AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER MANY South Africans, among them political activists who were defended by Priscilla Jana against the brutal apartheid system, have paid warm and emotional tributes to the “the people’s lawyer” who passed on at 78. Jana not only provided legal services to the political activists but looked after their families, adopting some of the children whose parents were detained. Jana represented many political activists, including Nelson and Winnie Mandela. Rapu Molekane was a teenage underground operative of the ANC’s Umkhonto we Sizwe when Jana defended him and members of the South African Youth Congress. Molekane, a diplomat and…