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{{Short description|South African human rights lawyer (1943–2020)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Priscilla Jana
| image = Priscilla Jana.jpeg
| party = [[African National Congress]]
| office1 = Member of the [[National Assembly of South Africa]]
| term_start1 = 9 May 1994
| term_end1 = June 1999
| birth_name = Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1943|12|5}}
| birth_place = [[Westville, KwaZulu-Natal|Westville]], [[Natal (province)|Natal]], Union of South Africa
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|10|10|1943|12|5|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Pretoria]], South Africa
| alma_mater = [[Sophia College for Women]]; [[University of South Africa]]
| occupation = Human rights lawyer
| known_for = Anti-apartheid activism; Lawyer for leading anti-apartheid leaders including [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela]], [[Desmond Tutu]], and [[Steve Biko]]
| spouse = {{ubl
| {{marriage|Reg Jana|1964|1989|end=div}}
| {{marriage|Reagan Jacobus|end=div}}
}}
}}
'''Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal Jana''' (5{{nbsp}}December 1943{{snd}}10{{nbsp}}October 2020) was a South African human rights lawyer, politician and diplomat. As a member of the [[African National Congress|African National Congress (ANC)]] during the anti-apartheid movement, she participated in both legal activism as well as in the underground [[Anti-Apartheid Movement|movement to end apartheid]]. She represented many significant figures in the movement, including South African president [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela]], [[Steve Biko]], [[Govan Mbeki]], [[Walter Sisulu]], and Archbishop [[Desmond Tutu]]. Jana was one of the very few South Africans who had access to political prisoners, including Mandela, in the maximum security [[Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island|Robben Island]] prison, and served as an emissary for coded messages between the political prisoners and the ANC leadership.

Jana's activism made her subject to violent harassment and an eventual [[banning order]]. Following the advent of full democracy in South Africa, she became a lawmaker and served as a [[Parliament of South Africa|Member of Parliament]] with the ANC between 1994 and 1999. She was also an ambassador of the [[South African government]] to the Netherlands and Ireland, and a commissioner with the [[South African Human Rights Commission]]. She was a member of the justice committee that was responsible for the roll-out of the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.]]

==Early life==
Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal was born 5 December 1943, in [[Westville, KwaZulu-Natal|Westville, Natal]] (now called [[KwaZulu-Natal]]) near the port city of [[Durban]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Renowned Indian-origin South African human rights lawyer Priscilla Jana passes away |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/renowned-indian-origin-south-african-human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-passes-away-154291 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014044821/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/renowned-indian-origin-south-african-human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-passes-away-154291 |archive-date=14 October 2020 |access-date=11 October 2020 |website=India Tribune |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Shoba-2020">{{Cite web |last=Shoba |first=Sandisiwe |date=11 October 2020 |title=Obituary 1943–2020: In memory of human rights lawyer Priscilla Jana |url=https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-11-in-memory-of-human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-1943-2020/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013200940/https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-10-11-in-memory-of-human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-1943-2020/ |archive-date=13 October 2020 |access-date=11 October 2020 |website=Daily Maverick |language=en}}</ref> She was the second child amongst three children to Hansrani Sewpal and Hansraj Sewpal. Jana's parents were middle-class Indian immigrants with her father being a high school teacher.<ref name="Cowell-2020">{{Cite news |last=Cowell |first=Alan |date=24 November 2020 |title=Priscilla Jana, Lawyer Who Battled Apartheid, Is Dead at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/africa/priscilla-jana-dead.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Her father's challenging of social injustices ranging from [[apartheid]] to the [[Caste system in India|Indian caste system based discrimination]], was an early influence on her.<ref name="SA-History" />

She first joined the [[Pietermaritzburg Girls' High School]], where she organized a walkout as a part of a national potato boycott in 1958 protesting the treatment of [[Ethnic groups in South Africa|Black]] farmers.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /><ref name="Jones-2016" /> She began her high school in [[Durban]] in 1960 and went to India on a [[Government of India]] scholarship to study medicine at the [[Sophia College for Women]] in Bombay (now [[Mumbai]]). Upon returning to South Africa, she started her Bachelor of Laws Degree at the University of South Africa (UNISA) in 1974, but transferred over to the University College for Indians on [[Salisbury Island, Durban]], where she was the only woman student in the class.<ref name="SA-History" /> Her pursuit of a law degree was against the initial wishes of her parents who had wanted her to become a physician instead.<ref name="Shoba-2020" /><ref name="Cowell-2020" />

