Treason Trial, 1956–1961
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- The Treason Trial was the apartheid government’s attempt to quell the power of the Congress Alliance. In early morning raids on 5 December 1956, 156 individuals were arrested and charged with high treason. By the end of the trial in March 1961 all the accused either had the charges withdrawn or, in the case of the last twenty-eight accused including Mandela, were acquitted.
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Treason Trial, 1956–1961
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Treason Trial, 1956–1961
- UF Treason Trial (State vs F Adams and Others)
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Treason Trial, 1956–1961
3 Archival description results for Treason Trial, 1956–1961
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- ZA MR-MM-189
- Collection
- 1952-1964
Part of Mandela Materials
PC2/3/3/1
National Office correspondence 1952-1959: Correspondence on Elections, funding, overseas press liaison, LPSA policies, meeting plus Nelson Mandela's article in Liberation criticising LPSA.
PC 2/4/6/4
Signed letter from Nelson Mandela as Hon. Secretary of the All in Africa National Council, 22.05.1961
PC 2/4/16/2
Rivonia trial June 1964. State vs. Nelson Mandela and others. Section SV6 of the trial. Evidence and
address in Mitigation of sentence by Alan Paton
Description of Alan Paton 's evidence and address( seems to be a typed chapter from a book)
Paton, Alan
- ZA MR-MM-601
- Collection
- 1963
Part of Mandela Materials
PC 11/1/7/1
Rivonia Treason Trial 1963 - Biographies of the accused including Nelson R. Mandela
Rivonia Treason Trial 1963 - Biographies of the accused including Nelson R. Mandela