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- 1570 - 1990
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Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Reddy, Enuga S.
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Kutner, Luis
South African Documents and Press Clippings Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
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South African subject collection, 1941-1997
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Gathered from various repositories and private sources to preserve records and memories of activism in the United States in support of the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s.
A search for Rivonia Trial material yields:
-Photographs of demonstrations outside the South African Consulate in New York protesting the outcome of the Rivonia Trial (from private collections and American Committee on Africa)
-Buttons: "Free Motsoaledi", "Free Kathrada" "Free Mandela", "Happy birthday Motsoaledi" (from Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa)
African Activist Archive Project
Part of Mandela Materials
Storey, Peter
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Documents the pioneering anti-apartheid group in the US from its establishment in the 1950s. Documents related to Rivonia Trial are:
-Campaign against South African Apartheid: Memos, draft letters to and lists of sponsors, resolutions and declarations, flyers, clippings and notes 1963 (1960-1964). Major topics: Appeal for action against Apartheid, Rivonia arrests and trials, international boycott of South African goods etc.
-African National Congress Pamphlets. Includes: South African on Trial: Behind the Rivonia Case (no date).
-Mandela, Nelson (ca. 1964). Major topic: Rivonia trial.
-World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners: Rivonia Trial: Newsletters, statements, press releases, brochure (1963-1964).
-Writings: Chief Albert Luthuli (1957 and 1964). Major topics: Racial situation, Rivonia trial, ANC.
-Writings: Nelson Mandela (1961 and 1964). Major topics: 1961 Stay-at-home demonstration, Rivonia trial.
Microfilm versions available at Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town.
American Committee on Africa
American Committee on Africa : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 4]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 5]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
American Committee on Africa : [Part 6]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Joel Carlson South African legal files
Part of Mandela Materials
Canada and the Fight Against Apartheid
Part of Rivonia Trial
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Canadian Anti-Apartheid Committee
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Tambo, Oliver Reginald
Part of Rivonia Trial
The Library collection of roughly 200,000 books, pamphlets, maps and microform units covers all areas and disciplines. There is an emphasis on the socio-economic development and history of sub-Saharan Africa, with special emphases (reflecting faculty interests) on Ethiopia/Eritrea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Sahel region of West Africa, and Nigeria (especially the Eastern Region).
Materials related to the Rivonia Trial include:
- A number of video recordings relating to the life story of Nelson Mandela and thus mentioning the Rivonia Trial in the Audio-Visual Materials on Africa
-Microform and photocopies of Kathrada Collection (originals at UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Centre) in Special Collections. Over 100 fiche in 13 boxes. DT1949.K38A4 1996; also on film: SPEC COLL RARE BOOKS XX 27823 Microfilm. Guide (1995) available at DT1949.K38S35 1995
-The Voice of Nelson Mandela (SABC, 1999), which includes extracts from the Statement from the Dock. In general library holdings (MSU DIGITAL/MEDIA AUDIODISC, 4 WEST - PT1974 .M36 1999 Audio disc)
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Militant Photographic Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
La Palm, Robert
League for Socialist Action : Canada
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
National Security Archive Declassified Document Set
Part of Mandela Materials
US State Department
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
South Africa: The Making of US Policy: 1962-1989
Part of Rivonia Trial
This collection provides primary source documents describing U.S. relationships to apartheid including implementation, enforcement, and violations of the U.N-sponsored sanctions against South Africa. Including the following that relate to the Rivonia Trial:
-United States Embassy (South Africa) reports that the African National Congress (ANC) was created to carry out sabotage, stating that the arrest of Nelson Mandela occurred after he planned subversive activities (1962).
-A memorandum issued by the Summit Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1963), agreeing to provide funding to help South African liberation movements and calling for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe and all other political prisoners.
-A memorandum on the Rivonia Trial providing biographical information on the Rivonia Trialists, and in which Nelson Mandela argues that opposition groups resorted to armed struggle only after avenues for peaceful change were blocked (1964).
-A report in which ANC and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Michael Harmel and Walter Sisulu are described as Communists, and documents presented during the Rivonia Trial are cited as evidence of the contacts between the ANC, PAC, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China (1964).
-A memorandum of conversation in which Cecil Eprile characterises black leaders like Nelson Mandela as careless and prone to bad judgment (1965).
-A cable relating to Resolution 473 of the United Nations Security Council urging South Africa to release all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela (1980).
-Biographic sketch information on Nelson Mandela provided by the US Department of State (1983).
-A cable on the awarding of the international Simon Bolivar prize to Nelson Mandela by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (1983).
-Correspondence to the South African Ambassador to the United States, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela (1984).
- A cable about the Johannesburg Star Newspaper reports that the arrest of Nelson Mandela 25 years ago occurred after he was betrayed by a US Central Intelligence Agency agent posing as a diplomat of the United States Consulate General in Durban (1986).
