Rivonia Trial 1963 - 1964 | South African History Online
Liberation movements, while rejecting the legitimacy of the racial minority state, were forced to deal with the legal system – when activists were apprehended they simply could not disregard it. In the Rivonia Trial, the ‘accused’ addressed this problem by using the courts as a site of struggle.
Rivonia Trial | South African history | Britannica
…violent conspiracy in the infamous Rivonia Trial, named after a fashionable suburb of Johannesburg where raiding police had discovered quantities of arms and equipment at the headquarters of the underground Umkhonto we Sizwe.
The Trial of Nelson Mandela (Rivonia Trial): A Chronology
Two men the government hoped to charged with conspiracy and sabotage, Harold Wolpe and Arthur Goldreich, escape from a South African jail and within twelve days are out of the country. October 9, 1963. The Rivonia defendants appear at the …
The Rivonia Trial (Trial of Nelson Mandela) - University of …
It's "the trial that changed South Africa." In the fall of 1963, Nelson Mandela and ten other leading opponents of South Africa's apartheid regime went on trial for their lives.
Rivonia Trial Papers - JSTOR
Nelson Mandela and Others, popularly known as the Rivonia trial, attracted international criticism, South Africa s police, prosecutors, and white media saw the trial as a triumph for the government in its attempts to crush revolutionary violence.
The Rivonia Trial: The Accused (biographical sketches, trial notes)
At the Rivonia trial, Mbeki presented much of the defense testimony relating to South Africa's history of race-based repression and the political goals of the ANC. The prosecution presented 13 documents directly implicating Mbeki, and his "guilt" was never in serious question.
Rivonia trial: The Rivonia Trial – ANC
Jun 1, 2009 · The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system.
The Nelson Mandela (Rivonia) Trial: An Account - University of …
In the fall of 1963, Nelson Mandela and ten other leading opponents of South Africa's apartheid regime faced trial for their lives. The charges, in what is often called "the Rivonia trial" for the Johannesburg suburb that was the location of the hideout for a militant wing of the African National Congress, were sabotage and conspiracy, and ...
51 Years Ago, Nelson Mandela Was Arrested And Charged With Treason - NPR
Dec 6, 2013 · In 1962, Mandela was arrested and charged with high treason along with his collaborators. The Rivonia Trial, as it came to be known, would turn Mandela into a symbol of the struggle against...
Speeches and Public Statements: Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
A collection of speeches and public statements that relate to the Rivonia Trial. These are text files and transcriptions from various sources, some were scanned by Pambili Productions.
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