1. Struggle for Social Justice:
Mandela Puts Apartheid on Trial at Rivonia

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3. “The Trial that Changed South Africa” 1963-1964

4. Apartheid
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949 Population Registration Act of 1950 Group Areas Act of 1950 Pass Laws Act of 1952 Suppression of Communism Act 1950 Public Safety Act of 1953 Sabotage Act of 1962 General Law Amendment Act of 1963

5. Liliesleaf Farm African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)

6. Charge: Sabotage and conspiracy to commit sabotage

7. Rivonia Trial: Who

8. Rivonia Trial: Primary Sources
In small groups:
Identify the document.
How does the document address matters of law? Justice? Identify a sentence or passage in the document that exemplifies these connections.
Select someone to share your small group’s ideas with the larger group.

9. Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) (edited), 1961
Primary Source 1
Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) (edited), 1961

10. Primary Source 2
“The Question of Violence,” Speech from the Dock, Nelson Mandela (excerpt), 1964

11. Primary Source 3
“This Struggle of the African People,” Speech from the Dock, Nelson Mandela (excerpt), 1964

12. United Nations Resolution 190, 1964
Primary Source 4
United Nations Resolution 190, 1964

13. Primary Source 5
Sentencing of the Rivonia Trialists, Sentence by Justice Quartus de Wet, 1964

14. South Africa was a “Police State”
…the conditions in which Martin Luther King struggled were totally different from my own: the United States was a democracy with constitutional guarantees of equal rights that protected nonviolent protest; South Africa was a police state with a constitution that enshrined inequality and an army that responded to nonviolence with force.
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1995

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