S. African judge to speak on campus

Justice Ismail Mahomed, the first black appointed to the South African Supreme Court, will speak on the future of South Africa tomorrow at the Zellerbach Theater. Mahomed's Zellerbach appearance, where he will deliver a speech entitled "South Africa and its Future," will be his only one in the Philadelphia area during his trip to the United States. Mahomed made history in South Africa with his appointment to the Supreme Court in August 1991. He also sits as the President of the Lesotho Court of Appeals and as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Namibia. Mahomed is one of South Africa's former leading litigators of civil, political and criminal cases challenging apartheid, and serves as the co-chairperson of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa. Mahomed has fought for the rights of numerous political activists, challenged prohibitions on freedom of movement and detention orders, and has worked to secure justice for citizens charged unfairly with treason. The Justice has also received numerous international recognitions. He has been a Rockefeller Fellow in Human Rights at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, and is currently a member of the law faculty at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is also a trustee of the Legal Resources Trust, the first and only public interest law firm in South Africa. The Justice will speak tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. in Zellerbach Theater of the Annenberg Center. The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. will make the introductory remarks. The lecture will be open to the public. Mahomed's appearance will be sponsored by the Law School's Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture. Previous Roberts lecturers have been Felix Frankfurter, Abba Eban, Anthony Lewis and Cyrus Vance.

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