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Treason Trial: 60 year anniversary

The Treason Trial began on 19 December 1956 and ran until 1961. Below are pictures of the Treason Trial from the Drum Archive which are available for licensing through Africa Media Online.

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    Image Number: APN36805
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000121824:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybody was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were ta
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1980 x 2970
    Media Id: 43_450
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: anti-apartheid, Treason Trial, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, freedom fighters, Drill Hall, apartheid, Pretoria, Gauteng, February, 1957, 1950s, supporters, crowds, police, Johannesburg, arresting, arrests, ,
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    Image Number: APN36799
    Title: Big Noisy Trial
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000121819:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - A Treason Trialist arrives by police van at the back intrance of the Drill Hall. 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photo
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1962 x 2946
    Media Id: 42_953
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: anti-apartheid, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, Treason Trial, freedom fighters, Drill Hall, apartheid, Pretoria, Gauteng, February, 1957, 1950s, supporters, crowds, police, ,
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    Image Number: APN113615
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2006120705:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybodey was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5745 x 3716
    Media Id: 43_680
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: apartheid, Treason Trial, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, Johannesburg, ANC, politics, February, 1957, demonstrations, 1950s, ,
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN36548
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000081810:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - Ruth First pose for her picuture for Drum to publish one picture of all the trialists. 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. (Photograph by Drum photographer Baileys Archive)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1933 x 3024
    Media Id: 43_1325
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, February, 1957, 1950s, Ruth First, white African woman, ,
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN113663
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012519:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:BOXING:SEP1957 - Treason: End of Round One - To keep fit, Nelson Mandela, solicitor, was at Jerry Moloi's boxing gym at Orlando every evening. He's shadow-sparring with Moloi (right) a professional featherweight. As the biggest case in South Africa's history lumbered to the end of its first stage this August 1957, the 156 accused men and women wondered how many of them would be back in court again. The 156 national leaders had first appeared at a preparatory examination into treason at the end of 1956, in the specially constructd court at the Drill Hall, Johannesburg; they had spent their lives in and out of court for most of 1957; and they could now see the possibility of the same prospect for the third calendar year, 1958, if they were committed for trial in the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Pixel Size: 4500 x 4493
    Media Id: 42_641
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Boxing, personality, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, square, politics, September, 1957, Nelson Mandela, Jerry Moloi, ANC, 1950s, ,
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    Image Number: APN36556
    Title: Ruth First pose for her picuture for Drum to publish one picture of all the trialists
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000081813:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - Ruth First pose for her picuture for Drum to publish one picture of all the trialists. 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. (Photograph by Drum photographer Baileys Archive)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1880 x 3020
    Media Id: 43_368
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, February, 1957, 1950s, Ruth First, white African woman, trial, Big Noisy Trial, treason trial, Drum Photographer, ,
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN282466
    Title: Treason Trial
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Black women demonstrate with placards and sing songs intermittently throughout the day on the 19th December 1957
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5800 x 3944
    Media Id: 672_31
    Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN113636
    Title: Treason Trial Halts
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012407:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:NOV58 - Treason Trial Halts - Nelson Mandela, Aziz Pahad and Winnie Mandela outside the court. October 13, 1958 - the mild, cloudy Pretoria morning on which the most sensational of things happened for the 91 men and women of all races facing a charge of high treason. Mr Pirow, leader of the Crown team at the trial, rose to his feet, touched a colleague who was still addressing the court, and brought the microphone to his mouth. "Your Lordship, I withdraw the indictment against the accused," he said in his hoarse voice. The height of the trial's drama had come. Up in the packed non-white gallery, black faces lit up and swung round to take swift looks at the judges, still wondering if they had heard right. Out in the street, where spectators and photographers were pressing on the accused, shouts of "Africa" rang high and firm, victory handshakes spelled the day's relief. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive) neg Treason file
