![]() ![]() Next stop for the party was Egypt, before being shipped to Durban. Then, in a stroke of grace, the craft was intercepted by an allied warship. A rescue mission guided by blind faith, Crete was already under fire. ![]() ![]() Bizos’s father bundled the soldiers, and his young son, onto a small boat and set sail for Crete. Within the allied retreat, seven New Zealand soldiers took refuge in his village. By the time of his 13 th birthday, Greece was in the grip of the advancing Nazi army. Bizos straightened his tie and showed up in court, steadfast in exposing the state’s abuses and acting as defence for those suffering from the political injustices of the time.īorn in Greece in 1928, Bizos still speaks with a light accent, maintaining a calm Mediterranean sensibility that belies the enormity of his life and achievements. But the word delivered from Vorster’s tower did little to deter the lawman. It was more often the precursor to harassment, incarceration and the threat of the gallows. “George Bizos is on a short rope.” During his rule as the prime minister of apartheid South Africa, a statement of this nature was not a lightly-dusted metaphor for reining in dissent. ![]()
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