{"id":159941,"date":"2020-09-10T02:36:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/10\/george-bizos-nelson-mandelas-lawyer-and-anti-apartheid-icon-dies-at-92\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T02:36:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:36:22","slug":"george-bizos-nelson-mandelas-lawyer-and-anti-apartheid-icon-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=159941","title":{"rendered":"George Bizos, Nelson Mandela\u2019s lawyer and anti-apartheid icon, dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s president hails \u2018one of the architects of our constitution\u2019 who helped save Mandela from expected death penaltyGeorge Bizos, an anti-apartheid icon and renowned human rights lawyer who helped defend Nelson Mandela on treason charges for which he escaped the death penalty, has died aged 92.President Cyril Ramaphosa announced rights lawyer\u2019s passing on Wednesday during a media conference. \u201cI have just received news that legal eagle of our country George Bizos has passed away,\u201d Ramaphosa said. \u201cThis is very sad for our country.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/10\/george-bizos-nelson-mandelas-lawyer-and-anti-apartheid-icon-dies-at-92\" target=\"_blank\">George Bizos, Nelson Mandela\u2019s lawyer and anti-apartheid icon, dies at 92<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s president hails \u2018one of the architects of our constitution\u2019 who helped save Mandela from expected death penaltyGeorge Bizos, an anti-apartheid icon and renowned human rights lawyer who helped defend Nelson Mandela on treason charges for which he escaped the death penalty, has died aged 92.President Cyril Ramaphosa announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}