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escaped from Johannesburg X 700 MMeya’ Tan« ah-’ W olpe from Becliuanaiand was organized Pais-SaLnm 8 Z Uth o f ' ‘>a,aam, yesterday. With them was a “mysterv” hr of “ The r „ V PT — Oliver Carrutherg nette of about -in , y t. Ly bru- dress and dUA f ’T eanng a blue backing of Kenneth g i . personal SAPA-Reuter * glasses* reports Rhodesia Ica.lcr. "d“’ ‘he Norther“ T«„rX ^'oSr.M l-betl- ‘SSiSsSLSS: of in™lKed";? ^ nCi„d“ ‘' ”»r;y -« b followed a week J| false trails. Tliev harYhe I 16 a,yiI1o ° f elaborate tow,, Jai| fey I f , Z T g t*1"8' " le There they were deke, , ! “ ‘g 'Z by r'™'1 f” Pa'apye. in Katanga ' U|>a,,d <» Llisabell,villa HAPPY m o o d

rmnllf ^a/ SC trads included g eD^ er I Urs 'i,at tl»e two men, on thatathe escapers * Was added head, the South Afri MYSTERY to continued Rl 0noOVernn,ent ,,ad P^ced es-Salaam until today. { h °0 , were planning a road WOMAN dddl into Norther., Rhodesia. ELISABETHVILLE, lnc^di°ngS°v[vianfrEzrarefUgeeS' n 6d heiT“ S wa® ^at a m „ Monday. Ka„ * ere flying to an airstrip at A attractive European Kasama ln Northern Rhodesia woman of about 30, who w?s with Goldreich Z d Plane^n.Upri uefu^-es’ in a light stoppeHP hHpf1 by Tlm°th.V Bally, Wolpe, told journalists: “ We Kh aaw ass-A the n o r t h e r ^ rfat Kasani on anything.” Primed not to land. More J®f?er 0f Bechuana- Gloldreich and Wolpe were in there for ? h .f 1 Was taken °n The woman, in a blue dress Katanga * non‘st0P flight to rr.1IeaMUed ear/mn into dark a gIasses' ConeoJpsp was Minister’s room as soon as escort journalists approached her. The refugee group also in­ r u n s V s m J f E?8hshman who cludes their pilot and one other man who is believed to Tanganyika811 Charter fl™ * to answer questions refUSed be European.—Sapa-Reuter. * 3 ^ inHRanging the Carnifh^ Ebsab®thville was Ml- mystery” woman there Ire the by road tn We,nt from Lusaka come in the Congo Mr fConnri„ got in touch with Mr Cvrille -h en t h e y t S lefUge6S u T ^ T c ^ Z l d Bal" Minister. Le0poldyilIe Prime by a Lusaka newshpearpSerempl0yed ni^orisl?!ffl' ‘ h1s route’ where former been ^bushed by CarriithKatangese gendarmes, Mr W ill help others men™ S * as ^ e n a guard by NationalHind^nBn^aundasNations Kaunda’s United Mr Kaunda said last night- “ I The who?pe“ Ce Partv- very happy that the "wo men was, in {font- ® e?cafr e , operation j have , ovy got u„aiy, away. J I greatly hone we Kaunda who i aA d by Mr- sba11 be able to d NorthernKaunda, who Bh»d is a • Mimster in-i ^ the | lefugeelrefugeesrerugees 8 aetr0 getting d° out m°re of for South other ★ CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 To ensure th^ Sla fssa Government. » Africa.” ------* Jon6 abandoned because of the danger that Sir Roy Welenskv's Federal Immigration authorities dtives a i j rnd senJTh1 Go'dreich and Wolpe *>fb- , “ and send them back. ]\/| L . . lT O

willw i h fly T fd1to MbeyaMhethViUe in Tanganyikathe refugees J T rY S J & and then to Dar es Salaam it is ”The Star’s Africa News..wn,, Service the^whi th8t aft6r resting there DAR ES SALAAM, Tuesday. they■ mh willA go on on t0 to Britain Britain sa says Goldreich and Wolpe arrived at The Guardian ’•” News Service.__ y Mbeya from Elisabethville at noon Mr. Carruthers, a Cambridge in a charter plane. There were two other passengers aboard. The fugitives are expected here this evening. The twin-engined six-seater wSSs^-JSSSi plane was accompanied from | Elisabethville to Mbeya by a nair-1 craft hired by an American tele­ vision corporation. Mr. Albert Mpase. Katanga, Several African National Con­ I ★ A Dar es Salaam ?npvvr,„„ ■ gress supporters, refugees of all I mominy said Goldreich and Wn^ races at present in Dar es Salaam, Pert were expected there • h ' are on their way to the airport to \dark,- according % ‘ before \ greet Goldreich and Wolpe on I arrangements. current their arrival. THIRD MAN OF RIVONIA FREE % 45 MINUTES * By DESMOND BLOW l^ENNIS GOLDBERG, the Cape Town engineer who was arrested with Arthur Goldreich at Rivonia in July, escaped from the Vereeniging Prison last Friday. He was free for only 45 minutes and has been transferred to Pretoria Prison. This was confirmed last night by Brigadier F. J. Coetzee, director Derfus"'Goldberg, one of the 18 of Prison Administration in Pre­ people detained by security pohce 1 toria. He said he did not know in the Rivonia raid of July the details of the escape other who was at large in Vereernging 1 i than that Goldberg escaped from on Friday, August 30, tor 40 ) the exer6ise yard. minutes, is shortly to be charged in court. The charge will probably < I understand that Goldberg 1 pushed a wad of paper into his be one of escaping horn police cells in Vereeniging. cell door to prevent the door from i locking when he was shut in. Goldberg was recaptured, cut and bleeding and with torn i He escaped into the exercise i yard and climbed a drainpipe to clothes, in a Vereeniging alley the roof of the prison. Another ^ChargeswUrbe preferred against t ■ prisoner saw him and gave the manv of the 14 still held after . £ 1 alarm. the raid on Arthur Goldreich s i IP.eRivonia . housevw-vncA as•ns soon as security H C ; CAUGHT / / V ALLEY 1 police have finished sorting b 5 Goldberg got away and a search through seized documents. was started. He was captured 45 minutes later in a Vereeniging alley. His clothing was torn and he was bloodstained from injuries received during his climb. Goldberg was immediately trans­ ferred to Pretoria Prison. His wife flew from Cape Town in an efforf to see him. Friends who had col­ lected his washing had told her of the bloodstained clothing. Mrs. Goldberg saw Colonel Klindt, head of the Security Branch on the Witwatersrand. He arranged for her to see her hus­ band to satisfy herself he was well. The authorities have not stopped him receiving food and clothing. Goldberg is known to have lived in a cottage at the back of the home of Mr. Leon Kreel in Terrace Road, Mountain View, Johannes­ burg, under the name of Williams at the time of his arrest at Rivonia. Mr. Kreel was detained for 90 days.last Friday. 11 IfSTERY EXPLOSION NEAR I = f *

U A R O L D WOLPE spoke to liis sister-in-law, Mrs. Barbara Kantor, in Johannes* burg today by radio telephone from Dar es Salaam. This is the first contact the Mrs. Kantor has also been about tlie ultimate success of our escapers from Marshall Square allowed to see her husband to adventure.” have had with home-since several discuss family finances. Asked about Dr. Kenneth days before their secret flight In Dar es Salaam, Goldreich Abrahams, who was at one time from Francistown. said yesterday that he and Wolpe believed to be aboard the same Arthur Goldreich sent a message would remain in Tanganyika “ for escape plane, Goldreich said there a few days’ holiday"—but he re­ was no room for him aboard the to Mrs. Kantor, wife of the de­ tiny craft. tained attorney, Mr. James Kan­ fused to discuss their future plans, reports The Star’s Africa News 'His need to get away was not tor, to tell his family in Johan­ Service. nesburg that he was safe and immediate. We feel Abrahams is well. He said, however, that they safe in Francistown,” he said. would discuss what to do next with The "attract j’’2 European 'Harold was worried about his “ friends in Dar es Salaam.” wife, with whom he has lost con­ brunette” reporter with Goldreich Clean-shaven and neatly dressed, at ElizabethviUe was not aboard tact, and about my husband,” the plane said Mrs. Kantor. the two men were welcomed by a Zulu-chanting crowd ot fellow Asked about reports about the Wolpe is writing to Johannes­ South African fugitives when woman whom Goldreich had burg to clarify certain legal they landed by charter plane. referred to as "my wife,” Gold­ matters in the offices where he Questioned at a Press confer­ reich said: "My wife is in jail | worked with his brother-in-law ence on his beliefs, Goldreich said in South Africa." 1 as an attorney. that he was “ associated with the He admitted, with a laugh, that idea of liberty for the African lie had told a reporter at Eliza- ONE OF LARGEST people." bethville that the woman was nis Meanwhile, a lawyer who is NO COMMENT wife, “because he was fishing.” helping to run Mr. Kan tor’s office He declined to say who the —one of the largest attorney’s Asked whether he was a Com­ woman was practices in Johannesburg — has munist, he said: ” I would say been allowed to see Mr. Kantor that I have no comment." CLOSETED on occasions at Marshall Square Goldreich confirmed that the Before tile Press conference, to discuss legal matters. charter was arranged by the both men were closeted together Lusaka newspaper, the "African with A.N.C. top executives in a Mail." and said that this paper private conference while jubilant had the support of Kenneth Africans sang and cheered out­ Kaunda. side. He added: “ Many other people African women displayed ban­ WOLPE’S played a part in our escape, in­ ners with slogans including cluding Mr. Kaunda and the Con­ "Your escape is a blow to Nazi golese and Tanganyika Govern­ Vorster” and “ANC underground „„WIFE OFF ments.” is invincible.” “ VICTORY " Goldreich added: " If our T t O ‘NEW escape is a victory at all, it is A victory for the organization in South Africa known as the £ LIFE’ IN ‘National Liberation Movement’.” The A.N.C. was the leading orga­ nization in the movement, he said. He declined to reveal particulars LONDON of their movements before reach­ ing Francistown. They had both Staff Reporter felt “anxious and nervous” before 1\TRS. ANNE MARIE WOLPE, actually escaping from Johannes­ wife of Harold Wolpe, left burg. "But once we actually got South Africa yesterday for Eng­ away we never had any doubts land. Before her sudden flight from Johannesburg, she told me: j “I am going to make a new life and a new home for myself and my children.” . Mrs. Wolpe had to get special security police clearance for her departure and was told that it had been granted only 24 hours C» Ij t* before she left. An advocate saw Col. Klindt, i m head of the Security Branch in Johannesburg, on her behalf on % F u g itiv e s Tuesday. He presented a medical certificate saying that Mrs. From Our Correspondent Wolpe was in a serious state of DAR ES SALAAM. Tuesday.— nervous tension and depression j'South African fugitives, Moosa 1 and that, if forced to remain, her | Moola and Abdulhai Jassat are condition would deteriorate. I expected to travel to Dar es Salaam i by road from the Southern Tan- | ganyika border town of Mbeya ; where they arrived by charter air- I craft from Francistown. The South African National Con­ gress representative in Tanganyika, James Hadebe, said he had been in touch with them on the tele­ phone and expected them in Dar es Salaam in a day or two. Moola and Jassat escaped from Marshall Square, Johannesburg, with Goldreich and Wolpe who are already in Dar es Salaam. Goldreich aid use o Kreei cottage, % say police ^ CRIME REPORTER OOLICE say they have proof that Arthur Goldreich used the garden fottage of Mr. Leon Kreel’s Johan­ nesburg house, but will need more time to establish whether he hi.I there while on the run after his escape from Marshall Square with three others. Police say they have found clothes in the cottage belonging to Goldreich. The clothes — believed to be a pair of shoes and a coat — were confiscated after the detention of| Mr. Kreei, a Johannesburg chemist. It is understood that police also have other evidence that Goldreich visited the cottage, i Mr. Kreel’s wife, Mrs. Maureen! | Kreei, who was detained on Mon­ day, said before her detention that during the time Goldreich and Wolpe were free, she had seen no­ body in the cottage. ARRESTED She said police told her that a man who had stayed in the cottage j under the name of Williams after! .another man had rented it, was in fact Dennis Goldberg who was arrested at Rivonia with Gold­ reich and 15 others. On Wednesday police detained Mr. Ralph Sepel, Mrs. Kreel’s 35- year-old brother-in-law. Mrs. Sepel told the "Rand Daily Mail" that she and her husband had; lived opposite the Goldreich’s for some time. Her husband, a lawyer’s cleric, had done legal work for Gold­ reich concerning the property in Rivonia. All are being held for 90 day’s on suspicion of harbouring Gold­ reich and Wolpe. 0 Wolpe — resting in Dar- es-Salaam with Goldreich— is delighted by news of his wife’s flight from South Africa. “That’s great news,” he said from the office of the African National Congress. aided escapers ^O L D R E IC H , WOLPE and their confederates had plotted a “ violent and hellish revolution, planned on a military basis.” The words are >om of l)i I erey \ utar, Deputy Attorney-General, and were spoken net ore a Johannesburg magistrate today. . before the court was a 19-year-old constable, Johannes Arnoldus Greeff n p v , 'v,th bnbery and with assisting four men to escape from Marshall Square, t U ,dr Sdl 1 le policeman had fallen " t o the evil machinations of two R100. The evidence will show that Such is the baseless Greeff was promised a further character of these renegades, R4000 if he would allow the four as the evidence Will reveal, THE MAN men—Goldreich was not con­ that they even double-crossed cerned about his wife, who was also detained at Marshall Square the man who helped them to WITHOUT— —to escape. escape,” lie added. i ) R. YUTAR (towards the ! “ Greeff agreed and plans were Goldreich, Wolpe, Moosa Moolla end of his address) said: I made accordingly. On Saturday and Abdulhay Jassat, all 90-day “It was obvious that Gold- j afternoon, August 10—that is, just detainees, escaped from Marshall reich, Wolpe and their con- i prior to the escape that same Square in the early hours of federates, after exploiting night—Greeff boasted to another August 11 and all are now in Tan­ the poverty of Greeff, which colleague that he proposed to buy ganyika. was something in violent a large American car. Among the 23 witnesses to be conflict with their political “ When his colleagues expressed called at the trial is Goldreich’s beliefs and against which disbelief, because of the poor sister, Doreen Arenstein, who, they had pledged to fight, financial position of Greeff, according to the charge sheet, double-crossed Greeff, and Greeff confirmed his intention gave Greeff R100 on August 8. left him without prisoners, with the words: ‘ Money is not a without money—and without question; you will yet see.’ The charge sheet alleges that freedom.” Greeff was promised R4000— At this point Greeff, who which he never got—to help the “Arranged escape” four men escape. so far throughout the pro­ ceedings had smiled bum “ That very same night Greeff The two main charges of bribery into laughter. arranged for the escape of Gold­ and assisting prisoners to escape reich, Wolpe and the two others, have alternatives of corruption simulating that he had gone into and defeating the ends of justice.. I Gotdreich’s cell to investigate a Greeff pleaded not guilty to all. j overturned the car. The owner was required by the insurers to matter, was knocked on the head pay the first R90 of the cost of and rendered unconscious, *;ed up Rivonia recalled repairs, and he demanded the and deprived of his k cc\- money from Greeff. tinued Dr. Yutar. ' Alter hearing one witness “ When lie regain . , , ous- (Det.-Sgt. J. F. Scholtz, who Greeff was unable to pay and on ness, Greeff said, 4 r d to handed in a plan oi the Marshall j August 6 tried to borrow R90 from free himself am; r ,.c alarm. Square cells), the magistrate, Mr. a 90-day detainee, Laloo Chiba. “ All this the nr .'price will show D- H. J. Coetzee, adjourned for an Chiba could not give him the I to be cotn-ii fi l)c false and de- money . . . but gave him some ! void of all trOBh. inspection in loco. advice. At Marshall Square newspaper­ “ All M.ut happened was that' men .were barred from going ” The upshot was that the very Greeff--; ire Goldreich the keys of farther than the charge office. next day Greeff, whu was on night the :ils and the exit doors to I Goldreich was among those de­ duty at Marshall Square as cell Mai snail Square, and, thereafter, I tained after a raid on a home in warder, allowed Goldreich to use knocked himself on the head with Rivonia, Johannesburg on July the telephone in his (Greeff’s) a piece of iron inflicting a small 11- Dr. Yutar is in charge of the office,” said the prosecutor. injury. Expert medical evidence prosecutions in all the cases which will show that the injury was will arise out of the Rivonia Payment made utterly slight and would not have raid. caused unconsciousness.” Dr. Yutar, in his address to the " Goldreich spoke to a relative, Court, said that attempts to sub­ a professional man, as well as his Called for records vert Greeff started even before sister, and arranged with them Goldreich was brought to that an amount of R100 in cash be Later that morning Greeff, in Marshall Square. M6olla, who given Greeff, who would cal! accordance with instructions he was one of the first people de­ round for it next day. had received from the men, called tained under the 90-day clause, is “ Payment was duly made on upon a man whom he thought alleged to have given Greeff a August 8 and Greeff handed it was to pay him the R4000 he had suit, a tie and a pair of shoes I over to his colleague the same been promised, said Dr. Yutar. on June 17. 1 day “ Greeff had been told to ask for During July, said the pro­ “ The coup de grace in this a parcel of records," the prose­ secutor, Greeff borrowed a car softening-up process came im­ cutor went on. “But the party in from another policeman. Either j mediately after Goldreich had question professed to know Greeff, or another policeman, j arranged for Greeff to be paid nothing whatsoever about it • ‘‘This is not the only tragedy I that the ‘brave heroes' have left I

