Courtroom as a Space of Resistance

Fifty years before his death in 2013, Nelson Mandela stood before Justice de Wet in Pretoria''s Palace of Justice and delivered one of the most spectacular and liberating statements ever made from a dock. In what came to be regarded as "the trial that changed South Africa", Mandela summed up the spirit of the liberation struggle and the moral basis for the post-Apartheid society. In this blisterin...