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On 'All Things Considered' this week (Sunday 26 July at 8.30am, repeated on Wednesday 29 July at 6.30pm), Roy Jenkins' guest is Hanif Bhamjee, one of the best known activists in Wales who has been back in his home country of South Africa in the past week being honoured for his work.

Hanif Bhamjee was among those presented with the Mahatma Gandhi Award for Reconciliation and Peace in a ceremony which also honoured the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi.

Hanif Bhamjee fled to Britain as a teenager more than 40 years ago, having been advised by senior figures in the African National Congress that his underground activities were likely to lead to indefinite detention.

Eventually settling in Wales, he built on existing groups, and worked with trade unions and churches, as founding secretary of the Wales Anti Apartheid Movement. Since the fall of the apartheid regime, he has led the movement's successor body Action for Southern Africa, which raises money to combat the spread of Aids, and supports a range of other projects.

His concern for justice has led him into many international campaigning organisations over the years, and as a Cardiff-based solicitor, he specialises in immigration, asylum and other human rights cases.