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… Security Amendment Bill, providing for detention without trial of up to 180 days; and the Public Safety Amendment Bill …

… white and black female offenders and a cell for awaiting trial people. In 1893, ten more cells were built. The … reason, the remaining cells were used for housing awaiting-trial prisoners, known in prison language as ‘stokkies’, from … opposing the death penalty and against detention without trial, both inside South Africa and internationally. When …

… 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 placed on trial or restricted. However the Campaign continues and … 1953 The fifteen Defiance Campaign leaders who stand trial in Port Elizabeth are found guilty and their nine …

… would permit the detention in solitary confinement without trial for 90 days. Subsequently, the General Laws Amendment … country unlawfully. 1968 Twelve members of Poqo are put on trial for planning to attack the police station, a power …

… 2008 following reports of political interference in Zuma’s trial, the path was clear for Zuma to seize power pending the … ignorance, with statements he made during his rape trial particularly scorned.  Having admitted to sex with a … - coupled with Mbeki’s interference in Zuma’s corruption trial - played a significant part in heightening his image as …

… funds for the defence of activists in the 1956 Treason Trial .  Speakers included Florence Mkhize , Hilda Kuper, and … conference, in absentia, he remarked that the 1956 treason trial ‘perhaps more than any other factor has brought South …

… leaders who had been part of the plot were put to trial in Johannesburg. Some of them were condemned to death, …

… Sisulu is arrested on a charge of High Treason.The trial continues until 1961. 1958 August, The start of the Treason Trial proper, which is relocated to Pretoria 4 October, … so until 1983). 1964 12 June, Conclusion of Rivonia trial. Sisulu, Mandela, Mbeki, Kathrada, Mhlaba, Mlangeni & …

… Security Bill of 1966 provides for detention without trial and other special measures under emergency powers … leaders including Kenneth Matiba are jailed without trial. 1989 Political prisoners are freed. President Moi … Court rules that several prominent Kenyans must stand trial over the 2007 post-election violence. May – More than …

… of Defiance. Kathrada is one of the accused in the trial of twenty leaders of Defiance Campaign.  All of the … with 155 other activists of the freedom movement. The trial lasts from 1957 until March 1961. Eventually all 156 … day detention and formally charged. 9 October, The Rivonia Trial begins.  Kathrada’s co-accused are Nelson Mandela, …

… member. At Mandela’s 1964 defence case during the Rivonia Trial , Mandela announced that at the time of joining the ANC … was again arrested for high treason in 1956 although the trial took years to come to a verdict. During this time … Party were perhaps not necessarily ideological; during his trial, Mandela argued that he did not ascribe to the theories …

… were ended People were declared equal before the law Trial by jury was guaranteed Religious freedom was introduced … There was no freedom of speech. Detention without trial was revived in 1810. The press was heavily censored and …

… (left) and Chief Albert Luthuli (centre) at the Treason Trial in Pretoria. © Bailey's African History Archives. … arrested and charged with treason. Involved in the Treason Trial there were 104 Africans, 23 Whites, 21 Indians and 8 Coloureds. The trial became a major political event. Labour struggles The …

… 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 slaves. They went on trial for murder. At the trial, Galant and the other slaves told the court how Van der …

… of their actual residence. 24 August, The second trial of the 19 prisoners (including Winnie … Zambia while sorting mail with Maxwell Sisulu. 14 May, The trial of ex-political prisoner and SACP veteran Harry Gwala …

… from a brutal attack on her by a man who was awaiting trial on charges of having attempted to rape another woman. … and the matter referred back to the High Court for the trial to be concluded, after which the Court held the High …

… from a brutal attack on her by a man who was awaiting trial on charges of having attempted to rape another woman. … and the matter referred back to the High Court for the trial to be concluded, after which the Court held the High …

… Gumede from 1973 and was involved in the ' Harry Gwala Ten Trial' from 1975.  This drew attention from the security … They were charged on 31 January 1975, and after a lengthy trial, nine were sentenced to periods of imprisonment ranging …

… Brain injuries from alleged police violence while awaiting trial.   5 May Mutsi, Sipho (20) COSAS Odendaalsrus Died …

… 5 April, George Bizos is awarded the 2001 International Trial Lawyer prize of the year by the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. July, Former President Nelson Mandela is … Thabo Mbeki, following the verdict in Schabir Shaik's trial. 20 June, Jacob Zuma makes a statement on the decision …

… on the TMC to some degree. Furthermore, in his corruption trial in August, Al-Bashir admitted [vi] to receiving 90 … 20 August 2019]   [vi] Walsh, D (19 August 2019) Al-Bashir Trial in Sudan Opens with Claim of $90 Million Payment From …

… 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 during trial that as a leader he merited heaviest sentence; was … Sorabji Shapurji is defended by Gandhi - supporters at trial are assaulted by the police. Shapurji is sentenced to …

… 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 the infamous Rivonia Trial. He was eventually also tried and in 1965 sentenced to …

… They were charged and tried in the famous Rivonia Trial . They were sentenced to life imprisonment in June … and the Black Consciousness Movement . Sobukwe was put on trial for his role in the anti-pass campaign and sentenced to … until his death in 1978. In the 1960s, after the Rivonia Trial and Sobukwe's arrest, organised resistance to apartheid …

… 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 …

… The women Resistance movement Sharpeville Massacre Rivonia Trial Also see: … The women Resistance movement Sharpeville Massacre Rivonia Trial Also see: …

… Lady Selbourne take part in the bus boycott. The Treason Trial begins, in which 30 of the accused, including Nelson … Van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws, two of the Boeremag treason trial accused escaped from the Pretoria High Court. 2009 9 …

… had housed the preparatory examination of the Treason Trial. But when the moment came, he found that the military …

… being charged for treason in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, together with leaders such as Archie Gumede, Frank …