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Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… 155 other freedom fighters and charged with treason. The trial which then followed is unprecedented in the history of … and close on twenty thousand people…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… Marks, president of the African Mineworkers` Union. The trial of the group arrested at Boksburg did not come up for … them. Only one paid the fine. At the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Cultural Activities
… by Bambatha's wife. He was arrested and brought to trial as an accomplice and instigator. Malambule attended the trial and gave evidence ”” to confirm his…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… apartheid for many years. Some had been detained without trial, tortured and assaulted; many faced discrimination in …
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… nine leaders are rounded up and deported without a trial. January, White bricklayers go on strike in attempt to …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… a member of the TICYO is the no. 1 accused in the Treason Trial. The area south of 22nd Street in Pageview is declared …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… he was arrested and was one of the 12 ANC cadres who stood trial in Pretoria during 1977, charged under the Terrorism … generations: young and old. That is…
Chapter X - Final word
… I have been banned four times, gaoled four times, on trial for four years and this is my third period of being … together in those early years, in campaigns,…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… sentenced to solitary confinement for six months without a trial. Sachs was forced into exile in 1966, studying and …
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… [10] Z. Nkosi. (1964, December 31). The "Fischer" trial. https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/acn22650001997800002219657. … [11] Nkosi. “The ‘Fischer’ Trial.” [12] Jean…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… Justice Snyman said, "It became obvious to me during the trial that as a result of these interrogations of the accused … a most frustrating position for the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… Mrs Mkhize was one of the 156 charged during the Treason Trial. Dr Margaret Chuene studied medicine at the University … he was in Pretoria as one of the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… 5 April, George Bizos is awarded the 2001 International Trial Lawyer prize of the year by the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. 26 June, President…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on three charges under … principles of racial segregation. 24 August…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… the South African Government to abandon the arbitrary trial of this leadership and to "grant unconditional release … have also been banned and restricted…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… the South African Government to abandon the arbitrary trial of this leadership and to "grant unconditional release … have also been banned and restricted…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… of Monty Naicker and a young Nelson Mandela at the Treason Trial, while I was insistent that we use one he took in 1957 …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… to five years in 1962 and then charged in the "Rivonia Trial" in October 1963. But he was a popular leader in South …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… censorship. The most famous case of this was the Treason Trial, where Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the … of Communism Act. 47 All of the writings of…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Meer organizes night vigils against detentions without trial. Adelaide Tambo leaves South Africa and works as … Msimang, the judge who will preside over the…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… evidence which might be used against me in a subsequent trial. Most of our books and papers were in a small room off … Mine showed the following:…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… was like. The case for better conditions The Strachan trial It took a very long time for prison conditions to … at the first legal consultation after we of…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… now in the underground...in Cape Town said to me: That trial was very important; we were picking up on the youth and … for military training, and that was…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… black, and especially African, politics after the Rivonia Trial, held by historians and other scholars of South African … Wilton Mkwayi, who had evaded…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… torture. It later appeared that there was to be a show trial, the famous Rivonia Trial, in which Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, and other … that we would not…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… CP leaders bitterly opposed the new turn. Bram Fischer, on trial in March 1966, stated that Operation Mayibuye was "an … repression. Mass arrests, indefinite…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… profound words from the dock during the Rivonia Treason Trial, on 20 April 1964 in court when he said: "During my …
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… a rich past and history. This veteran of the ANC stood trial with Madiba and 18 other ANC leaders during the 1952 …
Thembuland
… in compensation for the humiliation caused by the criminal trial. Dalindyebo was imprisoned in December 2015, has since …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… institutes the Cape Charter of Justice, which introduces trial. The Cape Parliament passes Ordinance 19 which provides … Doris van der Heyden and Gordon…