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BiographySimon Nkoli
… penalty. This was the beginning of the Delmas Treason Trial, which would become one of the longest running trials … to be released on bail and another two…
BiographyMkhubo Mngomezulu
… allegedly gave money for Sondeza Lugogo Mngomezulu’s trial (for attacking a Chief) and signed the petition to the …
BiographyWilliam Mosehle Sekhukhune
… banishment order was signed, he was in custody awaiting trial for alleged violence. Officials feared that he could be …
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
… a spokesman for the rank and file PAC defendants standing trial apart from the campaign's leaders. He served part of …
BiographyAbednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
… for the Youth League. He was discharged from the Treason Trial late in1957. In April 1959 he was chosen … Natal University, Natal Youth League leader, 1956…
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
… he was among the Communist leaders eventually brought to trial in the government's abortive attempt to prove sedition …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… Africa. The House Gun (1998) explores, through a murder trial, the complexities of violence-ridden post-apartheid … de la Légion d'Honneur (France). During…
BiographyVilla Baker
… Lewis was eventually arrested and detained without trial for 90 days, later charged and tried in the Bram Fischer trial.They lost all they had, status and…
BiographySir Sydney Kentridge
… in political trials in South Africa such as the Treason Trial (1958 – 1961) and the newspaper Prisons Trial (1968 – 1969). He was appointed Senior Counsel in…
BiographySuliman Moosa Esakjee
… the 1952 Defiance Campaign against unjust laws. He stood trial with 155 others in the 1956 Treason Trial , which continued until March 1961. Charges…
BiographyCassim Saloojee
… the Front as Treasurer. This led to Saloojee’s arrest and trial in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial. On his release he continued to be involved in …
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… to, Rasegatla notes, “...from his arrest throughout his trial until he was hanged. That guy did reveal even a bullet. … He never said anything that…
BiographyShirley Gunn
… Security Act and detained in solitary confinement without trial for more than three months at Pollsmoor prison. She was … and manufacturing bombs. Gunn was…
BiographyDavid Sibeko
… and held in detention for seven months. After a two-week trial he was acquitted and released. Sibeko then left South … and would later become the chief…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
… Later they were transported to Walmer police station. The trial of the 29 was held in Port Alfred where they were charged with sabotage. In April 1964 six of…
Fenuel Mogatusi
… the prisons department terms him as an awaiting-trial prisoner, the South Africa Institute of Race Relations …
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
… for 13 months for refusing to testify for the state in the trial of the SASO Nine (State v.Cooper).At the time of the …
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… were dismissed after a year and thirty were sent to stand trial in Pretoria in 1959. In March 1961 all charges were dropped. During the treason trial…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… would impact the public image of Mbuli more than the trial that ensued in this year. On 28 October 1997, Mbuli … Pretoria in his most famous brush with the…
BiographyEsme Bodenstein
… 1964, her husband was among those jailed after the Rivonia Trial , along with Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu and others. …
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… to hard labour. He was a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial from December 1956 until charges were withdrawn against … African Communist Party, defendant in…
BiographyRamnie Dinat
… detained again in 1966 and called to give evidence at the trial of the late Bram Fischer , Chairman of the South …
ArchiveIndian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960, Edited by E. S. Reddy
… Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960 … milieu. This evidence of Molvi Cachalaia in 1960 Treason Trial informs…
”I am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964 …
Thomas G. Karis
… on black politics, labor, and the long-running Treason Trial of 1956-61. Lacking ambition to rise in the State … Association. After publishing an article on…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… leaders who were charged in December 1956, in the Treason Trial . He was imprisoned for five months without being … marriage ended during the 1960s State of…
BiographyAmy Thornton
… meant she could not make it to Kliptown. When the Treason Trial began in 1956, Thornton served on the Treason Trial Support Committee. That same year she was…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
… to deal with the "red menace." As in the late Treason Trial , when Kotane was also a defendant, the government … in December 1956, he remained a defendant…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… with high treason in what became known as the Delmas Trial. The trial leaders were not allowed bail. In November 1988, Lekota …
BiographySatyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
… the arrests of Congress leaders for the 1956 treason trial, Maharaj was asked to take over the running of the New … of sabotage in what became known as the…