The State vs. Nelson Mandela

The Trial that Changed South Africa

Joel Joffe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2009
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-85168-638-4 (ISBN)

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In The State vs. Nelson Mandela, Joel Joffe, the Instructing Attorney of the defendants at the time, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa’s history.

The only account of this seminal trial, written by Mandela’s defence lawyer and with a new foreword by Denis Goldberg, accused alongside Mandela and sentenced to life imprisonment.

On 11 July 1963, police raided Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial and charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. In this compelling book, their defence attorney, Joel Joffe, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa’s history, vividly portraying the characters of those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as showing their incredible courage under fire.

Lord Joel Joffe CBE is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. He has previously served as Chairperson of Oxfam and worked as a human-rights lawyer.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2009
Einführung	Denis Goldberg
Vorwort	Nelson Mandela
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, ports.
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-85168-638-X / 185168638X
ISBN-13	978-1-85168-638-4 / 9781851686384
Zustand	Neuware