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those before the court at Marshall I On August 10 he telephoned I in the wake of their trail How- Square?—Yes. Nowhere in Mar­ I Marshall Square and asked to be j ever, this is neither the forum shall Square were there bits of put through to Greeff. Greeff said nor the time to discuss those string like these he had telephoned him earlier at other living tragedies,” Dr. Yutar Warrant Officer Labuschagne his home in connection with “ the c deluded. said that in Goldreich’s cell a records.” Chiba said that on the pair of broken glasses, three bits Sunday he heard about the Gold­ Piet . ' of bent iron of string and a short length of reich escape. iron were found. There was then a message from Goldreich used two pairs of Among .*1 e exhibits is a grey Warrant Officer Labuschagne to glasses, one for reading and the come and see him. suit, a ii£ p'ur of black shoes other pair he normally wore. The and a piece' « eht iron, about Dr. Yutar: Did anybody make lOin. long in ,c;i ;,jnch wide, broken pair was his reading glasses. arrangements for you to pay over which was ta, Marshall R4000 to Greeff?—No. Square when thLfc.?t' • ipected STORY OF CAR i the cells. GOLDREICH’S SISTER The inspection lasi|C ;s than The iron, which Greeff is ♦ Turn to Page 3. C . umn 7. alleged to have used to knock Mrs. Doreen Arenstein, Gold­ himself on the head, was similar reich’s sister, was the next witness. to an iron which had disappeared She said that on August 7 she about six weeks before from a and her husband visited friends. « Continued from Page 1. latrine, said the witness. Just before they left there was a half-an-hour. The ^ gistra te said Cross-examined by Mr. Fleis- telephone call for her husband. after the resumption that P chack, Warrant Officer Labus­ She was concerned about her chagne said that there were stand­ culars of the ^ X o l g h w i t - children because it was late, and placed on record tnrougi ing orders to have cell inspec­ she followed her husband to the tions every hour during the night. telephone. Mrs. Arenstein heard Scholtz said Moolla These were not done at Marshall Square because there was a perm­ her husband mention her brother’s h a T b e l^ in Cell 11 and Jassat m name. anent cell warder. Inspections Her husband said " Here is CWarrant Officer C. A_ Labu- were, however, frequently held Doreen.” Then she took the tele­ schagne said that he was assistant during the night. Const. D. E. Erasmus, a learner phone and spoke to her brother station commander t " i at Marshall Square. Square until August, 2 0 He gave detective, told the court he had a car. In July, Greeff borrowed Mrs. Arenstein said they went description of Mar! pf uthp exer- 1 his car through a friend. home and on the way her husband the cells, t h e : « serent doors- made a report to her. cise yards and thenf f hef ™Us and Constable Erasmus said that the Duplicate keys rof the ceus ^ next morning he heard that the The next day, at her husband's car had been overturned. It was offices, she received a visitor. It badly damaged. His car was in­ was Greeff. who said he was in sured. but he had to pay the first trouble. wTthCwmch T c S S open cell R90 of repairs himself. GAVE HIM ENVELOPE He told Greeff and a constable d00rS' , officer Labuschagne | named Van Wyk that they had Mrs. Arenstein said she gave mafbe cell S e r s office was said the cen ,hpp was a been responsible for the accident him an envelope containing rUOO in a passage, and theie and he expected them to pay the She had been expecting ureeif. telephone in "hat °ffice- ened R90. Both said they would look The constable put the envelope Cell doors could not tre P for the money, and Greeff told in his pocket. He did not say what him he would borrow from his trouble was. He told her he Slocked. ? “ Heg saiaSd » u »na Goldreich »>*« colleagues. had been very nice to her brother Constable Erasmus said Greeff and sister-in-law. X m c e U No. 14 and Wolpe paid the R90 on August 8. He Greeff told her he had allowed handed over the money in cash, Goldreich and his wife to see one Mr Vorster (prosecuting^ in RIO notes. Greeff told him he another, and he asked her i; she long were you at Marshall Square. had borrowed the money. wanted to see her brother. Mr. Fleischack had no questions. ^ r v o V k n o ^ h e cells w ell?- Cross-examined Mrs. Arenstein “ MONEY—NO QUESTION” said that as far'as she was con­ B to u t u ld m^ o w n then if cerned the R100 could have he-m Const. H. S. de Wet said he a loan to Greeff. J r ° e wir e‘ three bits of s t r i n g sometimes went to Greeff’s room at the barracks to listen to his long- HIS NAME CALLED playing records. On August 10 lie was working on his car. He was Const. Thomas Matsapa, who lying under the car fixing a was on duty with Greeff, said silencer when Greeff came up, and that about 1.30 a.m., while he was they got talking. in the kitchen he heard somebody Greeff then asked him where call his name repeatedly. he could buy a Studebaker Lark. Later Greeff told him that Constable De Wet asked Greeff Goldreich, Wolpe, Moolla and how much deposit he had for such Jassat had escaped. an expensive car. Greeff replied: “Oh, money is not the question." "He said he went to Goldreich’s He told Greeff he was talking cell, looked through the opening nonsense because he still had to and saw nobody inside," said the pay Constable Erasmus R90. witness. He opened the door and Greeff said: “Don't worry, you entered. As he walked in Gold­ will see." reich hit him on the head with Cross-examined he agreed that a piece of iron. Greeff had been talking like a "Greeff said he fell. Goldreich boaster. tied his hands and took the keys. Greefi said Goldreich’s spectacles INDIAN’S STORY had been on a table. He knocked Mr. Laloo Chiba, an Indian, said them to the floor and used a he was detained on May 21 under broken piece of the glass to cut the 90-da.v Act. He was kept at the string on his wrists.” Marshall Square in a cell upstairs. Mr Vorster: Did you see any He got to know Greeff as the cell injuries on Greeff? — No. warder. Did you see him plainly? — Yes. Chiba said he was released on How long were you with him in August 7—before the 90 days were the office while he told his story? up. — Eight or 10 minutes. The night before his release, (Procccdinu) Greeff visited him and told him I3r. P. Yutar, S.A., with him Mr. T. B. he had had an accident, and Vorster and Mr J. J M. Naude, of the office of the Senior Public Prosecutor, needed R100. He asked for a loan, Johannesburg appeared for the State: Mr. but Chiba said he could not. A. Fleischack was for Grcelf_____ HE DOUBTED ESCAPE ?OON after Goldreich, Wolpe and two others had escaped from Marshall Officer tells court hout Square, Lieutenant F. J. Burger, of the South Afri­ can Police, became suspicious about the circumstances in checked on cell guai which they had got away. He said in the Johannesburg X^> COURT REPORTER Regional Court yesterday that his suspicions were aroused when “ Greeff said he had been hit Constable Johannes Arnoldus on the head. I saw no injuries. Greeff reported that he had been His clothes were not soiled or dis­ struck on the head by Goldreich. arranged.” He had difficulty in finding an Under cross-examination, Mr. injury on the back of Greeff’s Mashapa said that until Gold­ head. reich’s escape there had been no Greeff, 19, is appearing on padlocks on any of the cells. The charges of bribery and assisting following day padlocks were placed four men to escape from Marshall on all cells. Square. . . _ „ Warrant-Officer C. A. Labus- I sent him (Greeff) to a doctor, chagne, who was stationed at Mar­ said Lieutenant Burger. “The shall Square until August 20, said doctor's opinion was that the in­ that the cell-warder carried two juries could not have caused him keys with him with which he to lose consciousness. I then sent could open all doors in the men’s him to a specialist who confirmed section. what the doctor had said. In the four years he was sta­ ‘‘This all took place before 6.30 tioned at Marshall Square he had a.m. — a few hours after Gold­ never seen pieces of thin rope there reich and his companions such as those before the court. had escaped.” Security system Not in bed Warrant-Officer Labuschagne Lieutenant Burger said .that said the door to the main cell was always kept locked. A door at the Greeff had told him he had visited far end of the corridor which led the cells at about 1.30 aJn‘ **S to the exercise yard also was kept had looked through the ‘ spy hole SERGEANT J. J. KARPAKES locked. in Goldreich’s cell door but h There was an iron gate in wasfab notA1UU inAil bed.MCU, . , , .__ Greeff,” said Sergeant Karpakes. He also noticed that the latrine There were four small keys and the corridor separating the cells of Goldreich and Wolpe from door leading off Goldreich s cell one large master key which opened all the cells.” those of the two Indians. was in darkness. The cells could not be opened Greeff had told him he had An African, Mr. Andrew Mashapa, said he was detained from the inside if the outside opened the cell door and gone in. latch was on, even if they were As he was entering the latrine, for 90 days in a cell on the first floor at Marshall Square. During not locked. He said the exercise Goldreich attacked him with a yard through which the men piece of iron. his detention his cell was never ever locked. It was usually latched escaped was completely enclosed He was struck on the head and by walls. The top was covered lost consciousness. When he came from the outside, but sometimes to he found his hands tied behind the latch was not fastened. with wire mesh. Constable D. E. Erasmus, a him. He noticed Goldreich’s spec­ Heard shouts learner detective, said that in tacles on the table and edged to­ July Greeff borrowed his car. wards them. On August 11, at about 1 a.m., he heard banging and kicking Next day he learnt that the Cut rope against a cell door and someone car had been overturned. It was shouting a name that could have insured but he had to pay the Greeff said he smashed the been his or that of the African first R90 of any claim. spectacles and used the broken constable on duty. He told Greeff and a Constable glass to cut the rope. “I went to my cell door to look Van Wyk, who was with Greeff Lieutenant Burger said that out through the spy hole. As I at the time of the accident, that when Greeff first made this report touched the door it opened,” he they would have to pay him the to him he was not suspicious. said. R90. Greeff told him he would “ But there was a slight swell “I went into the corridor and try to find the money. ing on the back of his head and saw that both iron gates in the another on his left temple, he corridor, which were usually Paid in cash said. « ., locked, were standing open. I went On August 8 he gave him the Sergeant J. J- Karpakes said through the one gate to the sound he was in control of the charge money. of the banging. “He paid the R90 In cash in office at Marshall Square at the “I found it came from cell num­ R10 notes,” said Constable time of the escape. ber 14 and heard someone shouting He visited all the cells between Erasmus. “He told me he had ‘Open the door.’ I turned the han­ borrowed it.” 12.45 and 1 o’clock on the morn­ dle and unlatched it. Constable Constable H. S. de Wet said ing of the escape. Greeff came out. that on August 10, while he was Wolpe and Goldreich were “I asked him what the matter working on his car, Greeff ap­ asleep was. He swore at me and ran past. proached him and asked him “ I returned to the charge office I did not see whether his hands where he could buy a Studebaker and locked the door, leaving Greeff were tied. He ran down the steps Lark, an expensive car which in the cells behind. to the east side. cost R2.200 or R2.600. Found keys ‘I then saw Constable Matsabe. “I asked him what deposit he He asked me whether I was mak­ had,” said Constable De Wet. "He “About 40 minutes later he re ing the noise and I told him replied that money was not a ported to me that the four men what had happened.” question. He told me the money had escaped. We raced downstairs He said that Constable Matsabe was with his parents and he and out into the street, but could then locked him in his cell. could f e t c h it from Rustenburg not see anyone.” “About eight minutes later within an hour. Sergeant Karpakes said he found “I told him not to talk non keys at the door leading from the Greeff and Constable Matsabe exercise yard out through the Car came into my cell. They said: ‘We sense. He replied ‘Don’t worry— are in trouble.’ you will see.' ” park into the street. A former detainee, Mr. Laloo “They were the keys normally “ They told me that two Euro­ peans and two Indians had Chiba, said that he was detained kept in a drawer in the charge on May 21 under the 90-day law. office, not the keys carried by escaped. ______£ r> m a. h ( q / k ?

