EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal on Thursday recieved an honorary fellowship from his alma mater, the London School of Economics and Politics. The institute gave its highest accolade for Asmal’s work in fighting apartheid, as well as his successful tenure as the Water Affairs and Forestry Minister in the country’s first democratic Cabinet. Asmal, regarded as one of the school’s most distinguished alumnis, enrolled in 1959 and obtained his LLB and LLM degrees. He then spent 27 years at the law faculty of Trinity College in Dublin before returning to South Africa in 1990 to take up a human rights law professorship at the University of the Western Cape.