Joel Joffe is the attorney who helped save Rivonia eight from the gallows

25 June 2017 - 00:03

By Chris Barron

Joel Joffe, who has died in England at the age of 85, was the instructing attorney in the 1963-64 Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and nine other ANC/Communist Party leaders.

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