Rivonia Trial

The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to overthrow the apartheid system.

Read more about Rivonia Trial:  Origins, Arrests, List of Defendants, Defence Lawyers, Charges, Escapes, Results

Famous quotes containing the word trial:

    A man who has no office to go to—I don’t care who he is—is a trial of which you can have no conception.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)