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band’s rooms. In the afternoon Constable Greeff called. He was dressed in plain clothes. “ My husband was not avail­ able. He (Greeff) asked whether I knew about him. I told him I did. He said he was In trouble. “ He told me he allowed my brother and his wife to see one another occasionally, and said that I could come to Marshall Square to see them on Sunday at 9.30 <,# Notice of p.m. if I wished,” she went on. “ I took him aside and gave him an envelope. It contained X R100 in RIO notes.” appeal by Possible loan Cross-examined by Mr. A. ^ Greeff Fleischack (for Greeff), Mrs. Arenstein said she did not know Notice of appeal against the: what the money was for. It could severity of his six-year sentence— j have been a loan to Greeff as far three years on each charge of . as she was concerned. bribery and assisting prisoners to. In his opening address, Dr. escape—was made today by^ Percy Yutar, Deputy Attorney- Johannes Arnoldus Greeff. General of the Transvaal, said The appeal was handed to the that Greeff was a young police­ clerk of the Criminal Court by man who fell to the evil machina­ Greeff’s attorney, Mr. A. Flei­ tions of two traitors, Goldreich schack. and Wolpe,- and others who plotted In the Johannesburg Regional a “violent and hellish revolution Court yesterday Greeff was con­ victed of bribery and assisting in this country planned on a Arthur Goldreich, Harold Wolpe, military basis. Moosa Moolla and Abdulhay Jassat to escape from Marshall ‘Renegades’ Square, where he was a cell guard, “And such is the baseless on August 11. character of these renegades, as the evidence will reveal, that they even double-crossed the police­ man who helped them to escape CONSTABLE H. S. »E WET from Marshall Square.” Dr. Yutar said the process of ie was released on August 7, “softening up” Greeff had begun >efore the 90 days were up. some time before. Another of the On the night before his release four escapers, Moosa Moolla, had jreeff had visited him. He told lim he had had an accident and arranged for Greeff to receive a leeded R100. He asked if Mr. pair of shoes, a suit and a tie. thiba could lend him the money. “The coup de grace in this “I told him I didn’t have it and ‘softening up’ process came im­ hat he should try someone else,” mediately after Goldreich had ar­ ranged for Greeff to be paid R100, Phone call He was promised a further R4.000 if he would allow the four of "The next day after my release them, Goldreich, Wolpe, Moolla le telephoned me at home and and Jassat, to escape.” igain asked if I could help him. I laid X could not. After their escape he was to call “On August 9 ,1 went to Rusten- on a certain person and ask for a aurg to visit my brother and re­ parcel of records. However, the turned in the evening when a person in question said he knew report was made to me. nothing about it. "I telephoned Greeff. He said he “It was obvious that Goldreich had arranged to get the R100 but and Wolpe and their confederates, said he had come to see me in after exploiting the poverty .of connection with the records. I told Greeff, which was something of him I did not understand him.” a violent conflict with their politi­ said Mr. Chiba. cal beliefs and against which they Mr. Chiba said he knew nothing had pledged to fight, double- about records, nor had anyone crossed him and left him without made arrangements with him to prisoners, without money and with­ pay Greeff R4.000. out freedom.” He said he knew the two Greeff appeared in court in a Indians, Moolla and Jassat, who grey sports jacket, blue flannels had escaped, but did not know and open-neck shirt. Goldreich and Wolpe. He smiled several times during In trouble the evidence but his hands kept fidgeting. Doreen Arenstein, Goldreich’s sister and wife of a profes­ After a policeman had given sional man, said that Goldreich evidence for the State, he winked had telephoned her husband from at Greeff as he left the box. Dur­ Marshall Square four days before ing adjournments several police­ his escape, and had made arrange­ men spoke to Greeff and gave him ments for him to give a police­ the thumbs-up sign. man R100. Among the exhibits in court " I spoke to my brother. He were a piece of iron from a closet was speaking from Marshall cistern, a pair of broken spectacles Square, Where he was being de­ and a piece of thin rope. tained,” said Mrs. Arenstein. The hearing was adjourned un­ til today. “ He said he had told my hus­ The Deputy Attorney-General for the band what he had to say. He asked Transvaal, Dr. Percy Yutar, assisted by Mr. T. B Voreter and Mr. J. J. M. how his children were, and then Naude, appeared for the State. Mr. A.. said he would have to go. Fleischack appeared for Greeff. Mr. D, “ Next day I went to my hus­ H. I. Coetree was on the bench. _____

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f | AROLD , WOLPE ,„ld — -a -P------„ !shi „ launuon „ r « i ioaav J l S l U tlier,- was a number of people who could step into the ■ i shoes of those arrested by the Sooth African Government H#3oldreich ami carrx on tile struggle. He and Arthur Goldreich, two A scandal, says NDON. — Arthur Goldreich; I of the men who recently escaped nd Harold Wolpe, two of thej from the Marshall Square cells, ten who recently escaped Mrs. Castle •om Marshall Square cells, Johannesburg, were at a Press LONDON, Tuesday. — Mrs. Bar­ old a Press conference in Lon- conference called by Mrs. Barbara bara Castle, Labour M.P., said to­ on yesterday that their de- Castle, president of the Anti­ day it was a scandal that there ;ntion was “a psychological apartheid Movement, reports | should have been any doubt that orture” although their Sapa-Reuter. political asylum should be given to rilers had behaved “meticu-l Wolpe said they themselves had Arthur Goldreich and Harold ously” towards them. been associated with the National Woipe. Lpe, describing his detention Liberation Movement, but they She was addressing a Press con­ i a Press conference called j were not the leaders of it. They ference at the House of Commons Y Mrs. Barbara Castle, presi- declined to say to what organiza­ attended by the two fugitives con­ »nt of the anti-apartheid tions or political parties they had cerned. lovement, said he was kept in belonged. Mrs. Castle said permission had olitary confinement and al- ' eventually been granted for them to owed half an hour a day out SOLITARY CONFINEMENT stay two months. f his cell In a courtyard. Describing his detention, he said “ We shall raise with the Home he was kept in solitary confinement Office the whole question of their TERRORISTS future,” she added. and allowed half an hour a day out dreich said that the South of his cell in a courtyard. It was announced at the con­ He was allowed to see nobody, ference that e special anti­ :rican Government seemed to x trying to create an atmos- nor was he allowed to have books apartheid month would be other than the Bible, or writing launched on November 3 with a lere which would deny people material or cigarettes march to Trafalgar Square. accused of the sympathy of But he added: “ There was no Marchers would carry banners e rest of the world, attempt to browbeat me or use any demanding an arms embargo on t was why there had been physical violence in any way. The South Africa. ■responsible statements” that police were meticulous in their con­ Goldreich referred to a descrip­ cney headed a terrorist organisa­ duct towards us.” tion of himself and Wolpe as the > tion which was preparing sabo­ He went on: "Although I was in “ biggest fish in the liberation t tage and subversion. custody for three weeks, I think movement in South Africa.” ; that such solitary confinement is ‘ There are many, many fish in . Goldreich said that during his probably the worst kind of torture South Africa,” he said. “ It is month in detention he had not one can face. One is anguished, always the tendency to describe been asked for specific in­ bored and time is endless. those who get away as the big formation. The security police fish,” he commented had visited him and merely asked TIME PASS Wolpe said: “ The arrest of him to tell them what he knew. certain people has by no means “There is no way to make the destroyed the liberation move­ NEW DRIVE time pass. In my view the State ment."—Sapa-Reuter. is obviously trying to rely on this Mrs. Castle announced plans for a sort of mental torture to break the new drive to beat South Africa’s resistance of those opposed to racial laws. apartheid.” An anti-apartheid month would Wolpe said he thought the object be launched in November with a of this sort of pressure was in­ march of thousands through tended to get people to talk and London. The British Govern­ so implicate themselves or others ment would also be called upon in their organizations. to grant asylum to all political The two men arrived in London LONDON. — Arthur Goldreich refugees and to demand the re­ by air from Tanganyika yesterday, and Harold Wolpe arrived at Lon­ having escaped from South Africa lease of prisoners in South don Airport yesterday from Dar- Africa. to Swaziland and then to Bechu- es-Salaam. analand. The movement would also appeal They declined to give any details A spokesman for the anti­ for funds to send a representa­ of their escape or to say with apartheid movement said that on tive to the Baden-Baden Olym­ whom they were associated, ex­ arrival the two men were auto­ pic Games meeting—in place of plaining that if they did so, others matically issued with deportation the shot Dennis Brutus—in an might be implicated. ! orders. But through the efforts of attempt to have South Africa Wolpe said it was typical of I Mrs. Barbara Castle, Labour M.P banned on the ground of her South African Government propa­ and a group of other M.F.s who racial laws. ganda to say that Africans could i took the matter up with the Home not lead, but in fact the African Secretary, the decision was re­ National Congress had been strug­ versed and the men were allowed gling against apartheid and segre­ into the country. gation since 1912. Also on board the plane was Mr. Vivian Ezra. Ail three men said they had j no immediate plans, Among those j The authorities gave them per­ mission to stay in Britain for two present months. ... They had been in Tanganyika LONDON, Tuesday. — Among i since their flight from South Africa I by way of Swaziland and Bechu- those present at the Press confer­ analand several weeks ago. ence, held in a basement interview j toom of the House of Commons, were Mrs. Wolpe and several WITH FRIENDS others who have fled from South They are thought to be staying I Africa, including Leon Levy, Joe with friends in London. Siovo, Brian Bunting, Wolf Kodesh They will attend a Press con­ and Oliver Tambo, deputy-presi- ference today in a House of Com­ j dent of the African National Con- mons committee room booked by ! gress, Yussuf Dadoo. ex-president Mrs. Barbara Castle. of the India Congress, and Nana Mrs. Castle will preside at the Mahomo of the Pan-Africanist conference, organised by the anti­ | Congress.—Sapa-Reuter. apartheid movement, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hodgson, who are due in London from Bechuanaland, may also be present.—SAPA-a .p ’ ■MpggMWMHHP i uite Marshallplein MEV. GOLDREICH GIS1 nia in hegtenis geneem is. In ’n onlnngse underhand met Daghreek wat in Marshall- plein se poiisieselie gevoer is, iiet mev. Goldreich gese dat sy ’ en die ander gevangenes, wat VRYGELAAT kragtens die 90-dae klousule EV. HAZEL ANNE GOLDREICH, eggenote van Ar­ van die Begswysigingsivet aan- M gehnu word, baie goed deur die thur Goldreich wat in Augustus uit Suid-Afrika polisie behandel word. Sy het ontsnap het en hom tans in linden bevind, is gistermid- slegs die Bybel gehad om te dag om 5.30 uit die polisieselle by Marshallplein, Johan­ lees maar daarnit kon sy geen genot of inspirasie put nie. nesburg, losgelaat. Haar twee kindertjies is sedert Mev Goldreich, netjies geklee | bwitekant die gebou waar sy *

No “ deal" with Mrs. Goldreich whether or not sin & hVn°Hld , e-ttify at the trial. Sh, V had called on him to discuss hei G e ld r e is h own position. Sunday Express Reporter Yesterday Colonel P. J. Venter IT„ wa® .n0t definite that Mrs acting head of the Johannesburg theH M61 GoIdreich, wife of f^ u n t y Branch, said: "The pos­ Arthnr^m 11 ®quare escaper sibility that Mrs. Goldreich may Arthur Goidremh, would testify be called as a State witness in hi athL nal o f -11 men arrested trial is extremely in a police raid on her Rivonia doubtful as- far as we are con­ home said Dr. Percy Vutar cerned." gputy-Attorney-Generayi, yester- Mrs. Goldreich was released Dr. Yutar heads the prosecu- from detention last Saturday, three days before she would have tl° n ln the anti-sabotage case completed the full 90 days Court,Court Pretoria,Pretted in last the week Supreme allowed under the 90-day deten­ tion clause of the General Law „ adm|tted that Mrs. Gold­ reich called on him at his special Amendment Act. Since her re­ lease she has been staying with oPtheinsJ he ? TuyS’ head9uarters friends. hi ue. Spec,f'1 Branch. Asked if She said last week that she .made a deal with Mrs did not intend to join her hus­ S l v re‘ l h he replied emPhati- band in England immediately. Caij ’ j^ j^ ave r^atte no deal.” _tie did not discuss with Mrs (See also Page Five)

i> rt ; d ! i T? k Elf persjne shf waarskyn- lik reeds Dinsdag in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria verskyn wanneer die op- spraakwekkende „Rivonia- saak” begin. lien van die belangrikste aangeklaagdes is Nelson Mandella, voormalige leier van die verbanne African National Congress. Hy sal saam met James Kantor, die bekende .lohannesburgse pro- kureur, Dennis Goldlierg, 'n ingenieur, Lionel Bernstein, 'n argilek, Walter Nisulti, 'n voormalige sekretaris-gp- neraal van die A.N'.O., Ah­ med Kathrada, van die Transvaal Indian Congress on nog vyf ander Banloes v erskyn. Hiille sal waarskynlik kragtens die Sabotasiewet aangekla- word. lawayo ... 9d. Usbury ... 1/- Mainly fine ant Rhodesia 1/3 SUNDAY^FXPRESS warm. JOHANNESBURG, OCTOBEk 6, 1963.

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| The dramatic scene outside .Marshall Square Police station | Johannesburg, yesterday when 3 3 - y e a r - o U M r Z l S f h ' " f u l / ’.3 hcr n,0,her- 1 ,,s- -Wa/m/, Tiiian, after Ooldreiclis release from 90-doy^ ention. ■ •■••••■••h i I 5

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reich freed BUBBLED OVER # Mrs. Goldreich last night celebrated her release with her family. A relative told me: “ She teas bubbling over with happiness. Her children, Nicholas and Paul, were very thrilled to see her and climbed all over her. “ Nicholas told her that he had come third in class and his youn­ ger brother, Paul, not to be out­ done, said that he had also done well at school. “ At this moment tit was 11.SO p.m.) Nicholas is on her lap and Paul is asleep.’’ Mrs. Goldreich has no immediate plans. The relative told me, that apart from the solitary confinement, she had been well treated at Marshall Square. She appeared to have lost weight, but was well. In addition to her mother and children. Mrs. Goldreich last night met other close relatives. They were ‘ thrilled to see her again.” No, 7 1 J f o A o f u g e WNTOR ALSO c h a r g e d * ‘ ‘ ^ ,„.y CORDON WINitpd

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secretary-general of the A.N.C to.« coll^ T rt‘yard an‘l told me re,ease.” a"erno°"w...... ,UI m-v AHMED KATHRADA, of ca«sc I ^ m y. bel«nsings be- OokSro7c^ thret year‘ old Mrs the Transvaal Indian Congress. at a loss f* J,t,ng freed, I Was childrenhS °her °f two ^ung And five others whose names “Coll"Colo ,,°r Words-Hords- Ii 87 days’ under f*£en t * J detained o i n e d fo?fob ■I was unable to obtain «ceiv° r !,.JVent- he had « C&S No details of the charge or r5 t £ ^ n‘'"m idpiuori?! G'” r‘' L“ A" ' M” S charges, were available yester­ day. thaV‘ , ' / ‘7 ,Ild establish was police .aided the O o u , ^ that the 11 accused would , i r /u ,;n appear under the Sabotage Act, under some of the pro- visions „f which the death ‘ P<«yrsinceau hCTft-sassk unt*Pec- n Z ! ? Ce , m‘ly " e ^Posed One hundred and sixty-five de­ tainees White and non-White h varim?a dH aPPcared in court ^ I las, 9, and Paid * sons- Nicho. for her ’ 5’ were waiting (Por news of k i see Back Page). ‘ haPPened, | The accused

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^ RIV ONIA IACCUSED Sabotage hearing starts tomorrow The Star’s Pretoria Bureau 'T'HE “RIVONIA TRIAL”— the trial on charges under the Sabotage Act of men and women detained at the time of the raid on the Rivonia home of Arthur Goldreich, and of others detained later— will begin in the Palace of Justice, Pretoria, tomorrow. It will be only a formal appearance for remand until a later date— possibly a fortnight — when the trial proper will start. It is not known how many will appear tomorrow. Small dock But among those detained at Rivonia were Walter Sisulu, 50-year-old former Secretary-General of the The dock is small—not more than about six people could get in it banned African National Congress, and Ahmed kalh- comfortably—and the people before court may be arranged in the rada. of the Transvaal Indian Congress. well ot the court. Others detained included The galleries are large. About Lionel Bernstein, Or. Hilliard 100 could sit comfortably at the back of the court, and another Festenstein, B. A. Hepple, an THEY WILL I40 in an upstairs gallery. advocate, and a former mem­ It is not known whether the pro­ ber of the Congress of Demo­ ceedings will be in public or in crats, Denis Goldberg. NOT BE | camera. ■k A "water bomb” was thrown Nine Africans were also on to people waiting outside Try detained, among them Gowan THERE i someone from a balcony ot the Mbeki of Port Elizabeth. The Star’s Pretoria Bureau Palace of Justice this morning. The best-known person who will [ The “ bomb ’’—water in a sealed appear tomorrow—and not among T W O people detained at : Government Service envelope — those detained at Rivonia’—is ■*" Rivonia will certainly not ! appeared to have been intended James Kantor, legal partner ahd be in court tomorrow—Arthur tor a group ot Atrican and Indian brother-in-law of Harold Wolpe, Goldreich and his wife Hazel. women sitting on the steps out­ who escaped with Arthur Gold­ Goldreich escaped from side the building It missed, the reich from Marshall Square on custody on August 11. women and hit the camera of a August 11 and who is now in Mrs. Goldreich was re- \ Press photographer. London. leased on Saturday afternoon, Kantor will be represented .by and yesterday had an inter­ senior counsel and it is probable view with the Deputy Attor- I an application for bail will be ney-GeneraJ, Dr, Percy Yurar, f made. S.A., in his temporary office at The Grays. Dr. Yutar will head the Status change State team for the prosecu­ .Mr. H. q. Nicholas, Q.C., with tion. ■ him Mr. H. Schwartz and Mr. D. Kuny, have been bneled by Mr. Jack Cooper, 6i Benjamin Joseph, Several Indian women were in saris, among them Mrs. Amina Cooper and Partners. The formal start of the trial will Cachalia. bring with it a change of status of the detainees. V icto rianstyle Until noon today they were Photographers and TV camera­ being held under the 90-da.y Act, men waited in vain. The group and so had no claim to many of dispersed quietly after about an the normal rights of prisoners, hour. such as legal representation. Tomorrow’s proceedings will But from the moment they were probably be held in G Court, one served with indictments they be­ of the criminal courts, on the came ordinary awaiting-trial ground floor of the building. Prisoners, with the right ot access It is a large chamber, furnished to the courts and to ask for bail. in Victorian style with brown The wrong announcement that j polished wood and dark red the trial would start today brought | leather upholstery. about 50 spectators to the Palace On the left is a jury bench—there of Justice. will be no jury tomorrow—and on Most of them were Africans, the right Press benches. among them women dressed in The Bar is in the centre and green and black uniform wearing the dock behind it, with steep a badge showing the face of Nelson concrete stairs leading from the Mandela. cells below. Sisulu’s wife Veronica was in traditional Tembu dress. Mandela’s aunt, Mrs. Koese, was also there. ^ armed invasion

