Rivonia Trial - List of Defendants

List of Defendants

The first trial indictment document listed 11 names as the accused. Counsel for the accused successfully challenged the legal sufficiency of the document, with the result that Justice de Vet quashed it. Prior to dismissal of the first indictment, The State withdraw all charges against Bob Hepple, after he agreed to testify for the prosecution. The second indictment thus only listed 10 out of the original 11 names, referring to them as Accused 1 through 10.

  1. Nelson Mandela
  2. Walter Sisulu
  3. Denis Goldberg
  4. Govan Mbeki
  5. Ahmed Kathrada
  6. Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein (acquitted)
  7. Raymond Mhlaba
  8. James Kantor (acquitted)
  9. Elias Motsoaledi
  10. Andrew Mlangeni

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