She grew up at a time when neighborhoods, schools, and all public facilities, were segregated by racial profile. Writing in her memoir, ''[[Fighting for Mandela]]'', she recollects a meeting with [[Internal resistance to apartheid|anti-apartheid]] activist [[Steve Biko]] when she was 26 that helped solidify the notion of identity in her mind. The meeting, she says, helped make clear in her mind that one "didn't have to be African to call yourself a Black." That notion helped her find solidarity in a group. She writes, "I had found solidarity. At last, I knew where I belonged."<ref name="Cowell-2020" />

==Career==

===Early years===
After her graduation in 1974, she joined the law firm of [[Ismail Ayob]], a lawyer of Indian origin. The firm's clients included many in the anti-apartheid movement, including [[Nelson Mandela]].<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> In 1977, she went on her first of what would be many trips to [[Robben Island Maximum Security Prison|Robben Island]] to meet Mandela. She would later write, "At one time I represented every [[political prisoner]] on Robben Island."<ref name="Cowell-2020" />

Visiting Mandela at [[Robben Island Maximum Security Prison|Robben Island]] in 1977 as a solicitor needing his signatures, Jana became the first woman to hug Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /> At the time, even Mandela's wife [[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela]] could only see him through a glass panel.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /> Jana became Mandela's personal attorney and her access allowed her to pass coded messages from the ANC organization to Mandela, while joking and teasing.<ref name="The Guardian-2020">{{Cite web |date=5 November 2020 |title=Priscilla Jana obituary {{!}} Pat Devereaux |url=http://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/nov/05/priscilla-jana-obituary |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124131746/https://www.theguardian.com/global/2020/nov/05/priscilla-jana-obituary |archive-date=24 November 2020 |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> As one of the very few South Africans who had access to Mandela during his imprisonment in the island, she also carried back coded messages from Mandela and the other political prisoners to the ANC leadership, including President [[Oliver Tambo]].<ref name="SA-History" />

As an articled clerk, she represented the members of [[Soweto]] Students' representative council, against state brutality, following the [[1976 Soweto Uprising]].<ref name="The Guardian-2020" />

In one of her high-profile cases from this time she defended a 22-year-old activist and [[UMkhonto we Sizwe|UMkhonto we Sizwe (MK)]] member, [[Solomon Mahlangu]], who was eventually convicted under the [[Terrorism Act, 1967]] for the murder of two white people. Mahlangu was sentenced to death and subsequently hanged, due to prevailing common purpose laws that judged perceived complicity as harshly as the crime itself. The case generated global outrage. Jana was one of the last of Mahlangu's supporters to see him on the night prior to his execution, and came back carrying a message to carry on with the fight for freedom. His last message conveyed through her went on to be a rallying cry for his supporters, "Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight. My blood will nourish the tree that bears the fruits of freedom."<ref name="Cowell-2020" /><ref name="The Guardian-2020" />

In 1979, Jana opened her own law practice, focusing on civil liberties and human rights cases.<ref name="Shoba-2020" /> However, very soon in 1980, she was handed a [[banning order]] under the [[Suppression of Communism Act, 1950]] for five years, imposing an overnight curfew on her and limiting her to meeting with only one person, as well as limiting her public speeches.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /><ref name="SA-History">{{Cite web |title=Devikarani Priscilla Jana {{!}} South African History Online |url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/devikarani-priscilla-jana |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207041905/https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/devikarani-priscilla-jana |archive-date=7 December 2020 |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=www.sahistory.org.za}}</ref>