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5396 x 3534
    Media Id: 43_189
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, Nelson Mandela, courts, Drill Hall, articles, Treason Trial, Pretoria, Gauteng, treason, apartheid, freedom fighters, trials, Winnie Mandela, Aziz Pahad, crowds, supporters, African National Congress, November, 1950s, 1958, black African people, ,
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    Image Number: APN116119
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012514:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybodey was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were t
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Pixel Size: 2186 x 2028
    Media Id: 69_423
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: February, ANC, Drum Magazine, South Africa, politics, South African history, black and white image, square, 1957, Treason Trial, Johannesburg, protests, demonstrations, 1950s, ,
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    Image Number: APN282494
    Title: Treason Trial Resumes
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Police take refreshments from their mobile canteen when the Treason Trial resumes at the Johannesburg Drill Hall
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Drill Hall
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5619 x 3840
    Media Id: 673_26
    Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN36543
    Title: Treason Trial: The crown versus 91
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000081808:SAED:PERSONALITY:POLITICS:SEP1958 - The crown verus 91 - Ruth First, journalist, activist. Treason trial in Pretoria at the old synagogue in Paul Kruger Street, which was converted into a court. Wife of defence attorney, Joe Slovo. (Photograph by Drum Photographer Bailleys Archives) ANC
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Pixel Size: 1890 x 1950
    Media Id: 43_817
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: activists, journalist, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, square, Treason Trial, Paul Kruger Street, Pretoria, Gauteng, Ruth First, September, 1958, 1950s, smiling, anti-apartheid, apartheid, freedom fighters, segregation, courts, ,
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    Image Number: APN32092
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2001072505:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:JAN1964 - The Sabotage Trialists, Natal - Billy Nair 34. Trade Unionist. Secretary of Sactu since 1955. Jailed for part in 1952 Defiance Campaign. Treason Trialist. Detainee during 1960 State of Emergency. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 2599 x 4701
    Media Id: 42_738
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Billy Nair, Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, January, 1964, 1960s, sabotage trials, Treason Trial, KwaZulu-Natal, Sactu, detainees, Indian man, freedom fighters, apartheid, ,
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    Image Number: APN282506
    Title: Treason Trial, Police clear streets
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Police clear streets before Treason Trial goes into recess until 9th Janaury. This is a baton charge
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5823 x 3851
    Media Id: 673_7
    Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN113662
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012517:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:BOXING:SEP1957 - Treason: End of Round One - To keep fit, Nelson Mandela, solicitor, was at Jerry Moloi's boxing gym at Orlando every evening. He's shadow-sparring with Moloi (right) a professional featherweight. As the biggest case in South Africa's history lumbered to the end of its first stage this August 1957, the 156 accused men and women wondered how many of them would be back in court again. The 156 national leaders had first appeared at a preparatory examination into treason at the end of 1956, in the specially constructd court at the Drill Hall, Johannesburg; they had spent their lives in and out of court for most of 1957; and they could now see the possibility of the same prospect for the third calendar year, 1958, if they were committed for trial in the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Pixel Size: 4446 x 4463
    Media Id: 42_677
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Boxing, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, square, personality, politics, September, 1957, Nelson Mandela, Jerry Moloi, ANC, 1950s, ,
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN36382
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000022206:SAED:POLITICS:SEP1958 - The Cown Versus 91 - Treason Trial Gets Off To A Surprise Start. Great Synagogue, Pretoria. Suddenly one realised that the whole drama of the Treason Trial had shifted. During the preparatory examination in Johannesburg, all the excitement was outside the court. Scores of policemen, photographers, repoters and members of the public milled outside of the red-brick courtroom. Now, in the ex-synagogue, in Paul Kruger Street, Pretoria, only 91 persons faced the actual trial. Sixty four had been discharged by order of the Attorney General. As soon as the trial began, the charge was withdrawn against one, Mr H. G. Makgothi, who had been taken ill with tuberculosis. (Photograph by Drum Photographer Baileys Archives)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5769 x 3741
    Media Id: 43_640
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, Paul Kruger Street, September, 1958, 1950s, Pretoria, Gauteng, Treason Trial, freedom fighters, apartheid, anti-apartheid, synagogues, courts, ,
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN282479
    Title: Treason Trial - Second Day
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: A constable holds a bottle of euphuric acid which an African was seen placing under a rock near the Drill Hall on the 20th December 1956
