The Treason Trial and other Trials
- MR-MM-152
- Collection
- 1962
Part of Mandela Materials
The Treason Trial and other Trials
Part of Mandela Materials
Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers
Part of Rivonia Trial
Donated by Annemarie Wolpe.
-Mostly newscuttings scrapbooks, albums and folders re Harold Wolpe's escape, Annemarie's arrest, Kantor's arrest and refused bail application, family reaction to arrests, Kantor's acquittal etc. Also cuttings re Rivonia Trial generally.
-Documents including escape story, pamphlets, articles, manuscript of Annemarie's book "The Long Way Home", documents re the Wolpe's becoming citizens of the UK, Harold Wolpe's academic papers, Annemarie Wolpe's prison file.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for James Kantor Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
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Part of Mandela Materials
Xuma, A.B.
South African Institute of Race Relations
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Institute of Race Relations
Part of Mandela Materials
[Unknown]
Part of Rivonia Trial
There are legal documents relating to the Rivonia Trial and to Kantor's law firm, personal papers, correspondence and notes from prison, and research and manuscripts for his book. The papers are not fully sorted or listed but some are in numbered folders. They do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection.
Legal papers from the Trial include cross examination of Makda in the Rivonia Trial, charges, request by defence for further particulars, replies to request for further particulars by accused #9 and 10, motion to quash the indictment (with ms notes) 26 October 1963, bail application for Kantor and Yutar's reply, Annexure A to the indictment, Annexure B to the indictment, extract of evidence of Kantor. Also Yutar's reply to application to quash, bail application for Kantor and for Bernstein, judgment on bail application (p.1-90 and p.140-144 missing), comments on the evidence by Sergeant C D van Rensburg and Lieutenant Victor, statements by Berman, Fine, Greef, Tlale, Van Niekerk, Williams.
Financial statements from Kantor, Zwarenstein and Partners Law Firm. Payments shown by Kathrada, Wolpe, Hodgson, Ezra. Shows deposit for Liliesleaf Farm. Also other legal documents including transfer of Liliesleaf Farm in November 1961 from D B Fyfe to Novian Pty Limited. Also, a copy of letter from Kantor to staff at his law firm that he had to close it due to the Trial
Personal documents of James Kantor: passport, Defence Force Card, handwritten statement entitled "Details of my trip to Liliesleaf Farm" (5 pages with diagram of farm), personal history and career summary, correspondence (including from prison while being tried), will and other personal papers. Handwritten biographies of Trialists apparently written for Kantor while they were in prison during the trial (laminated), notes written in prison during the trial some on scraps of a chocolate box. One note reads: "Welcome! If that's the right word. What the hell are you doing here? You should be out defending us. Here's a pencil. Guard it with your life. It's worth its weight in gold"
Original typed manuscript for book "A Healthy Grave", various versions of this book some with manuscript additions sometimes called "The Reluctant Revolutionary", research for the book.
Articles: "Introduction to demolition and theory of explosives", newspaper clippings about Wolpe and Goldreich's escape.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
Part of Mandela Materials
Department of Justice
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Central Black Appeal and Divorce Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Central Black Appeal and Divorce Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court (Pretoria)
Part of Mandela Materials
Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court (Pretoria)
The Apartheid era:The defiance campaign
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Kuny, Denis
Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court (Pretoria)
Part of Mandela Materials
Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court (Pretoria)
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa report by Alet Joubert on the Soweto Day Rally held at Orlando stadium. ANC president Nelson Mandela refers to the anger of the Youth and Cosas Groups.
RECORD BC 19930617
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Newspaper Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
National Library of South Africa
Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
Artefacts and fragments from archaeological dig conducted at Liliesleaf Farm; artefacts in exhibits in the Museum; Hinterland truck used to smuggle arms into South Africa in 1980s and documentation on it; Awaiting Trial card from 1963 and notes passed between accused and lawyers during the Trial. For example, "Jimmy Kantor, Jolly Good Work. Denis"
These artefacts do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, James Kantor Papers, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
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Centre for Applied Legal Studies 1980-1999
Part of Mandela Materials
Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)
Part of Mandela Materials
Ngoyi, Lilian
Part of Mandela Materials
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa - Interview of Chris Stoffel Johann Van der Merwe by Chris Buchanan with the
Minister of Information, broadcasting and the film industry, Dr CJ Van der Merwe, about the meeting
between the State President, Mr PW Botha and the political prisoner and leader Mr. Nelson
Mandela.
RECORDBC 1989 0710
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa Actuality - Release of Nelson Mandela -report by Connie Lawn on the reaction in
the United States to the coming release of the political prisoner Mr. Nelson Mandela, with actuality of
the secretary of the State of the United States, Mr. James Baker.