V 222 SABOTAGE ACTS */ V > ON INDICTMENT HP HE 11 .MEN THE STATE ALLEGES committed 222 acts of sabotage in preparation for guerilla warfare and armed invasion of South Africa will stand trial on October 29. ^ them are two organizations, one known variously in the indictment as the “ National High Command,” the “ National Executive Committee of the National Liberation Movement” and “ Umkonto We Sizwe 0 Spear of the Nation ") and the other the legal firm of James Kantor and partners.

t h e y a re: \el.son Mandela. II alter Sisalu. Dennis Goldberg, Goran Mbehi, Ahmed Uohanied Kathrada, Lionel- Bernstein. Ray­ mond Mahlaba (these are the alleged National High Command), James Kantor, Elias Matsoaledi, Andrew 11langeni and Bob Alex­ ander Heppel. 1 lie acts of sabotage are alleged to ba\e been committed between August 10. 1961 and August 5, 1963 and include the blowing up of the office of the dataller. Durban, on January 18, 1963. They took place in all provinces of South Africa, and most were attacks against railway, post office and radio com­ munications and the offices of Bantu Affairs Commisi' * — Most are being defended by Mr. Dr. Yutar said he understood the The case bad been set down for Abraham Fischer, Q.C., who was defence wanted a remand. yesterday, but when counsel one of senior counsel in the trea­ Mr. A. Fischer, Q.C.. announced at lived th./y were told that the son trial. Kantor is repre­ that he was appearing for six of mdictment was not ready.' sented bv Mr. H. C. Nicholas, Q.C., the accused. He said t'here had “ It nashas taken«sen the Statestate three who also appeared for the defence been no time for consultation. months to frame the charges he at the treason trial. Mr. H. C. Nicholas. Q.C.. said h* fore the,the court and lnin additionaddition) They were not asked to plead. was appearing for Kantor. H< • d ^seized before the The five-page indictment alleges had only just seen the indictment La d ° n tl..d Rlvonia house," Mr. three counts: One under the Sabo­ and asked for. a remand of atj Fl^ r said, tage Act, one under the Suppres­ least four weeks. : Mr- Fiscl ‘w said that the state sion of Communism Act, and one under the Criminal Procedure Act. The judge said he did not see casc lnaV 1 a , SJX weeks and the why such a long adjournment was acc»sed fat-eu 222 charges. The The men are alleged to have necessary. He said it would be defence mu,* have time to inves- acted in conceit with Vivian Ezra, possible to reserve cross-examina- J^ate thesi6 cases, which had Arthur Goldreich. Harold Wolpe, tion. taken place over a period of two Percy Hodgson, Joe Slovo, Robert Dr. Yutar said the State’s ° u? ree yea'rS'. Resha. Oliver Tambo and several attitude was that an adjournment „ "fent c 11- There is an old others now out of South Africa, of two weeks was adequate. He that iVstice must not only and the Communist Party of added that the very latest date ? on®’ but justice must be seen South Africa and the African that the State would agree to 1° be do” e- The accused in this' National Congress. would be Tuesday October 29. are the P(!ople who carry, the Mr. Fisher: "The accused aren ^ L !"eSPre? l of -f w ? Iarge pr°- Revolution charged on 222 charges of sabo- °f th,e pJpu ation’ and fo r ; ______this reason alone Justice should be ’ .. Tlle indictment adds that they seen to be done. conspired to commit, or incited. “There should oe no urgency to | aideci advised, encour- Indictment bring them to trial. We want jus- ! °i Procured other persons to I tr.™nid acts of sabotage prepara- The full indictment ap- tice to be seen to be done,” Mr. „ , • ., • and in facilitation of, pears on Page Five. Fischer said. or I '1,1* "arfare in the Republic He concluded by saying that the trial had been sprung on the arii)edUl|!,Afr‘ca' complied with an ^ ^ “ Vnra^em j tZr weekfiswhol^TnSat^ last At 10.10 V l r „ i minutef t,? ’r !& ^d The defLce needed time° tus de Wet thP T HUStiCC Q: lal; ons^lt 6 Ce t0 ^ his reply Dr. Yutar said the j took the Beiirh e Jud8e'Piesldent> ' State had spent about a month Dr. Ppivm ,, After the adjournment, Mr. preparing the case. The defence, nc\-Genen~. Yutar- Deputy Attor- Fisher asked for a postponement in conjunction with the accused announced tvf tlle Tra" svaal- who Provisionally until November 11. should be able to interpret thtthe the ni-nja, i1131 he was leading , , , documents easily. Naude a M u ° t wiUl Mr- J- t Judge’s power “Mv i , L Mr' T- B- Vorster, said:—------I., t i n n i e r State a„9 ■ 1 cad tbe casc of the One of the reasons for his __ _—5 ___ _ Commandant the National HlSh ! request was that the judge has the •• i am prepared to assist the "I- -.«uuhand ini, m ° thers- , — I power‘------to — grant» ----- an— adjournment,—j----...... ueienye defence all all Tfg, along---- 0 the „— ^ line, —, but the annex./IQ t-llPUle indictmentinHirf-.mont- andonH I TTnriprUnder cppHnnsection 1150 rvFof flv/athe nnHocode a certain___j._:— witnesses------niUStmust be C8,lledct AttorneAttornev-c» d ' 1 V ,also...... lland—• ln...... the“ | trial—- should -...... - take — place not...... less— before ...... the end of the month. that the- General nr elal Ss nnt.hnrWotioT.authorization 1 than 21 31 rinvQdays afterQftpr au nrpnorapreparatory tnrv -.. 1t fearrno,- forfm. theirtv,..!,. safety, and.... it sabotage a 1>C charged with examination, but now that the is desirable that certain other summarily/’summoi anu that U ty be tried General Law Amendment Act had witnesses be allowed to testify and made it possible to have a sum- get this case over as soon as pos- mary trial he felt it was still the sible. The State wants to start *°llr iveeks intention of the legislature to have on October 29. a reasonable period before the trial The jjudge said ^a period Uiof OI1XCCthree Tli ------started. Yutar ,udee asked whether Dr. weeks would be quite sufficient. Mr. Fischer said the men had even if further postponements Plead o m d lhc accused t0 • oi he wanted a remand. been arrested on July 11. The were necessary during the trial Press had sqid that loads of docu­ He adjourned the case to ments had been seized. The State October 29. has had to labour on the case for ! a full three months. ♦ Turn to Page 3. Column 5. R Sta* alleges Bivonia mell planned Yutar fears & for safety o f witnesses PRETORIA REPORTER R. PERCY YUTAR, Deputy Attorney-General of the D Transvaal, opposed a lengthy adjournment of the Rivonia trial in the Supreme Court, Pretoria, yesterday, because he feared for the safety of witnesses. Dr. Yutar, replying to a four- week adjournment plea by the defence counsel in the case, said he was prepared to help the de­ fence “all along the line,” but witnesses should be allowed to testify and ‘get this matter over.” The trial was postponed until dock nOctober 29 after Mr. Justice De Wet, who was on the Bench, said that, in his opinion, three weeks’ J, adjournment was, at this stage, 4 . sufficient for the defence to study ts to appear the indictment. Earlier, while applying for a month’s adjournment, Mr. A. T H E MEN IN I HE DOCK of the Palace of Justice a ll! Fischer, Q.C., one of the defending looked draw n. Mr. l'ischer, applying lor a remand, spoke counsel, said that a number of the ° their mental state following 88 days of solitary confine- i 11 men charged with complicity ment. in 222 acts of sabotage, were not Mandela. In the past nine months ; in a fit state to appear and needed He said they were not In a fit j he has lost at least 301b. in weight rest. state to appear. “ They need some and is thin and disspirited. He has considerable rest. For 90 days they aged many years. CONFINEMENT have been in solitary confinement So, too, has Sisulu.' Both are now tor 23 hours a day. They have had i clean-shaven. They were dressed in | He said the men had been kept one hour of exercise. They have new khaki uniforms with open- in solitary confinement for three hot been allowed to talk to any­ necked shirts. months, with only one hour of one. exercise a day. } n the Criminal Code solitary Furthermore, he alleged that onnnement has always been very they had been “subject to >theri in- i*lly re?!>lated. No more than stresses and strains.” They had two days solitary confinement and been interrogated, threatened and) :p®re diet per week is allowed even offered rewards. nc,er the present code. This was later challenged oy THREATENED Dr. Yutar. “There is not a word of truth in these allegations,” he ,.r,„,ri1ese accused have been in said. confinement for 88 days. They Appearing before Mr. Justice _tl7 e been subjected to other J esses and strains. Threats have ♦ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 meen, diade. They have been inter- gated and they have even been offered rewards.” YUTAR’S ^iseher said these conditions ’ “4 be changed. Even now they kept in single cells for FEAR FOR ft .„OUrsir ‘ and in these conditions the case ” 6 1Inpossible to prepare WITNESSES Yutor f fisch®r 'Was assured by Dr. De Wet, Judge-President of the are nn«,°i State) that the men Transvaal, were: awaitinn t.b®\ng treated as ordinary Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, theyw0gUd a‘ PnSoners and that Dennis Goldberg, Govan Mbeki with counsel ^ t0 consult rreel>’ Ahmed Mohamad Kathraaa.’ Lionel Bernstein, Raymond Man- k a n t o r s b a il laba, James Kantor, Ellas Mat- soaledi, Andrew Mlangeni and Bob an application5 the court thal ' Alexander Hepple. would be mad bail for Kantor HIGH COMMAND sas. ss I The first seven are alleged to ““ r.tition . i ° , r„ , ,h*nt“ du n U"‘ " ! be members of an organisation variously as the “National change shows the most n Physical appearance is High Command,” the “National Executive Committee of the Na- Tn>su<,(/tn __j PRETORIA, Wednesday. 'T H E indictment against 12 people, who are appearing on charges under the General Law- Amendment Act in the m e d ica l Are extinguishing s e rv ic e s . phone wires cut between Port Eliza- i beth and Grahamsiown (12.30 am ) Supreme Court in Pretoria, (D) Any postal, telephone or tele­ was released today. Seven of graph services or installations or „»°Pt0T ? r 2?/27: Telephone cable cut radio transmitting, broadcasting or t r a tin n >ePanfflle n t ° C TvaPtu Adminis- | the 12 are named in the indict­ (nlghO Offlo63' Pietermaritzburg | re%\Vm£ . ser7 ices or installations. ment as members of the tty ihe free movement of anv December 15: Plastic holder with traffic on land. h^o-grey powder packed against National High Command, the (F) Any property, whether mov­ office door of Municipal Bantu Ad- able or immovable, of any other ,0,i5ces' Ordnance Road, National Executive Com­ person or of the State; (9 15b p mE)XPl° Sion caused no damage mittee of the National Libera­ .„ (2),J Conspired with other persons tion Movement and the Um- to aid or procure the commission of or to commit, or incited, instigated P O L E S S A W N konto We Sizwe (the Spear commanded, aided, advised en­ 76/17: Two wooden elec- of the Nation). couraged or procured other persons trie light poles sawn off corner Var tp commit the aforementioned wrong­ StreetS' Bedford ful and wilful acts of sabotage vFewe(nighO Smith The seven are Nelson Mandela, December 16: Home-made born! former leader of the banned preparatory to, and in facilitation of' guerilla warfare in the Republic of £ !!'er8d doors and damaged win African National Congress J™ ? a‘ Central Road Post Office bouth Africa, coupled with an armed Fords. Johannesburg (10-12 nm ) Walter Sisulu, former Secretary- invasion of. and a violent revolution agafnstmb,w .16: Cheniicpl bomb placet General of the African National in. the said republic, all of which against door of Municipal Banti ,of their conspiracy, were Congress, Dennis Goldberg, a actively planned and envisaged on x>oorD o ? ," 01 blowy ? Z c n e - Dube' out and Johannesburg window* former member of the banned ? ™‘lltary basi3 «Pd with hostile damaged. One African killed (9.2( Congress of Democrats, Govan intent in order to disturb, impair or endanger the independence and December 16: Chemical bomtj Mbeki, former member of the damaged electrical sub-station Eastern Cape branch of the Africa °f the Republic of South Framesely, Port Elizabeth (9.15 p .m ? A.N.C., Ahmed Mohamed Kath- (3) Possessed explosives, Are arms daD“ ber, 16: Chemical bomb and weapons. rada, former secretary o f the makerskloof.0 ‘p o r ^ S t h B (9T5' Transvaal Indian Congress SECOND COUNT Lionel Bernstein, an architect,’ The second count, under the S u d - d£ ^ ? f thebeBam? Labour and Raymond Mahlaba. Pre^on.of Communism Act, alleges These seven are joined as that during or about the period July S e'(^ e; mB,nshton' p°rt Eii^ - 1. 1961, to July 11, 1962. and at the December 16: Chemical homh members of an association under places mentioned in count 1 th e damaged offices of the Bantu Ad­ the Criminal Procedure Act, and accused acting in concert and* con- ministration Office. New Brighton are listed separately in their S \ ' „ d making common purpose Port Elizabeth (9.15) rignton, individual capacities. y 'tb the Persons and bodies men­ December 16: Chemical bomb tioned in count 1. engaged in a RnT.IPw °m£,es. of the Bantu School . ? Johannesburg attorney, course Of conduct during which they both in lus personal capacity and as wrongful y and unlawfully performed ?9 15 p .m T ,g lton' Port Elizabeth a partner with Harold Wolpe in an acts, which were planned' and en­ December 16/17: Tneendiary bomb tin own into post box of office of FIiaslaM01}' ? ? thfn the name3 of visaged in terms Of their conspiracy Matsoaldi, Andrew Mlangeni aPd wblch were calculated to further Portuguese Curator. Market Street Johannesburg (night) ’ aSvocafe AIexa"der Hepple. an 8 a<^levement of one or more or al‘ ,c’f the objects of Communism. December 17: Chemical bomb caused slight damage to doors and cnunt5 are of sabotage a count under the Criminal L mw a,"d ot, ounces under the Suppres­ A mendment Act alleges that during » Bantu Commissioner’s sion of Communism Act and of con­ or about the period July 1 1961 ?2 ^fa ierbe Street Fordsburg travening the Criminal Law Amend- to J u l y 11, 1963, and at the ’ places W W k A c t ______mentioned in count 1. th e a ccu se d BOMB DAMAGE Annexures list 522 separate' acts of acting in concert and conspiring and sabotage, stretching in time from making common purpose witlf the d a t e s ' ? 1’ 17;a Chemical bomb damaged doors and windows of Bantu D e ce m b e r 15, 1961 — w h e n an e x - persons and bodies named in count plostve was placed against the door 1, engaged m a course of conduct Sh2!SUstrat,0P ° mce’ Bezuidenhout rine>;eti p ^ueirastown, Johannesburg of the Municipal Bantu Adminiatra during which they wrongfully and tion orncpis m nin-bnn ___ unlawfully solicited, accepted and tion offices in Durban — until December 17: Chemical bomb snnTedK T ney, from various per? HnfU=Se TJ5, 1363, when a telephone sons or bodies of persons, both with- damaged doors and walls Bantu line at Roodepoort was cut. A frP? outaid« the Republic of Soutli h ,??rST 9fflces- Carr Street. Fords? The charge sheet not only alleges Africa, and gave money to various burg, Johannesburg (2.15 a.m.). acts of sabotage, but alleges that persons or bodies of persons fo? c .te ”iber 17: Chemical bomb these were preparatory to, and in the purpose of enabling or assisting rwn?d at Rissik Street Post order to facilitate, guerilla warfare Office, Johannesburg (night). commission of offences, such a! December 17: Petrol strewn over in South Africa, coupled with an are detailed in counts l and 2 in armed invasion of and a violent support of a campaign again? Offi1e°f PnntUuAffai/ s Commissioner's revolution in South Africa. Office, Engcobo, from red plastic AfHhae laWS °f tbe R «pabfic ofsom h container. Container not lighted Africa, or in support of a campaign A T R I V O N I A E ? I ' ? ; iPeK .th r,°0u« b u '>bP ltad w indow .' for the repeal or modification of such December 18: Chemical bomb—no The count of sabotage alleges that laws or variation or limitation of the nm ^Ser,c/?Uf!?d ,17 in Phirima Post or about the period June 27, application or administration of such ^ es^. Johannesburg. laws, such campaign be?ng that 19 a2, JuIy 11: 1963' at Rivonia oii?nieldber dynamite used and and Mountain View', Johannesburg: planned and envisaged in terms slight damage caused in peri-urban d is t r ic t O ffice. K lip to w n . and at Travallyn, Krugersdorp. as l a n d ° 2SP‘raCy referred t0 m counts well as at other centres in South D e ce m b e 1- 18: Dynamite used - Africa, the accused, acting in c o n ­ , 2,'dly „any damage— superintendent’s a n n e x u r e s office, Zone three. Meadowlands. c e r t and conspiring and making b ao™ ”°n Purpose with Vivian Ezra li,T,heth^nn^ n™ af t0 the 19 Indictment t«Sec? ? b. r- 20: T,wo Iess °t cacb ot lists the following acts— fii •__ t w o electric pylons damaged by I Halmel p0seph T Goldreich, Michael djnamite at Lombardy East near ttarUiH ' ? f rcyv Hodgson. Joe Slovo Eden vale Hospital. Home-made e ll? Haiold Strachan. Harold WolDe Jo°hnS KTotanev; Tennyson Makiwane, & edTonwnh? „ eigPh°t1t b°XeS in Centra‘ “ tta fS S S ,were used' Works like Modlse JOpTP, ‘ Marks- Johannes October S/9: Telephone cables cut January 8, 1962: Two petrol bombs J a m e s tI d T Duma Nokwe, underground between Johannesburg an? O h™ P»debc, Robert Resha, Pretoria and Leeukop, and between Partv' nfr J al?!bo' tbe Communist Johannesburg and Krugersdorp A fr ic a n ,?outb Africa and the 1: October 8/9; Telephone cables sawn in ‘a cou^a1 °rnaI ConSress- engaged off against pole at Meerdale Johnn they wrontf°M eonduct during which nesburg (night). ’ JobdpA ( 1 ) rv,? Kfully and unlawfully: October 8: Twenty telephone wires ful )ac??'lmL“ e,d wrongful and wil- cut one mile outside Alberton on envisaeed Tn'C^ Were planned and road to Heidelberg (night)? spiracv “ ‘1 ‘®rms of their con- October 9: Dynamite placed in in dainatred ? he.reby they injured, j o t l Z l T u ?“ and telephone cab "; les? nn' de3tr°yed. rendered use- blasted between LeeukoD and action unserviceable, put out of nesburg (night) P and Johan- polluted obstruct°d. tampered with, October 8/9: Telephone cables cut f dangered; contamlnatad or en- D & ° ( Unnight?etWeen Sprin«a aad > T f puMic T1‘6 health or safety of the P °o i°baT J*ukJe7 River'd Lombardy order Th6 maSntenance of law and (C) The supply or distribution at any place of light, power, fuel, food- stuns or water, or of sanitary, October 12. Seven pairs of tele-

