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ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… of sabotage. 27 November, The Silverton and Soekmekaar trial closes. The three involved in the Soekmekaar police … to rescue five alleged South African…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… are languishing in jail, serving long sentences or facing trial. Some of them, who were the subject of resolutions … three weeks ago, [1] are at this…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… Lutuli insisted (in a statement prepared for the Treason Trial) that the ANC did not favour abolition of private … in 1956. [25] He was still repeating it at…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… under hastily proclaimed emergency regulations without trial. And about 20,000 others were similarly arrested and … Bantu Education. We cannot feel…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… had no protection whatever and could be condemned without trial or hearing. The courts could not intervene. Facts, … as well as the taxed costs of the action…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in which event I would be liable for the costs of the trial, amounting perhaps to many thousands of pounds. I … There were some peculiar features about 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…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… of the ANC and allied organisations chargedin the "Rivonia trial". (Many of them had beenarrested on the Rivonia farm). … the Government of South Africa…
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… for allegedly leading the group. Following a five month trial, he was imprisoned until 1959 and detained until 1961. …
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… FBI agents, who flew him to the United States to await trial. In 1996 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for air …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… and captured 326 of the marchers. Of these 47 were put on trial including the leadership group of Hooper, Kelly, Louis …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… of their actual residence. 24 August, The second trial of the 19 prisoners (including Winnie … be taken against the South African government. 14 May, The…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… other original detainees were dropped after a two-month trial proved torture was used by police during … of the prison hospital. Even though she was an…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… [13] Mrs. Desai would not learn of Timol’s death until her trial in court. When she was being questioned about the … Square in solitary confinement for four…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… African Parliament. She fought against detention without trial, pass laws, influx control, job reservation on grounds …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… members of the ANC - the ruling party at the time of the trial - could similarly be charged. It can be noted that out …
France in 1789
… , which were royal warrants ordering imprisonment without trial. During Louis XVI’s reign, 14000 lettres de cachet were …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… shall be imprisoned, deported or restricted without a fair trial; No-one shall be condemned by the order of any …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli, was arrested for treason. The trial continued for three years. 1960 - Dr Naicker played a …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… worked as 326 marchers were captured. 47 were put on trial including the leadership group of Hooper, Kelly, Louis …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… covering a period that began on 1 October 1952. The trial of amongst others, Moroka, Sisulu, Marks, Mandela, …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… early in 1956. The SAIC had members among the Treason Trial defendants and in uMkhonto weSizwe when it was formed …
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… of the banning of the ANC. the long years of the treason trial, the scar of Sharpeville. The 1960s, the decade of … them more and more powers of arrest and…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… independence". A great deal of publicity was given to the trial and the t wo nationalist blocs organised meetings to protest against it. The trial had the…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… of treason in 1961. He was charged again in the Rivonia Trial in October 1963. On 12 June 1964 he was sentenced to …
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial victory and the resistance of women to passes at its … became the years of political trials,…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… Gaol food was not really a problem. As prisoners awaiting trial, we were allowed to have food sent in to us. Friends … with any of the other prisoners held…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… after the accused were found not guilty in the Treason Trial. He was arrested in August and in November sentenced to … thereafter. 12 June 1964 Judgment…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At that time they … arrested thousands of people and put…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… June 12, 1964 was the day for sentencing in the Rivonia Trial in Pretoria. The prosecution wanted the maximum … time, however, dictated that the regime would…