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… one of the 156 accused who were tried during the famous treason trial. He was in fact one of the last 30 accused held …

… Witwatersrand. Carl and Jansie were found guilty of High Treason and he received a 15 year sentence while Jansie was …

… in detention. She was part of the defence team in the 1984 treason trial , against leaders of the United Democratic …

… or meetings.On 5 December 1956, Malele was charged with treason and detained at the Fort, and released on £50 bail on …

… I started work, I was amongst the 156 arrested for high treason. As usual the special branch came early in the morning. The warrent stated that I was accused of treason. My immediate reaction was one of curiosity and then … were not being serious. I had certainly not been plotting treason more reason, as the old Irish patriots used to say. …

… Guma, along with other national leaders, were charged with treason. The 1956 Treason Trial charged them with conspiring to overthrow the …

… On 5 December 1956, he was arrested on charges of treason at his home in Sophiatown and detained at the Fort. …

… politically aware, when, in 1955 he stated following the Treason Trial reports in the newspapers. In 1957, when he …

… oppression of black people. Dlamini was an accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 until charges against him were …

… Congress (ANC)  activists who had been charged with treason. He also took on cases of conscientious and religious …

… the struggle, she became fundraiser and secretary of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and later, in 1961, for the …

… led to Saloojee’s arrest and trial in the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial. On his release he continued to be involved in …

… was one of the 156 people arrested and charged with high treason, but the charges against her and sixty others were …

… ANC and the two were married in December 1956, during the Treason Trial . They were aware that both were likely to be …

… defence in political trials in South Africa such as the Treason Trial (1958 – 1961) and the newspaper Prisons Trial …

… was ransacked during the events that led to the infamous Treason Trial.  Mokgatle began writing The autobiography of …

… the authorities, which the prison authorities regarded as treason. He appeared before the prison department and was …

… unjust laws. He stood trial with 155 others in the 1956  Treason Trial , which continued until March 1961. Charges …

… arrested in 1956 as one of the 156 accused in the Rivonia Treason Trial , Sarah put her energies into a fundraising …

… and ANCWL leader, Lilian Ngoyi , who during the Rivonia Treason Trial was on the run and needed a place to hide. …

… they were severe. Nkoli and his peers were charged with treason, with the possibility of the death penalty. This was the beginning of the Delmas Treason Trial, which would become one of the longest running …

… Following the arrests of Congress leaders for the 1956 treason trial, Maharaj was asked to take over the running of …

… Alex La Guma who was one of the defendants in the 1956 Treason Trial . Alex and Blanche had two children, Eugene and …

… 1985. Subsequently, he was arrested, charged and tried for treason in February 1985. The charges were later dropped. In …

… and his two uncles, Ndabuko and Shingana, guilty of high treason and exiled them to the island of St Helena. In 1897, …

… five years for the 1981 arson attacks and 20 years for treason. She was sent to Pretoria Prison where she served her …

… Albertina Sisulu  and  Archie Gumede , were charged with treason. Due to “insufficient and unconvincing evidence”, …

… numerous restriction orders. He was charged with arson, treason and murder but nothing was ever proved against him. …