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BiographyFreda Levson
… and jailed for four weeks. During the famous 1956 Treason Trial , 156 leaders and activists in the Congress Alliance … and Julius First set up the South…
BiographyLungile Kepe
… during Defiance Campaign, 1952. Accused in the Treason Trial of 1956 and acquitted. Subsequently sentenced to two …
BiographyJoseph Morolong
… Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from December 1956 until December 1957, he was detained … of Trade Unions and the ANC,defendant in…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
… until late 1958 he was one of the accused in the Treason Trial. Following his acquittal he left South Africa without a … the BBC Africa Service broadcast his…
BiographyChief Mshiywa Henry Tshabalala
… ANC Sophiatown. Indictment quashed in 1959. After the trial, he was chairman of school committees in Soweto in the …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… he had suffered severe brain damage and was unfit to stand trial. However, as common purpose had been formed, Mahlangu … headlines such as ‘Terrorists in the…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
… in the mid-1950s and was one of the accused in the Treason Trial, from 1956 to 1961. … executive committee of the ANC, accused in the Treason Trial, from…
BiographyMargaret Chuene Mncadi
… of Winston Conco , then a defendant in the Treason Trial . In 1959 she led protests against the extension of …
BiographyNzimeni Elliot Mfaxa
… was later sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. Mfaxa taught for a short time and worked as clerk but … 1956 and charged with treason in the…
BiographyMadimetja Lawrence Phokanoka
… including the 1956 Women’s March and the 1956 Treason Trial . After completing his high school education, he … Central Prison and spent well over a year…
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… onward in the Western Cape , and the first woman to stand trial on the 'hostility' charge. An ally of the eccentric …
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… killed and Mr Madiba was injured.Mr Mdiba died before the trial began. During the trial the defence counsel,Mr George Bizos,said that some of …
BiographySuliman (Solly) Mahomed Nathie
… in Evaton, and was an accused in the 1956 Treason Trial until charges were dropped against him in late 1958. …
Peter Papela Nthite
… League. In 1959, during the course of the Treason Trial , in which he was a defendant, he was elected national …
BiographyProfessor Raymond Suttner
… activities between 1975 and 1983. He was detained without trial under state of emergency between 1986 to 1988. He was …
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
… was also one of the defendants in the marathon Treason Trial . Ida died in 1960. … African Women (FEDSAW), defendants in the 1956 Treason Trial. …
BiographyDavid Rabkin
… Local Prison. Susan Rabkin was convicted in the same trial for serving the interests of an unlawful organisation …
Trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having planned the siege of a suburban bank in Pretoria in January, in which fi
… Trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having …
Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988.
… hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in …
At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of …
BiographyJohn Collins
… of the 156 people facing treason charges in the Treason Trial . He immediately wired £100 – a tidy sum in those days … for the defence, and Reeves in turn…
BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… Security Act . Her experiences in detention and the trial that followed formed the basis of the book `Time … 2000: 12-13) Her experiences in detention and…
BiographyPamela dos Santos (nee Beira)
… under the Immorality Act . They were charged and went to trial. Due to a lack of concrete evidence the pair was found … Joseph was one of the accused in the…
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
… representatives and were acquitted after a six months’ trial. Jassat was arrested again during the 1960 state of … charges were dropped, he was kept in…
BiographyNarainsamy Thumbi Naicker
… secretary of the SAIC. He was a defendant in the Treason Trial from December 1956 until charges were withdrawn against … South African Indian Congress,…
BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
… in prison for arson, but had appealed and was awaiting trial. Hewas banished on release from jail in 1962. In 1965, …
BiographyPopo Molefe
… together with 21 other activists in the drawn out Delmas Trial. The trial continued for 3 ½ years, and bail was denied for the …
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
… Congress of Trade Unions . A defendant in the Treason Trial for its full length (1956 to 1961), he was rearrested …
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
… The following day he was reported dead. It was at the trial of his comrades, the ‘Pietermaritzburg Ten’ trial that the significant role played by Mdluli in…
BiographyJames Edward April
… He was charged and spent time in prison while he awaited trial. He appeared twice in court, and together with Basil … April remained in prison for another…