- A statement in which Chester A. Crocker calls for the release of Nelson Mandela (1986).
- A report in which the US Department of State Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa asserts that the first steps taken by South Africa must be the release of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and all other political prisoners (1987).
The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library providing public access to declassified government documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These are then published as declassified document sets (as this one on South Africa), are produced in microfiche, and digitised to become part of the Digital National Security Archive database which some universities subscribe to (Monash University in South Africa).
US State Department
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; Africa, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Contains:
-The escape of Bob Hepple (telegram, 28 November 1963)
-Prison conditions with affidavits from Bernstein, Goldberg, Motsoaledi, Mbeki, Kathrada and Sisulu (report, 21 November 1963)
-Newspaper articles on the Rivonia trial (November and December 1963)
-Note from Mitford to the British Consulate General requesting that political trials that might seriously impact the Rivonia Trial to be closely monitored (5 December 1963)
-Visit by John Arnold Q.C. a leading conservative barrister in London (includes a summary of proceedings, 13 December 1963)
-Arrest, assault and torture of Isaac Tlale of the ANC at the hands of security police who wanted him to testify against the Rivonia accused. Police claimed to him that Joe Slovo bought Mandela and Sisulu with money from the communists (report/affidavit, no date)
-Report of John Arnold Q.C. at the International Commission of Jurists on his visit to South Africa and includes a comment that he believed the Rivonia trial judge was fair and partial (16 December 1963)
-Nelson Mandela's life sentence: reactions (1963)
-Foreign reaction to the Rivonia trial judgment and sentences
-Statement in parliament by H.F. Verwoerd (16 June 1964)
-Rivonia trial judgment (correspondence and press cuttings)
-Rivonia trial sentence (summary from press articles 1964)
-Question whether the British government should ask the South African government to reduce the life sentences handed down in the Rivonia trial (Correspondence, 26 June 1964)
-Libyan embassy in London will ask the UK secretary of state to intervene and have the Rivonia trial life sentences reduced (report, 15 June 1964)
-The U.S. state department will not ask for a reduction in the Rivonia trial (correspondence Internal British foreign office, (27 June 1964)
-Secretary of the state talking about the Rivonia (speech house of Commons, July 1964)
-The Canadian Ambassador asks that the Rivonia trial sentences be reduced (report, 22 July 1964)
-Rivonia trial accused decide not to appeal (report, 27 July 1964)
-The German government approaches South Africa about the Rivonia trial sentences (report, 2 September 1964)
-Book on Rivonia trial by Judge De Villiers (Report 24 September 1964)
-Death sentence in Rivonia trial "unlikely" (note, 4 June 1964)
-Upcoming judgement and sentence in the Rivonia trial (note , 2 June 1964)
-The Australian representative to South Africa has been instructed to register his government's concern over the Rivonia trial (note, 9 June 1964)
-U.K. should abstain in the vote on the Rivonia resolution by Ivory Coast and Morocco unless is amended (America will also abstain) (note, 10 June 1964)
-Verdicts in Rivonia Trial (telegram, 11 June 1964)
-Analysis of evidence at the Rivonia Trial (report, 10 June 1964)
-Decision to defer any attempt by the U.S. to get a reduction in Rivonia Trial sentences until the defence has lodged an appeal (note, 14 June 1964)
-Unsigned copy of the Rivonia trial judgement (15 June 1964)
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
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Part of Rivonia Trial
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Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
Presented to Lloyd Cutler by South Africa’s Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson in 1997. Lloyd Cutler was founding partner of the WilmerHale Law Firm and a civil rights activist in the US. They were to recognise the firm's role in the fight to end Apartheid.
Papers include transcripts of his speech at the 1963-64 Rivonia Trial, notes that Mandela made in his own handwriting both during his trial and as he sat in prison on the night before he heard the sentence on his life. These are copies of originals donated by President Mandela to Bram Fischer Library (now held at Historical Papers, University of Witwatersrand).
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Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law (Southern Africa Project) : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law (Southern Africa Project) : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; Africa, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Contains records on Rivonia Sabotage Trial of ANC leaders, including:
-The trial and sentencing of Constable Johannes Arnoldus Greef for his role on helping Arthur Goldreich to escape (newspaper article)
-Report on the substance of O.R. Tambo to the U.N. special committee about people accused of sabotage (9 October 1963)
-Report on the proceedings of the Rivonia trial (press reports)
-222 Acts of sabotage between 10 August 1961 and 1963 (article from the Star newspaper 9 October 1963)
-Moves to raise Pretoria trial issue at U.N. (article from the Star, 10 October 1963)
-Conversation with Bram Fischer about the Rivonia trial
-Letter from Durossil to the Foreign Office, London (19 October 1963)
-De Wet quashed indictment "The Rivonia trial collapses" (articles from the Rand Daily Mail, 30 October 1963)
UK Foreign Office
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law (Southern Africa Project) : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Rivonia Trial judgement and sentences: Correspondence and telegrams and letter from various British citizens and organisations.