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February 19: Chemical bomb — thrown through window of municipal caused no damage—Rissik Street workshops, New Brighton. No post office, Johannesburg (night). damage. February 4: Burning cigarette to­ December 5: Dent caused by dyna- gether with live matches in post box JW® explosion, electric transmission at Caledon post office, Cape Town. pole at Umlaas Bridge near Louis February 7: Chemical bomb placed Botha Airport, Durban. No damage in telephone booth-door torn apart (evening). “ and roofing cracked. In Donkin Street. Port Elizabeth (at 8 p.m.) December 9: Two props of tower February 7/9: Chemical bomb—no torn off by explosion, lowering cables which were ripped off by damage caused — Bantu Com­ missioner’s Office, Johannesburg. rmeoi iPycorV a,,olii two miles from Clmdale Station. Damage, R2.000. March 10: Petrol bomb—no damage caused—Bantu dwelling. New Brigh­ December 18: Incendiary bomb ton. Port Elizabeth (1 a.m.) thrown at parked Government March 10: Telephone wires cut — vehicles in Cape Town (Castle area). unknown instrument used—at Kwa­ Medicine bottle containing benzine zakele Location, Port Elizabeth (9 used. No damage. p .m .) December 23: Time-bomb made March 13: Railway telephone wires from a waterpipe, fixed to railway cut at New Brighton. Port Elizazbeth cable on the Esplanade, next to the ( n ig h t ). , °S. ™ain ‘ine fr°m docks to W ests Station, Durban. No explosion. L A N G A R IO T December 23: Home-made bomb March 16: Police vehicle bombarded ™ i 1 J?o st box. M a in with petrol bombs during riot — Dam aged: WeSt Street Dul'ban' Langa Location, Cape Town. Vehicle overturned and set alight. One Afri­ FIFTEEN ACTS can constable killed and other January. 1963: Fifteen acts of wounded at 10.20 p.m. sabotage, six involving dynamite. April 15: Home-made bomb placed Three explosions, one injuring White against gaol door — Roeland Street 5?aa m8Ikmg in Durban street. In gaol, Cape Town. T(uWn' 5P gallons of petrol lost July 7/8: Home-made time bomb y'ben the petrol pipe of a supply placed under hand basin in Bantu tank in the harbour was unscrewed. Commissioner’s Office, Evaton. Bomb Towli JaSuary 23/24. in the old found before explosion. i Synagogue, Paul Kruger July 20: Burning cigarette placed ftneet. Prpt°na a tin pail contain- in post box, together with live Si’«ks dynamite and a tin matches. Two cases in Cape Town. August 12: Dynamite placed in expfoasTon S6ed ° U were found- No Wilberforce post office, Evaton, i 963: Nineteen acts of Vereeniging. All windows shattered, t SR k ?* e” PrPtorla, Johannesburg. hole ripped in floor and ceilings. Onc- ™ J r L .Cf Pe _To\vn,, Port Elizabeth roomed office. and East London. African school in August 26: Loaded blasting cart­ Langabuya Location. Paarl, des­ ridge—about 12-15 inches—under­ troyed on February 18, when burn- ground. placed at outer legs of corner \AftdowPer WaS tbrown through a tower with electric starter at electric pylon, about two miles from Putfon- tein police station, Benoni district. wMch^jnclude^6 attempts0 toSJdisrupt One blast exploded. September 2: Dynamite used—floor & U T d X rlL Adelai§e’ P°« Eliza- and ceiling damaged — at Bantu April: Five acts, including the Reference Bureau, Orlando, Johan­ b'o'v'ng up of an empty building on n e sb u rg . wiViTrKmi^tr18^3 in J°hannesburg September 18: Incendiary bomb with dynamite. A signal box was not thrown into dwelling of Bantu ser­ damaged. Eighteen sticks of dyna­ geant. New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. mite connected with two fuses were September 19: Home-made bomb placed in the Fordsburg Post Office thrown into municipal beer hall, New of.."'hicR one detom aL°l and four sticks of dynamite Brighton. Port Elizabeth. exploded, .Tbere was no damage. BOTTLE THROWN May. 1963: Five acts of sabotage fivo ™ rf ?hmed sabotage—bundles of September 22: One bottle bomb !}f” e ™ , aAc„he a eat h foi ln d in flve b a le s thrown in Bantu single quarters of of cotton on board a ship bound South African Police, New Brighton, from Port Elizabeth to Liverpool Port Elizabeth. No damage. Only the match heads appeared. September 23: Incendiary bomb a telephone line used Bantu dwelling, Lovedale at Roodepoort was cut Two nponip C o lle g e . die? through sabotage attempts and September 23: Inflammable bottle at least 17 were injured.— (Sapa.) bomb left in office of Bantu Adminis­ tration, Duncan Village, East Lon- . don. September 23: New Brighton, attempt to set fire to wool on wool auctioneers’ premises. September 23: Telephone wires cut —Kwazakele Location, Port Elizabeth. September 23: Paraffin thrown against door of factory and set alight at Korsten. September 24: Incendiary bomb used—Bantu dwelling, Port Eliza­ beth. September 23: Stone crushers and explosive arsenal forced and per­ cussion caps stolen at Redhouge. From September 24-30 there were eight sabotage attempts in Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannes­ burg. Incendiary bombs, dynamite, paraffin and bottle bombs were used. During October there were nine sabotage attempts in Port Elizabeth. Johannesburg and Durban. October 14: An incendiary bomb was placed in the carriage of a passenger train at Phoenix Station. Durban. Detonator exploded but substance in the tin did not catch a lig h t. October 15: R120.000 damage was caused when oil leaked and caught fire after an explosive, placed on top of a drum against a transformer at the sub-power plant, south of Rail­ way Bridge, Fordsburg, Johannes­ burg, ignited. Sabotage men’s * * treatment

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trial prisoners. senior official of the The judge asked Dr Percy! ----- said] Yutar, Deputy Attorney-General Prisons Department 0f the Transvaal who is leading most had been held in terms the state case, whether it was of section 17 of the General possible for him to say that there scene of I gw Amendment Act — the was evidence of Kantor’s compli- 9 0 l y T e ? e ” ion section - cUy In •»««. ..be- and were subject to the con- Dr Yutar: There is no doubt ditions of------imprisonmenti- -pro- -UUULabout 1Lit at 0.1*.ail. ^tggest virled• i .1 r for - in _ that lour law. TViThe a m men e m a appearedn r only briefly

sabotage year for incitement and leaving the country illegally. The ten 90-day detainees also accused are Dennis Goldberg, trial Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, ot Port Elizabeth; Ahmed Kathrada, Pretoria Reporter Lionel Bernstein, Raymond Mah- PRETORIA’S old granite laba, James Kantor, Elias Matsoa- Supreme Court, overlooking ledi, Andrew Mlangeni and Bob ne capital city’s historic Church j Hepple. . quare, was yesterday the scone j The official said they were not f the biggest sabotage trial heldj allowed visitors or to write or ] i South Africa. receive letters, without the ex- In the heavily-draped court — i press permission of the Minister he first of the three courts lead- of Justice or a commissioned ng from the domed foyer of the police officer. This permission milding — 11 men appeared on had been granted on "quite a harges alleging 222 acts of j few occasions.” abotage. OUTNUMBERED Visits and By 9,30 a.m. armed security and iniformed police were concen-! letters ;rated in force at the entrances] to the building, and by far out-j It was not true that all 90-day numbered the spectators. detainees were kept in solitary When the hearing started soon confinement. The conditions of after 10 a.m. the public gallery their accommodation depended was packed, but security police on the facilities available at the still made up about a third of the place where they were being held. people in the courtroom. Now, however, the 11 men will Humid conditions in the court be accorded the same treatment rapidly became worse as people as any other awaiting-tnal crammed the doorways. prisoner. They will be allowed An old-fashioned fan suspended regular visits from friends and from the high ceiling swished in­ relatives and he able to write effectively with a lopsided beat and receive letters. at times the only sound in the The only work they would have court. to do would be personal tasks, At 10.08 the accused were led like making their beds and keep­ up the steps from the underground ing their cells tidy. cells and into the ornately carved It was pointed - out that the dock. prison authorities preferred to A second temporary dock, a place awaiting trial prisoners in skeletal wooden structure, was cells alone, but this was not Provided for the overflow from the always possible, and sometimes dock. more than one was accommo­ SMILED dated in a cell. Outside the building security Kantor bail precautions were strict and armed police stood guard in all corridors ] in the court building itself. Aj refused policeman even replaced the lift-] man, and others stood by with An application for bail for satchels of tear gas bombs. Kantor was refused by Mr Justice Once in the dock the accused Quartus dc Wet. , were subdued, occasionally smil­ The application was made on j ing or joking with each other. Kantor’s behalf by his counsel., Without exception they fixedly; Mr H C. Nicholas. watched slightly built Dr. Percy The judge said there was no Yutar. S.A., the Deputy Attorney-; General and the State Prose-, preventKantoT'sUPP^ng over the j cutor. I 6 6 ~0

Mr. Alex Hepple, toriner leader of the Labour Party and father of Bob Hepple, leaves the court after the 4)4*1 adjournment. RIVONIA RAID CAPITAL V TRIALS SOON CHARGES CECUR1TY POLICE at The Grays Police Headquarters m S are working full “> g™ of the escape to Becliuanaland of two of their big UA* A g a i n s t Arthur Goldreich and Harold Wolpe. ___ Working in close consultation < i with the Attorney-General s Office, W ^ a i n e e s !, thev expect prosecutions to be opened soon against several people Crime Reporter taken in the Rivonia raid more (CHARGES for which the death than a month ago. Summary sentence can be imposed will trials are expected to take place be brought against certain 90- at the Rand Criminal Sessions. day detainees, including some of Fresh information is continually the people held in the Rivonia being received at The Grays. This, raid in July, at trials due to start together with documents found at next week. Rivonia, is being thoroughly A police spokesman said there examined. was still some speculation about the dates on which actual trials The Johannesburg attorney, Mr. would start. However, a number James Kantor, who was detained of detainees, including those ar­ under the 90-day clause of the: rested at Rivonia, whose deten­ General Law Amendment Act tion periods expired on Tuesday shortly after the break-out from or Wednesday, would appear in Marshall Square of four detainees, magistrates' courts for formal re­ is unlikely to be released in the mand to the Supreme Court, near future. Pretoria. He is concerned in security Although the trials are expected police investigations which are to hinge on allegations of sabot­ preceding the expected prosecu­ age and subversion, it is under­ tions...... stood that even more serious Extra security police activities charges will be brought against throughout the country, initiated some of the detainees. at the time of the search for the four escaped detainees, arc being SENSATIONAL maintained despite the fact that Police have indicated that evi­ Goldreich and Wolpe are m dence will consist of sensational Bechuanaland. The search for material which will "shock the the other two, Moosa Moolla and country.” Abdulhai Jassat, continues. The Minister of Justice, Mr. Vorster, said recently that 165 White and non-White detainees would appear in court on saDot- af,e and related charges. He said ^'legations were still being in­ s tig a te d against 85 others. AMNESTY escaPed detainee, Arthur oidreich, whom Mr. Vorster de- ™ '°ed as one of the "big fishes” f MAN AT n-°/v,d also have been charged with offences against the Republic ®anous enough to have merited TRIALS the death sentence, it was learnt %, yesterday, The executive secretary of | j Amnesty International, the organ- ALSO CHARGED I ization “ concerned with prisoners | of conscience throughout the Most of the evidence, in th | world,” arrived in Johannesburg form of documents, letters, diarlei yesterday on a ten-day visit to typewriters and other equipmem South Africa. was discovered in his Rivani house. He attended the Blaxall trial to­ day and will be in the public u wife, Hazel Goldreich, wh gailerv at the Palace of Justice, o _ , detained at Marsha Pretoria, for the trial of the Square, will aiso be charged. Rivonia detainees. He is Mr. Peter Benenson, a againX6? WU1 also be brougr !jL, , James Kantor, the Johan London barrister, who is also eri att°rney, who was arresl secretary for the International a fln j clty office in Augus Association for Catholic Lawyers. Em,oW ? ays aftcr the Marsha His 1 ission in South Africa is to square breakout. find out to what extent religious organizations can carry on their i ' missions in South Africa. Amnesty is supported by all religious denominations and politi­ cal parties in Britain and other democratic countries. Members form groups throughout the world and each adopts one or more " prisoners of conscience ” in tire East and the West. I U a A j n 6 1 o w m ^5 "T IAyv£/o

t crank or from someone trying very hard to disguise his hand­ writing and literary standard. “The gist of the note, which I | WIFE AT | In court certainly don’t remember verbatim, ls to the following effect. ‘You COURT must look after your own family, ;! JAMES KANTOR’S counsel.

