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A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… white and black female offenders and a cell for awaiting trial people. In 1893, ten more cells were built. The … reason, the remaining cells were used for…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… of those Natal political leaders charged in the Treason Trial. She became a staff member of the University of Natal … including Meer and Winnie Mandela, were…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… Africa, during the Treason Trials, the UK based Treason Trial Defense fund was set up. Initially started in South … in the UK, including Trevor Huddleston…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… and Dowse, the former mere boys, shot down without even a trial at the Rosettenville Kopjes, and the hundreds of …
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… Durban strikes 1976 Expert witness for the defence in the trial of 9 Black Consciousness leaders under the Terrorism …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… National Congress, the ruling party at the time of the trial, could also be charged. 5392 people were refused …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… for Africans in South Africa. 1964 With the Rivonia trial still in progress, Nusas delegate Martin Legassic … banned and put under house arrest Mangena’s…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Moroka dissociates himself from his fellow trialists. The trial drags on for five months and all the leaders are found … of the 20 liberation movement…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… for military training. Those who were brought to trial for this offence seemed to reach a peak in 1977 and the … were charged under the Terrorism Act in the…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… for Black Consciousness activists in the State vs Cooper trial. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/ In February 1973 … into the banning order. He appeared in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… leaders in preparation for the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial . The state stopped the UDF and some affiliates from … with Moss Chikane and detained until the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… Walter Sisulu is arrested on a charge of High Treason. The Trial continues until 1961. 1958 Albertina gave birth to her … League in Orlando. August, The…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… some Palestinian protesters were imprisoned without trial. 2000 The second Anti-Fada happens. This was due to …
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… by then judge Willem Heath and testifies on Schabir Shaik trial. After the parliamentary watchdog Standing Committee on …
ArticleThe House in session
… Security Amendment Bill, providing for detention without trial of up to 180 days; and the Public Safety Amendment Bill …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… its use of torture, imprisonment and detentions without trial. By the late 1960s, the government had jailed, banned …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… and made the dour proceedings bearable. For some of us on trial, words and phrases like “quashed”, “expunge from the … of the less-experienced counsel in the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Party (NP) government lays the groundwork for the mass trial by which it seeks to stigmatise the African National … rioting and violence and the leaders are…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… would permit the detention in solitary confinement without trial for 90 days. Subsequently, the General Laws Amendment … country unlawfully. 1968 Twelve…
ArticleThe Transkei
… year. Of this number, 2,067 were eventually brought to trial. (House of Assembly Debates, 27 January 1961, C. 226) …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… funds for the defence of activists in the 1956 Treason Trial . Speakers included Florence Mkhize , Hilda Kuper, and … conference, in absentia, he remarked…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… leaders who had been part of the plot were put to trial in Johannesburg. Some of them were condemned to death, …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… of Defiance. Kathrada is one of the accused in the trial of twenty leaders of Defiance Campaign. All of the … with 155 other activists of the freedom…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… member. At Mandela’s 1964 defence case during the Rivonia Trial , Mandela announced that at the time of joining the ANC … was again arrested for high treason…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… on the TMC to some degree. Furthermore, in his corruption trial in August, Al-Bashir admitted [vi] to receiving 90 … 20 August 2019] [vi] Walsh, D (19…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… were ended People were declared equal before the law Trial by jury was guaranteed Religious freedom was introduced … There was no freedom of speech…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… of opposing Stalin met their fate without being brought to trial. High-ranking army officers were charged with high …
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… referred to by newspapers, had decided not to attend the trial of SACP members after testimony from a former comrade … was read in which he declared that he…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… They captured 327 of the rebels and put 47 of them on trial. Altogether, 20 rebels were sentenced to death. Others … Town and caught Galant and the other…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… (left) and Chief Albert Luthuli (centre) at the Treason Trial in Pretoria. © Bailey's African History Archives. … arrested and charged with treason. Involved…