Rivonia Trial
South African history
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Mandela’s involvement
- In Nelson Mandela: Underground activity and the Rivonia Trial
…violent conspiracy in the infamous Rivonia Trial, named after a fashionable suburb of Johannesburg where raiding police had discovered quantities of arms and equipment at the headquarters of the underground Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela’s speech from the dock, in which he admitted the truth of some of the charges made…
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