mitted by his counsel. The application was refused by the Judge - President, Mr. Justice De Wet. Kantor in his statement Discussing Constable Johannes blames Wolpe for his detention. Transactions Greeff, who was recently sen­ Kantor says he knew both tenced to six years’ imprison­ Goldreich and Mrs. Goldreich “for “I was asked,” Kantor states ment after having been found some years and had seen them at "by Sergeant Van Rensburg t< guilty of complicity in the occasional parties, but there was explain certain trust accoun Goldreich-Wolpe escape, Kantor ill-feeling between Goldreich and transactions regarding a property states that he does not know me because about ten years ago, ‘Lily Leaf’ (the name of Goldreich’i Greeff at all, and continues: he (Goldreich) persuaded me to Rivonia home), the transfer o «... they (Goldreich and invest in a furniture manufactur- which was apparently handled b: j Wolpe) did not even pay the ln® venture which cost me in a my office and which is thi j | bribe they promised.” Matter of a few months an amount property at which Goldreich am | Kantor *ay» that be is eura, IX others were arrested. I of R4.000." lO M f l “I am Informed by the Specia t Kantor’s then business part- Branch that in respect of thi . ner also lost money in this trans­ ‘Lily L eaf’ transaction all thi e action. When Goldreich’s Kivo- requisitions bear Wolpe's signa . " Ia home was raided in July, ture and also the cheques which Kantor states, he received a were issued. telephone call from Goldrcich's mother, who asked him to go to; “I am further told that most of the Goldreich home to fetch the them also bear my signature. I children. cannot recall the transaction at all, but naturally accept that this "This was the very first occa­ is the position. sion in my life that I had ever “What I cannot accept, how­ been there,” Kantor said. ever, is the assumption by the MRS. WOLPE . . . her fugi­ > r Special Branch that I must a Courting have had guilty knowledge of tive ^ husband “completely this, or for that matter, any lacking in consideration” for met Wolpe “nine to ten years other transaction of an illegal f ?■ when he was courting my matter handled by Wolpe. 5-rrrsx j jj j j j , , ■ srer Annmarie.” He later "The other point that I was p o a c h e d Wolpe to Join his legal questioned about in regard to exonerate him from any com­ ‘Lily Leaf’ was a bank guarantee plicity in planning the escape. r * must make it clear that apparently signed by Wolpe and yc . * aware that Wolpe’s poli- countersigned by me. I cannot 90-day Bill __ Vlews appeared to run along remember this particular trans­ Wmunist lines . . . he gave action, but I am quite sure the After the Rivonia raid, Kantor tlm.understanding at the documents must have been pre­ says, “Wolpe began to keep away WoulH f°re joining me, that he sented to me already prepared, from the office. This in itself was ful '"Kage in any unlaw- and I merely signed in the normal nothing new, as he had done it _ r ° lt*cal activities at all and course of events.” exactly the same thing after the promulgation of the ‘90-Day Bill’ I u l l p“rely on that basis that * bim into my practice.” and on a previous occasion before Blame that, the details whereof I can In terro^ .f^ 1®5 that while under no longer recall. Kantor continues: “I cannot Picture or v f1- he was shown a "I had not the slightest idea of th 01 Vivian Ezra (the director too strongly stress the fact that that he intended to try and cross Goldreir>v,‘l0mpany which bought Wolpe made it quite clear that the border." aithmi^n 8 Rlvonia home), “and apart from normal legal work he The next occasion on which gested8tl ®ergeant Van Zyl sug- was completely inactive politically, Kantor recalled seeing Wolpe was to on- » t Ezra had never been and it is only in the light of his after Wolpe’s arrest. wronv oftlce. I think that he is arrest, escape and flight from the “I arranged with Colonel that r l 1 am 99 Per cent, certain country and also what I have Klindt to see Wolpe at my office our wair e seen him both in been told by the police, that I am during the time that the Special office dltlnKroom and in Wolpe’s beginning to realise that there Branch were searching his introri., allhough I must have been more to his acti­ office^with his hair dyed and ” odUced to him.” vities than he disclosed to me, his beard shaved off, he was and that he has acted in a man­ hardly recognisable.” Police°rC*ing to the statement, the ner completely lacking in con­ the they have evidence that On the Monday following the sideration for his wife and family reiCh’sansaction to acquire Gold- escape of Goldreich and Wolpe a and for me as his partner, as I note was delivered to Kantor’s throi.ei-Rivonia home was done office. nr°bgh Kantor’s office. feel that he is entirely to blame for my detention." J7t_was either from an illiterate \VoU*> HatoVd IWtfHprwaf*? Professors hit at UN demand ^ By DAVID PINCUS - 'J , W O professors of law at the University of the Witwatersrand yesterday condemned the demand made by the United Nations at its General t Assembly session on Friday, that South Africa should abandon the sabotage e trial in Pretoria and release those standing trial. The two men—Professor H. will ensure that those who are R. Hahlo and Professor Ellison standing trial, will, if they are Kahn—considered the demand not guilty, be found not guilty. to be impertinent, unpreceden­ That is a luxury that Ghana, ted interference in the domes­ one of our accusers, apparently tic affairs of an autonomous denies its own political offenders, State. most of whom are in jail without They considered that by bring­ having been tried.” ing the alleged offenders to a Professor Hahlo, Dean of court, South Africa— unlike some Faculty of Law at the university, of its accusers—was acting in said: the best tradition of Western "No country would dream of dropping a trial for sabotage or civilisation and in accordance treason because other countries with the rule of law. ask it to do so. “Now that the matter is being Immoral dealt with by a court of law, it Professor Kahn, Professor ol will be dealt with in accordance Law at the university, said: “It with the law.” Is immoral to ask a country to Professor H. R. HAHLO. stop the trial of people accused of sabotage or treason. “It-is immoral to ask that the trial of people who are alleged to be prepared to kill, maim and damage property by the use of high explosives should be stop­ ped. “The whole thing smacks of sanctimonious hypocrisy on the part of some of the accuser States. “I would be distressed if those responsible for the bombings in the Deep South of the United States weren’t brought to a pro­ per trial.” Condemning Professor Kahn said that, by condemning the trial, the United Nations was, by impli­ cation, condoning the bombing of innocent people as a means of attaining a political end. He described the demand as "a rather emotional outburst of im­ mature States” and added “that the older, maturer States were ill-advised to stand in line. “It is obvious that the older States have forsaken moral values for political gain. “The ordinary process of law P.O. box fake shock for Rand business man siixnAY TIMES CHIEF REPORTE a STODA;',™!,S, ■",h,nn"l’"rs'

; L n i : : r . p - p~ * - * *«— "— •' ,>" " on"l"y " without tlie business man> knowledge^ — ------! The man is also said to hav '.given the business mans prvvat address in Parkwood as his t The man whose name was use is Mr. Desmond G. Williams Southern Africa representative o House might a whisky distilling firm, a. ; war hero. He rose from th of private in the Witwatersram , Rifles to that of Major withjth< ave been Wits.-De la Rey Regiment in Itafi i where he twice won the M ilitai. o ug ht A shipping man before tlie ^ for he was invited when peace cam. to take over one of the m p W» » the liquor trade. Duty takes hi* subversion from Cape Town to East Atnc and he travels a great deal. 1 Crime Reporter Special branch visit While he was away on trip A Arthur G°’d/ er^id on Gold-';, recently, Special Branch officer others dunng to e in July, called at his house a number c Reich's ”Rivou>a j u « S kirts '. times. Eventually they found hi - house on w eek at home and asked him what h - 5 ? * — . knew about a private post offic b efore the PoUce whlch is box at Saxonwold rented by The country h ’ j0han-l Williams.” .. .__ about 14 shortly after Mr. Williams knew nothing oin nesburg, was ratae gr a tip. and pointed out that he had bee the Rivoma arrests the tenant of a post office box I off the city for years. j - Police found papersjhlch re He and the officers inter , sembled documents arrests were viewed the Saxonwold post ■ master. It was confirmed tha Rivoma house. Mr. D. G. Williams s signatur ; made. ^ the belief that both bore no resemblance to that < This led to t- {or alleged the “D. Williams” who rente houses were underground activ the private box. . Investigations may resU“ \ a s s u m e d m m e prosecution of the iman a leged have concealed his true identity^ The nolice sympathised witn ceived yesterday ^ Rivoma wSLSfV.i* ! house, which hack from the nosition did give him one . 1 house is well s f a man who smile He was advised that . road, was ^ ^ [p tio n of one '< i-r„ oarcel awaited him at th '-T h reedmen detained to th S' ” Rivonia raid. ht the house!

anv friends at Maga.liesber„, He paid a a*P the house, refused to collect and open th niture was I t longer than parcel unless a detective accom ibut he never stay He dld a few hours „ there at night, PaThed bigmparcel was opened and not appear to ae servant, inside it was a consignment g I J vto g rk told ed an \ tA- house forifor ! Christmas cards that M r. W ilia m had ordered m onths before as | donation to the Boys Club. ^ °H e le^t the house about a week- after he moved m ^ n c e thftt h e; police fou d inns intended to i or his £,°mpa inal oWner has! Teprses^dJheW ' By HANK MARGOLIES M EARLY 200 witnesses would be called by the State in the sabotage trial of 11 men— four Whites, six Africans and one Indian— due to be re­ sumed in the Pretoria Supreme Court on October 29, Dr. Percy Yutar, Deputy Attorney-General of the Transvaal and head of the prosecution team, said yesterday. They would be given time to The indictment alleged that He expected the trial to last consult their legal counsel and the 11 were involved in 222 acts about six weeks. could call In the services of a doc­ of sabotage in preparation for tor, if required. guerrilla warfare and an armed Asked whether or not he would I understand that after de­ invasion of the Republic. demand the death penalty, a sen­ fence counsel has had time to It also named organisations tence possible under the Act under study the particulars of the known as the “National High which the men are charged, Dr. charges against Kantor, a Command,” the National Execu­ Yutar said he was the prosecu­ further application for bail will tive Committee of the National tor. it was his job merely to be made. Liberation Movement and Uni' present the evidence. Dr. Yutar filed a five-page in­ konto We Sizwe, also known as It would be up to the court, dictment against the 11 men “Spear of the Nation.” he said, to pronounce the sen­ when the case opened on Wed­ The acts of sabotage were tence. nesday. The 11 were not asked alleged to have taken place be­ The Act provides penalties to plead and were remanded to tween August 10, 1961, and ranging from a minimum of October 29. August 5, 1963. five years’ imprisonment to life imprisonment, or death. Those accused

The 11 m en b efore the cou rt | are James Kantor, a Johannes- 1 burg' attorney and law partner : of Harold Wolpe, who escaped from Marshall Square prison ! celis with Arthur Goldreich and is presently in Britain; Denis Goldberg, Lionel Bernstein, Bob Alexander Hepple; Nelson Man­ dela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mahloba, Elias Mat- j.soaledi, Andrew Mlangeni, and .1 Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada. During the week an application j for bail for Kantor was refused 4 by the Judge President, Mr. . Justice De Wet, in the Pretoria Supreme Court. In his petition Kantor said his . health had seriously deteriorated : since his detention in a confined = space, and he was suffering from r severe mental and emotional dis- “ turbances. He was under doc- I tor's treatment and further de­ tention would seriously endanger his health. Promised

Kantor said he was innocent | of the charges and had extracted a promise from his brother-in- law, Harold Wolpe, that he would not take part in any illegal poli­ tical activities when he (Kantor) took him into partnership. Mr. H. C. Nicholas, Q.C., sub­ mitted for Kantor that tile onus was on the State to show that i Kantor would not stand trial. Dr. Yutar, who opposed the j application, told I he court there was every reason to be- . lieve that Kantor would ab­ scond and not stand trial. He also said Kantor and the other accused were now awaiting- trial prisoners and w o u ’d be given the privileges of such ac- cused. i j They would be allowed visitors r | twice a week and to talk to olher : prisoners when they went out to §; the prison yard for exercise : j tw ice a day. Kasrils Wanted By Security B'rancn Fdr Questioning

