Other Notable Figures Involved in The Treason Trial
Prosecutors included:
- Van Niekerk, chief prosecutor
- Oswald Pirow (from January 1958 onwards)
- De Vos, who replaced Pirow after his death in 1959
Judges included:
- Justice F.L. Rumpff, president, who was also a judge at the 1952 Defiance Trial
- Justice Kennedy
- Justice Ludorf, who withdrew when the defense argued he had a conflict of interest
- Justice Becker
Witnesses included:
- Professor Andrew Howson Murray, Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, brought in by the prosecution as an expert on communism.
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