Edwin Cameron

Edwin Cameron is a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He is well known for his HIVAIDS and gayrights activism and was hailed by Nelson Mandela as one of South Africas new heroes.

Cameron was born in Pretoria. His father was imprisoned for car theft and his mother did not have the means to support him. He therefore spent much of his childhood in an orphanage in Queenstown. His elder sister was killed when Cameron was nine.

Source: Wikipedia