Told in the Nuremberg courtroom that she had won the Nobel Peace-Prize, an 85-year-old judge from Durban thought it was a joke, then joked she might share it with Trump.
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Kept 'Trump'? That is the strongest wrong word in the sentence. It was her joke, about a man who had said it would be a disgrace if he did not win. The news is that she did. Kept 'joke' or 'joked'? It was no joke: she won. Kept 'Durban'? That is where she was born, under apartheid. Kept 'Nuremberg' or 'courtroom'? That is where she heard, in the room where the Nazi leaders were tried, and she said perhaps it was meant to be. This one really happened. On 9 October the Norwegian Nobel Committee gave the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay, 85, 'for her efforts to promote peace and international law'. She was born in Durban in 1941 to a family of Indian Tamil origin. In 1967 she was the first woman to open a law practice in what was then Natal, and she defended Nelson Mandela and other activists against apartheid. She became the first woman of colour on South Africa's High Court, then a judge and president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she helped establish that rape can be a crime of genocide, then a judge at the International Criminal Court and, from 2008 to 2014, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. She heard the news in the Nuremberg courtroom. 'Being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this,' she said. When the room kept applauding: 'If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump.' She dedicated it 'to all of the survivors of international crimes'.