Bizos still strives for justice as he did in his friendship with Madiba
The lawyer dealt with the global icon’s private and personal affairs
65 Years of Friendship George Bizos Umuzi SA’s legal legend George Bizos has still, at the age of 90, not shelved his law tomes. And one of the three books he has written, No One to Blame?, was handed in as an exhibit in the reopened Ahmed Timol inquest. It has been speculated that October’s judgment, which ruled that Timol’s death was murder at the hands of the security branch, could open the doors for other apartheid killers to be held accountable for their misdeeds. Bizos worked on the 1972 Timol inquiry, represented Steve Biko’s family after his death in 1977 and appeared for Neil Aggett’s family at the inquest into his death in detention in 1982. He says there is a "strong possibility" of further court cases delving into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists following the Timol inquest. "Biko and Aggett are now top of the list," he adds. "We hope to persuade the minister of justice and the National Prosecuting Authority to bring such cases to court, and that it will not be nec...
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