“ Mercury ” Crime Reporter » I ’RE chief of the Security Branch, Colonel H. J. van den Bergh, said in a telephone inter- A view from Pretoria yesterday afternoon that Ronald Kasrils, who disappeared from Durban early in July and arrived in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday, was wanted for questioning in connection with subversive activities in South A fr ic a ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ country ^ Julius First, a Johannesburg accountant, for whom the police h ave tyeen sea rch in g since the Rivonia raid. A third European with them was Mrs. Eleanor Anderson, a friend of Kasrils. Col. van den Bergh said that Julius First Kasrils was suspected of being a member of the “ Goldreich clan,” and that he was believed to have knowledge of sabotage reported in committed in South Africa, in­ CROSSED cluding Natal, in the past two years. Tanganyika Since 1961 he had been served with five banning orders. He BORDER MAFEKING, Wednesday. — was a former Natal secretary Julius First, a Johannesburg Of the banned Congress of MAFEKING.—Mr Julius First, a accountant for whom the police Democrats, and at one time was Johannesburg accountant for aavc been searching, is reported employed by a Durban advertis whom the police have been to have arrived in Mbeya, in in g firm . searching, is reported to have southern Tanganyika.' TO BECHUANALAND arrived in Mbeya, southern Tan­ Mr. First, accompanied by ganyika. Ronald Kasrils. a banned former Kasrils and First had crossed Mr First, accompanied by Mr member of the Congress of into Bechuanaland from South I Ronald Kastrils,1 a former mem- Democrats, and Mrs. Eleanor Africa earlier this month, said ' her of the Congress of Demo­ Anderson, a friend of the First Col. van den Bergh crat?, and Mrs Eleanor Anderson, family, arrived in Lobatsi from First is the father of two 90- a friend of the First family, South Africa on October 7- day detainees, Mrs. Ruth Slovo ! arrived in Lobatsi from South They left Lobatsi on Sunday and Ronnie First, who was Africa on October 7. morning by charter plane for released yesterday. He is the They left Lobatsi on Sunday Mbeva with two Africans Aaron father-in-law of Joe Slovo, the morning by charter plane for Pemba and Molefe Makaban. advocate who fled the country Mbeya together with two Afri- They arrived, in Mafeking under I cans, Mr Aaron Pemba and Mr earlier this year and is now reported to be in Peking. Molefe Makaban. a1 T eFirTtTthe father of two At the weekend the South Afri­ 90-day detainees—Mrs. The police allege that First can Police appealed for informa­ (whose lawyer husband Jcg f^ was the treasurer of the South tion about the movements of Mr South Africa recently) and Ronnie African Communist Party. 1 First, who is 70 years old. $ Our Dar-es-Salaam cor­ He is the father of two 90-dav FlThe police at the time said that respondent reports that First detainees — Mrs Ruth Slovo Tulius First was deeply invoWed denied, when he arrived in Tan­ (whose lawyer husband, Mr Joe with one of the accus^ m the ganyika, that he was a Com- Slovo, fled from South Africa Rivonia sabotage trial.—Sapa. funist, and said: “I support any j recently and was last reported movement fighting racialism.” to be in Peking) and Mr Ronnie First. Warrant Issued The police said Mr Julius First was deeply involved with one of the accused in the Rivonia sabo­ tage trial. , First The Special Branch announced _ us last Saturday that a warrant ha been issued for his arrest and that copies of a photograph had wanted since gone out to all police airports, harbours and border losts. , Mr First was reported to oe % Rivonia ihief treasurer of the banned (P^ Crim e Reporter Communist Party. It is reported Mr First. Mi TjoLICE yesterday disclosed that Kastrils and Mrs Anderson both Mr. Julius First, for arrived in Bechuanaland under whom a warrant of arrest has the name of Wessels. been issued, and his daughte ,1 It was also reported that Dr Ruth Slovo, were on their wanted and Mrs Kenneth Abrahams left list after investigations following Francistown at midnight on the Rivonia raid. . , Saturday for Kasane, in northern Evidence had also been found Bechuanaland, by truck, from that Mrs. Slovo’s husband, tne Johannesburg advocate Joe Slovo, where they flew in a small char­ ter plane to Mbeya. who has fled the country had been deeply Involved with the Escape route accused at the Rivonia sabotage D r A braham s. 26, alleged in and subversion trial. the Cape Town Supreme Court Police said charges would be that he was kidnapped, by South laid against Mrs. Slovo after the African Police 100 miles inside end of her 90-day detention period., Bechuanaland. She was detained on August 9. Dr Abrahams was released by 1 STILL IN S.A. the South African authorities, Police said they believed that ivTr Pirst who is alleged to have and returned to Bechuanaland. financially involved with toe It is believed Kasane, on the Rivonia accused, was still in South northern border, has become the new escape corridor from South night a rumour that he i Africa. Twenty-four African L in Bechuanaland with an; i refugees left Francistown by was seen in uecnuai unknown woman and tnat tne l truck for Kasane on Sunday and unknown undis-i two had left by air m*. arrived there yesterday. closed destination could not be ' Refugees are being ferried three at a time by a light air­ confirm ed. craft to East A frica from Kasane.— (Sapa) 'v •’ ' . . ------STATE CASE ON ESCAPE FROM MARSHALL SQUARE Greeff “bribed s t a r by f organization 9 5 'J'HE STATE will try to prove that ;i political organization, and not the four men who escaped from Marshall Square, offered a bribe to an 18-year-old con­ stable to help them escape, a prosecutor said in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s ourt today. ney, Mr. A. FJeischack, again asked I will also help Greeff to avoid .'oh. nnes Arnoldus Greeff will for bail. He said bail had been re-1 standing trial. Miuei r in e ;c Johannesburg Re- fused

MATS l OU\ D j Fingerprints of the two people had Dr. Yutar said that a person de-| been found at the Kreel home tained In prison, whether con- ’’Fingerprints do not lie ” said victed or not, was a prisoner. He Dr. Yutar. He also mentioned said it was doubly serious when the finding of maps detailing the prisoners, Goldreich and escape routes across the bordex Wolpe, had been named as con- to the Protectorates spirators in the Rivonia trial. 5 f of Jurists SUNDAY TIMES POLITICAL REPORTER T H E Minister of Justice, Mr. Vorster, last nigh *■ attacked the International Society of J«r,_ because of a formal application to *m • „heerv,r ,» be allowed ' •»“ r",,"r,a sabotage trial. Speaking in the Alberton Town Hail, the Minister said S.A. situation that the formal application of ! the society was “ a calculated insult to*/the South African , courts and South Africa’s legal |dangerous, says system.” " The whole world knows that anybody who has the time has the right to walk Into any South African court and listen to the Irish jurist proceedings.” i V Mr. Vorster said that the legal From Our Correspondent system in South Africa could be compared with the best in the, V Dublin, Monday. world. “We have a completely in-j 1 \ w SfXRETABY-GKNERAL of the Intern,■•o.tnl | dependent Bench, which is never j Commission of Jnri,... S9w..n»ld Mr. :ee.n M«br, draw aside the iron curtain ' and He said the commission's request I deal, with the men behind who implied that the trial would not were pulling the strings. About be a fair one. . , The commission s statement 900 cf these people have left _ the country and will never return.” vesterday said no special facilities had been requested for the ob­ The two language groups had server and no affront to the South been drawn closer. If the day African judiciary could be reason­ ever cam e when South Africa was ably inferred from the request. attacked they would find the Eng­ Sapa-Associated Press lish and the Afrikaner standing i together united as never befoje- Pnlisie w eet hv tvil land verlaaT Dr. Festenstein se aansoek JL om borgtog verwerp

■N AANSOEK OM BORGTOG vir dr H M a r c ^ S S ^ o o p A Rivonia-klopjag aangekeer is, 0P ^ nd,daa" ^stcr in die Johannesburgse baan emstig skade aandoen om opgesluit te bly, is gister m landdroshof verwerp. dat hy wil „vlug” nie. fntussen vrou het reeds die land verlaat Landdros H. S. Bosman bet is die toestand va n Suid-Afnka As hv eers uit die land is, opgemerk dat enigeen vyat in die se uitleweringsooreenkomste met daar geen moontlikheid van uit- tronk is ongelukkig 'skade ly. ander lande sodanig dat dit „on- lewering nie. En dit is baie ma - waarskynlik indien nie onmoont- Festenstein, ’n 33-jarige me- lik om die land te verlaat. Wat diese doktor van Highbury-ge- lik” is nie om politieke oor sal voorkom dat hy padgee. treders oorhandig te kry. bou, Bellevue, verskyn op aan- Mnr. Morgan: „Hy is_welbe- klag dat hy Kommunisme be- Festenstein word in ’n be- kend in mediese kringe. vorder het en dat hy verbode li- Landdros: „Is hy meer wel- edigde getuigskrif beskryf as n teratuur in sy besit gehad het. bekend as Goldreich Wolpe, navorser wat aansienlike oor- Mnr. I. Morgan, wat Festen­ spronklikheid aan die dag le en Sisulu, Mandela en Kantor. stein verdedig,-het aangevoer dat Mnr. Morgan: „Sy omstandig- reeds nuwe bydraes oiedie eintlike verhoor eers in De- op die gebied van weefselgroei nor col Vtnrrin 4- hede is heeltemal verskillend sember sal begin terwyl die be- he^e ___-. van * dieA i q andere* annprp. Dis U1S en immunologie. skuldigde reeds sedert 11 Julie | ^an,lekom nv Xaneen en hier is.” Die verhoor is uitgestel. aangehou word. Hy het geen ge- ho^Die ° landdrosj ddros het die aansoeka om sy mediese studies Dle lanaciros “ .u ... newe um 2>y m e------______verw erp nadat aanklaer N. voort te sit nie of om seifs net van der Royden die hof se aan- tred te hou met verwikkelinge dag gevestig het op argumente nie. Sy kanse om toekomstige teen borg wat voorheen geopper werk word dus uitermatig be- is. Daar is voorheen Senoem dat BAIL lemmer, het mnr. Morgan ge§e. Festenstein by die G°ldreich- WELBEKEND woning aangekeer is, onderwyl Mnr. Morgan het voorgestel die polisie met ’n klopjag besig □L^Hiffiiu-defused Festenstein, head of dat die landdros ’n borgtog- was na die ander arrestasies. R the South Rand laboratories of the hedrag bepaal wat sal verseker Verder het die polisie ook m- ligting dat Festenstein van plan Institute of Medical Research, was dat Festenstein by sy verhoor refused bail and remanded until opdaag. is om die land te verlaat, hoe- wel dit nie noodwendig beteken Saturday. October 26, when he Landdros: „Die beskuldigde se again appeared before a Johannes­ burg magistrate today. Festenstein, arrested in the Rivonia raid on July 11, is charged with furthering the aims of Com­ munism and with being in posses­ Festenstein sion of banned publications. ^festenstein STUDY HAMPERED On Saturday he' will be re­ %}n court ^refused manded to appear in the Regional Court on a date still to be fixed. T\r i ^ , °un ReP°rter His attorney, Mr. I. Morgan, re- i w k T LLIARD FESTENSTEIN, newed an application tor bail. Rivonia raw arrested durin« the bail Mr. Morgan said Festenstein was H s t w aid’ aPPeared before Mr. " Court Reporter seriously hampered because he; Maeif c ”ommWltn furtbering the aims y Johannesburg Magistrate sCou and with being in , vesterday on a charge of furthei u e .,, n of banned publications.: demanded inc- tnethe aims ^of - Communism,------t ' lav M e n r®manded to next Satur-1 alternatively being in possession H S Bosnian appeared before Mr- Dr. Hilliard Festenstein, who of banned literature. Festenstein asked if he could be moved to another cell in the , onjXv U. «» -B -S -S magistrate’s court. He said ] when he appeared b®p^ nt!sburg prisoners with whom he V - S. Bosman in the Jo»anuc sharing a cell were Magistrate’s Court today. dagga, spitting on the flooi* an Festenstein, head PLf'jnstituta misbehaving. ii Mr. Bosman said he wou’^ ^ d order that Festenstein *» ™ tald to another cell, because I COurt I be taken away from* tB* t Of banned literature. _omher soon after the remand. ■** He was remanded to DeC the U when he will. appear ^ Johannesburg RegionalCo^ BERNSTEIN OF E XIT

K- PERMIT”

“Rivonia” man says he is prepared to face trial

By a Staff Reporter L IONEL BERNSTEIN, one of the Rivonia ” men who face trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on Tuesday on , permitted to consult any legal charges of sabotage, said in a bail application in the same court adviser ! During this time, he says, he j today that lie refused police offers of an exit permit if he | was interviewed by the police. would incriminate others. In 1956 the Minister told Par- REFUSED PERMIT He said that despite all his op- liament that about 200 people portunities and in the face of advice j would soon be arrested and ! “I was asked by Lieutenant to leave the country since 1949 he charged with high treason. Bern- I Swanepoel and Warrant Officer had consistently refused to do so. j stein says he had reason to believe 1 van Zyl to supply information to If he was now admitted to bail, i he would be one of the 200, but incriminate other persons. To this he said, he would face trial and ! again he did not leave the coun- end, the inducement of an exit vindicate himself. I try. permit enabling me to leave the He was arrested in December, j country was held out. I refused to He said he was probably the first 1956, and granted bail of R400. | ask for any such permit.” South African to be refused a pass­ After a lengthy preparatory exami­ port on political grounds. This was Bernstein says he realizes the in 1949, when he was offered a nation h° committed with charges against him are serious, three-year appointment as an archi­ others for trial. but no more serious than those tect in Kenya. Eventually. •* May, 1961, the brought against him in 1956. first group of the treason trialists He says he will plead not guilty. He further believed that of the was acquitted. Despite being sub­ “ My legal representatives have 20 people in the Transvaal placed ject to the danger of being con­ not yet been furnished with the under house arrest last year he and victed of treason for more than further particulars to the indict­ one other person were the only four years, he had not attempted ment and I therefore do not know ones who had not fled the country. to leave the country. what part I am supposed to have taken in the alleged conspiracies h e a r i n g p o s t p o n e d In April, 1960, regulations pro­ viding for the detention of people 1 declare I am prepared to face The hearing of Bernstein’s appli­ trial and vindicate myself.” without trial were published. Mr. A. Fischer. Q.C.. with him Mr. G cation was postponed to Tuesday. Bernstein says he and his wife Biros (instructed by Mr. Joel Jolte) The Attorney-General — the re­ believed it most likely they would appeared for Bernstein. ______spondent—was ordered by Mr. be detained but instead of leaving Justice Cillie to file replying South Africa they decided to face affidavits by Saturday and re- the prospect of detention. Quested to make arrangements for Bernstein to be interviewed in Pre­ More stringent orders under the toria jali by his legal representatives Suppression of Communism Act on Saturday afternoon. followed. In October last year he Bernstein says in his affidavit was served with a 12-hour house that after he was interviewed by arrest order. security police in 1949 and re­ Early this year the Minister of fused a passport, he took legal Justice mentioned Bernstein by opinion.' * “ " 1 1 . j name in Parliament as “ the sort j He advised he could leave 1 of person with whom the Govei n- oouth Africa without a passport, j ment had to contend ” while mtro- “ e did not do so because he j ducing legislation empowering the j “ whether he and his | police to detain people for periods ttfnily ^would be entitled to re- of - 90-- days - for - interrogation igsgf j enter South Africa. “CLEAR INDICATION” muivkm l,he Suppression of Com- he Act was passed in 1950 “ There could' have been no ounnrh n?t avail himself of the clearer indication that I would be to r rpfl^>lty of Siving the Liquida- dealt with as soon as the pro­ inciuriprt°n Wby he should not be posed legislation was passed. Cer­ tain friends and relations advised Communists. the list °f aUeged me to make arrangements to leave he Emitted he had South Africa as it appeared that nist Pn-.member of the Commu- what was called 90-day detention could in fact be detention for an inTolve He knevl listing would indefinite period, or as expressed abiuHee k™ in a number of dis- by the Minister, until ‘this side of his memberstopCh0Se “ ** t0 ^ eternity’. orrievc1?.04 ,**e was served with “ Although I was apprehensive DrohiHus tlle Minister of Justice that I mignt at any stage be de­ s a ? w mg him from attending tained for an indefinite period it to t ! l lngS and ordering him not I remained in South Africa r certn^® Part in the activities of continueo to report to the ponce heh » ' saI-aj lawrul awful organizations.organizations Again, daily until 1 was arrested. ne did not , ____ Af_,„a i?ot choose to leave South w„ a,-rpsted on July U at on d®sPi,te tha further limits th home 0l Arthur Goldreich. For speech ugilts of association and gg days he was detained without being charged and without being sa_ -5 L-*• lie -■/» ■■ Spectators warned at start of Rivonia trial The Star's Pretoria Bureau _ T h e “ RIVOMA TRIAL ’’-t h e trial of the <1 men and State alleges plotted sabotage as part of a plan or *ej “dictment* j t js ex- of the country-—started today with applications to , before the Judge- peeled ilial legal argument on the a,.pliealmne w.il lake two day. before the Jn g President, Mr. Jitstiee de Wet, in the Pretoria Supreme Omit. The court was ].acked with people who listened in altetlU''^e“ L'ectatore lengthy gurnet,.. There was only one threatened tUturlnu.cn when spectato

