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Albie Sachs worked as an attorney defending people charged under the racist statutes of South African Apartheid. After being placed in solitary confinement for his work in the freedom movement, he left South Africa for England. His book, Jail Diary, an account of his confinement, was to become a West End play and a film. After some years as a law academic he moved to Mozambique, and it was there that he lost an arm and the sight of one eye when a bomb was placed in his car by South African security agents.