DR BORAINE
15A/7 little village far away with no light, water and put into a form of banishment.  He acted for one of the people who were brutally killed in Umtata.  And it's that background that I think all the lawyers came from who defended political activists and for us to say to the person - or a defence lawyer to say, "Look, I don't think this evidence is going to help you", or, "I don't think you should say this", or, "I think that we need to protect you by not calling you as a witness", strictly speaking, would be seen in an isolated manner in some remote island on earth that this is wrong as a lawyer.  You should not be involved in your own client's case and you should just say what your client wants to say and present the case and defend the person.  I think it does not work that way. When one is faced against a brutal, unjust regime one would do everything to assist victims to bring that regime down and if there was an apartheid legal system that was aiding and abetting that evil regime then the political opponents and the opposition lawyers, as one may call them, did their best to try to save many of these political prisoners or people who were detained - political trialists - from the gallows, from longer terms of imprisonment than they got and in those rare cases they may have even been able to get them acquitted and get them free, so it's like trying to take a bird out of a cage where the brutal regime put them in, and I think in that context I would say that the lawyers are coming into a future South Africa now, with having done that within the legal system as well, and I would hope that those lawyers now commit themselves to this new order and not say that, "Well, if we were able to do that then, that we should do  /so now",