US EditionAnti-apartheid activist, human rights campaigner and UN diplomat Nicholas Haysom dies at age 73
- Nicholas Haysom, a South African anti-apartheid activist and distinguished United Nations diplomat, has died at 73. He died Tuesday in New York after a long battle with heart and lung complications.
- Tapped by Mandela to draft South Africa's constitution, Haysom served as his legal adviser from 1994 to 1999, establishing the post-apartheid government's foundation of legal equality and human rights.
- Beyond South Africa, the diplomat held high-level U.N. positions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan, leading peacekeeping missions that resolved complex ethnic conflicts and promoted reconciliation across regions.
- African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expressed profound sadness at the passing, while U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Haysom "devoted his life to justice, dialogue, and reconciliation."
- Survived by his wife Delphine and five children, Haysom leaves a legacy the U.N. chief noted "will endure in the peace processes he advanced, the institutions he strengthened, and the principles he helped bring to life around the world.
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Anti-apartheid activist, human rights campaigner and UN diplomat Nicholas Haysom dies at age 73
Nicholas Haysom has died at 73. The white South African anti-apartheid activist was tapped by prisoner-turned-president Nelson Mandela to help draft the country’s new constitution that enshrined equal rights for Black people, minorities and white people.
TRIBUTE | ‘Fink’ Haysom was a constitutional law expert who lived for democracy
A towering legal mind, trusted confidant to Nelson Mandela and tireless architect of peace on the continent, Professor Nicholas ‘Fink’ Haysom combined constitutional brilliance with humility, warmth and an unwavering moral compass – a man as formidable in negotiation rooms as he was generous in spirit, writes Zelda la Grange.
Africa: Statement of the Chairperson On the Passing of Nicholas Haysom
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf expresses profound sadness at the passing of Mr. Nicholas Haysom, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan.
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