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BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
… arrested and charged with treason in the infamous Treason Trial (1956), he was acquitted. Ntsangani was also involved in the Rivonia Trial (1963) and as a…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
… 1962.A defendant until 1958 in the 1956 to 1961 treason trial,Hlapane was detained for six months in 1963. In … Fischer (who worked with the Defence Team in…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… strikes against the Government and sat in the same Treason Trial dock. For years we worked side by side in the … his lieutenants to organise them. During…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
… in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial . He was born in Natal in 1918, began taking an … Association. He was a defendant for the full…
Mahomed “Chota” Motala
… to Johannesburg with Gumede and Albert Luthuli to stand trial. The trip was so rough that the men wondered if the … treason trialists, including Nelson…
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
… and one of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 to 1961. Gert Sibande was born in the Ermelo … the ANC. In November 1958, while still a…
BiographyThembekile Enoch kaTshunungwa
… next four and a half years as a defendant in the Treason Trial in Pretoria. During the course of the trial, factional disputes erupted in the Cape, and…
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
… in the mid-1950s and was a defendant in the Treason Trial for its full length, from 1956 to 1961. He moved to … the sole coloured person to be held the…
BiographyEsther Barsel
… Hymie Barsel (also an SACP member who would later stand trial with fellow activists like Nelson Mandela , Chief … , Walter Sisulu , and Oliver Tambo in the…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
… Sisulu and other activists in the infamous Treason Trial . Keitsing was later sentenced to 12 months in jail and … Court in mid-1957. Charged with others…
BiographySimon Tyeku
… the mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in 1904 and worked in his … destroyed his livelihood and the…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
… Province]. He was one of the accused in the1956 Treason Trial , charged for high treason. He was then “banned from … to do so, became a key piece of evidence…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
… and Joe Molefi, were charged with treason in the Evaton trial. The leader of the Russian gang, Ralekeke, was used as a Crown witness in the 1956 Treason…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… of the defence team in the famous South African Treason Trial of 1956 to 1961 in which the accused, including [former … Sir Sydney Kentridge ), in the 1956…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960 …
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… A 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher. …
South Africa’s longest political trial ends in Bethal, Transvaal, with seventeen defendants sharing a total of 147 years’ impri
… South Africa’s longest political trial ends in Bethal, Transvaal, with seventeen defendants …
President Hosni Mubarak issues an order that 83 suspected Islamic militants stand trial in Egypt’s state security court.
… issues an order that 83 suspected Islamic militants stand trial in Egypt’s state security court. …
The General Assembly adopts resolution 1881(XVIII) requesting the Government of South Africa to abandon the "Rivonia trial
… the Government of South Africa to abandon the "Rivonia trial …
BiographySibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
… was arrested for his MK involvement, and during his trial he famously subpoenaed then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela … were legally heard in public since the …
BiographyColonel Sibusiso (Sihle) R. Mbongwa
… was arrested for his MK involvement, and during his trial he famously subpoenaed then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela … were legally heard in public since the …
BiographyGlenn Moss
… attention on the vicious system of detention without trial, experiencing his first of many arrests in 1970 when he … finally being charged as the first…
BiographyBob Hepple
… member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South African Defence … chairman of the Student Liberal…
BiographyElliot Shabangu
… Bizos and Arthur Chaskalson in the defence team. The trial began on 1 December 1969 and the detainees were charged … were back in court. However, three…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… powers that gave it the right to detain people without trial. After the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act … to fighting apartheid in South Africa…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
… A defendant throughout the full length of the Treason Trial , he moved Basutoland at the end of the trial in 1961 but later returned to South Africa. …
BiographyLeon Levy
… (the only two White people who served on the Treason Trial for the full period of almost five years from … 1956-1961) when they were relocated to Pretoria…
BiographySylvia Neame
… Gauteng, on 11 July 1963, leading to the famous Rivonia Trial where he was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment … each other through letters, and at one…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
… Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand trial. He was chairman of the African National Congress (ANC) … was brought back by police from…
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
… dead and three injured. He was detained till 1988 when his trial commenced. The trial continued until he was sentenced on 12 May 1989, to the …