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5733 x 3856
    Media Id: 673_12
    Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
    Property Release: No

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    Image Number: APN95129
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2004072901:SAED:SOCIAL:PERSONALITY:POLITICS:11OCT1964 - Rivonia Pimpernel Caught - Wilton Mkwayi ... a picture taken after he had been granted bail during treason trial inquiry in 1957. Security police swooped on the Orlando West home of a divorcee at midnight on friday and arrested a man for whom the police were looking at the time of the Rivonia raid in July last year. The man, Wilton Mkwayi, is now being held under the 90 day law. Arrested with him was Mrs Irene Kumalo, a Meadowlands Clinic midwife, in whose house Mkwayi was found. It is believed that the police made an intensive search for Mkwayi shortly after the Rivonia raid. Mkwayi was a member of the National executive of the African National Congress at the time of its banning and was the last of these leaders still at large. (Written by Theo Mthembu, Photograph by Alf Khumalo BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Pixel Size: 4474 x 4377
    Media Id: 43_1504
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Alf Khumalo, South Africa, Drum Magazine, Wilton Mkwayi, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, October, 1964, 1960s, sad, black African man, hats, ,
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN283673
    Title: The Treason Trial Continues in Pretoria
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Justices Rumpff (left) and Ludorf of the Transvaal who were asked by the defense to withdraw from the trial
    Collections: Museum Africa
    Subcollections: Times Media Collection
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5570 x 3639
    Media Id: 695_10
    Credit: Museum Africa / Africa Media Online
    Model Release: No
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    Image Number: APN113637
    Title: Treason Trial Halts
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012408:SAED:POLITICS:WOMEN:PERSONALITY:NOV58 - Treason Trial Halts - Treason Trialist Helen Joseph outside the court. October 13, 1958 - the mild, cloudy Pretoria morning on which the most sensational of things happened for the 91 men and women of all races facing a charge of high treason. Mr Pirow, leader of the Crown team at the trial, rose to his feet, touched a colleague who was still addressing the court, and brought the microphone to his mouth. "Your Lordship, I withdraw the indictment against the accused," he said in his hoarse voice. The height of the trial's drama had come. Up in the packed non-white gallery, black faces lit up and swung round to take swift looks at the judges, still wondering if they had heard right. Out in the street, where spectators and photographers were pressing on the accused, shouts of "Africa" rang high and firm, victory handshakes spelled the day's relief. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive) neg Treason file
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5479 x 3708
    Media Id: 42_805
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1958, November, Helen Joseph, articles, Treason Trial, Pretoria, Gauteng, treason, apartheid, freedom fighters, trials, 1950s, smiling, White African woman, black African woman, supporters, ,
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    Image Number: APN113642
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012425:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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. Peter Magubane, Drum photographer being arrested for taking pictures. 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers.
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5734 x 3729
    Media Id: 42_1053
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: 1957, February, politics, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, apartheid, Treason Trial, Johannesburg, police, protests, demonstrations, 1950s, ,
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    Image Number: APN32656
    Title: Helen Joseph, Brave fighter of Racism
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    Description: DM2003032001:SAED:SOCIAL:WOMEN:POLITICS:1956 - Coloured Protest, Trades Hall - Helen Joseph, Brave fighter of Racism - Helen was born in 1905, in Britain. She became politically active when she emigrated to South Africa. She soon became a member of the South African Federation of South African Women. In 1955 she was one of the 20 000 women who marched to the Union Building in Pretoria, to protest against the extension of the pass system to black women. Helen was the first person to be placed under house arrest in South Africa and one of one hundred and fifty six people arrested in 1956, who were charged with high treason. The treason Trial ended after four years, in March 196, when Helen Joseph and all the accused were acquitted of all charges. From then on, Helen was banned repeatedly and placed under house arrest. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) extract from the book, The Fifties People Of South Africa
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    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Pixel Size: 2040 x 2010
    Media Id: 43_196
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, 1950s, square, 1956, Helen Joseph, White African woman, freedom fighters, anti-apartheid, protests, marching, sitting, Drum photographer, ,
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    Image Number: APN113666
    Title: Big Noisy Trial
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    Description: DM2000012525:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - Treason Trialist, Mrs Francis Baard (ANC) arrives by police van at the back intrance of the Drill Hall. 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press came
