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EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… his death reported as resulting from his wounds, or facing trial by the People's Court. He chose suicide, ending his …
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… 10 British and three Americans were captured. After a trial, in Luanda, Angola, sentencing commenced on the 28 June …
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… After a period in solitary confinement, he was put on trial and charged with 5 counts of piracy and one of murder. …
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… a political conspiracy to put the Roman Catholic church on trial. At the time of the Bishop's arrest, thirty six members …
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 …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… 1962 Excerpts from Chief Lutuli's evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent … South Africa freedom day on June 26, 1953…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… including Enoch Mgijima and his sons. In November 1921 the trial of the 141 Israelites arrested began in Queenstown. … against the authority of the state” …
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… on for a year before his appeal was dismissed. When the trial resumed in 1967, Nanabhai read a 19- page statement on … I am ready for the sentence." Many…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… having been one of the accused in the well-known Rivonia Trial in Pretoria, he was convicted of sabotage and was, … a period of 20 years’ imprisonment at the…
A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… the charging of Cde Zuma is not a criminal but a political trial. The judgement has greatly assisted us in eloquently, … a detailed fashion, outlining…
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… a team of advocates to mount the defence for the Rivonia Trial: Nelson Mandela and nine other leaders of the ANC, … he met Chaskalson: “When we were arrested…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… at Number Four. We stayed there for three weeks awaiting trial. It was almost a month when our case ended, and Nelson … of Communism Act, which meant ninety…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… Provinces. In 1880 the Rev. Owen Watkins started a “Trial Mission” in the Transvaal which was based in Pretoria … converted. In 1880, the year that Watkins…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… part of the state’s body of evidence during the Rivonia trial. Mandela read his famous statement from the dock, …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… of forced labour. Mass arrests and detention without trial led to overpopulated prisons and the colonial powers …
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… Leftwich turned state witness to convict him at his 1964 trial, as did his close friend and co-conspirator John Lloyd. … Goldberg, sentenced to life…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… riots in Soweto and Kagiso in action A witness at the trial of Mothopeng and 17 other PAC leaders testified that on … them,” Ganya said. From the evidence…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… in Cape Town on a charge of sedition. After a long trial, the case is eventually withdrawn in 1948.14 - 17 … dissociates himself from his fellow trialists…
Statement by Oliver Tambo with Other ANC leaders visiting Sweden, 02 February 1990
… in its entirety and that the practice of detention without trial will continue. These decisions subtract rather than add …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.1 March 1979
… story . Ingoapele Madingoane (Klipspruit), black trial, an extract 10 Mbakasima Group (Evaton/Sebokeng)/ A …
Statement by O. R. Tambo with other ANC Leaders Visiting Sweden, 2 February 1990
… in its entirety and that the practice of detention without trial will continue. These decisions subtract rather than add …
EventForces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by a handful of disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including the captain who said an angel told him to overthrow the government
… charges after he left office in 2002. During his treason trial in 2002, Lungu (Captain Solo) apologized to the nation …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… trials between 1960 and 1994, including the Rivonia Trial in 1963/1964 at which Mr. Nelson Mandela and other …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… other Xhosa prisoners, who like Makhanda, had had no trial or sentencing. It is a possibility that these prisoners …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… was convicted under the Terrorism Act in April 1972 in the trial of members of the African People's Democratic Union os … mother of 2 daughters. One of the…
Apartheid power in crisis
… association and under which arbitrary detention without trial awaits anyone stepping over an invisible line drawn … turn. 1. The current level of repression…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… Nokuthula Simelane matter, the first apartheid-era murder trial to come before a South African court since 2007, they … Ahmed Timol case is that Cajee has…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… magistrate Bram Fischer explained why he would not stand trial but go underground: "If by my fight I can encourage … books as well as documents associated…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… I was sent by the Sunday Pictorial to witness the Treason Trial. I saw them all, 162 of them; there was very little I … him, a sense of leadership. These men…
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… or without just cause; b. not to be detained without trial; c. to be free from all forms of violence from … 3. Every accused person has a right to…