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GEORGE BIZOS 14 November 1927 – 9 September 2020 passed away at 92 years; was a Greek-South African human rights lawyer who campaigned against apartheid in South Africa. Bizos did not go to school for his first two years in the country, because he could not speak English or Afrikaans. He gained entry to the University of the Witwatersrand in 1949, where he met Nelson Mandelaand undertook a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degree, followed by a three-year LLB law degree. It was during this time that he first became politically active, joining the Students' Representative Council under the leadership of Harold Wolpe

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