| LC control no. | no 99059132 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bizos, George |
| Associated country | Greece South Africa |
| Birth date | 1928-11-14? |
| Death date | 2020-09-09 |
| Place of birth | Vasilitsi (Greece) |
| Place of death | Johannesburg (South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Human rights Anti-apartheid movements |
| Affiliation | Legal Resources Centre (South Africa) University of the Witwatersrand |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Human rights workers |
| Found in | No one to blame?, 1998: t.p. (George Bizos) p. 4 of cover (South African human rights lawyer) Odyssey to freedom, 2007: t.p. (George Bizos) jkt. (b. 1928 in the Greek village of Vasilitsi; during Second World War become a refugee in South Africa) The New York Times, George Bizos, anti-apartheid lawyer who defended Mandela, dies at 92, September 9, 2020, viewed online September 12, 2020 (George Bizos, fled Nazi occupation of his native Greece at age 13 to become one of South Africa's most prominent human rights lawyers; died on Wednesday [September 9] at his home in Johannesburg; in the 1990s he represented the families of leading foes of apartheid, including Matthew Goniwe, an educator who was one of the Cradock Four murdered by police in 1985; in 2012-2015 he was among the lawyers who represented the families of 34 striking miners killed by the police at Marikana, which he likened to atrocities of the apartheid era; from 1991 onward he was associated with the Legal Resources Center, a firm of human rights lawyers in Johannesburg of which he became senior counel; he also worked in Botswana and Zimbabwe, where he defended Morgan Tsvangirai, opposition leader, against treason charges in 2003; he was born in November 1927, exact unknown because municipal records were burned during Nazi occupation of Greece; his mother, Anastasia Tomaras, recalled it as Nov. 14; his father, Antonios Bizos, was mayor of Vasilitsi, a village in the southern Peloponnese; Mr. Bizos completed his law degree at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1950, admitted to the Johannesburg bar in 1954) |
| Equivalent(s) | Bizos, George |
| Associated language | eng |
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