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UDHR60: Fackson Banda, Rhodes University, South Africa
By: Sameer Padania
Posted: Dec 11 08
Witnessed: 2868 veces
Regions: South Africa
Issues: Justice, Prisons, Racial discrimination
Tags: apartheid, fackson banda, GFMD08, Nelson Mandela, south africa, udhr60, winnie mandela
Fackson Banda is a professor of journalism at Rhodes University, and answers our question, "What image opened your eyes to human rights?"
Fackson talks about seeing Nelson Mandela walking hand-in-hand with his wife Winnie, out of the prison gates to freedom.
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