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BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… a daring act of resistance was reported, a Terrorism Act trial would follow swiftly. This perpetual sharp and incisive …
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 16
… vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the Rivonia Trial. …
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 15
… vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the Rivonia Trial. …
Article2016 in Review
… far cry from their attitude towards her during Zuma’s rape trial. - 10th: Father Graham Pugin, the Jesuit chaplain to … 1966. - Flash floods hit Johannesburg…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Walter Sisulu, Volume 20
… vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the Rivonia Trial. …
ArchiveTried for treason
… and red poster. Notice of an exhibition on the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 opening on 27th February 1996 at the … the Drill Hall in Johannesburg on the first…
ArchiveDokumente van belang
… additions are listed in English. List was presented at the trial State vs Mandela and others, known as the Rivonia Trial. …
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive … went underground and only recaptured in November to stand trial…
Chapter III - The world outside
… which went far beyond the Act of 1962. Detention without trial was introduced as a permanent feature, obviating any … police. The provision for ninety-days'…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… XXXV of 1827 and removed to Yeravda Prison. There was no trial, no sentence. Unconditionally released on January 26, …
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… will endeavour to show, in other words, that what are on trial here are not just 155 [sic] individuals, but the ideas … freedom . . . We believe that, in the…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… for the ANC. He was accused of treason in the 1956 Treason Trial and following his arrest for acts of sabotage committed … Sizwe, was sentenced to life…
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… the Suppression of Communism Act. At the start of the trial he was granted bail to enable him to leave the country … undertaking to return. Upon his return,…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… Helen Joseph Six months later, in August 1958, we came to trial. The government wanted us out of Johannesburg this … been at the beginning of the preparatory…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… MK were raided and its leaders were arrested. The Rivionia Trial followed in October 1963, in which Nelson Mandela, … the South African government to abandon…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… or imprison anyone they wanted to without a hearing or a trial for up to 6 months. Many of the detainees died in … badly beaten and tortured. The prisoners…
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…
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…
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 …
EventBram Fischer born today
… team for the leaders of the movement during the Treason Trial of 1956 to 1961. He also defended the accused during the Rivonia Trial in 1964. …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… this, visiting him in prison and filling the court at his trial. His hearing was surrounded with spectacle as one of … and was a national icon Mbuli was…
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… way for the current collection of sculptures. Rivonia trial- The turreted, Palace of Justice was the scene of arguably the most famous political trial in…
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…
The Legal Veneer
… legislation 3. Powers of the ISA Detention without trial Banning of persons Listing of persons Banning of … the way in which they are being applied…
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…