During this time Jana also joined the underground cell of the African National Congress, [[UMkhonto we Sizwe]], which was led by future South African President, [[Thabo Mbeki]], from London, to whom Jana used to report.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Mandela must be turning in his grave' – Priscilla Jana |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2016-04-24-mandela-must-be-turning-in-his-grave-priscilla-jana/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210125355/https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2016-04-24-mandela-must-be-turning-in-his-grave-priscilla-jana/ |archive-date=10 December 2020 |access-date=28 November 2020 |website=TimesLIVE |language=en-ZA}}</ref><ref name="SA-History" /> The cell had as its members [[Jackie Selebi]], [[Beyers Naudé]], and Cedric Mayson.<ref name="SA-History" />

===Opposing apartheid===
Through her career, Jana represented many leaders of the [[Internal resistance to apartheid|anti-apartheid]] movement, including South African president [[Nelson Mandela]], [[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela]], [[Steve Biko]], Ebrahim Ebrahim, [[Ahmed Kathrada]], [[Solomon Mahlangu]], [[Govan Mbeki]], [[Walter Sisulu]], and Archbishop [[Desmond Tutu]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hassen |first=Fakir |date=11 October 2020 |title=Renowned Indian-origin South African human rights lawyer Priscilla Jana passes away |url=https://in.news.yahoo.com/renowned-indian-origin-south-african-124541003.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014045810/https://in.news.yahoo.com/renowned-indian-origin-south-african-124541003.html |archive-date=14 October 2020 |access-date=11 October 2020 |website=Yahoo! News |language=en-IN}}</ref>

She started off by representing [[Nelson Mandela]] and [[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela]] as their lawyer in the mid-1970s. She had gotten to know the couple when Mandela was serving imprisoned at the [[Robben Island Maximum Security Prison|Robben Island prison.]]<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> This was around the same time that Madikizela-Mandela had been arrested and detained in solitary confinement before being relegated to a segregated Black township in the [[Orange Free State (province)|Orange Free State]]. Racially motivated laws of the time meant that as a person of Indian origin, Jana was not allowed to stay overnight while visiting her client.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> She continued to remain connected with Madikizela-Mandela as she was released from [[Brandfort]] and began to appeal to more radical and younger protesters who took to more radical forms of protest in taking on authorities.<ref name="Cowell-2020" />

At the same time, Jana took exception when Madikizela-Mandela was sentenced to prison for kidnapping of a young boy, Stompie Moeketsi, noting that this action had resulted in the anti-apartheid movement being drawn into this matter and being tarnished in the process.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> She went on to raise this objection with Mandela when he was released from prison. She also expressed her own radical side when she faulted Mandela for forgiving his former opponents upon being released from prison.<ref name="Cowell-2020" />

Jana was targeted by state agents in the mid-1980s, with her home bombed with [[Molotov cocktail]] attacks. Her offices were periodically raided, with files and documents often rummaged through in an effort to intimidate her.<ref name="Jones-2016" /> But, these actions did not deter her. She took on activist client [[Popo Molefe]] and his wife Phinda Molefe's baby girl, Albertina, when the mother left her behind in Jana's office in despair.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /><ref name="Jones-2016" /> Many years later, in 2001, Jana officially adopted Albertina.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" />

Jana also represented the poet [[Benjamin Moloise]], who was condemned to death by hanging for the killing of a policeman in 1982. Her efforts had helped mobilize global attention and subsequent calls from global organizations and governments asking the then-South African government to grant clemency. Jana was with Moloise's elderly mother on a vigil in 1985 when the elder Moloise's house was surrounded by soldiers and tear-gassed.<ref name="Rule-1985">{{Cite news |last=Rule |first=Sheila |date=18 October 1985 |title=Poet's Mother Is Target |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/18/world/poet-s-mother-is-target.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> An earlier request by her for a retrial had been turned down by the South African government.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cowell |first=Alan |date=16 October 1985 |title=PRETORIA REFUSES POET A NEW TRIAL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/16/world/pretoria-refuses-poet-a-new-trial.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rule |first=Sheila |date=19 August 1985 |title=SCATTERED UNREST IN SOUTH AFRICA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/19/world/scattered-unrest-in-south-africa.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Moloise was executed in October 1985, at the age of 30.<ref name="Rule-1985" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Says |first=Mehadihasan |date=18 October 2011 |title=ExecutedToday.com » 1985: Benjamin Moloise, revolutionary poet |url=http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/10/18/1985-benjamin-moloise-revolutionary-poet/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129104324/https://www.executedtoday.com/2011/10/18/1985-benjamin-moloise-revolutionary-poet/ |archive-date=29 November 2020 |access-date=28 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Representing [[Govan Mbeki]], former national chairman of the [[African National Congress]], Jana helped secure his release from the [[Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island|Robben Island]] prison in 1987, after serving 23 years of a life sentence. The release of the 77-year-old came with severe restrictions including geographical limits for him to remain within the [[Port Elizabeth]] region. This release was regarded as a "trial run" for the eventual release of Nelson Mandela from the same prison.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 December 1987 |title=South Africa Restricts a Freed Dissident |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/12/world/south-africa-restricts-a-freed-dissident.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

