Treason TrialwritingscriptcharacterisationnarrativeThe Treason Trial (1956鈥 61) was the longest and most complex political trial of the century in South Africa. Beginning with 156 accused, it ended with the acquittal of every one. As much as the trial was a triumph in legal terms for the ...
Pirow on the other hand is taken a little more seriously in South Africa, he’s eventually appointed the State Prosecutor in the Treason Trial and these writings of his foreshadow some the National Party’s policies on Apartheid. Pirow’s involvement as defence council in all the cases of ...
The Republic of South Africa is a state in extreme southern Africa. It is bordered on the north by Botswana and Zimbabwe, on the northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland, and on the northwest by Namibia (South West Africa); in the west it is washed by the Atlantic Ocean, and in the east...
‘white’ voices in the Liberal Party, Congress of Democrats, United Party and Labour Party using the Anti-Communist Act and the ‘Treason Trial’ (which lasted from 1956 to 1961) – basically, silencing many white Unionist opposition almost completely. The Net result was the sliver of 1% –...
The Treason Trial of 1956, the Sharpeville massacre, the Soweto uprising, the unrest of the 1980s and the negot-iated settlement which led to 1994, are the staples of this account. There was little emphasis on personal biographies, so even the life history of Nelson Mandela has not been ...
It considers the forms and themes of her writing; her role as communist and journalist; the Congress Alliance; nationalism, socialism and the Freedom Charter; capital and labour; the treason trial to the sabotage campaign; Namibia; peasants and politics; detention without trial; exile and ...
Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, young attorneys and partners in South Africa’s first black-owned law firm, in the mid-1950s. (The Peto Collection, University of Dundee)5 December 1956 –Mandela and 150 others arrested and charged with treason. The marathon Treason Trial of 1956 to 1961 ...
The story, by E. Nesbit, is a children's classic, and this is the definitive film version. A family are thrown into poverty and forced to move to the country when their father is accused of treason, but inbetween playing on the railway lines (Kids: don't try this at home) and vari...
At thetreasontrial in August, 1958, the prosecution attempted to show that the Freedom Charter was aCommunisttract and that the only way it could be achieved was by overthrowing the present government. However, the Crown's expert witness on Communism admitted that the Charter was "a humanitaria...
- The sixteenth issue of a regular bulletin giving a factual resume of the proceedings of the Treason Trial. Period covered 31 August - 18 September 1959. 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 COMPARISON WITH SOUTH AFRICAN HERITAGE SITES occupation (it was classified more as a concentration camp than a ...