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1950

Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli

… confinement at John Vorster Square for nine months without trial. While in prison, he continued creating art, using his …

B-0008985

1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… was arrested and charged in the historical  1956 Treason Trial  together with 155 leaders including former  African …

B-0008817

1928-2008

Cleopas Madoda Nsibande

… was arrested and charged in the historical  1956 Treason Trial  together with 155 leaders including former  African … member of SACTU, defendant in the 1956…

B-0068273

1903-1972

J B Marks

… He was listed as a co-conspirator in the Rivonia Trial . Marks left South Africa in 1963 when the ANC’s … the 1952 Defiance Campaign, co-conspirator in the…

B-0008450

1930-2011

Magnus Malan

… investigated atrocities in the country’s past. During this trial, he accepted responsibility for the cross-border … $2 700 in South Africa's biggest post…

B-0008412

1953-2022

Jessie Yasmin Duarte

… core of public servants. She was detained without trial in 1988, released and placed under restriction orders …

B-0125869

1903-1972

John Beaver "J.B" Marks

… He was listed as a co-conspirator in the Rivonia Trial . Marks left South Africa in 1963 when the ANC’s … the 1952 Defiance Campaign, co-conspirator in the…

B-0141690

1918-2008

David Hepburn Craighead

… for legal defence, and supported the families of those on trial or jailed for political offences. In April 1965 he was …

B-0147369

1965

Mduduzi Richard Shabalala

… handed them over to South African Security Police to stand trial for leaving the country illegally, and furthering the …

B-0146878

1928

James Randolph Vigne

… him. In 1963 he was arrested, detained and brought to trial under the emergency regulations of that year in the … [Accessed 21 December 2012]|  Twindle, H, …

B-0141667

1929-2020

Jeanette Carlson

Jeanette Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…

B-0150643

1940-2023

Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad

… his banning order. In 1964, following the Rivonia Trial , he left South Africa into exile. He lived in London, …

B-0148806

1928-2009

Curtis Nkondo

… Court in what became known as the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial in 1984. After 16 months, the case collapsed and … with high treason. Another difficult…

B-0068743

1910-1977

Percy John "Jack" Hodgson

… others, Hodgson was arrested and charged in the  Treason Trial of 1956 . In the 1960 State of Emergency, he avoided … co-conspirators listed in the…

B-0008166

1935-2019

Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam

… on the permanent staff. A month or two later they had a trial where he was found guilty of instigating the boycott … false evidence against him and the other…

B-0125809

1915-2006

Hilda Bernstein

… the Sharpeville shootings. In 1964 after the Rivonia trial , she escaped from home as the police came to make an …

B-0007842

1950-2014

Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba

… the Section Six of the Terrorism Act and detained without trial until 1978. The police manacled her ankle to a big iron …

B-0080678

1942-1985

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge

… She was part of the defence team in the 1984 treason trial , against leaders of the United Democratic Front (UDF) …

B-0008720

1945

Achmad Cassiem

… number, which the police used to trace and arrest him. His trial began in 1987 and ended in October 1988. He was …

B-0079929

1940-2012

Matlakana Philemon Tefu

… Police station where he was detained while awaiting trial. On 22 June he was sentenced to life in prison and sent …

B-0085151

1932-2010

Sheena Duncan

… Democratic Front , testified for the defense in the Delmas trial and,with other church leaders,was arrested for …

B-0008028

1934-2010

Bertha Gxowa (Mashaba)

… 1956 and 1958, Bertha was a defendant in the Treason Trial and in 1960 she was banned under the Suppression of …

B-0008468

1980

Pule Mabe

… linked to several scandals. In 2013 he was part of a fraud trial where over two-million-rand worth of assets were seized …

B-0152039

1948-2003

Magwaza Alfred Maphalala

… in September 1985 and held under the detention without trial law for his alleged involvement in the banned ANC and …

B-0148464

Dieter 'Felix' Gerhardt

… death sentence being handed down for high treason. In his trial, Gerhardt stated that the repulsion he felt towards his … he deliberately attempted to sow…

B-0150563

1925-1985

Alex la Guma

… leaders, were charged with treason. The 1956 Treason Trial charged them with conspiring to overthrow the … During this time la Guma wrote extensive reports…

B-0008291

1956

Richard Steele

… tried and sentenced to 18 months in prison. During the trial, he pleaded not guilty on grounds of him being a …

B-0074123

1938-2002

Stephen Vukile Tshwete

… aware, when, in 1955 he stated following the Treason Trial reports in the newspapers. In 1957, when he started at …

B-0009166

1921-2012

Motsamai Keyecwe Mpho

… other people and charged with treason in the 1956 Treason Trial . As the state failed to prove its case, he was …

B-0008685

1656-1734

Anna De Koningh

… High Court of Justice. In 1687, Anna’s husband was put on trial under the suspicion of having taken valuable goods from …

B-0122374