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 1960 Mandela on trial for treason proposed that the black population be … failed to reply to Mandela’s two letters. When he stood trial later Mandela pressed Verwoerd’s secretary to admit …