UK Foreign Office
Alexander Defence Committee : Madison Chapter : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Champaign-Urbana Coalition against Apartheid
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Mandela and seven colleagues imprisoned
Part of Mandela Materials
Nelson Mandela and seven colleagues face life imprisonment in South Africa." That's the fate of eight African National Congress leaders, tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to violently overthrow South Africa's apartheid government. The trial lasted eight months and attracted worldwide attention. In this 1964 radio report from CBC National News, reporter Patrick Keatley is in London to explain why the defendants likely avoided a death sentence.
Nelson Mandela and seven colleagues face life imprisonment in South Africa." The eight African National Congress leaders, tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to violently overthrow South Africa's apartheid government. The trial lasted eight months and attracted worldwide attention. In this 1964 radio report from CBC National News, reporter Patrick Keatley is in London to explain why the defendants likely avoided a death sentence. "The sentence of life imprisonment is a deft stroke by the nationalist government," he concludes. "Certainly it thrusts aside some of the tremendous world horror and political pressure which otherwise would have immediately built up against South Africa."
Mandela and seven colleagues imprisoned
The Rivonia trial was named after the suburb of Johannesburg where 19 African National Congress leaders were arrested at Liliesleaf Farm on July 11, 1963. Mandela was already in custody, having been sentenced to five years in prison in October 1962 for inciting a workers' strike a year earlier.
• At Liliesleaf, the South African government discovered documents belonging to the group Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a military wing of the ANC. They described plans for attack and guerrilla warfare.
• Several ANC leaders used Liliesleaf as a hideout, and Nelson Mandela himself moved there in 1961. Using the name David Motsamayi (meaning "the walker") he evaded police by masquerading as a cook and gardener. The farm was owned by co-defendant Arthur Golderich, a South African abstract painter and a key figure in the anti-apartheid movement.
• In addition to Mandela, the other ANC leaders charged were Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi, Ahmed Kathrada, Billy Nair, Denis Goldberg, Lionel "Rusty" Bernstein, Bob Hepple, Harold Wolpe, James "Jimmy" Kantor and Golderich.
• This CBC Radio clip notes that six of the defendants were black, but this appears to be incorrect. Goldberg, Bernstein, Hepple and Golderich were white Jews, while Nair and Kathrada were Indian. This leaves five men - Mandela, Sisulu, Mbeki, Motsoaledi and Mhlaba - who were black
• Those found guilty on all four counts were Mandela, Sisulu, Mbeki, Motsoaledi, Mlangeni, Goldberg and Mhlaba. Kathrada was found guilty on one count of conspiracy. Bernstein was acquitted but was rearrested, released on bail and placed under house arrest. He later fled the country.
• Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (mentioned in this clip as Dr. Verwoerd) was prime minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966. He is called the "Architect of Apartheid" because he broadened existing policies that restricted the black Bantu African nationals' mobility while he was minister of native affairs in the early 1950s. In September 1966, he was stabbed four times in the chest by a uniformed parliamentary messenger names Dmitri Tsafendas. The motive for the murder was unclear.
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CBC National News
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial
Part of Rivonia Trial
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial of African National Congress Members
Part of Rivonia Trial
Papers.
These form part of the records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial of African National Congress Members
Part of Rivonia Trial
Papers.
These form part of the records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Contains:
Correspondence from the Nigerian diplomats on various British expatriates working at universities and hospitals who will resign from their positions if Nelson Mandela is sentenced to death (29 May 1963).
It was not possible to verify the existence of these records at the time of this audit.
UK Foreign Office
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Includes:
Kantor has said the Nelson Mandela will be convicted and sentenced (internal note, 29 May 1964)
UK Foreign Office
Nelson Mandela: Prisoner, president, peacemaker
Part of Mandela Materials
CBC Digital Archives
Alexander Defence Committee : Madison Chapter : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Canadian Anti- Apartheid News Bulletin
Part of Mandela Materials
Canadian Anti-Apartheid Movement
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Madison Anti-Apartheid Coalition
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Task Force on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Task Force on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement of Canada
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement of Canada
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Congressional Black Caucus : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, Kurt Waldheim
Part of Mandela Materials
Waldheim, Kurt
Congressional Black Caucus : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa- United States Committee
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
United Nations Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid
Part of Mandela Materials
AABN
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Lutheran World Ministries : Office on World Community : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Lutheran World Ministries : Office on World Community : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Southern Africa Liberation Committee
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives