M-Net to flight documentary on struggle Icon George Bizos
The advocate who represented Mandela honoured in compelling film This Reconciliation Day (Saturday, 16 December), M-Net is proud to broadcast George Bizos: Icon , a documentary about the late Greek-South African human rights lawyer, on Saturday, 16 December at 22:00. The documentary will give viewers an intimate look at the life and work of one of South Africa’s most prominent struggle figures and gives them an opportunity to learn about the man that helped shape our democracy. Directed by Jane Thandi Lipman and Peter Goldsmid, the documentary interviews the likes of former president Thabo Mbeki, former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke, as well as Bizos’s children and grandchildren. It’s a fitting tribute to a man who legally represented the likes of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , Steve Biko, Chris Hani, Govan Mbeki and Walter Sisulu. The gardener Viewers will get a glimpse of the man behind the indomitable advocate the public saw in the press. Bizos (1927-2020) wa