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ArticleSASO till SASCO
… Mozambique. Eighty SASO/BPC leaders are detained without trial for encouraging disorder at the time of the …
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… Mozambique. Eighty SASO/BPC leaders are detained without trial for encouraging disorder at the time of the …
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… being charged for treason in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, together with leaders such as Archie Gumede, Frank …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… had housed the preparatory examination of the Treason Trial. But when the moment came, he found that the military …
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… 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…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… media attention to the same extent as did the Rivonia Trial. Yet, a number of trials in the Eastern and Western … killing appeared in court a few months…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… those who were accused for four years in the Treason Trial, those arrested during the 1960 State of Emergency; all … by members of my organisation. In the…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial that ended in June 1964. …
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… another ninety days of detention. Since detention without trial was first introduced in apartheid South Africa more …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed acts of arson, but claimed that …
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… in political activities. After the 1964 Rivonia Trial, Bernstein and her husband Rusty Bernstein fled the …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. In 1978, Bell Labs launched a trial of the first commercial cellular network in Chicago. …
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… answering two on the Anti-C.A.D. attitude to the treason trial and treason trial candidates, he said that the Anti-C.A.D. holds that … people's political…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… course of justice by persuading witnesses in a political trial to change their evidence. Biko was thirty years old and …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… in the arrest of 19 ANC and MK leaders. The Rivonia Trial followed, in which 10 ANC leaders were tried for …
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… extensive brain damage and was judged unfit to stand trial. In spite of numerous appeals by Mahlangu and …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… In 1956, he was one of the accused in the Treason Trial but was released when the charges against him were …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… involved. Scores of Poqo operatives were arrested, put on trial and convicted of offences ranging from murder, …
Event90-Days Act commences
… Act as it provides for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days. Further, on the expiration of such, the …
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… association and under which arbitrary detention without trial awaited anyone stepping over an invisible line drawn …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… his law practice and outside the courthouse where he stood trial in 1952 for defying the government's segregation …
ArticleThe Constitution
… or without just cause; not to be detained without trial; to be free from all forms of violence from either …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… “The brutalities of the past - detentions without trial, disappearances of our people, deaths in detentions, …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… covering a period that began on 1 October 1952. The trial of amongst others, Moroka, Sisulu, Marks, Mandela, …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… seventeen years old at the time and gave evidence at the trial in Uitenhage . [10] Later, Tse married Heka, who was …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… year, we shall be observing the 20th anniversary of the Revonia arrests. By decision of the United Nation Assembly, …
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… Flat 13. Your visits became frequent. During the Treason Trial, and specifically in 1960, there was dramatic change in … gone underground soon after our…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… for murder on 25 May 1989. He showed no remorse during his trial and maintained that he had acted according to the will …
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… pg. 357. Vassen, R. (date unknown). Detentions without Trial during the Apartheid Era [online] Available at: …
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… saw Libya hand over suspects of the Lockerbie bombing for trial in the Netherlands. …