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… early in 1956. The SAIC had members among the Treason Trial defendants and in uMkhonto weSizwe when it was formed …

… , which were royal warrants ordering imprisonment without trial. During Louis XVI’s reign, 14000 lettres de cachet were …

… 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, of detention without trial, of torture and death under interrogation. The … been so. I had also given sworn testimony in the treason trial about my position in the Congress of Democrats. In any …

… 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 in the Fort before trial, or serving sentences there, was forbidden but we … was shut out behind iron gates. The first part of our trial was to be held in the Johannesburg Drill Hall, simply …

… raid on Umkhonto we Sizwe leaders at Liliesleaf Farm, Rivonia. [16] Arrest and imprisonment Van der Heyden was … about her father, with whom she was very close. [17] The trial of the eleven NLF prisoners began on 4 November 1963. During the trial the prisoners were kept in Roeland Street prison—women …

… of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963] Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club …

… 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 them in jail, with no trial, just put them in jail. And they ask you questions, …

… married him in December 1956, during the marathon Treason Trial. Oliver and Adelaide Tambo were asked by the ANC to …

… 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 effect of increasing the enthusiasm and … were turned into a political demonstration. The trial had a stimulating effect on the non-Europeans, …

… slaves were charged with committing crimes and brought to trial. Court records are a good way to catch a glimpse into … and a sense of the time in which they lived. But trial records have their limitations. Interrogation is … A slave in court was either there as a witness or on trial, defending himself. The courthouse was not the best …

… association and under which arbitrary detention without trial awaits anyone stepping over an invisible line drawn … turn. 1. The current level of repression Detention without trial for interrogation or 'preventive' purposes, barring … during the State of Emergency. Today, detention without trial continues on a daily basis, it is happening as we …

… Umkhonto we Sizwe, Oom Ray was an outstanding leader, a Rivonia Trialist and the first democratically elected Premier … Congress of Democrats and a defendant in both the Treason Trial and the Rivonia Trial, Rusty Bernstein worked tirelessly throughout …

… 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 awaiting-trial prisoner, Winnie was not treated as such. All of her … for her was withheld, both things in which other awaiting-trial prisoners enjoyed regularly. [30] Winnie eventually …

… [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 months, until her trial in March, 1972. Desai, rightly so, believed that she … was clear. I hadn’t done anything wrong.” [15] The trial took place in the Old Synagogue in Pretoria, the same …

… was then hospitalised before being sent to prison to await trial. During his testimony‚ Essop said he saw a man at the …

… and memorial. The first roses were planted in 1979, the trial garden followed in 1981, with the official opening …

… of the difficult times, we went to the altar. The treason trial, confined to Johannesburg, the debts that were piling …

… 1906 by one of his workers. When questioned during his  trial, the worker admitted to killing the farmer out of …

… 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 happening while your trial was happening...and we used the trial to say the … of ANC’s underground command in the months following the Rivonia arrests in 1963 and had been released from Robben …

… from the evidence collected during the infamous raid in Rivonia a month earlier. In an interview with Eleanor in The … number of things that led to my arrest,” ranging from “the Rivonia arrest in Johannesburg” to the “copy of the Freedom …

… and Dyeing workers union and member of the Treason Trial, dies in exile. Lawrence Ndzanga dies in detention. … workers union dies in custody. He was detained without trial under the Terrorism Act. 1977 Harry Gwala is imprisoned …

… and gave the Minister house arrest and detention without trial powers. Both Poqo and uMkhonto we Sizwe armed responses …

… form of severe sentences for those in the Delmas Treason Trial . During January 1989 there was an increase in hunger …

… in April, 1968, Toivo Herman Ja Toivo, a SWAPO leader on trial by South African officials for terrorism, counters the … feel now, and it is on this basis that we have faced this trial. I speak of “we” because I am trying to speak not only … has come to visit us, never mind be present at our trial. The Pretoria jail, the police headquarters at Compol, …

… to appear as a witness for the defence during the lengthy trial of nine student leaders from the Black People's … temporarily suspended for him to appear at the SASO/BPC trial. He was driving a hired car — a battered VW Passat — … when he came up to testify in my defence at the SASO/BPC trial in Pretoria in April 1976. “He was intended to be the …

… those arrested; he was held for 137 days without charge or trial. Restrictions on him were increased at the end of the … course of justice by persuading witnesses in a political trial to change their evidence. In August 1976, at a time of …

… used the extra income. As he was growing up, the treason trial of the 50's dominated the headlines and was a catalyst …

… Sources Books and Articles Bagwandeen. D., A People on Trial- For Breaching Racism. The struggle for Land and …

… in Johannesburg. Is there a hope for the victims of the Rivonia Trial? TAMBO : It is true that I was a legal partner of …

… regardless of whether you won or lost it. Like the Delmas trial was maybe a good example of that. That it constantly … assisted as one of the… Taylor: This was the Glenn Moss trial or..? Tucker: Yeah, yeah. Now there the judge, the … wasn’t Glenn Moss’s case, Glenn Moss - that was the Nusas trial with Charles Nupen and the others. Taylor: Yes. Tucker: …