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Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… to university together. We were co-accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 to 1961. Over the years, we have shared the …
I - Introduction
… by the security police in South Africa since the first 'no-trial' detention laws were introduced in 1963. Since his …
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… by their insensitive handling of the detention-without-trial issue; the brutal treatment of innocent mourners from …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… 157 of the leaders, Mandela included, with treason. The trial, which started in 1956, dragged on for five years … political order in a free South Africa. In…
New tactics in the revolt
… Release of detained scholars -- 'parole prior to standing trial is acceptable'; police to stay out of schools unless … the ANC. And Elias Masinga (one of the…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… under the Act were taken to jail and detained without a trial, “and many of those detained under the Terrorism Act …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… first put them in an international court at Nuremberg for trial, where they were convicted of crimes associated with …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… molded his leadership skills and development, the Rivonia Trial in 1963, and leading South Africa’s peaceful …
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… ordinary prisoners in gaol. Subsequently, while awaiting trial in 1956, I also saw acts of brutality being committed … in the fifties. And similarly Mandela,…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… is democratic and civilised, she will have to stand her trial before the UNO." "I would like," Mr. Rustomjee said, … Dock" "General Smuts is in the dock …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… black consciousness projects. In 1976, during the SASO-BPC trial, Biko was given an opportunity to publicly articulate … He gave expert evidence for the…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… in the Soviet Union, the "trauma" of detente without trial and of course his main pre-occupation, the question of … He supported Dr Bain's diagnosis that…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… comment when he acquitted the 7 in the recent Sebokeng trial. How is it possible for you to ignore the observations … of the investigating officer in the…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… revolting. Without a hearing, without the semblance of a trial, without a single fact, without any evidence, in the … even those rights which are accorded to…
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
… the South African Government "to abandon the arbitrary trial [of Nelson Mandela and others] now in progress and …
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… to Canon Collins, for the magnificent support the Treason Trial Defence Fund has received. The ensuing year will be one …
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… and Kaborone Sedibe (also my co-accused in the SASO/BPC trial) replaced Aubrey and Strini in the B-Section cell …
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… ex-Secretary of the African National Congress, now on trial for treason. Boycott has been used as an effective …
ArchiveSubbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance" - University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
… this has happened to me when I was arrested, and at my trial. During the whole core of my conduct I never divulged … Ninety-Day period. You see, when I …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… of peaceful protest the right to a fair investigation and trial if suspected of a crime the right to vote the right to … to withdraw his guilty plea and…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… exercised by an arrested and accused person in a criminal trial but not a witness at a commission of inquiry, Jafta …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… up much of the ANC’s leadership and putting them all on trial. Mandela was convicted of treason and shipped off to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… security laws that provide for unlimited detention without trial. 31 July, Joe Gqabi , journalist and member of the ANC … to rescue five alleged South…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… harassment of political activists, as seen in the Sedition Trial of 1946 that lasted two years. In the 1948 elections, … Dr. Yusuf Dadoo makes a statement…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… [JIMASAJ. 2. Bulletin of the IMA [BIMA]. 3. Darwinism on Trial by Mrs K S Nadvi. 4. Biomedical Issues - An Islamic … battle for recognition as Muslims…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… was summoned to testify in court. GUMEDE TESTIFIES IN THE TRIAL OF DAVID JONES AND H. GREENE 255 The prelude to this trial dates back to the activities of…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… persons, even while imprisoned. In her 1969 trial, Nyembe was found guilty and this highlighted how often …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… totalled probably about 1,200 people. Drawing on Rivonia trial evidence, Edward Feit and Tom Lodge estimate that about … was now ‘closer than at any time…