Names of the Accused in the Rivonia Treason Trial. The charges are under the Sabotage Act – the General Law Amendment Acts of 1962 and 1963. The accused who were detained at Rivonia, the home of Alfred Goldstein. 1. Walter Sisulu, 50 years old former Secretary-General under sentence of 6 years imprisonment. 2. Aligned Kathrada, youth leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress of one of the accused in the former Treason Trial. 3. Lionel Bernstein, architect, Johannesburg. 4. Dr. Hilliard Festenstein. 5. B.A. Hoppel, barrister in Johannesburg, son of Alex Hoppel, former M.P. and leader of the South African Labour Party. 6. Denis Goldberg. 7. Nelson Mandela, leader of the African people already serving a sentence of 5 years imprisonment. 8. Govan Mbeki, African. 9. Raymond Mahlaba. 10. Elisa Matsoaledi. 11. Andrew Mlangeni. 12. James Cantor, Partner of legal firm and brother-in-law of Harold Wolpe who escaped. Abram Fischer, Q.C., is appearing for most of the accused. Mr. H.C. Nicholas, Q.C., is appearing for Cantor, and four of the accused, Mahlaba, Matsoaledi, Mlangeni and Hoppel are not represented. The accused first appeared before the Judge-President of the Transvaal Surpeme Court, Mr. Justice de Wet on Wednesday, 9th October and on the application for the Council for the Defence the judge adjourned the trial for 29th October. N.B. Mr. Sachs – find out how many of the accused are members of Trade Unions. COLLECTION NAME: Rivonia Trial Collection COLLECTION NUMBER: AD1844 ITEM NUMBER: Bc4 DOCUMENT: List of names of the accused, brief biographies,charges and defence council information LEGAL NOTICES This document is part of a private collection, the Rivonia Trial Collection, donated to Historical Papers at The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Copyright Notice: All materials on the Historical Papers website are protected by South African copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, or otherwise published in any format, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. Disclaimer and Terms of Use: Provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein, you may download material (one machine readable copy and one print copy per page) for your personal and/or educational non-commercial use only. Because of the possibility of human and mechanical error as well as other factors, the University is not responsible for any errors or omissions and excludes any and all liability for any errors in or omissions from the information on the website or any related information on third party websites accessible from this website. .