Albie Sachs
Biographic Data
| ID | 312046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albie Sachs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albie |
| FAMILY NAME | Sachs |
| SIGNATURE | SACHS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4813-0712 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Une vie consacrée au combat pour les droits humains
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short
"From his anticolonial military leadership to the presidency of independent, communist Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. His controversial death, however, continues to raise questions about warring political and economic ideologies"
New Dilemmas and New Directions in South Africa After Apartheid
On 3 October 2016, Sachs, who collects honorary doctorates and other titles as if they were panini stickers, visited Ghent University for the third Mandela Lecture organised by the Africa Platform of the Ghent University Association, and moderated by Prof. Eva Brems. This interview was conducted on that occasion. ‘Since the attempt on my life, I see everything as rose-tinted’, laughs the man who sur- vived an attack, abolished the death penalty a…
New Dilemmas and New Directions in South Africa After Apartheid
Food and Nutrition Surveillance System/Sisvan: Getting to know the feeding habits of infants under 24 months of age
The objective of the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (SISVAN) is to monitor the food intake of individuals attended by the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). The objective of this research was to identify the feeding practices of children under 24 months of age who were attended at Primary Healthcare Units (UBS), using SISVAN, and to assess the relationship with maternal sociodemographic profiles. A cross-sectional study was conducted …
Soft Vengeance
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Bringing Human Solidarity Back Into the Rights Equation
I wondered why I was so keen to attend a conference in faraway Montreal to honour Charles D. Gonthier, who had died two years previously and was as different to me as anyone could possibly be. I had met him only once or twice, he was a non-demonstrative person, and the sole thing we seemed to have in common was that I was a judge on the Constitutional Court in South Africa and he was a judge on the Supreme Court in Canada. He came from a distinct…
La Commission Vérité et Réconciliation: Une expérience unique
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
Padrão alimentar de idosos de diferentes estratos socioeconômicos residentes em localidade urbana da região sudeste, Brasil
Two hundred and eight three male and female elderly subjects were studied. They participated in the Multicentric project: "Health assessment of elderly people living in the urban area of S. Paulo", Brazil, and were stratified by socio-economic level in three areas of S. Paulo city. The food frequency questionnaire was applied in order to discover their food pattern. The results show that for the energy-producing foods more than 90% of the total s…
Liberating the Law: Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique
A Trumpet from the Housetops: The selected writings of Lionel Forman
Journal Article A Trumpet from the Housetops: The selected writings of Lionel Forman Get access A Trumpet from the Housetops: The selected writings of Lionel Forman, edited by Sadie Forman and Andre Odendaal. The Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape and Zed Books, London, 1992. ISBN 1 85649 045 9 and ISBN 1 85649 046 7. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1992. ISBN 0 8214 1041 5 cloth. ISBN 08214 1042 3 paper. David Philip, Cape Town…
The Future of Roman Dutch Law in a Non- Racial Democratic South Africa: Some Preliminary Observations
Towards A Bill of Rights for a Democratic South Africa
All revolutions are impossible until they happen; then they become inevitable. South Africa has for long been trembling between the impossible and the inevitable, and it is in this singularly unstable situation that the question of human rights and the basics of government in post-apartheid society demands attention. No longer is it necessary to spend much time analysing schemes to modernize, reform liberalize, privatize, or even democratize apar…
Preparing Ourselves for Freedom: Culture and the ANC Constitutional Guidelines
We all know where South Africa is, but we do not yet know what it is. Ours is the privileged generation that will make that discovery, if the apertures in our eyes are wide enough. The problem is whether we have sufficient cultural imagination to grasp the rich texture of the free and united South Africa that we have done so much to bring about; can we say that we have begun to grasp the full dimensions of the new country that is struggling to gi…
Cases and Comments
The soft vengeance of a freedom fighter
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery records the gradual recuperation of his broken body, his complex interaction with health professionals, the importance of touch and sensuality, and …
The Family in a Democratic South Africa: Its Constitutional Position
(1990). The Family in a Democratic South Africa—Its Constitutional Position. Agenda: Vol. 6, FOCUS ON: Women and the ANC, pp. 40-54
Judges and Gender: The Constitutional Rights of Women in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
Some call it the woman question. Some call it the man question. From a constitutional point of view it is best referred to as the gender question. Few would deny that gender is on the agenda, but not many would agree on how to formulate the question, and even fewer would lay claim to have found the constitutional answers. The issue is painful, discomfiting and controversial, good reasons for tackling it
Liberating the Law: Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique
Stay out of Politics: A Philosopher Views South Africa
