The Rivonia Story
Author | : Joel Joffe |
Publisher | : University of the Western Cape |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joel Joffe |
Publisher | : University of the Western Cape |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kenneth S. Broun |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199913129 |
The question was: would he hang? In 1963, when South Africa's apartheid government charged Nelson Mandela with planning its overthrow, most observers feared that he would be sentenced to death. But the support he and his fellow activists in the African National Congress received during his trial not only saved his life, but also enabled him to save his country. In Saving Nelson Mandela, South African law expert Kenneth S. Broun recreates the trial, called the "Rivonia" Trial after the Johannesburg suburb where police seized Mandela. Based upon interviews with many of the case's primary figures and portions of the trial transcript, Broun situates readers inside the courtroom at the imposing Palace of Justice in Pretoria. Here, the trial unfolds through a dramatic narrative that captures the courage of the accused and their defense team, as well as the personal prejudices that colored the entire trial. The Rivonia trial had no jury and only a superficial aura of due process, combined with heavy security that symbolized the apartheid government's system of repression. Broun shows how outstanding advocacy, combined with widespread public support, in fact backfired on apartheid leaders, who sealed their own fate. Despite his 27-year incarceration, Mandela's ultimate release helped move his country from the racial tyranny of apartheid toward democracy. As documented in this inspirational book, the Rivonia trial was a critical milestone that helped chart the end of Apartheid and the future of a new South Africa.
Author | : Hilda Bernstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1991-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780872086005 |
Author | : Hilda Bernstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Apartheid |
ISBN | : |
Om Rivonia-retssagen (1963), hvor bl.a. Nelson Mandela blev dømt
Author | : Lauritz Strydom |
Publisher | : Blurb |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2019-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780368153174 |
New edition, now with two new appendices: "Mandela Lied to the World: South African Communist Party Admitted in 2013 that he was Senior Central Committee Member," and "Mandela's Jews: Jewish Involvement in the Rivonia Plot." First published in 1965, this book was the white South African government's official version of the famous 1963-1964 "Rivonia Treason Trial" which saw 8 top South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Nelson Mandela included, sentenced to life imprisonment for an incredible plan to seize power by violence in South Africa and turn it into a Marxist state. Evidence at the trial showed that the Communist parties in the Soviet Union, Algeria, China, Czechoslovakia and East Germany all actively supported the plot and that the ANC and the SACP planned a physical invasion and revolution akin to that of Vietnam or Cuba. The value of this book is not restricted to now-suppressed revelations on the ANC/SACP axis. It also vividly demonstrates how the Apartheid government was out of touch with reality, believing firmly that the ANC did not represent the majority of black people and that it was "only" the Communists who were the problem. It was a delusion that would cost White South Africa dearly. The two new appendices focus on the facts that Mandela, despite his many public claims to the contrary, was a high ranking member of the SACP, and that almost the entire support structure upon which the ANC relied was comprised of Communist Party Jews. Fully indexed.
Author | : Joel Joffe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780746156 |
The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence attorney The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela’s defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment. On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial and charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. In this compelling book, their defence attorney, Joel Joffe, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa’s history, vividly portraying the characters of those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as showing their incredible courage under fire.
Author | : Glenn Frankel |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Anti-apartheid movements |
ISBN | : 1431402206 |
Rivonia's children is the harrowing and inspiring account of a number of white Jewish activists who risked their lives to battle apartheid when South Africa plunged into an era of darkness in the 1960s from which it has only recently emerged.
Author | : Hilda Bernstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Trials (Political crimes and offenses) |
ISBN | : 9780044404866 |
Author | : Stephen Clingman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Apartheid |
ISBN | : 9781431407521 |
A passionate study of an Afrikaner dissident who was one of the founding fathers of the liberation struggle in South Africa and whose power to provoke an intense response is as apparent today as in the past.
Author | : Nelson Mandela |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 598 |
Release | : 2008-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0759521042 |
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.