Jana was also a part of the [[Black Consciousness Movement]] that opposed movements to ensure multiracialism in the [[African National Congress]]. In a high-profile case, she took on the South African Medical and Dental Council in 1984 to prove that two doctors who were providing care to anti-apartheid activist and Black Consciousness Movement leader [[Steve Biko]], had acted improperly when Biko died in custody in 1977.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /><ref name="SAHRC-20">{{Cite web |title=Tributes pour in for the 'people's lawyer' Priscilla Jana |url=https://www.sahrc.org.za/index.php/sahrc-media/news/item/2480-tributes-pour-in-for-the-people-s-lawyer-priscilla-jana |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209094536/https://www.sahrc.org.za/index.php/sahrc-media/news/item/2480-tributes-pour-in-for-the-people-s-lawyer-priscilla-jana |archive-date=9 December 2020 |access-date=28 November 2020 |website=www.sahrc.org.za |language=en-gb}}</ref> The case ended up finding the two white doctors guilty in 1985.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rule |first=Sheila |date=17 October 1985 |title=PRETORIA DOCTOR LOSES HIS LICENSE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/17/world/pretoria-doctor-loses-his-license.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> She was also an activist member of the Democratic Women's Movement, and issued calls for boycott of the apartheid elections and the creation of a new apartheid constitution, in August 1985. Participating in the campaign to boycott the elections, she had said, "Anybody, Colored or Indian, who participates in the new constitution will be as guilty as the perpetrators of this crime against the people. He who participates is a traitor."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mbeki |first=Thabo |date=1985 |title=The Struggle Inside South Africa |journal=Africa Report |volume=30 |issue=1 |page=59 |id={{ProQuest|1304058711}}}}</ref>

In this period, Jana was a part of a collective of legal challengers who battled civil and human rights cases across the country to end apartheid and usher democracy into the country.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> At a time when most legal activists saw their role within the bounds of the legal system, Jana often crossed over into being a radical activist. While she worked as lawyer on human rights cases, she would be seen working at nights with underground activists on more violent means to combat apartheid, including having carried [[AK-47]]s in the boot of her car from [[Soweto]] on behalf of an underground client, to prevent their confiscation.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /><ref name="The Guardian-2020" /> Through this period, she was also a member of [[Black People's Convention]] and the Anti-Constitutional Committee and Federation of Transvaal Women.<ref name="SAHRC-20" />

===Later years===
With the advent of democracy and the [[African National Congress|African National Congress (ANC)]] in power in 1994, Jana joined as an ANC lawmaker, and served as a [[Parliament of South Africa|Member of Parliament]] between 1994 and 1999.<ref name="News24-2020">{{Cite web |date=10 October 2020 |title=Human rights lawyer Priscilla Jana has died |url=https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-dies-20201010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011184540/https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-dies-20201010 |archive-date=11 October 2020 |access-date=12 October 2020 |website=News24 |language=en}}</ref> She represented [[Krugersdorp]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 July 1997 |title=ANC Constituency Offices |url=http://www.anc.org.za/lists/conoff.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970708143021/http://www.anc.org.za/lists/conoff.html |archive-date=8 July 1997 |access-date=1 December 2020}}</ref> She had also been a member of the South African Law Commission, and a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee.<ref name="The New Indian Express-2020" /> She was a member of the justice committee that was responsible for the roll-out of the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|Truth and Reconciliation Commission.]]<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /> Jana was also a contributor to President [[Thabo Mbeki]]'s ''Millennium Africa Recovery Programme (MAP),'' which represented a pan-African initiative to set Africa on a path to sustainable development and growth, and actions to eradicate poverty. Writing in a paper titled ''African Renaissance and the Millennium Action Plan'', Jana described the framework as bringing together Africa's resources, across a combination of mineral and material, bio-diversity, cultural, and human resources, to deliver on continent-wide development goals.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bongmba |first=Elias K. |date=2004 |title=Reflections on Thabo Mbekis African Renaissance |journal=Journal of Southern African Studies |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=291–316 |doi=10.1080/0305707042000215374 |jstor=4133837 |s2cid=143254122}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hensbroek |first=Pieter Boele van |date=2002 |title=African Renaissance and Ubuntu |url=https://hdl.handle.net/11370/73b9756a-8f77-4f5d-a8d7-88a83042062b |hdl-access=free |website=University of Groningen |hdl=11370/73b9756a-8f77-4f5d-a8d7-88a83042062b}}</ref>