As a lifelong radical and political activist, Ronald Aronson accepted an invitation to lecture in South Africa only after two years of deliberation. Out of Politics, which begins with the moral questions that Aronson confronted in his decision to go, is a reaffirmation of the necessity for majority rule and the abolition of apartheid. Amidst the pressure of widespread talk of an academic boycott of South Africa, Aronson decided to lecture there a…
Towards a Bill of Rights in a Democratic South Africa
All revolutions are impossible until they happen; then they become inevitable. South Africa has for long been trembling between the impossible and the inevitable, and it is in this singularly unstable situation that the question of human rights and the basics of government in post-apartheid society demands attention. No longer is it necessary to spend much time analysing schemes to modernize, reform liberalize, privatize, or even democratize apar…
Apartheid, Destabilization and Refugees
Journal Article Apartheid, Destabilization and Refugees Get access ALBIE SACHS ALBIE SACHS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 2, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 491–503, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/2.4.491 Published: 01 January 1989
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
A Classification of the Babylonian Astronomical Tablets of the Seleucid Period
Judges and Gender: The Constitutional Rights of Women in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
Some call it the woman question. Some call it the man question. From a constitutional point of view it is best referred to as the gender question. Few would deny that gender is on the agenda, but not many would agree on how to formulate the question, and even fewer would lay claim to have found the constitutional answers. The issue is painful, discomfiting and controversial, good reasons for tackling it
Stay out of Politics: A Philosopher Views South Africa
As a lifelong radical and political activist, Ronald Aronson accepted an invitation to lecture in South Africa only after two years of deliberation. Out of Politics, which begins with the moral questions that Aronson confronted in his decision to go, is a reaffirmation of the necessity for majority rule and the abolition of apartheid. Amidst the pressure of widespread talk of an academic boycott of South Africa, Aronson decided to lecture there a…
Padrão alimentar de idosos de diferentes estratos socioeconômicos residentes em localidade urbana da região sudeste, Brasil
Two hundred and eight three male and female elderly subjects were studied. They participated in the Multicentric project: "Health assessment of elderly people living in the urban area of S. Paulo", Brazil, and were stratified by socio-economic level in three areas of S. Paulo city. The food frequency questionnaire was applied in order to discover their food pattern. The results show that for the energy-producing foods more than 90% of the total s…
Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short
"From his anticolonial military leadership to the presidency of independent, communist Mozambique, Samora Machel held a reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. His controversial death, however, continues to raise questions about warring political and economic ideologies"
Soft Vengeance
One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court
The Future of Roman Dutch Law in a Non- Racial Democratic South Africa: Some Preliminary Observations
The Family in a Democratic South Africa: Its Constitutional Position
(1990). The Family in a Democratic South Africa—Its Constitutional Position. Agenda: Vol. 6, FOCUS ON: Women and the ANC, pp. 40-54
Towards a Bill of Rights in a Democratic South Africa
All revolutions are impossible until they happen; then they become inevitable. South Africa has for long been trembling between the impossible and the inevitable, and it is in this singularly unstable situation that the question of human rights and the basics of government in post-apartheid society demands attention. No longer is it necessary to spend much time analysing schemes to modernize, reform liberalize, privatize, or even democratize apar…
Towards the reconstruction of South Africa
Legal truth, like all truth, arises out of the clash of opposites. At the heart of all debate on the legal characterisation of the apartheid state lies the opposition between two seemingly irreconcilable truths, namely that South Africa is an independent state, and that the eradication of apartheid represents the culmination of the struggle to free Africa from colonial domination. Put in terms of the internal situation in South Africa, a struggle…
Barristers and Gentlemen: A Critical Look at Sexism in the Legal Profession
The Myth of Judicial Neutrality: The Male Monopoly Cases
A Classification of the Babylonian Astronomical Tablets of the Seleucid Period
Justice in South Africa
Journal Article Justice in South Africa. Get access Justice in South Africa. By Sachs Albie. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 288. John Dugard John Dugard *Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 22, Issue 3, Summer 1974, Pages 578–581, https://doi.org/10.2307/838973 Publ…
Justice in South Africa
The Myth of Judicial Neutrality: The Male Monopoly Cases
Sexism and the Law: A Study of Male Beliefs and Judicial Bias
Barristers and Gentlemen: A Critical Look at Sexism in the Legal Profession
Sexism and the Law: A Study of Male Beliefs and Legal Bias in Britain and the United States
Journal Article Sexism and the Law: A Study of Male Beliefs and Legal Bias in Britain and the United States Get access Sachs Albie Wilson Joan Hoff, Sexism and the Law: A Study of Male Beliefs and Legal Bias in Britain and the United States. New York, The Free Press, 1979. viii, 257 pp. $13.95. June Sochen June Sochen Professor of History Northeastern Illinois University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ame…
Changing the Terms of the Debate: A Visit to a Popular Tribunal in Mozambique
It was July 1979 and we were in a small village in northern Mozambique, 1500 km from the capital. In the background I could hear viva's being shouted and drums being beaten but my excitement was of another kind, the cool excitement of an English-trained legal empiricist about to discover facts, in this case, not only facts, but virgin documentary facts. Because right in front of me on the table in the shade of a large cashew tree, lay a big book …
