Treason Trials
Several UDF members were among the accused in two of South Africa's most highly publicised trials. Accused (with the banned ANC and South African Communist Party ) of plotting to overthrow the government, the sixteen accused, including Albertina Sisulu, were acquitted in the first of these trials. In the Delmas Treason Trial (1985–1988), however, the nineteen were convicted, but these convictions were later set aside.
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Famous quotes containing the words treason and/or trials:
“Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent
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As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove.”
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