Albert van der Sandt Centlivres

Albert van der Sandt Centlivres (13 January 1887 – 19 September 1966),[1] was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1950 to 1957.

He was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1910 and admitted as an advocate of the Cape provincial division in 1911.

[2] He was best known for his judgments during the Coloured vote constitutional crisis, in which he rebuffed the government's attempts at disenfranchising non-white voters in the Cape Province.

The painting Portrait of Albert van de Sandt Centlivres by Neville Lewis was burned by demonstrators during the Rhodes Must Fall upheaval at the University of Cape Town in February 2016.

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Centlivres Building, Cape Town University