The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa

The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa

Joel Joffe
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Author:  Joel Joffe
Condition:  Used, Very Good
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  312
Publisher:  Oneworld Publications
Year:  2014
ISBN:  9781780745800

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The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela's defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial and charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. In this compelling book, their defence attorney, Joel Joffe, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa's history, vividly portraying the characters of those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as showing their incredible courage under fire.

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