Formerly a synagogue, it was expropriated by the government in 1952 to serve as a High Court. As the High Court, it hosted the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, et al, from 1958 to 1961, ...

For the first time since the end of white minority rule in 1994, the ANC lost its outright majority in parliament. In the consequential poll on Wednesday, 29 May, 2024, the party slumped to 40.2% with ...

This week saw the funeral of 95-year-old Andrew Mlangeni, the last survivor of the Rivonia Treason Trial of the mid-1960s ... during the nationwide mourning of Nelson Mandela’s death. We nevertheless ...

At this, Nelson left home and the marriage. Meanwhile Winnie faced trial for her involvement in the infamous crimes of the Mandela United Football Club ... struggle against the government was guilty ...

As President Mandela says in the book, the units the Communist Party had already established came in handy in the foundation of the MK and simplified building the people’s liberation army. Those who ...

Three Boeremag members found guilty of treason have again turned to the Gauteng High Court ... They had also planned to assassinate former president Nelson Mandela. Their goal was to destroy the new ...

In others, it was secret. The most important of these secret members was the charismatic Nelson Mandela. On the day the SACP took its fateful decision, Mandela was a defendant in the Treason Trial, a ...

except of course Nelson Mandela who had been arrested the previous year near Howick, and had been sentenced to five years and was already serving his sentence. Their arrest led to the famous Rivonia ...

How else is one to describe the co-founder and first Director of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in London; a leader of the Alexandra bus boycott in the Fifties; the co-accused of Nelson Mandela, Oliver ...

During the state of emergency in the 1980s, he was subjected to constant harassment and persecution by the security forces of the apartheid regime, resulting in several months of detentions without ...