Mr Meyjes, a local entrepreneur, studied art at the city’s University of the Witwatersrand, and this led him to an appreciation of its dramatic street creations.
"We need to get the detail of any bill here in Scotland right, but there is no reason we can't follow a similar path."He urged MSPs to vote in favour of the bill and help create "the most compassionate, safe and suitable law for Scotland".
In October last year, First Minister John Swinney said he had "not come to a final view" on the issue but added that the proposed age threshold of 16 was "a very significant issue in my mind" which MSPs will have to "wrestle" with.MPs in England and Walesto allow assisted dying last year, by 330 votes to 275.
Like the UK parliament, Holyrood will hold a free vote on assisted dying - which means MSPs will not be instructed on how to vote by their parties.The Scottish bill has proved divisive, and is opposed by the Catholic Church in Scotland and the Scottish Association of Mosques.
Politicians including former First Minister Humza Yousaf and Labour MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy have indicated they would vote against it.
The Church of Scotland is "partially opposed" to the legislation becoming law, but says its official position is currently under review.Its wildly combustible songs were the perfect material for Jules Buckley’s orchestra, who ramped up the album's gothic overtones with harpsichords, lutes and long crescendos of percussion.
Kiss With A Fist became a sort of witchy hoedown, Blinding opened with a sinister cacophony of whispered incantations, and You Got The Love made ample use of the Royal Albert Hall's "Voice of Jupiter" pipe organ.Enhancing the eerie mood, the venue was bathed in blood-red lights throughout the concert, with Florence in a flowing claret dress, her sleeves swaying in time to the music.
The audience got into the mood, too, wearing pre-Raphaelite dresses, Toreodor jackets, crowns of flowers and, in one case, dressing head-to-toe in fairy lights.It was the perfect marriage of material and setting. "Renaissance meets rock," as Radio 3 presenter Georgia Mann put it.