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ONE OF South Africa’s greatest sons, human rights lawyer, activist and retired Western Cape High Court judge Essa Moosa, passed away peacefully yesterday morning.
Hours later hundreds of mourners arrived at his Rondebosch home to bid farewell to a man described as a beacon of hope during the dark times of the struggle.
Farida Omar, the widow of the late Dullah Omar who with Moosa co-founded the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, said: "He was a very, very close family friend of ours. He and my husband did their articles together.”
Reminiscing about the “sad times” and “very hard days” of the apartheid years, Omar said Moosa was “very good to the families of detainees” and supported them through their family member's ordeal.
Omar said she saw Judge Moosa last year and he was “looking so well”.
Moosa family spokesperson and activist Mansoor Jaffer said: “In the 1980s, whenever someone was detained or charged, the first person they turned to was Essa Moosa. He was a beacon of hope in those dark times.”
ONE OF South Africa’s greatest sons, human rights lawyer, activist and retired Western Cape High Court judge Essa Moosa, passed away peacefully yesterday morning.
Hours later hundreds of mourners arrived at his Rondebosch home to bid farewell to a man described as a beacon of hope during the dark times of the struggle.
Farida Omar, the widow of the late Dullah Omar who with Moosa co-founded the National Association of Democratic Lawyers, said: "He was a very, very close family friend of ours. He and my husband did their articles together.”
Reminiscing about the “sad times” and “very hard days” of the apartheid years, Omar said Moosa was “very good to the families of detainees” and supported them through their family member's ordeal.
Omar said she saw Judge Moosa last year and he was “looking so well”.
Moosa family spokesperson and activist Mansoor Jaffer said: “In the 1980s, whenever someone was detained or charged, the first person they turned to was Essa Moosa. He was a beacon of hope in those dark times.”
