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To close off our 2024 Events Program, we are delighted to invite you to join our Gala Dinner, where we are honoured to host Justice Edwin Cameron as our special guest speaker for the evening.
Justice Cameron will share some insights from his extraordinary life of campaigning, liberating, fighting for equality and justice for all, and upholding the Constitution to its truest meaning. Justice Cameron served for 25 years as a Judge on the High Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
It will be a sparkling and celebratory event, including a 3-course dinner, live music and after dinner dance!
Bring your partners, associates, colleagues and friends to what promises to be an inspiring and festive celebration!
Date: 29th November 2024
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: Balalaika Hotel, Sandton
Member Price: R690,- p.p. incl. 3-course dinner, drinks & VAT
Members' Table of 10: R6'210,- incl. 3-course dinner, drinks & VAT (pay for nine and get the 10th free!)
Non-Member Price: R920,- incl. 3-course dinner, drinks & VAT
Dress Code: Formal
RSVP: by 22nd November 2024
Speaker
Justice Edwin
Cameron
Edwin Cameron was a judge in South Africa for 25 years, and a Justice of its highest court, the
Constitutional Court, for nearly eleven years.
He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ High School, Stellenbosch and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
During apartheid he was a human rights lawyer. President Mandela appointed him a judge in
1994. Before the Constitutional Court, he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight
years, and a Judge of the High Court for six.
He was a fierce critic of President Mbeki’s AIDS-denialist policies. He has written two prize-winning
memoirs, Witness to AIDS (2005) and Justice: A Personal Account (2014).
He has received many honours for his legal and human rights work.
