Sydney Kentridge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sydney Kentridge

lawyer and judge

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Profession: judge, lawyer, barrister

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sir Sydney Kentridge (born 5 November 1922) is a South African-born former lawyer, judge and member of the English Bar.
He practised law in South Africa and the United Kingdom from the 1940s until his retirement in 2013, and played a leading role in a number of the most significant political trials in apartheid-era South Africa, including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the 1978 inquest into the death of Stephen Biko.
Kentridge's wife, Felicia Kentridge, was also a leading anti-apartheid lawyer.