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3780 x 5730
    Media Id: 42_723
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, 1950s, 1957, vertical, February, articles, Treason Trial, Pretoria, Gauteng, treason, apartheid, freedom fighters, trials, Mrs. Francis Baard, African National Congress, Drill Hall, crowds, conflict, ,
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    Image Number: APN32176
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2001072003:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:SEP1957 - Treason End Of Round One! - Bertha Mashaba, Women's Leader. Trial had social by-products. Former Miss Bertha Mashaba, of Germiston, got married at Natalspruit. She is on the Executive of the African National Congress Women's League, and is now Mrs Theko. (Photograph by Drum photographer BAHA) wedding
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 3000 x 2010
    Media Id: 43_1643
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, 1957, September, 1950s, Bertha Mashaba, political leaders, brides, weddings, celebrations, ANC Women's League, black African women, black African man, black African child, ,
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    Image Number: APN94881
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2004090703:SAED:PERSONALITY:POLITICS:SEP1958 - The crown verus 91 - Treason gets off to a surprise start - Treason trial in Pretoria at the old synagogue in Paul Kruger Street, which was converted into a court. The Hungry: defendant A. Kathrada during lunch break. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) ANC
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 1481 x 2125
    Media Id: 43_1436
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: Drum Magazine, South Africa, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, Treason Trial, Paul Kruger Street, Pretoria, Gauteng, September, lunch breaks, 1958, 1950s, A. Kathrada, anti-apartheid, apartheid, freedom fighters, segregation, courts, ,
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    Image Number: APN32090
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2001072504:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:JAN1964 - The Sabotage Trialists, Natal - Billy Nair 34. Trade Unionist. Secretary of Sactu since 1955. Jailed for part in 1952 Defiance Campaign. Treason Trialist. Detainee during 1960 State of Emergency. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Orientation: portrait
    Pixel Size: 3035 x 4029
    Media Id: 43_231
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: South Africa, Drum Magazine, Africa, South African history, black and white image, vertical, January, 1964, 1960s, sabotage trials, Treason Trial, KwaZulu-Natal, Sactu, detainees, Indian man, freedom fighters, apartheid, Billy Nair, ,
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    Image Number: APN113664
    Title: Mandela Boxing
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    Description: DM2000012521:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:BOXING:SEP1957 - Treason: End of Round One - To keep fit, Nelson Mandela, solicitor, was at Jerry Moloi's boxing gym at Orlando every evening. He's shadow-sparring with Moloi (right) a professional featherweight. As the biggest case in South Africa's history lumbered to the end of its first stage this August 1957, the 156 accused men and women wondered how many of them would be back in court again. The 156 national leaders had first appeared at a preparatory examination into treason at the end of 1956, in the specially constructd court at the Drill Hall, Johannesburg; they had spent their lives in and out of court for most of 1957; and they could now see the possibility of the same prospect for the third calendar year, 1958, if they were committed for trial in the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Drum photographer � Baileys Archive)
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    Image Number: APN113638
    Title: Treason Trial Halts - Robert Resha
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    Description: DM2000012409:SAED:POLITICS:WOMEN:PERSONALITY:NOV58 - Treason Trial Halts - Treason Trialists Robert Resha and his wife outside the court. October 13, 1958 - the mild, cloudy Pretoria morning on which the most sensational of things happened for the 91 men and women of all races facing a charge of high treason. Mr Pirow, leader of the Crown team at the trial, rose to his feet, touched a colleague who was still addressing the court, and brought the microphone to his mouth. "Your Lordship, I withdraw the indictment against the accused," he said in his hoarse voice. The height of the trial's drama had come. Up in the packed non-white gallery, black faces lit up and swung round to take swift looks at the judges, still wondering if they had heard right. Out in the street, where spectators and photographers were pressing on the accused, shouts of "Africa" rang high and firm, victory handshakes spelled the day's relief. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive) neg Treason file
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    Image Number: APN113609
    Title: Treason Trial
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    Description: DM2000012703:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybodey was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were
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    Image Number: APN113652
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    Description: DM2006120410:POLITICS:WOMEN:1956 - Helen Joseph, Brave fighter of Racism - Helen was born in 1905, in Britain. She became politically active when she emigrated to South Africa. She soon became a member of the South African Federation of South African Women. In 1955 she was one of the 20 000 women who marched to the Union Building in Pretoria, to protest against the extension of the pass system to black women. Helen was the first person to be placed under house arrest in South Africa and one of one hundred and fifty six people arrested in 1956, who were charged with high treason. The treason Trial ended after four years, in March 196, when Helen Joseph and all the accused were acquitted of all charges. From then on, Helen was banned repeatedly and placed under house arrest. ( Photograph by Drum Photographer © Baileys Archives) extract from the book, The Fifties People Of South Africa
