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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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… with Nelson Mandela following the historic Rivonia Treason trial. Ma Dixie and Oom Ray`s romance endured all challenges …
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… (SWEAT) maintained an active presence throughout the trial, keeping the procedures in public attention. SWEAT, …
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… involved in Biko's arrest and detainment. During the trial, the presiding judge ruled that a charge of murder …