She also went on to serve as South Africa's ambassador to the Netherlands from 2001 to 2005 and as the ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2011, serving as a diplomat for a total of nine years.<ref name="News24-2020" /><ref name="SA-History" /> She took charge as the commissioner and deputy chair person of the [[South African Human Rights Commission|South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC)]] in 2017.<ref name="News24-2020" /><ref name="SAHRC-20" />

She was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award at the Woza Awards in 2017, an award established to identify and recognize women in the legal fraternity.<ref name="The New Indian Express-2020">{{Cite web |date=11 October 2020 |title=Renowned Indian-origin South African human rights lawyer Priscilla Jana passes away |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/oct/11/renowned-indian-origin-south-african-human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-passes-away-2208906.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016223839/https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/oct/11/renowned-indian-origin-south-african-human-rights-lawyer-priscilla-jana-passes-away-2208906.html |archive-date=16 October 2020 |access-date=25 November 2020 |website=The New Indian Express}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Jana (then Sewpal) met her husband Reg Jana, who was a South African student studying in India, when she was studying medicine at the [[Sophia College for Women]] in Bombay. Writing in her memoir about life after her wedding, she speaks about her husband's large family and traditional expectations from the daughter-in-law of the family as a cause for differences between them.<ref name="Jones-2016">{{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Barbara |title=Fighting For Mandela - The Explosive Autobiography of The Woman Who Helped to Destroy Apartheid |last2=Jana |first2=Priscilla |date=2016 |publisher=Metro Publishing |isbn=978-1-78606-064-8}}{{page needed|date=July 2023}}</ref> While Reg would continue to be with her during her struggles, his multiple affairs during this period led Jana to seek a divorce. She writes of the banning order being a cause for great stress and ruining her life and marriage.<ref name="Jones-2016" /> Their marriage ended in a divorce in 1989. However, she kept the last name.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" /> She then married Reagan Jacobus, a self-made lawyer, with that marriage leading to a divorce in the mid-1990s.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> In 2001, she adopted her foster-daughter Albertina Jana Molefe, who was the daughter of an activist client, [[Popo Molefe]]. At the same time she also adopted her brother's son, Shivesh Sewpal.<ref name="The Guardian-2020" />

Jana died on 10 October 2020 in a care home in [[Pretoria]] at the age of 76. The cause for her death was not specified.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> She is survived by a daughter, Alberta Jana Molefe, and a son, Shivesh Sewpal.<ref name="Cowell-2020" /> In a statement, the [[African National Congress]], calling attention to her sacrifices for the anti-apartheid liberation movement, stated, "at a time when she could have chosen to selfishly pursue personal wealth and material advancement. Instead, she understood her career as a calling, to serve the people of South Africa, especially the poor and powerless."<ref name="The New Indian Express-2020" />

==Book==
* {{Cite book |last=Jones |first=Barbara |title=Fighting For Mandela - The Explosive Autobiography of The Woman Who Helped to Destroy Apartheid |last2=Jana |first2=Priscilla |date=2016 |publisher=Metro Publishing |isbn=978-1-78606-064-8}}{{page needed|date=July 2023}}

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