Denis Goldberg is one of the last surviving defendants in the Rivonia Trial. At a Guardian Live event he joined Lord Joel Joffe,one of the lawyers who saved the ANC activists from the gallows, to share his extraordinary storyThe Rivonia trial is one of the most celebrated trials in South African legal history. In 1964 Nelson Mandela and seven fellow ANC activists were jailed for 221 acts of sabotage designed to “ferment violent revolution”. Denis Goldberg was one of them and served 22 years in prison. At a Guardian Live event chaired by Sir Nicholas Stadlen, or Goldberg and Lord Joel Joffee,one of the defence lawyers, shared their memories of the trial.
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Source: theguardian.com