Wong Leong Cuccia Attorneys At Law

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We are so excited to have two excellent new judges on Maui! Congrats two both of you!

Congratulations to The Honorable James Rouse! Maui has gained a very competent and well respected Family Court judge! See you in court on Monday.

On this day in history in 1990, Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid is released after 27 years. In 1944 nelson Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC) where he became a leader of Johannesburg’s Youth Wing of the ANC. In 1952 he became a deputy national president of the ANC advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid. However, after the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators in 1960, Nelson helped organize a para mil...itary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government. In 1961 he was arrested for treason and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island prison he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. In June 1964 he was convicted along with several other ANC leaders and sentenced to life in prison. Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben Island prison. Confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He could write and receive a letter once every six months, and once a year he was allowed to meet with a visitor for 30 minutes. Mandela‘s resolve remained unbroken and while remaining the symbolic leader of the anti-apartheid movement, he led a movement of civil disobedience at the prison that coerced South African officials into drastically improving conditions on Robin Island. He was later moved to another location where he lived under house arrest. In 1989 F.W de Klerk became South African President and set about dismantling apartheid. De Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC, suspended executions, and in February 1990 ordered the release of Nelson Mandela. Mandela subsequently led the a NC in its negotiations with the minority government for an end to apartheid and the establishment of a multi racial government. In 1993, Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize. One year later, the ANC won an electoral majority in the country’s first free elections, and Mandela was elected South Africa’s president. Source: History.com See more

Our very own, Elizabeth Cuccia, President of the Maui County Bar Association, selected to be the first speaker for the swearing in ceremony for the two new Maui judges, the Honorable Christopher Dunn and the Honorable James Rouse.