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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…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… declared) and confers wide powers of detention without trial, banning of persons, organizations, gatherings, … this Act. Formal repression of persons…
The Trust Feed Massacre
… under the command of Captain Brian Victor Mitchell stood trial on eleven charges of murder and eight of attempted … rife in South Africa since 1984. It was a…
The Detention Weapon
… failed. Apartheid's big gun has been detention without trial and this is where we see the big numbers - … in the HRC documents that follow: Detention without…
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…
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… and Neliswa Nohnuhna Dyantyi Busika, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape, and found guilty of … years. Eight others were acquitted on…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… institutions before settling in South Africa. At his trial, he blamed his actions on a tapeworm in his stomach. … This led to him being declared mentally…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… some Palestinian protesters were imprisoned without trial. 2000 The second Anti-Fada happens. This was due to …
Post-detention weapons
… Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial, besides serving to withdraw political opponents from … of a suspended sentence, as happened in…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… used her childhood rape trauma against her during the trial. The book details the uncles she loved and trusted – … down. He was KwaZulu-Natal finance MEC at…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… 1955, his arrest and involvement in the notorious Treason Trial, and his continuing work for the South African Communist Party (SACP). Detained without trial…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men, Noimbithi Johnson … were given prison sentences. The Soekmekaar and…
EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… activists, were charged with treason. After a lengthy trial in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court, known as the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, all charges…
EventA vagrant from Johannesburg, Tim Singiswa on a one
… the cross examination of a state witness in the Boeremag trial before the Pretoria High Court continues, Tim Singiswa, … If he was president, he said, he…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
… leaders and activists were tried in the notorious Treason Trial in the 1950s. When the trial was in Drill Hall in Johannesburg, Dr. Zainab Asvat … cooking…
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 …
Chapter XV - House arrest
… house. I thought at first that it related to the Mandela trial, due to start on the Monday and to the Sunday meeting … found that all meetings or…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… that the woman's identity not be made public, as the trial got under way after a three-week break. Three judges … of rape as well as corruption - for which…
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…
EventTwo prisoners sentenced to death for sodomy
… been accused of ‘mutually perpetrated sodomy’ according to trial records from the Cape Council of Justice in August … sentenced to labour for fifty years on…
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…
Accuser insulted as Zuma hailed at court (IOL), 14 February 2006
… comrades". "Our family would have liked to have seen the trial actually start when it was supposed to. To us it feels … the judge president opted to recuse…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… arrest of Abraham Fischer, defence attorney in the Rivonia Trial and opponent of the apartheid regime. Fischer was … Communism Act shortly after the…
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… where the accused were arrested. Alternatively, the trial should be conducted in a neutral country by independent … saw Libya handover suspects of the…
ArticleThe Transkei
… year. Of this number, 2,067 were eventually brought to trial. (House of Assembly Debates, 27 January 1961, C. 226) …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… he had been serving since the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial in 1964. The condition of his release is that he … Goldberg , the only White found guilty at…
ArchiveRex vs Tabata
… Trial proceedings of Rex versus Tabata …