THE MANDELA BRIEF by Thomas Grant, read by Gareth Armstrong - audiobook extract
b"The remarkable story of Sir Sydney Kentridge, QC, the greatest living barrister.\\n\\nSydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate\\u2014his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize\\u2014Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. Already world-famous for his landmark cases including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the other leading members of the ANC, the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre and the inquest into the death of Steve Biko, he then became England's premier advocate.\\n\\nThrough the great set-pieces of the legal struggle against apartheid\\u2014cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa but across the world\\u2014this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature."