IN PICTURES: SA says goodbye to George Bizos

A great tree has fallen. That is how President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the death of the late George Bizos. The president says Bizos was passionate about the law. Ramaphosa delivered the eulogy at Bizos' funeral. CourtesyJOHANNESBURG - South Africa on Thursday bade farewell to George Bizos, the"hero" anti-apartheid lawyer who represented Nelson Mandela at his trial for treason, at a state funeral filled with emotional tributes.

His flag-draped coffin was wheeled into a Greek community hall by military pall-bearers on Thursday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa in attendance, before it was driven to a cemetery on a ceremonial military gun carriage.Speakers before a small gathering of family and other dignitaries -- due to coronavirus restrictions -- paid heartfelt tributes to the man who became Mandela's personal friend and defended human rights to the end of his life.

The regime told him"he was not fit and proper to become a South African citizen," said the president.Yet Bizos was a"patriot" and"the embodiment of a fit and proper South African citizen," Ramaphosa said.

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