"I told you then, and I repeat it now, that I could not support you because I did not have confidence that your motivation was purely to advance the standing of the profession in T&T. I think I put it more crudely and accused you of putting yourself forward only to ingratiate yourself with the executive to get briefs. When I spoke to you on the telephone, I indicated that another senior colleague was present. You have realised the fear I then expressed."
Letter from former Law Association president Karl Hudson-Phillips, QC, to current president, Seenath Jairam, SC.
According to a BBC report published in Wednesday's Guardian, it took Nelson Mandela almost 50 years, studying on and off and failing almost half the courses he took, to get a law degree. And yet Mandela's legacy to the world is a keener appreciation of justice (and the cost of injustice) that many legal scholars in his time, and not just in South Africa, had difficulty comprehending.
Mandela's sense of justice meant that he would only offer himself as a president of South Africa for one term, since he knew that voluntarily relinquishing political power and the trappings of office was the greatest contribution he could make to the political culture in Africa in general and South Africa in particular.
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