout in the hood when inspecting his new palace on the hill.
de klerk stands in line at the local spar
mark lifman's presence seems to serve as motivation for criminals to give the area a wide berth
 
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