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‘The most important meeting of my life’

Krish Naidoo, ANC legal adviser and former SABC board member, wrote Krish Struggle Lawyer. It records his life, the main political trials he conducted as a human rights lawyer, and his role in sport, culture and the legal fraternity. In the chapter The Road To Victor Verster Prison, Naidoo writes on his visit to Nelson Mandela

FEBRUARY 1989 was an exceptionally stressful month for me. The leaders of the Mass Democratic Movement reached breaking point with Winnie Mandela after the public revelations about the Mandela United Football Club and the murder of Stompie Seipei, a youngster from the Free State, who lived in her home for a short while.

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