Advocate Jules Browde‚ an eminent member of the Johannesburg Bar and a long-serving human rights activist and Jewish communal leader‚ died on Tuesday.He was 98 years old.In the course of a career stretching over more than half a century‚ Browde acted for Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo‚ as well as other as number of other anti-apartheid activists‚ and was a founder member of Lawyers for Human Rights.The South African Jewish Board of Deputies said in a statement his Jewish communal involvement included serving for 25 years as national president of the Habonim youth movement.Jules Browde was born in Johannesburg in 1919. After obtaining a BA from Wits University‚ he enlisted in the Union Defence Force in the early months of World War II. After the war‚ he continued his studies at Wits‚ where he first met Mandela‚ a fellow law student."The two men established a warm and enduring friendship‚ one interrupted by Mandela’s 27 years of imprisonment but renewed shortly after his release."In ...
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