Nelson Mandela, Transvaal President and Deputy President of the banned ANC, was born in Umtata 46 years ago, the son of a prominent chief. In his early life he was fascinated with his people%27s history and culture. After matriculating he went to Fort Hare where he was drawn...
South Africa goes on Trial,The whole world was watching when the three major sabotage trials started in Pretoria, Cape Town and Maritzburg. But it is through the eyes of those at home watching the trials, that the world hears the news... and waits. DRUM%27s cameraman at the...
The Treason trials started off like an action-packed cowboy film when 156 men and women came before the court in Johannesburg at a preparatory examination. The treason trials, now the talk of South Africa and the world at large, started with a bang-bang-bang. There was drama inside the...
This is the call the African people have been waiting for! It has come! On Monday, 21st March 1960, we launch our positive, decisive campaign against the pass laws in this our country." Thus spoke Mangaliso Sobukwe, three days before Sharpeville. South Africa had started a...
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