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ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… was a good enough reason to keep quiet. I was a kind of trial balloon for both the ANC and the South African … arrival in Britain at the end of 1963 while…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… of the Congress of Democrats and defendant in the Rivonia Trial , is born in Cape Town. 17 May, National elections take … (Mac) Maharaj , defendant in the…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… proper lavatory accommodation and earth closets. Awaiting-trial Yard at Gaol . On the 30th of April, instructions were … Permit Office District Office, Mill…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… international scrutiny last year in the Oscar Pistorius trial. Writing for The Guardian, Margie Orford described the … of paranoid ... suburban South Africa”…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… to capture 326 of the marchers. Of the 326, 47 were put on trial. Louis himself, and one of the Irishmen James Hooper …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… and 1961. The Rand committee was affected by the treason trial arrests. The ATWIU branch at the Amato textile mill in …
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
… was given a life sentence at the sensational Rivonia trial, where he abd others like Nelson Mandela were found … for one, remembers. Those events culminated…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… This government campaign culminated in the Treason Trial where 156 of the country's leading activists were … Dr. Naicker were among those arrested and during…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… previous years, that I was restricted. Until that year the trial had gathered us all together in a sort of family … days; for me, my Medical Aid Society work…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… Moroka dissociates himself from his fellow trialists. The trial drags on for five months and all the leaders are found … of the 20 liberation movement…
ArchiveAziz Pahad: Rest in peace by David Kenvyn
… behind Nelson Mandela at a demonstration about the Treason Trial of 1956-1960. In 1963, Aziz was served with a banning …
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… by police, thousands arrested and imprisoned without trial. The Choice The deepening tensions can lead to two …
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… law in Parliament authorising the detention without trial of people connected with the organisation of the …
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… of a united people by agreeing to "give the Acts a trial". They had proceeded to run dummy (segregated) …
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… Council to admit 4 women into his Chemistry Class, on a trial basis. Owing to the exceptional standard of work by the …
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… But there he was, held against his will and without a trial for months on end. Despite the dreadful surroundings of … at the thought of being unjustly…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… demanding the release of their leaders, locked up without trial in the prison. The police captain “draws up his men in … experiments in bomb-making, and was…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… the circumstances while giving evidence at the SASO/BPC trial in 1975: ‘It so happened that when we got to Rhodes … Ramphele has described the years from…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… and I, when at school already in ’56 ah there was this big trial taking place in the country. The Treason Trial. And that was a kind of awareness beginning…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… spent three and half months in detention without charge or trial in 1976. He threw himself into community work in the … government’s instructions, and…
Postscript
… more than two thousand persons have been detained without trial and more than ten thousand arrested. Most of those who … trials of some of its leaders, by…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial basis in Pretoria and Bloemfontein, as part of a … peaceful assembly, widespread detentions…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of 46 counts murder, fraud and drug dealing following a trial which took two and a half years. 25 April, Mark … from leadership duties for the duration of…
Quotes by Steve Biko
… dignity." From Steve Biko's evidence given at the SASO/BPC trial, 3 May 1976. "Being black is not a matter of …
The Democratic Party (DP)
… African Parliament. She fought against detention without trial, pass laws, influx control, job reservation on grounds …
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… matters and they do not want to put such a person on trial. He was not the real enemy; it was the politicians who … Wolpe who was one of the co-conspirators…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… and declaring emergencies and imprisoning people without trial is not the answer'. 24 September, Dr Naicker addressed … D.V. Perumal and Sunny Singh. During…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… He was one of the defendants in the State vs Cooper trial, but charges were dropped against him and three of the … original 13 accused, and he left the…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… in what will become known as the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial . Despite the context of heavy repression, the UDF … they are charged with treason in the…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… leaders who had been part of the plot were put to trial in Johannesburg. Some of them were condemned to death, …