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    Image Number: APN36801
    Title: Treason Trial - Big Noisy Trial
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    Description: DM2000121821:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybodey was in a dirty mood, and as the police and
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    Image Number: APN36385
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    Description: DM2000022208:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:MAY1962 - Where Do We Go From Here?Ask Treason Trialists - Walter Sisulu. When the Treason finally Collapsed and the defendants were released, happy people embraced each other. Parties were held. But when rejoicing died down, men and women faced the job of earning their interrupted living. How will they make out? Walter Sisulu "My opposition to the government's policies has not ended. I want to write an article about the situation here and to carry on with my agency work. My wife was the main support for our family during the trial." (Photograph by Peter Magubane Baileys Archives) ANC
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    Image Number: APN98146
    Title: The crown versus 91- Treason Trial
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    Description: DM2000020204:SAED:PERSONALITY:POLITICS:SEP1958 - The crown verus 91 - Treason gets off to a suprise start - Nelson Mandela during a tea/lunch break. Treason trial in Pretoria at the old synagogue in Paul Kruger Street, which was converted into a court. The Hungry: defendants Mrs S.Bunting and N. Mandela have a bite while friends look on (Photograph by Drum Photographer @ Baileys Archives)ANC, Indian Congress
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    Image Number: APN36392
    Title: Treason Trial Gets Off To A Suprise Star
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    Description: DM2000022216:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:SEP1958 - The Crown Versus 91 - Treason Trial Gets Off To A Suprise Start. The defendent: Walter Sisulu comes to Pretoria with others on a special bus from Jo'burg. It is the end of many months of waiting, the beginning of yet another journey. (Photograph by Drum Photographer Baileys Archives)
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    Image Number: APN32810
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    Description: DM2000041404:SAED:POLITICS:1958 - Pass Demonstrations at Mzimhlophe station, Soweto. During the time of the Treason Trial there were many protests to highlight the injustices of the South African Government. (Photograph by Drum photographer Baileys Archive)
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    Image Number: APN282490
    Title: Treason Trial - Second Day
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: During the shooting incident this delivery man, who had stopped at a stop street near the Drill Hall, was hit on the head by a policeman's baton, Johannesburg
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    Pixel Size: 5749 x 3847
    Media Id: 673_22
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    Image Number: APN113656
    Title: Treason Trial
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    Description: DM2006120414:SAED:POLITICS:SEP1957 - Treason Trial - Treason trialists inside the Drill Hall, Johannesburg. The trial started on December 19, 1956. As the biggest case in South Africa's history lumbered to the end of its first stage this August 1957, the 156 accused men and women wondered how many of them would be back in court again. The 156 national leaders had first appeared at a preparatory examination into treason at the end of 1956, in the specially constructd court at the Drill Hall, Johannesburg; they had spent their lives in and out of court for most of 1957; and they could now see the possibility of the same prospect for the third calendar year, 1958, if they were committed for trial in the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Gopal Naransamy © Baileys Archive) neg Treason file
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    Description: DM2001072004:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:SEP1957 - Treason End Of Round One! - Bertha Mashaba, Women's Leader. Trial had social by-products. Former Miss Bertha Mashaba, of Germiston, got married at Natalspruit. She is on the Executive of the African National Congress Women's League, and is now Mrs Theko. (Photograph by Drum photographer BAHA) wedding
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    Description: DM1999072318:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:BOXING:1957 - Nelson Mandela with champion Jerry Moloi during the Treason Trial. Mandela used to spar after sitting in the dock all day, for relaxation and recreation. (Photograph by Bob Gosani Baileys Archive)
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    Image Number: APN113659
    Title: Treason Trial
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    Description: DM2000012509:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybodey was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were t
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    Image Number: APN32613
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    Description: DM2002071001:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybody was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were tau
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    Image Number: APN36551
    Title: oe Slovo, part of the Treason Trial defence team, also an accused, acted in his own defence