Towards the reconstruction of South Africa
Legal truth, like all truth, arises out of the clash of opposites. At the heart of all debate on the legal characterisation of the apartheid state lies the opposition between two seemingly irreconcilable truths, namely that South Africa is an independent state, and that the eradication of apartheid represents the culmination of the struggle to free Africa from colonial domination. Put in terms of the internal situation in South Africa, a struggle…
Transforming the foundations of family law in the course of the Mozambican revolution
Traditional law, the system of rules formerly applied by the traditional courtswhether of the chiefs or religious leaders still influences to a greater or lesser extent the behaviour of large sections of Mozambican people, but is not used as a formal source of law in the state courts of independent Mozambique. A study of the operation of more than six hundred local courts, dozens of district courts, ten provincial courts and the appeal court show…
Apartheid, Destabilization and Refugees
Journal Article Apartheid, Destabilization and Refugees Get access ALBIE SACHS ALBIE SACHS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 2, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 491–503, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/2.4.491 Published: 01 January 1989
The soft vengeance of a freedom fighter
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa's security forces. His right arm was blown off and he lost the sight of one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery records the gradual recuperation of his broken body, his complex interaction with health professionals, the importance of touch and sensuality, and …
The Family in a Democratic South Africa: Its Constitutional Position
(1990). The Family in a Democratic South Africa—Its Constitutional Position. Agenda: Vol. 6, FOCUS ON: Women and the ANC, pp. 40-54
Judges and Gender: The Constitutional Rights of Women in a Post-Apartheid South Africa
Some call it the woman question. Some call it the man question. From a constitutional point of view it is best referred to as the gender question. Few would deny that gender is on the agenda, but not many would agree on how to formulate the question, and even fewer would lay claim to have found the constitutional answers. The issue is painful, discomfiting and controversial, good reasons for tackling it
Liberating the Law: Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique
Stay out of Politics: A Philosopher Views South Africa
As a lifelong radical and political activist, Ronald Aronson accepted an invitation to lecture in South Africa only after two years of deliberation. Out of Politics, which begins with the moral questions that Aronson confronted in his decision to go, is a reaffirmation of the necessity for majority rule and the abolition of apartheid. Amidst the pressure of widespread talk of an academic boycott of South Africa, Aronson decided to lecture there a…
Towards a Bill of Rights in a Democratic South Africa
All revolutions are impossible until they happen; then they become inevitable. South Africa has for long been trembling between the impossible and the inevitable, and it is in this singularly unstable situation that the question of human rights and the basics of government in post-apartheid society demands attention. No longer is it necessary to spend much time analysing schemes to modernize, reform liberalize, privatize, or even democratize apar…
Towards A Bill of Rights for a Democratic South Africa
All revolutions are impossible until they happen; then they become inevitable. South Africa has for long been trembling between the impossible and the inevitable, and it is in this singularly unstable situation that the question of human rights and the basics of government in post-apartheid society demands attention. No longer is it necessary to spend much time analysing schemes to modernize, reform liberalize, privatize, or even democratize apar…
Preparing Ourselves for Freedom: Culture and the ANC Constitutional Guidelines
We all know where South Africa is, but we do not yet know what it is. Ours is the privileged generation that will make that discovery, if the apertures in our eyes are wide enough. The problem is whether we have sufficient cultural imagination to grasp the rich texture of the free and united South Africa that we have done so much to bring about; can we say that we have begun to grasp the full dimensions of the new country that is struggling to gi…
Cases and Comments
The Future of Roman Dutch Law in a Non- Racial Democratic South Africa: Some Preliminary Observations
A Trumpet from the Housetops: The selected writings of Lionel Forman
Journal Article A Trumpet from the Housetops: The selected writings of Lionel Forman Get access A Trumpet from the Housetops: The selected writings of Lionel Forman, edited by Sadie Forman and Andre Odendaal. The Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape and Zed Books, London, 1992. ISBN 1 85649 045 9 and ISBN 1 85649 046 7. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio, 1992. ISBN 0 8214 1041 5 cloth. ISBN 08214 1042 3 paper. David Philip, Cape Town…
Padrão alimentar de idosos de diferentes estratos socioeconômicos residentes em localidade urbana da região sudeste, Brasil
Two hundred and eight three male and female elderly subjects were studied. They participated in the Multicentric project: "Health assessment of elderly people living in the urban area of S. Paulo", Brazil, and were stratified by socio-economic level in three areas of S. Paulo city. The food frequency questionnaire was applied in order to discover their food pattern. The results show that for the energy-producing foods more than 90% of the total s…
Liberating the Law: Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970–1995
During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's rel…
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