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Contents: 1.0 INTRODUCTION • 2.0 ORDER OF MISSION • 3.0 BACKGROUND TO THE CASE • 3.1 Venda • 3.2 Incidents Leading to the Trial • 3.3 The Inquest into Muifhe's Death • 4.0 THE TRIAL • 4.1 Charges • 4.2 Cast of Characters • 4.3 Geography of the Courtroom • 4.4 The Trial Begins - The Trial Within a Trial • 4.5 The State's Case • 4.6 The Defense Case • 4.7 Final Arguments • 5.0 JUDGEMENT • 5.1 Evidentiary Ruling • 5.2 Judgement on the Merits • 6.0 AFTERMATH • 7.0 EVALUATION OF PROCEEDING • 8.0 CONCLUSION • 9.0 LIST OF EXHIBITS • Exhibit A ORDER OF MISSION • Exhibit B METHODOLOGY • Exhibit C • Exhibit D • Exhibit E Diagram of Supreme Courtroom, Venda • Exhibit F • Report on the trail The State vs. Ramaligela and Mangaga by Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, Jr., Assistant for Legal and International Affairs, Lutheran World Federation, Geneva, Switzerland. The appendix reprints a newspaper article "Verdict confounds Venda evidence" by Michael Hornsby and VENDA: SECURITY POLICEMEN FOUND NOT GUILTY OF MURDERING LUTHERAN LAY PREACHER by Lutheran World Information. The report discusses apartheid, Chief Patrick Mphephu, the Venda Legislative Assembly, preventive detention, the Venda Independence Party, the Terrorism Act, the independence of Venda, the Constitution, security police, Isaac Tshifhiwa Muhfhe, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, torture, Chief Magistrate C.J.S.B. Stainer, doctors, District Surgeon M.J. Teichler, pathologists, Prof. J.D. Loubser, Prof. I.W. Simson, Captain Muthuohei Kudwig Ramaligela, Sergeant Phumula Josias Mangaga, interrogation, Attorney General J.D. Visser, the common law crime of murder, Venda Central Prison, Chief Justice Judge G.P. van Rhyn, assessors Mrs. A.M.B. Pourie and Mr. R. Ramagwede, Deputy Attorney General St. J.A. Mancktelow, J.H. Liebenberg, A. Joubert, Afrikaans, Sibasa Police Station, Colonel Ramushwane, Mrs. Muofhe, Captain R.J. Mafune, the Venda National Force, Venda Central Prison, health, Major A.N.B. Bongwe, Constable F.W. Mulaudzi, Constable A.P. Khalushi, Warrant Officer G.F. Masiagwala, Warrant Officer M.E. Netshandama, Major Bongwe, M.C. Mukaudzi, Simon Fraser Hospital, Raymond Tucker, Don Nkadimeng, and the Supreme Court of Venda. [Note: Page 9 of the document (PDF page 11) is either blank in the original document or was digitized incorrectly.]

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OBSERVATION OF THE TRIAL OF THE STATE V. RAMALIGELA AND MANGAGA In the Supreme Court of Venda, South Africa, February 1983

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