Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 13.52 EST
My friend Andrew Williamson, who has died aged 78, took part as a lawyer in several key anti-apartheid trials in South Africa and later established himself as an employment law specialist in the UK.
In South Africa, Andrew represented the author and activist Breyten Breytenbach in his 1975 trial under the draconian Terrorism Act. Breytenbach was sentenced to nine years in prison – but escaped the death penalty - for seeking to launch a white wing of the outlawed African National Congress.
Andrew was also instructing solicitor to the barrister Sir Sydney Kentridge in several other apartheid-related cases, and the two of them maintained a close friendship after they both moved to the UK in the late 1970s.