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    Description: DM2000081811:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:FEB1957 - Treason: End Of Round One - AdvocateJoe Slovo, part of the Treason Trial defence team, also an accused, acted in his own defence. (Photograph by Drum Photographer Bailleys Archives)
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    Image Number: APN36796
    Title: Treason Trial Accused, Mrs Annie Silinga
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    Description: DM2000121815:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY - Treason Trial Accused, Mrs Annie Silinga. Cape Province. (Photograph by Peter Magubane Baileys Archives)
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    Image Number: APN113639
    Title: Treason Trial
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    Description: DM2000012415:SAED:POLITICS:SEP1957 - Treason Trial - This is how the Drill Hall was set up for the trial. The trial started on December 19, 1956. As the biggest case in South Africa's history lumbered to the end of its first stage this August 1957, the 156 accused men and women wondered how many of them would be back in court again. The 156 national leaders had first appeared at a preparatory examination into treason at the end of 1956, in the specially constructed court at the Drill Hall, Johannesburg; they had spent their lives in and out of court for most of 1957; and they could now see the possibility of the same prospect for the third calendar year, 1958, if they were committed for trial in the Supreme Court. (Photograph by Drum photographer © Baileys Archive) neg Treason file
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    Image Number: APN283816
    Title: Treason Trial Re-opens
    Path: african.pictures / Arena Holdings Digital Archive / Arena Holdings
    Description: Police in number 'walk' the crowds away from the corner of Bree and Twist Streets, Johannesburg on the 9th of Janaury 1957
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    Image Number: APN36797
    Title: Treason Trial
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    Description: DM2000121816:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - A Treason Trialist arrives by police van at the back intrance of the Drill Hall. 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photo
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    Image Number: APN32178
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    Description: DM2001072005:SAED:SOCIAL:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:SEP1957 - Treason End Of Round One! - Bertha Mashaba, Women's Leader. Trial had social by-products. Former Miss Bertha Mashaba, of Germiston, got married at Natalspruit. She is on the Executive of the African National Congress Women's League, and is now Mrs Theko. (Photograph by Drum photographer BAHA)
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    Image Number: APN32811
    Title: Pass protest Dube Station
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    Description: DM2000041406:SAED:POLITICS:1958 - Pass protest Dube Station. During the Treason Trial, people protested against passes to highlight the injustices of the South African government. (Photograph by Drum photographer Baileys Archive)
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    Image Number: APN252926
    Title: Civil protests: various boycotts
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    Description: DM2008110314:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITIES:NOV 1961 - This Man Zeff - Zeff came into political prominence as one of the main leaders of the 1955-58 Evaton bus boycott. During that time Joe Molefi and other leaders faced many charges in the courts - including one of incitement and public violence. there were no convictions. He was educated at St. Peter's, then took medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand. In his second year he broke off to take part in the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and was jailed. He became Officer for Propaganda and Orga. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
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    Image Number: APN32174
    Title: Big Noisy Trial
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    Description: DM2001072001:SAED:POLITICS:PERSONALITY:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - Bertha Mashaba, Women's Leader. 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybody was in a dirt
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    Image Number: APN113640
    Path: african.pictures / Bailey's African History Archive / Drum Social Histories
    Description: DM2000012420:SAED:POLITICS:FEB1957 - Big Noisy Trial - 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 Drill Hall, where the preparatory examination into charges of high treason alleged against more than 150 persons from various organisations was held before the Chief Magistrate of Bloemfontein, Mr F.C.A. Wessel. And there was drama outside in the streets of Johannesburg when the police clashed several times with the crowd. All because the Drill Hall could not accommodate all the 5 000 people outside. First is was a booing that led to a baton charge that led to a stone-throwing that led to a gun-shooting. And side interludes of snatching Press cameras and arresting photographers. Everybodey was in a dirty mood, and as the police and the public were t
    Collections: Baileys African History Archive
    Subcollections: Drum Social Histories
    Country: South Africa
    Orientation: landscape
    Pixel Size: 5641 x 3618
    Media Id: 43_861
    Credit: Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online
    Keywords: 1957, Drum Magazine, South Africa, South African history, black and white image, horizontal, February, politics, apartheid, Treason Trial, Johannesburg, police, protests, demonstrations, 1950s, ,
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