DR BORAINE
15A/8 so now", even if, for example, I would say an ANC activist today is charged for some violent activities in terms of this present regime, in terms of our new order, in terms of our new democracy, the duty of a lawyer today would be to say to that person, even if that lawyer is sympathetic to the ANC, "I'm sorry, we have a law, we have a Constitution.  We have truth and justice to uphold.  Now, if you are not going to obey the law of this land and if you're going to assault or even hurt somebody, I am sorry, you must speak the truth.  You must put an end to this and if you have to go to Court, you will have to explain your conduct in court".  The most a lawyer can do is plead in mitigation, and I would say that should be the kind of approach that I hope our new legal order would take and would take along with it all the lawyers - those who perpetrated and supported apartheid conduct and those who tried to resist it.