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We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… suppression of mass action, and the marathon Treason Trial of 1956-61. Walter Sisulu was among those targeted by … comrades, this was to culminate in the…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… is now serving a life sentence as a result of the Rivonia Trial of 1963. Career and Commitment Albertina qualified as a … hardly nine years, as he was…
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: …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… with the Special Branch - Chapter 15 The Final Prize: On Trial - Chapter 16 The Final Prize: Inside and Out - Chapter …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… as many of his supporters, were held here during their trial. In 1930 it was taken over by the Union Defence Force …
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… saw Libya hand over suspects of the Lockerbie bombing for trial in the Netherlands. …
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… 1956 to 1958 he was one of the defendants In the Treason Trial. In 1956 and again in 1961 he was banned. During the Emergency of 1960 he was imprisoned…
Event90-Days Act comences
… Act as it provides for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days. Further, on the expiration of such, the …
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… was tried in Pretoria's Old Synagogue and during this trial, he decided to conduct his own defence with Bob Hepple …
EventThe UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
… 1999, the suspects were taken into Dutch custody and the trial began in Camp Zeit in The Netherlands. In 2001, …
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… of the incident he was an accused in a necklace murder trial, but out on bail. The police had evidence that May and …
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… Club, who disappeared on the eve of Madikizela-Mandela's trial in 1991, repeated his allegations in his book Katiza' …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… Nigerian military government for several months, without trial. In 1994, four Ogani chiefs were murdered, and although …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… Commission (TRC) would begin its work. After a seven month trial, Malan and his co-accused were cleared of all charges …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… number of security police and extended detention without trial. When Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966, …
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… African law. At this time he also followed the Treason Trial in South Africa very closely. In 1961 he was sent by …
The Black Face of Apartheid
… enticing disorder. The accused used the seventeen-month trial to their advantage, as a platform to state the case of …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… conditions – that all students held in detention without trial are released and that “police harassment” of schools …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… Campaign. The NIC also had members among the Treason Trial defendants and in MK when it was formed in 1961. Due to …
XIII - The Courts
… of those detained. They are held, but not brought to trial. English-type court procedures were introduced into … his story was shown to be untrue'. In the…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
It is 20 years since the first Truth and Reconciliation hearing took place... The TRC was a unique political compromise forged during the years of…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… the United Nations. Boesak was charged with fraud and his trial began in 1998. On 18 December, a plea from the defense …
PlaceEthiopia
… leaders of the former military government were put on trial in April 1996 on charges that included genocide and … leaders of the former military government…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… out of the country on the eve of Madikizela-Mandela’s trial in 1991. Cebekulu is now under the protection of a … on the pool surface and Stompie had…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… prisoners in October 1963, in response to the Rivonia trial which commenced in October of that year. This Committee will undoubtedly remember this as the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.3 Jul-Aug 1979
… Marquard reviews The Hajji, Ashok P. Josshi reviews The Trial of Dedan Kimathi. CHILDREN'S SECTION Vusumzi and the …
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… gaol cells used to hold petty offenders and those awaiting trial at the Magistrate’s Court above. The new court was …
PlaceMuseum Africa
… paintings. One of the main displays covers the Treason Trial where more than 150 people who included Nelson Mandela, …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… (NUSAS). In 1974 nine South African activists were put on trial for terrorism. The activists were all officers of …