Word: sisulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike many South Africans prosecuted under the country's catch-all subversion law, Fischer made the government's case easy. He admitted being a Communist. Over the years, he defended a string of Communists and black nationalists accused of treason, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for planning a series of bombings and a Red Chinese-style "war of liberation." Three months after Mandela and Sisulu were convicted, Fischer was arrested as an accomplice. He then jumped a $14,000 bond and went into hiding - growing a goatee, dyeing...
Bombs for Christmas. Foremost among the convicted Spearmen were Nelson Mandela, 45, the "Black Pimpernel," who led South Africa's Special Branch cops a merry chase before his capture two years ago, and Walter Sisulu, 52, bearded official of the banned African National Congress. For more than nine months, a stream of 186 witnesses passed through Pretoria's red brick Palace of Justice, documenting in 2,550,000 words of testimony the government's charges that Umkonto had planned a systematic, 18-month campaign of sabotage aimed at undermining apartheid...
Though the defense readily admitted that Umkonto had accepted Communist as well as other outside aid and did not deny the charges of sabotage, Mandela and Sisulu adamantly insisted that Umkonto had no tie-in with the A.N.C. They argued that the Spear had been honed only when black South Africans concluded that peaceful means of achieving equality had failed. "The whites chose to turn South Africa into an armed camp," said Sisulu. "I do not see how I could have done otherwise than I did. It is inevitable that in any civil war fought in this country, victory will...
Basis for the new ban: the Minister of Justice, who under the law need not furnish proof, declared himself "satisfied" that Luthuli had engaged in "prohibited" activities and espoused the "cause of Communism." He also linked Luthuli to other leaders of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, currently on trial for their lives on charges of sabotage...
Like Goldreich, the other arrested whites were also prominent in South Africa's intellectual community: Lawyer Robert Hepple; Dr. Hilliard Festen-stein, a noted medical researcher; Engineer Dennis Goldberg; Architect Lionel Bernstein. Among the nonwhites seized was Walter Sisulu, onetime Secretary-General of the banned African National Congress and one of the country's most wanted...