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EventCardoso's murderers convicted in Mozambique
… popularly known as Anibalzinho, who escaped from pre-trial detention, was tracked down in South Africa and …
EventKing Williams Town schools are closed in commemoration of Victoria Mxenge
… of fifteen United Democratic Movement team members facing trial for treason. She was buried in Rayi Cemetery. …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… Twelve Africans on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having …
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… group ever to be convicted of murder in a single SA trial, received sentences ranging from six to eight years …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
… was implicated in corruption during the Durban High Court trial of his former financial advisor, Schabir Shaik. Read …
EventBavumile Vilakazi dies
… in the United Democratic Front (UDF) 1985 Delmas treason trial, which also included former Premier of North West …
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… He is the father of Alex La Guma, one of the 156 Treason Trial plaintiffs in 1956. …
ArchiveThe National situation, an address delivered at the Edendale Conference of the All African Convention
… landmarks of the year, namely; The first, the Treason Trial, which began on 5 December 1956 where 156 people were …
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… Like all of us, I was angry, deeply angry, about the whole trial and what it had done to our lives. I was, all the same, … and drew much judicial contempt…
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… This emerged as he was cross-questioned during his trial for rape. He denies rape but admits to consensual sex, … by many to have ended that prospect. A…
EventUnited Democratic Front member dies after asthma attack
… Democratic Front,died in police custody. He was awaiting trial on subversion charges at Fort Glarmorgan Prison in East … Papers Research Archive, (2013), ‘…
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
… country. Bob Hepple acted as his legal representative. His trial took place in Pretoria's Old Synagogue. In November …
EventState of emergency is lifted in Natal
… activists. People could be arrested and detained without trial and political rallies were disrupted and broken up. De …
EventEbrahim, Maseko and Dladla are abducted in Swaziland
… Simon Dladla in Swaziland and transferred them to stand trial in SA. The treatment of Ebrahim, an Indian passport … Walking With Pride: Court Statements by…
EventTsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies
… him, which spoke to him. He was declared unfit to stand trial and was sent to Pretoria Central Prison, where he spent …
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the ‘72-hour curfew’
… announced that the '72-hour curfew' will be lifted on a trial basis in Pretoria and Bloemfontein, as part of a plan …
EventSouth Africa and the United Kingdom embroiled in a diplomatic crisis
… would not send four South African back to Britain to stand trial on charges of illegal export of arms. It is widely …
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… In 1998, after a highly publicized and controversial trial, Banana was convicted of homosexual assault and other …
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… see it that way. He mentioned this incident at his own trial. What the old ANC leader said to him was this: "If you … the wife of Rusty Bernstein, our co…
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…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… the knowledge that my answers could affect not only my own trial but also the fate of twenty-nine others. It was a heavy … could not see that it was South…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… experience of the last few years, particularly the treason trial and the search for the banished, had begun to make me … association, of movement, could be…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… From 1956 to 1961 he was a defendant in the Treason Trial. Banned, detained and in 1962 house-arrested, he fled …
Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann,” 26 December 1922
… in many forms continues, including detention without trial, political imprisonment, political trials, and the …
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… was acquitted of treason charges after a four year long trial. Mandela was one of the 156 leading figures, 104 … O'Malley P., Nelson Mandela's Testimony at…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Act, which permitted 90 days imprisonment without trial. She was repeatedly placed under solitary confinement …
EventP. W. Botha grants reprieve to the “Sharpeville Six”
… Click here to read about the opening of the murder trial involving the "Sharpeville Six" … sahistory, Murder trial of Sharpeville Six ,[Online] Available at:…
EventCardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique
… popularly known as Anibalzinho, who escaped from pre-trial detention, was tracked down in South Africa and …