MR DLAMINI
14B/12 themselves and try to campaign, he was sentenced and he was executed.  There was obviously a lot of hostility and anger, and people were crying out for revenge, and I think I must mention that during even a short recess in court a member of the public went up to him and assaulted him and that was the kind of atmosphere that existed at that time.  Many others before and after him were executed on the orders of judges, as it was, and a lot of political activists and detainees who were tried and were sentenced to death were saved because towards the latter part of the 1980s campaigns were conducted, largely at the international level, which highlighted the plight of these people who were sentenced to death by this regime and many, many of them were saved, and one can highlight the example of the Sharpeville six, which received a great deal of international attention.  There were judges as well who did not impose the death penalty and they were a tiny minority, but what one found was that in the nature of the insidious set-up that operated in this legal system was that these judges who were known to be partial to the struggle of the people in a way, or slightly sympathetic or not happy with the erosion of the rule of law, these persons never or hardly ever handled a serious or contentious political case.  And, amongst all the progressive lawyers in this country, I believe, it was a common fact that specific judges and magistrates were selected to deal with political cases and others were bypassed if they were seen to be neutral.  One of the judges who come to mind is the late Mr Justice John Milne, who was a Judge of Appeal when he died.  He had acquitted many activists in a long drawn-out case and it was the