Essay Question: "In June 1990, a few months after being freed from the Victor Verster prison, Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of the United States Congress stating that: 'To deny any person their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of hunger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.' [www.nytimes.com/1990/06/27/world/the-mandel-visit-excerpts-from-mandela-speech-to-joint-meeting-of-congress.html, accessed on 10 July 2022] To a greater or lesser extent, Mandela's words apply not only to the construction of the edifice of apartheid, but also to the essential part played by the law in South Africa's colonisation by the Netherlands and Britain and to its oppressive role in the post-apartheid period. The history of South Africa stands as an indictment to law and its oppressive effects." (Anon 2022) Discuss the above statement critically