 I saw firsthand the brutality of the apartheid police, the arrest, detention of students, the torture, the killings that were taking place. And the moment that really made me very angry was when the police officer chased a pregnant student down an embankment and as she fell he beat her with his bait. I felt a sense of helplessness, a sense that I couldn't help her, I couldn't help myself. It was that moment that triggered me from realizing that I had to do something and that made me realize that I wanted to be a human rights lawyer. Growing up in South Africa in an apartheid system that was riddled with injustice from the time you were born until the time you died.