Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… by charging 157 of the leaders, Mandela included, with treason. The trial, which started in 1956, dragged on for … order in a free South Africa. In 1960 Mandela on trial for treason proposed that the black population be allowed to … than fifty years, from his speeches in the dock in the Treason Trial (1956-1961) and his letters to Hendrik Verwoerd …