RECORDBC19900202
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Service Radio South Africa- Class Actuality Program Radio Today Mr. Nelson Mandela answers questions during a news conference and reacts to a statement by the government that there is no alternative to negotiations- Mr. Nelson Mandela refers to the massacre at Boipatong , mass action, negotiations, the demands of the ANC and the struggle inside South Africa for democracy
RECORDBC 19920624
SABC Sound Archives
South African Campaign to ban landmines (SACBL) Records
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Community Agecny for Social Change CASE
Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
VHS, Betacams, DVDs, audio cassettes, CDs. Interviews with various people including Arthur, Hazel and Paul Goldreich, Caroline Motsoaledi, Vivian Ezra (re purchase of Liliesleaf Farm), Bob Hepple, Annemarie Wolpe, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada, Denis Goldberg. Transcripts available for some interviews. Also two reels of tape from Arthur Goldreich. It is not clear what it contains.
Various photographs of James Kantor and family, aerial photographs of Liliesleaf Farm in 1950s and 1960s
Newspaper clippings of the Rivonia Trial, photocopies of Rand Daily Mail coverage at the time of the arrests in 1963.
These records do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, James Kantor Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
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Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
The Road to Democracy in South Africa
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Historical Papers, University of the Witwatersrand
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Institute for Security Studies
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Freedom Park Oral History Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
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Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa interview by Lily Anne Stroobach with the director of the Institute for Strategic studies at the University of Pretoria Prof. Michael Hough, about a statement issued by the political
prisoner Mr Nelson Mandela after his meeting with the State President Mr P.W. Botha. Mr Mandela refers to the issue of negotiations in South Africa.
RECORDBC 19890713
Hough, Michael
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa
Actuality Helena Joe (Allan ) Hendrickse. An Actuality of the Reverend HJ (Allan Hendrickse) commenting on the meeting between Mr, Nelson Mandela and the State President Mr P W. Botha.
RECORD BC 19890714
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa Report on the foreign relations between the United States and SA Reaction to the meeting between the State President of SA, Mr PW Botha and Nelson Mandela of the ANC. An actuality of a state department spokesman Mr Richard Boucher.
RECORDBC 19890711
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Press, Ronnie
Nelson Mandela: his life in his own words
Part of Mandela Materials
Metrodome Productions
Legal Resources Centre: Oral History Project
Part of Mandela Materials
Legal Resources Centre
Part of Rivonia Trial
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Ahmed Kathrada Interviews with Nelson Mandela
Part of Rivonia Trial
These recordings were generated in the preparation and editing of the "Long Walk to Freedom" book and Anthony Sampson's authorised biography. In both of these projects, Ahmed Kathrada worked closely with Sampson and Stengel (who provided professional support for "Long Walk to Freedom") and Mandela. Transcription and digitisation is in process.
One transcribed extract (extract 5) relates to the Rivonia Trial as Mandela tells Kathrada about a conversation he had with a warder at Pretoria Local Prison during the trial about the fate of the accused.
There may be references to the Rivonia Trial in other recordings and in NMPP2009/57 Rick Stengel Interviews with Nelson Mandela.
Kathrada, Ahmed Mohamed (Kathy)
Part of Mandela Materials
President P. W. Botha's speech concerning black people: In the speech, he mentions the possibility of Nelson Mandela's conditional release from prison- SA ambassador in London Dennis Worrall.
Report by Benson Terry
RECORD BC 19860131
Benson, Terry
Part of Mandela Materials
RSN - Actuality concept report by Manas Tshungu on the start of the historic talks between the South African government and the ANC in Cape Town. An actuality of the state President Mr FW De Klerk and Mr Nelson Mandela at a news conference Mr Mandela answers a question in Afrikaans
RECORD BC 19900502
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa report by Connie Lawn on the Reagan Administration's viewpoint regarding the possible release of MrNelson Mandela Talks between Cuba and Unita- Actuality by a United State Department spokesperson.
RECORDBC 19880902
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa Report by Jonathan Hargreaves on the arrest of Mrs Winnie Mandela wife of the jailed ANC leader, Mr Nelson Mandela. The arrest is for the returning to her home in Soweto and for contravening her restriction order of Internal Security Act.
RECORD BC 1985 1223
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Radio South Africa- Report on Radio Today on United States foreign relations with South Africa. Report by Connie Lawn on the prominent attention in the United States regarding the meeting between ANC leader Mr Nelson Mandela. An Actuality of the SA ambassador in the United States, Dr PGJ Koornhofs' reaction to the meeting and relations between SA and the United States.
RECORDBC 19890710
SABC Sound Archives
Padriag O' Malley Political Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
O'Malley, Padraig
Part of Mandela Materials
May, Ivan
Part of Mandela Materials