Briefing paper on State v. Mawalal Ramgobin and 15 Others in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Natal Provincial Division), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The paper says the defendants are Albertina Sisulu, Archie Gumede, Rey. Frank Chikane, Prof. Ismail Mohamed, Cassim Saloojee, Dr. Essop Jassat, M. J. Naidoo, George Sewpershad, Mewa Ramgobin, Aubrey Mokoena, Curtis Nkondo, Paul David, Thozamile Gaweta, Sam Kikine, Sisa Njikelana, and Isaac Nacobo. The paper says in September, 1985, in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Natal Provincial Division) sixteen prominent black community and labor leaders will stand trial for treason; the accused are members of one of the most important opposition...
Briefing paper on State v. Mawalal Ramgobin and 15 Others in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Natal Provincial Division), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The paper says the defendants are Albertina Sisulu, Archie Gumede, Rey. Frank Chikane, Prof. Ismail Mohamed, Cassim Saloojee, Dr. Essop Jassat, M. J. Naidoo, George Sewpershad, Mewa Ramgobin, Aubrey Mokoena, Curtis Nkondo, Paul David, Thozamile Gaweta, Sam Kikine, Sisa Njikelana, and Isaac Nacobo. The paper says in September, 1985, in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Natal Provincial Division) sixteen prominent black community and labor leaders will stand trial for treason; the accused are members of one of the most important opposition groups in the country, the United Democratic Front. The paper discusses the United Democratic Front (UDF), African National Congress (ANC), the Prisons Act (Act No. 8 of 1959), the Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill, the South African Security Police, the South African Communist Party, Justice Margo, the Commissioner of Prisons, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the Institute for Contextual Theology, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), banning orders, the Release Mandela Committee (RMC), the Sowetan Teachers' Action Committee, the South African Allied Workers' Union (SAAWU), Mahatma Gandhi, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the Nationalist Party, the pass laws, the migratory labor system, the homelands policy, Nelson Mandela, Kader Hassim, Billy Nair, Justice Law, Muntu Myeza, Haroon Patel, Jerry Tlhopane, Patrick Lekota, R.A.M. Saloojee, Andries Mapetla, Moses Chikane, the British Consulate, Justice Van Heerden, Justice Krick, Justice Broom, Justice Nestadt, the South African Embassy in Washington D.C., President Ronald Reagan, Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Criminal Procedure Act, Michael Charles Imber, the General Law Amendment Act, Advocate Ismail Mahomed, Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Security Legislation, Justice Pieter Rabie , the Rabie Report, Justice Friedman, Roelof 'Pik' Botha, R.F. Botha, P.W. Botha, Justice Milne, Zulu Chief Dinizulu, the Anglo-Boer War, South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of Democrats, the South African Coloured People's Organization, the State of Emergency, Sharpeville, the Congress of the People, the Congress Alliance, Thomas Karis, the Communism Act, the Unlawful Organisations Act, the Sabotage Act, Amnesty International, the Department of State annual Country Reports on Human Rights practices, the Survey of Race Relations, the Security Police, Judge Van Dyk, George Bizos, police, Cpt. Craig Williamson, the South African military, Soweto, the Vorster government, General Magnus Malan, the Revolutionary Alliance, Oscar Mpeta, Terror Lekota, Stephen Tshweta, the Food and Canning Workers' Union, Robben Island, Ciskei, Dorothy Nyembe, Chief Albert Luthuli, and Mawalal Ramgobin. Cases mentioned in the paper include: Mandela v. The Minister of Prisons; Nkondo and Seven Others v. The Minister of Law and Order and Another; Gumede and Others v. Minister of Law and Order; Gumede and Five Others v. The Minister of Law and Order; Mewa Ramgobin and Seven Others and the State; State v. Mogoerane, Mosololi and Motaung; State v. Barbara Hogan; and S. v. Mogoerane and Others. Contents: Part I: Background to the Treason Trial • Section 1: The New Constitution and the Detention of Leading Members of the United Democratic Front • Section 2: Bail Denied • Section 3: The Charge of Treason • (A) The Indictment • (B) Treason, Historically and in Law in South Africa • (i) The Situation Prior to 1961 • (ii) 1961-1978 • (iii) 1979-1985 • Part II: The United Democratic Front Treason Trial • Section 1: The Main Count – Treason • Section 2: The Alternative Charges • (A) Terrorism Under the Internal Security Act of 1982 • (B) Terrorism Under the Terrorism Act of 1967 • (C) Furtherance of Objects of an Unlawful Organization • (D) Furtherance of the Objects of Communism • (E) Furtherance of the Objects of Communism and/or the ANC • Appendix A: Profile of Defendants • Appendix B: Organizational Profile – UDF and affiliates cited in the indictment • Appendix C: Copy of the Freedom Charter
