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ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… The Reply of Makerere, Bernard de Bunsen. The Treason Trial, E.V. Stone with illustration by David Marais. The …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Cachalia. The Schizophrenic Heart, Dr. O.D. Wollheim. The Trial Takes Shape, Tony O’Dowd. A Day to Remember, …
EventWinnie Mandela charged with kidnapping
… four counts of kidnapping and of assault, and will stand trial with seven others for the events surrounding the murder …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African …
EventMinster of Justice, Pelser defends the banning orders on eight leaders of SASO
… into question as these individuals had not been brought to trial. …
Descom Bulletin
… tried to support those that were detained without trial by the government. Due to the conditions under which …
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… Sisulu among others were being kept after the Rivonia Trial. There were suspicions by Maharaj and the leadership of …
EventDavid Kitson released
… John Matthews was sentenced to fifteen years in the same trial as Kitson. It was alleged that he had assisted in …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… in Johannesburg on 11 November 1965. On 23 March 1966 his trial began in Pretoria. Fischer was convicted of conspiring …
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… here to read an article about the UDF and Delmas Treason trial. …
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… government announced that Rebel leaders would be put on trial, but none will be executed. …
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… to Dinizulu as indicated in his reportage on the treason trial of Dinizulu, unpublished Master of Arts (History) …
EventThe United Nations (UN) imposes sanctions on Libya
… the country, Libya turned over the Lockerbie suspects for trial, and sanctions were suspended. The story of the Pan Am …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… prosecute crimes prior to its establishment in 2002, the trial of former Chadian dictator, Hissene Habre, raised the possibility of an African trial of an…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… hartal in Johannesburg. November 15, Defends pickets at trial in Pretoria. November 30, By closing date of … notice served on him. Gandhi told the Judge…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… up of the Freedom Charter in 1955. In the infamous Treason trial that followed the Freedom Charter in 1956, 156 people … those arrested as their lawyer in…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.2 Jan-Mar 1959
… The Abduction of a Community by Rabbi Dr. Andre Ungar. The Trial Begins, D.A. Leonard. The Dutch Reformed Church …
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… country. Bob Hepple acted as his legal representative. His trial took place inPretoria's Old Synagogue. In November …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… he was arrested under the Terrorism Act, detained without trial, tortured and released after 251 days. Five years …
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… Security Act, allowing for the unlimited detention without trial of persons deemed to be threatening public order, would …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… Security Act (ISA), which allowed for detention without trial. This measure had been one of the most hated pieces of …
Event14 Year old girl is convicted in Pietermaritzburg High Court
… had stolen from the house as their payments. During the trial, the girl tried to implicate a family acquaintance and …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… indisputable revolutionary war leader who endured arrest, trial and incarceration on Robben Island. Whilst in prison he …
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
… captured and sent to Pietermaritzburg where he was put on trial by a kangaroo court which consisted of substantial …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… country. Bob Hepple acted as his legal representative. His trial took place in Pretoria's Old Synagogue. In November …
EventFormer City Press Editor Mathata Tsedu’s son is found burnt beyond recognition in the boot of his car
… and Arnold Sello, to kidnap and murder her husband. In a trial that lasted two years, Sivhidzo and her two co-accused …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… On 13 September 1960, during the trial of David Beresford Pratt, two psychiatrists gave …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… amongst them, Dr Hastings Banda , were detained without trial. In 1960, following his release, Banda fled to London, …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… The three surviving youths testified at Mr. Richardson's trial that Winnie helped beat them, despite her assertion …
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… year was contemplating a return to South Africa. He had a trial at Real Madrid, and was then offered a trial with the Dutch side Heracles, who played in the…