THE ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENT 15 Endsleigh Street, London, W.C.l A Protest Against Racial Discrimination Telephone : EUStou 5786 HON PRESIDENT: MRS. BARBARA CASTLE, M.P.

June 5 i 1964 0 i\\l r! " r1! r'O £ \ r1- \ r \ d r \ U \ j J J;i k y

JUDGEMENT in 's 'Rivonia1 trial will be given on THURSDAY, JUNE 11TH.

SENTENCE on the accused will be announced in Court

on FRIDAY, JUNE 12TH.

The trial is nbw'adjourned until these dates, and the nine accused are now in their prison cells awaiting sentences which can only have severe political repercussions for the South African Government, and provoke world-wide reaction.

The accused haTO3 stated their defence - in the words of Nelson M&ndela it was "a struggle for the right to -live.*, for the "ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons, live together in harmony and with equal opportunities".. "It is an ideal for which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

The Prosecutor told the Court in his summing up - "This is a case of high treason par excellence .... The accused took it upon themselves to tell the entire population and indeed the whole world that the Bantu were suppressed, oppressed and .depressed. When one takes into account the motley collection of the accused, and the people they say they represent, and being as generous as possible, they could only speak for less than 1 per cent, of the entire population." (Cape Argus, May 20)

•WE ASK YOU TO DO ALL YOU CAN TO SAVE THESE MEN

ACTION ON THURSDAY, Fr IDAY, AND SATURDAY

SOUTH AFRICAN EMBASSY, TRAFALGAR SQUARE, W.C.2,

VISIT-the South African Embassy, and ask to sign the Visitors’ Book in protest at this and other political trials; and also to see the Ambassador or his Secretary and convey your protests in person*

VIGIL opposite the South African Embassy: Thursday - 5 P*m. to 12 midnight Friday - 12 noon to 12 midmight

Saturday - 10 a.m. onwards *

SEND Telegrams, Postcards, Letters - in protest to Dr. Carel de Wet, South African Ambassador, Trafalgar Square, W.C.2.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, WESTMINSTER, S.W.I.

LOBBY - from Thursday evening at 7 P*m.. onwards. AAM representatives will be in the Central Lobby with Lists of MPs and information.

SEND - Telegrams, Postcards, Letters - in protest to

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime Minister, Downing Street, S.W.I. / over SEND messages of support to the nine accused men - c/othe'Palace of Justice, Pretoria, South Africa, Their names are: KELSON MANDELA, , LIONEL BERNSTEIN, AHMED KATHRADA, G O V M MBEKI, DENNIS GOLDBERG, RAYMOND MHL*\BA, ELIAS MOTSAOLEDI, AND ANDREW MLAGENI

USE as widely as you can the posters, postcards, stickers and leaflets all available on this campaign.

OUTSIDE LONDON

Make your Town Hall the focus of protests at the judgement and sentences.' Protest to your Mayor, and ask him to convey your protests to the Prime Minister and the South African Ambassador.

(A shortened version of 's speech made in Court in his defence is now available from us, (ll pp. duplicated), price 5d plus postage).

v STOP PRESS

BIRMINGHAM AAM - holding demonstration immediately verdict known, and march and meeting on following Saturday.

EDINBURGH AAM - torchlight procession with official backing of the Edinburgh & District Trales Council; a number of Labour Councillors will be on the march, and a wide range of organisations in the city have been invited to take part.

MANCHESTER AAM - protest demonstration and meeting being organised.

IRISH AAM - indoor protest..meeting being organised.

READING UNIV., - students have booked coach to come to London Thursday afternoon; meeting in Reading- arranged for Saturday June 13th.

CHRISTIAN ACTION - planning a five-hournobservance at St. Paul's Cathedral London, on Thursday, June 11th, from 7 p.m. to midnight E M E R G E N C Y CAMPAIGN TO S A V E SOUTH AFRICA’S RESISTANCE LEADERS

South Africa’s most important political trial has now Last autumn the U.N. General Assembly passed a reached a crucial stage. Nine of South Africa’s leaders resolution by 106 votes to 1, calling for the abandon­ are on trial, including men like Nelson Mandela, ment of this trial and the release '* forthwith ” of W alter Sisulu, Lionel Bernstein and Ahmed Kathrada, all political prisoners. The Security Council also called leaders who in the past devoted themselves to ridding on South Africa to liberate all persons imprisoned, their country of apartheid, who organised and carried interned or subjected to other restrictions for having out the great passive resistance Defiance campaigns in opposed the policy of apartheid. Britain and the U.S. the last decade. were among those who voted in favour—yet Britain has done nothing to implement its vote. More recently Now these men stand trial accused of sabotage under the Special Committee on Apartheid told the Security laws which allow the death penalty for this crime, Council it was essential for it to take " positive and laws which have turned South Africa into a police dynamic action ” to prevent a violent conflict in South state. The International Commission of Jurists has Africa, and recommended it to call on South Africa to stated “ Justice is blinded and maimed . . . anyone refrain from the execution of people sentenced to who doubts that South Africa is a police state should death “ under arbitrary laws,” and immediately end examine its laws. The question is then no longer in the trials and grant an amnesty to all political prisoners d oubt.” whose only crime was their opposition to the Government’s racial policies. THESE HEN MUST NOT HANG THEIR FATE IS IN OUR HANDS THEIR FATE IS IN OUR HANDS

Thev U.N. Special Committee’s report urged all If these men hang the consequences will be irrevocable countries with close relations to use their influence —it will put back the day when men of all races can on South Africa : " It is essential that these powers walk in freedom in South Africa : should urgently use all their influence to save the lives of persons facing death in South Africa for their opposition to apartheid . . . ” A C T NOW The sentences of the South African courts for political 1. Write or telegraph Sir Alec Douglas-Home, offences are increasing in severity— 50 people have Prime Minister, Downing Street, S.W.l, demanding been sentenced to death, and sentences of 20 years' the Government acts to implement its vote at imprisonment are commonplace. The sentences likely the United Nations to be passed on the 9 accused leaders can be inferred 2. Protest to the South African Ambassador, from those already passed on others. S. African Embassy, Trafalgar Square, S.W.l, If these men hang—the blame will rest on us as well whenever severe sentences are announced as on the Verwoerd Government. It is our Govern­ 3. Support and organise meetings and demonstrations ment who ignores the U.N. resolutions, our business­ wherever you can, and be prepared to protest men who invest in and trade with the apartheid when sentences are announced. Republic, our immigrants who go to South Africa .

Issued by the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 15 Endsleigh Street, WC1 (Euston 5786) (from whom further information and speakers can be obtained)

Columbia Printers (T.U.) 12 Lambs Conduit Passage W .C.1 Collection Number: AD1844 State vs Nelson Mandela and 9 Others ()

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