Albie Sachs Speaks at the AHS Museum

Anti-apartheid activist and former Justice of the South African Constitutional Court, Albie Sachs, will speak at 7:00 p.m. on February 15 at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park, 1300 N. College Avenue in Tempe, Arizona. His speech will focus on the post-apartheid reconstruction and the South African Constitutional Court Building.

The lecture is free to the public.

Sachs holds a B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex. He was a chief architect of the South African Constitution and was a noted apartheid opponent. In 1988, he was the target of a car bombing by South African security agents, which cost him his right arm and sight in one eye.