He was one of the accused in the massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade ... violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela, 1959 "Monitoring Mandela (Four ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was the decade of the youthful and visionary Walter Sisulu, Nelson Mandela ... as well as the first of a series of treason trials, including the 1956 Treason Trial. He has fond memories of the ...

Paul Trewhela on the US consulate cable on Abahlali baseMjondolo In a statement headed "Is The ANC As Democratic As It Claims?", a confidential report by the US consulate in Durban dated 8 January ...

South Africa would in all probability still have been in the Commonwealth. In 1960 Nelson Mandela, standing trial on a charge of treason, made a similar proposal in a personal letter to Verwoerd. He ...

Tension is rising further on the political scene in Tanzania ahead of the trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu. Accused of treason, his Chadema political party was this month excluded from the ...

Tension is rising further on the political scene in Tanzania ahead of the trial of opposition leader Tundu Lissu. Accused of treason, his Chadema political party was this month excluded from the ...

The statues of Jan Christian Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Millicent Fawcett, Earl of Derby and Viscount Palmerston were all defaced. 'F** rights' and a heart were ...