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His storied legal career saw him embroiled in numerous political affairs throughout the 1960s, '70s and '80s. He represented, among others, Verwoerd's assassin Dimitri Tsafendas; the SWAPO Six in Swakopmund; the families of Imam Abdullah Haron, Mapetla Mohapi and Hoossen Haffajee and others who died "jumping down stairwells while in detention" or hanged by their own jeans in their cells; and Steven Biko and other activists who were arrested by the security police in the dead of night. There were also the highprofile criminal cases, including the original Kebble-style "assisted suicide" of Baron Dieter van Schauroth and the scandalous case of the Scissors Murderess Marlene Lehnberg.
Wilfrid Cooper reached the peak of his considerable legal prowess in a time when South Africans led a parallel existence, the majority downtrodden while white privilege reigned serenely in the suburbs - a time that could have easily provided him a less controversial career had he desired. And yet even as he and his gregarious wife Gertrude enjoyed wonderful and very sociable years in their Newlands home in Cape Town - an area that was itself remodelled under the Group Areas Act - he chose to walk the path less taken in the shadow of Devil's Peak. This is his story.
Summary | Wilfrid Cooper was a rare man during the dark days of apartheid: An advocate whose career coincided almost perfectly with the rise and fall of the Nationalist government... |
Author | Gavin Cooper |
Publisher | Mercury |
Release date | 20160524 |
Pages | 307 |
ISBN | 1-928230-36-9 |
ISBN 13 | 978-1-928230-36-6 |