were warned at the tea interval not to shout slogans. I said, it is essential for Kantor to —As the men entered the dock j know what he is supposed to have from the cells below at the -start of the trial each in turn—except I The indictment ana u* iart^ ’ Kantor and Hepple—turned to the Recorded by narticulars do not inform him public gallerv and gave a salute by ’what he is supposed to have raising his hand. iThe indictment only lollows the j Each was greeted by cries of I wording of the Act and contains S.A.B.C. nniv the barest of facts. “ Amandin, Ngawethu " (Strength is Ours i. The Star’s Pretoria Bureau Dr Lowen said the State had T1 OR the first time, as far admitted that neither Kantor nor When this was repeated as I Wolpe had actually taken part m interval, a police officer said that |I ' as is known, the S.A.B.C. anv of the 199 acts of sabotage anybody shouting in court would today installed microphones in be removed. a courtroom and made a 1 They were, however, accused i of conspiring with the others to The men before the court are: recording of a trial. It is understood that ex­ commit the acts, and inciting other j Nelson Mandela Walter Sisulu, people to commit these acts. Dennis Goldberg. Govan Mbeki. cerpts from the Rivonia trial i Wi(i be edited and broadcast. Ahmeu Mohamed Kathrada. Lionel Bernstein, Raymond Mahlaba Truth drug •these are the alleged National was in Jail,” Mr. Fischer said. Dr Lowen continued, tthh High Command!, James Kantor,, He then referred to what he vigorous gestures, “ Kantor is held Eifas Matsoaledi Andrew Mlangeni called “ the extreme paucity of the ! nlafe of Wolpe, who is not and Bob Alexander Hepple. All information given about the con­ here He U heW for anything that except Hepple are represented by spiracy.” has done. That is the counsel. He asked that the accused be W olpe w hy given information about the man- defence wants details of Kantor has done and anything H igh c o m marul nei in which the conspiracy was formed. They must also be told the WKantor,S D re;Lowen continued, time, place and manner in which ^ e tw° organizations are the; each accused was a member of has offered to submit himself for gai lira, of James Kantor and examination under trum J w O g partners, and the National High *he conspiracy. Again Mandela could not have has sworn that he does not know Nat?mai?d' alsV known as the been a member of the conspiracy am'thing about the charges. ua liberation Movement.. all the time, Mr. Fischer submit­ ^ He0 contends that he is com- „f ,tlhe Omkonto Wr Sizwe • Spear pletely innocent, that he does not Of the Nation).Nat,cv, , ted 1 He then quoted the ruling given the doclt in the court is too j by three judges at the treason to take all the accused a trial, in which the Indictment was pecial panelled dock had been ' quashed, and how the defence ti 1 i nd stretched almost across I had again asked for further par­ had gdne through Kantor s firm. tne whole of the historic court. ticulars. In his application to quash the He submitted there were certain Dashes indictment, Mr. A. Fischer, who different parallels with the ruling said^ S Hr T ? n °f Ule accdsed' : gixerTin thedreasonTrial"in this saia that the defence, in applying ® * e particulars to the j Aftcr quo,ing from cases about . ’..llad met a list of blank formation of conspiracies, Mr. refusals” from the State I Fischer said that. either the State 1 He contended that the State ! had not learnt from these cases, | “ S e r paruculars are 'fad replied in effect that parti- I or had not the facts to place be- u S . evasive and stereotyped, 3 s applied for were either I lore the court. wh. ®ts of evidence, or matters ' iDr.-Takr?Wsalas an example To this question tuumber gn-e of th eIccu sS Wn lhe knowledge | S ile n t ° « d gT ln ^ P V there D e f e c t i v e ! Using Mandela as an argument i ! again, he said that 156 of the 199 ; arDrfOULowaemeSNo matter how I acts of violence were committed many dashes, the answer is the PieadmgU^ ! S 0n vvi11 be that ,the i while Mandela was in jail. a const-fir1 ,'le accused acted as When the court adjourned for | SaThe judge remarked that he Mr .defective,” : the tea interval the Africans in the j gallery again shouted "Amandhla’ , | as the accused left the dock. ! • ta ^ e8adiiit.h^ ° ^ nt one^ 0r m‘ visions ofdtin0t comP1-v with p e ­ They were warned by Maj. Fred j ! van Niekerk, of the Pretoria C.I.D.. i culated m the 00(16 and was cal' 1 the U ° P? ludic6 and embarrass that if they shouted again they j their Hof*Sed ln ,lle conduct of would be evicted. set torf,’61!?,6’ in Hiat 11 does not They were silent when the court burned to be innocent until tk.,, 0(1 Hie offence with which re-convened. n ' dave been charged in a man- Dr. George Lowen, Q.C.. who ts P1Thed judge adjourned the case of th„ thtorm them of the nature appearing for Kantor, was then until tomorrow because he still 01 the charge. i had to hear bail applications ioi given an opportunity to argue for I p‘seher gave examples of | Kantor and Bernstein. the quashing of the indictment as ca n tor a AWorney-Generai. i said1, 6 termed contradictions. He far as Kantor was concerned. ! or. P- V“tac. D^ aude. Senior Public i a . that Mandela had been ; with him Mr. J. >■ 1 • aruj Mr. T.° Dr. Lowen is engaged in another , Prosecutor of Pjei j thc senior Puh I on August 5, 1962, yet the I Voreter. ot the olfwe tnppwred for t naictment covered the whole icase and Mr. Fischer will finish [ Prosecutor. Johannesburg. uu ] his argument later. 1 Stale. n C tvith Him Mr- • , period he was in jail except for six Mr. A-"a FPf-heIX Mr \ Q'chaskclson ChaSkelSOn (instruct.)tins;..-,, weeks. Dr. Lowen said that not enough Biros andiniL .L Mr. ffe a )'. appearedj- , for Mandella. Particulars had been given tor by Mr.... Joel lode)Jotlet aP«avtjp- Kathrada Bern- Sisulu.• '• ^Goldberg. “ h^MatJSedl Mbeki and Mlanssenl. Kantor to be able to prepare his stein. Mahlaba. Matso^i,-i (• wild ^ mmhjm iv«‘-Mr *H. — Impossible defence. SchwarzC Pr' G and Mr. L>.of kunv Benjami[) (instruoted Joseph by Kantor is liable for anything his : Mr. lad; Cooper a0Peared for Kantor “ It is quite impossible for Man­ Partner Harold Wolpe might have S T f a t ^ f % s s £ ^ Hcpplc dela to say how he was respon­ done, and therefore, Dr. L o w e n was not rcprcs«nitcu sible for acts committed while he SLOGANS SHOLTE ______Z C r f C o ^ u ^ r f H v MEN IN DOCK A Police disperse ^ crowds OLICE WERE POSTED at all of the eight streets leading P into Church Square, Pretoria, today, at the start the ! trial. But there were no incidents outside the Palace of Justice by noon as a crowd, mostly of non- Whites, began to grow and col­ lect on the pavement opposite the court building. Before the start of the proceed­ ings police officers dispersed the small crowd which had begun to gather. There were many Special Branch men all round the build­ ing and the precincts of the court. Some were taking names. As the crowd grew, people were allowed to gather on the pave­ CHARGES REDUCED ments and the lawns. One patrol van stood by and a squad of uniformed police kept the crowd % FROM 222 TO 199 from going over into the building after the public gallery had been ' I ’ HE I\DK71 MEN r served on tlie accused in the “ Rivonia filled. One Saracen drove past. There were a few Africans • in A trial ’ charges them with sabotage and with contravening tribal dress. Some wore the the Suppression of Communis •m Act and the General Law- green and black "Congress’- uni­ Amendment Act. forms and there were Indian School, Cape Town, on November women in saris. Some wore It alleges they conspired to 27, 1962. Repairs cost R20.000: “ Mandela ” and “ Amandla ” lapel commit 199 acts of sabotage in The wounding of three Africans j badges. preparation for guerilla warfare in a beerhali in Bell Street, Dur- 1 The court was packed well and armed invasion. ban, on February 2, 1963, by a before the start of the pro­ The men will not be asked to bomb; and injury of two African ceedings. plead until the applications to girls in Durban Village, East OBSERVERS quash have been disposed of. London, on December 15, 1962, Among the observers in the The further particulars to the when a bomb was thrown through court were diplomatic representa­ indictment supplied by the State their bedroom window tives from several countries. Mr. today reduce the original number Many of the other sabotage acts R. W. Rein.Q.C., Attorney-General of alleged acts of sabotage from were against railway lines, power of the Transvaal, also sat in court. 222 to 199. They include: the pylons and telephone lines. The Another observer was a British blowing up of the office of the majority were of small bombs Labour Party M.P., Mr. John Men- Minister of Agricultural Economics thrown through windows of police delson. and Marketing in “V” Building. and municipal offices. He said he is here on a visit to Hamilton Street, Pretoria, on assess the economic interests of j O ctober 19, 1962. EXPLOSIVES the three Protectorates. “But in The blowing up of the office of The further particulars also ! view of the international impor- the “ Nataller ’’ in Durban on detail the amounts of explosives ' tance of this trial, I have delayed ; January 18, 1963. A White passer­ the men are alleged to have pos­ my departure for Basutoland in by was injured. sessed. apart from those used in order to attend the first session,” the various alleged saootage acts. he said. PETROL BOMBS They are 1.662ft. of fuse. 273 In one comer were the machines | sticks of dynamite, 448 sticks of of the S.A.B.C., and two men who The death oi an African cons­ table in Langa, Cape Town, on gelignite. 73 percussion caps. 60ft. { are recording the trial for possible ! of “cordtex,” three railway detona- i broadcast. M arch 10, 1963, when a police vehicle was set alight by petrol j tors, a quantity of potassium bom bs: chlorate, 23 chemical bombs, a quantity of gun powder, a quan­ The blowing up at a sub-power tity of aluminium powder, three station on a railway bridge at revolvers, three battle axes and Braamfontein on October 15. 1962. j two pangas. Repairs cost R40.966; j Also detailed were sums of The destruction by fire of two i money alleged to have passed classrooms of the Vasco High ! through the books of James | Kantor and Partners on behalf of I various people— Vivian Ezra, J. | First, P. J. Hodgson and Sisulu I are named — and in various I amounts ranging up to R7502 for i j disbursements for the Rivonia j ' farm Lilliesleaf. R 10.000 to Defence ! j and Aid Fund, R6000 to V. Ezra ■ | and R14.000 to J. First. Probe into ^complaint i by Yutar Pretoria Reporter i N allegation was made in tne Contempt by A PretoriaSupremeCourtyester- d3y liav,P^Dr'G’LowenQc a"d newspaper f f i f S s S . . r l >«r ^ alleged s - s ,

one of the accused w the L | trial In Pretoria, for f 1u° pdnor police. The officer was PtePared “ I of court order against tlie enter the witness box and swear and publishers of Jp1®, tus- that this was so. , land " was postponed by Mr. A reflection 1 tice Steyn today. The respondents, Mr. A_M- v He said that Mr. Kuny’s remark Schoor and Afrikaanse P «i ru whs a serious reflection on him \ blikasie Edms. Bpk. are to UM iDr Yutar), his colleagues and [he police. He an im m e­ \ replying affidavits within a weeK- demanded 1 It is alleged in Mbeki’s pen- diate apology as this was 1 tion that statements which aP I peered in "Die V a d e r l a n d on g ra n ted £V por|W to re p * three occasions " prejudge »

heard of the matter Hei denied that he had made the remain.. The judge said the allegation a contempt of couit. had been made, Mr. Kuny had denied it and the matter would > have to be investigated.______Qbjedfan \%. comment . ^r.«»o comments was tl Sunday Express Reporter i I iK . PERCY YUTAR, head o I ) the prosecuting team in the D“eKtL“ “rIm LTS’S'that i » v . he had been approached y held discussions ®0.n,:er" ’"^. py members of the defence team ferenoes to the trial made by hut said he was not prepared the S.A.B.C. announcer, Mr. tn disclose what had trans- Cecil Wightman. t learned this yesterday— and it Kfwy c»n»0™ «.r- was subsequently confirmed by -However, T(. can .te L y w ig h t- “ ■S,Srdo"nrt..l.un*r Fischer to appear on their b Mar-complaint^with the head of

ther S' w B Rein, Attorney-Gen- M era^ of the Transvaal, told m e hP was not concerned with what was s lid over the radio b y any have sa id., - Ilhl- ISErfcy* see they’ve done a dm.be TlTanT'ease, you know th a t M r. M.irraytieUl oH Us at U.No gtop Wightman is a bit o f a leg to one. They waui 0 lite our ^botage truas.hoQmtt sou Mandela, Walter S i s n l u , peoplen s V put.m t sticks stick s \>f dynam . ite t D e n i, Goldberg, Goran MbeU, under railway lines . It * I" Ahmed Mohamed Kath>aau harmless fun- wl„ht- and Lionel Be.nstein. ; Mr. Joffe’s reaction to Mr. Wigh u Nie-blankes by hof w teen duim-teken en kreet gewaarsku

N WfAARSKUWING dat enigeen wat weer die duim- ™ in-die-vuis-teken, vergesel van die kreet „Ajnaiidla wethu” (Ons krag) gee, uit die hof verwyder sal word, is gister met die teepouse deur majoor Fred van Niekerk by die Rivoniaverhoor in Pretoria aan die sowat honderd nie-blanke toeskouers gerig Toe die elf beskuldigdes die word. Hulle het aangevoer dat 98gend hul plekke ingeneem het die aanklagte vaag is, en dit vir ln die nuwe lang beskuldigde- die beskuldigdes onmoontlik bank wat beskikbaar gestel is, maak om hul verdediging voor • ,Yerskeie van hulle na die te berei. nie-blanke toeskouers gedraai en die teken gegee. Dit is deur die Die beredenering is om 3 nm. toeskouers met uitroepe begroet. onderbreek toe regterpresident Q. de Wet die saak tot vandag Die prosedure is met die ver- verdaag het om eers die borg- daging vir tee herhaal, waarna aansoeke van James Kantor en y a j- Van Niekerk sy waar- Lionel Bernstein aan te hoor. skuwmg gerig het. Daarna het dit nie weer voorgekom nie, ook Uitspraak in Kantor se borg- onder die beskuldigdes nie. aansoek is voorbehou en Bern­ stein se aansoek is tot later Geen voorvalle verdaag om die Staat se berede­ nering te hoor. Ondanks die verskyning van ^ijette wat in Johannesburg en (Verloop van hofsaak en ’n fTetoria versprei is en waarin ’n foto op bl. 3). oeroep gedoen is dat die verhoor ,,^°®woon moet word — wat die / l ’n uI1?ede laat ontstaan het dat / wac j glng georganiseer word — wat geen voorvalle nie. So- daaff 200 nie"blankes het opge- 1 Mr- J- Mendelson, British wpiS’’r,maarxhulle stil gedra> hoe- Labour M.P., leaving the aan ?, gr° ot g.r°ep weens gebrek Palace of Justice after listen­ die KoUf‘mt,e . nie toegelaat is om bofsaal binne te gaan nie. ing to the trial. With him, ga?ne n fl°v ?twat nie kon binne- wearing glasses, is a first sec­ sypaadjie ^an^K' I3® °P die retary of the British Embassy die hof gewag. Kerkplein voor •n Pretoria, Mr. J. Longrigg, ,

s o v ™ a dsg e s t iek die S A 'U -K - 9 Mr- Alex Hepple, a former * die e e rstl k l 1 k.an word’ gister M.P. and father hofverrietin» Cr n °Pname van the prisoners, butto nodiee In ”ge gemaak toe die van '"die Ppa!Taat voor die begin jacket as he leaves t' Gereriitm S jak aangebring is. ’n at the lunch adjournme - -wait de Weergawe sal na agting uitgesaai word. 9 Mrs. Sisulu and Mrs. Mia, d rJ p l ie beJ in van die saak het geni, wives of two of the staat!!y ,Yutar’ leier van die accused. enter the court. die aanlV° kate,’ aanSekondig dat waarfnnh9 ? l Sei J0t die klagstaat, uiteencr “ H- dade van sabotsie ^ Mrs. Bernstein, wife of ’n nmleSlt 1S’ Yervan§ word deur Lionel Bernstein, dons dark ■Word We waarin 199 uiteengesit glasses as she leaves for the lunch adjournment. Veertij folio’s fjj Dr. George Lowen, Q.C., totH die€ klaela rad,ere aanhangsel Kantor’s counsel, arrives to beslaan v ^ ltilfir“ gedien- Dit Plead Kantor’s application to have the indictment quashed.

0 Mrs. Barbara Kantor waits outside the court building for friends before the start of ieiers van di aatnsoeke deur die the hearing. vokate wat nlrtl^® groePe ad- digdes vlrtelnty Van.diebeskul- kiagstaat------aat nie n?ltiWOOrdlg’ tie verklaar dat moet die

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