{"id":27943,"date":"2016-05-31T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=27943"},"modified":"2020-05-21T17:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T16:21:30","slug":"jules-browde-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/jules-browde-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela’s Lawyer And Jewish Leader Jules Browde Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Founding member of Lawyers for Human Rights, Advocate Jules Browde has passed away. He gave up the ghost on Tuesday at the age of 98.<\/p>\n
Significantly, the legal luminary was an eminent member of the Johannesburg Bar, a long-serving human rights activist and Jewish communal leader.<\/p>\n
Jules Browde’s Profile<\/h2>\n
Remarkably, in the course of his career stretching over more than half a century\u201a he was Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo’s legal lifeline\u201a as well as the lifeline of other numerous anti-apartheid activists.<\/p>\n
Jules Browde was born in Johannesburg in 1919. His career started after he obtained a BA\u00a0from Wits University. Thereafter, he enlisted in the Union Defence Force in the early months of World War II.<\/p>\n
At the expiration of the war, he forged ahead with his studies at Wits\u201a where he first came across late struggle icon, NelsonMandela\u201a a fellow law student.<\/p>\n
After independence, precisely, in 1996\u201a Browde was appointed by Mandela to probe irregularities in the appointment of certain public servants posts during the transition to democracy period.<\/p>\n