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… Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada were arrested in Rivonia, Johannesburg. They were charged and tried in the famous Rivonia Trial . They were sentenced to life imprisonment in June …

… suppression of mass action, and the marathon Treason Trial of 1956-61. Walter Sisulu was among those targeted by … Sisulu and his comrades, this was to culminate in the Rivonia arrests and trial, and their life imprisonment by the … of his life in the apartheid jails. Once more, during the Rivonia Trial, he, together with the others, demonstrated his …

… sentenced to death and executed after they were brought to trial. Between 1961 and 1989, about 134 political prisoners … largely ineffective until the 1980s and 1990s. The Bethal Trial of 1979, where 18 members of the PAC were charged with … including the high command, were jailed before the Rivonia Trial . Other political trials also resulted in the …

… 5 April, George Bizos is awarded the 2001 International Trial Lawyer prize of the year by the International Academy … and treated for prostate cancer with radiation. 30 August, Rivonia Trialist, ANC and SACP member Govan Mbeki dies at his … which he did not disclose to parliament as an MP. 5 May, Rivonia Trialist and ANC member Walter Sisulu dies at his …

… Act  for MK activities and he spent 11 months awaiting trial.  Motlanthe, Nkosi and Joseph Mosoeu stood trial in the Randburg Supreme Court.  Motlanthe and Nkosi …

… Committee, Arthur Goldreich bought the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia. It was here that the MK High Command, including … member. At Mandela’s 1964 defence case during the Rivonia Trial , Mandela announced that at the time of joining … Broun, K.S. 2012. Saving Nelson Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the Fate of South Africa. Oxford: Oxford …

… strikes against the Government and sat in the same Treason Trial dock. For years we worked side by side in the offices … illegally. From his cell, he was taken to the dock in the Rivonia Trial to face trial with eight others - among them … I am convinced that the worldwide protests during the Rivonia Trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from the …

… strikes against the Government and sat in the same Treason Trial dock.     For years we worked side by side in the … illegally. From his cell, he was taken to the dock in the Rivonia Trial to face trial with eight others - among them …     I am convinced that the worldwide protests during the Rivonia Trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from the …

… Flat 13. Your visits became frequent. During the Treason Trial, and specifically in 1960, there was dramatic change in … would have sent us to jail had we been convicted and the Rivonia Trial of 1963-64 for which we were sentenced to life imprisonment. However, it was at the Rivonia Trial, when our lawyers and we, the accused, expected …

… in Durban. It is subsequently cited in the 1956  Treason Trial . November, Nearly the entire Natal Indian Congress … statement by Chief Luthuli at the time of the Treason Trial, for burning his pass. This statement was to have been … on Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu and six others after the Rivonia Trial , Chief Luthuli declares : 'The African …

… his own moderation!) Nonetheless, after a well-publicised trial he was found guilty and sentenced to a hefty fine and a …

… of the ANC and allied organisations chargedin the "Rivonia trial". (Many of them had beenarrested on the Rivonia farm). 4 December, TheSecurity Council, in resolution …

… the regime offered all political prisoners, including the Rivonia trialists, release from prison under the specific … since July 1963, when he was detained during the Rivonia Raid. In June 1964, after having been one of the accused in the well-known Rivonia Trial in Pretoria, he was convicted of sabotage and was, …

… to join a team of advocates to mount the defence for the Rivonia Trial: Nelson Mandela and nine other leaders of the ANC, … to EyeWitness News after word of Chaskalson’s death, Rivonia Trialist Ahmed Kathrada remembered the first time he …

… activities to raise money for the support of the people on trial and their families. She was also involved in attending …

… and Leballo had both been arrested and were awaiting trial“but it [was] necessary to have a banishment order in …

… those convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial, Denis Goldberg will always have a unique place in that …

… as a part of the Bram Fischer trail. [24] During the trial he was detained for seven months and then imprisoned …

… probably be remembered for the fact that the first treason trial s took place during his term as Minister of Justice, as …

… up of the Freedom Charter in 1955. In the infamous Treason trial that followed the Freedom Charter in 1956, 156 people … defended those arrested as their lawyer in the infamous Rivonia Trial. He was eventually also tried and in 1965 sentenced to …

… sentenced to five years in 1962 and then charged in the "Rivonia Trial" in October 1963. But he was a popular leader in South … and members of the Umkhonto high command were arrested in Rivonia in July 1963. His statement from the dock on 21 April …

… are arrested in a police raid on  Lilliesleaf farm in Rivonia near Johannesburg. June, Thabo Mbeki enrolls Sussex … at the Apartheid Government in South Africa concerning the Rivonia Trial. 1966 Thabo Mbeki completes a Masters Degree in …

… was then the leader of the defence team in the Treason Trial, in which President Mandela was one of the accused. … the leaders of the struggle were arrested in July 1963 at Rivonia.  My activism as a student led to my having been … briefed me. My friendship with Arthur during the Rivonia Trial became a close one.  Together with Vernon …

… Africa's apartheid government, including the infamous Rivonia Trial of 1963-'64, in which Nelson Mandela and other leaders …

… the amorphous indictment of the accused in the Treason Trial in December 1956, while the names and addresses seized … settlement co-incidentally near the famous estate in Rivonia, north of Johannesburg, where Mandela and members of … The years between the state of emergency in 1960, the Rivonia Trial in 1963 and my arrest on 3 July 1964, were the …

… was required to be in Pretoria to provide evidence for his trial. He called for a nationwide stay-at-home on 28 March, … Chief Luthuli was also arrested and detained until his trial in August. He was given a six-month suspended sentence …

… period was the preliminary filming for Civilization on Trial, Scott’s movie about living conditions in South West Africa. Civilization on Trial is considered the world’s first protest film.  Scott’s …

… and other promentaint ANC leaders as a result of the Rivonia Trial . Albertina’s continued involvement with the ANC (which … was dubbed the ‘mother of the nation’. Albertina’s trial date was set for the 17th October and she was denied … www.sahistory.org.za/article/rivonia-trial-1963-1964 …

… 1962 Excerpts from Chief Lutuli's evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent … of South Africa freedom day on June 26, 1953 On the Rivonia Trial , on June 12 1964, Lutuli issued this statement … and six others were sentenced to life imprisonment in the "Rivonia Trial". Presidential Address to the 42nd Annual …

… a spiral of trials, starting with the Treason, “Fischer”, Rivonia and ARM trials (in the 1950s and 60s), extending into … While the chapters on solitary confinement, the “Fischer” Trial, exile and prison are intensely personal, they are also … mid-1940s to the 1990s and was an accused in the Treason Trial (1956–1960), the Fischer Trial (1964-65) and sentenced …