THE Treason Trial is now a byword in South Africa ... they called a Congress of the People at Kliptown and drew up a Freedom Charter, which was a step toward the establishment of a Communist ...

The failed resistance to the destruction of Sophiatown, the adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1955, the women’s anti-pass march and the treason trial in 1956, Nelson Mandela, the Rivonia trial ...

The 156 accused were found not guilty after a trial lasting five years. It is still the South African record for the length of a criminal prosecution. Controversies over the Freedom Charter’s ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Percy Yutar, the prosecutor who won life sentences against Nelson Mandela and other African National Congress leaders in the 1964 Rivonia treason trial, has died.