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Report of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. The report discusses State vs. Mewa Ramgobin and 15 Others, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the South African Allied Workers' Union (SAAWU), the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), the Release Mandela Committee (RMC), a boycott of the tricameral parliamentary elections, the South African Security Police, the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Ismail Mahomed, apartheid, Nelson Mandela, Justice Milne, Griffiths Mxenge, Mrs. Qomoyi, Mrs. Annie Gilbert, Ihron Lester Rensburg, the Algoa Park Police Station, the Louis LeGrange Police Station, Matthew Goniwe, Cradock, Sicelo Mhlawuli, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkhonto, sjamboks, Dennis Neer, the Motor Assembly and Component Workers' Union of South Africa, the Legal Resources Centre, Isaak de Vries, Thozamile Gqweta, Sisa Njikelana, Isaac Ngcobo, Sam Kikine, the South African Allied Workers' Union (SAAWU), Molly Blackburn, Brian Bishop, Judith Chalmers, Yunis and Rieaz Soobader, Port Elizabeth, the U.S. Congress, King Williams Town, the Natal Attorney General Michael Imber, the Cape Provincial Attorney General Edward Heller, and the South African legal system. • The Treason Charges • Background • The Indictment • Court Proceedings • The Decision • State of Emergency: Effect on Black Townships • The Eastern Cape Crucible • A Reign of Terror on the Streets • Detentions • Disappearances • Concluding Remarks • Assassination of Attorney Victoria Mxenge • Judge Jones Arrested in the Eastern Cape • Prosecution Withdraws Charges Against Twelve Defendants in UDF Treason Trial: Trial of Four Others to Resume • Project Releases Memorandum Documenting Alarming Reports of Police Brutality in South Africa

African Activist Archive

A Special Report: Southern Africa

Judge Nathaniel R. Jones Serves as International Legal Observer at South African Treason Trial of 16 United Democratic Front Members; Witnesses Impact of Emergency Rule

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