All 24 Uses
treason
in
Long Walk to Freedom
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- All were charged with the crime of treason, a crime punishable by death.†
Chpt 2.9 *treason = an act of betrayal
- Part Three — TREASON.†
Chpt 3.10
- On recess from the Treason Trial, Frances Baard and Florence Matomela organized women to refuse passes in Port Elizabeth, their hometown.†
Chpt 3.10
- Mandela—still awaiting trial on the charge of treason—was arrested at his home in Johannesburg.†
Chpt 3.11
- Mandela and the other defendants in the treason trial were kept in jail for five months during the state of emergency.†
Chpt 3.11
- The treason trial continued for another nine months and finally ended on March 29, 1961.†
Chpt 3.11
- The four year treason trial and Mandela's arrest under the state of emergency ruined his law practice.†
Chpt 3.11
- I was also wary because of the timing: I was raisingthe issue of violence so soon after the Treason Trial, where we had contended that for the ANC nonviolence was an inviolate principle, not a tactic to be changed as conditions warranted.†
Chpt 4.12
- At the police station I was led into Sergeant Vorster 's office, where I saw a number of officers, one of whom was Warrant Officer Truter, who had testified in the Treason Trial.†
Chpt 5.14
- Yet the charges were something of a relief: the state clearly did not have enough evidence to link me with Umkhonto we Sizwe or I would have been charged with the far more serious crimes of treason or sabotage.†
Chpt 5.14
- The synagogue was like a second home to me after four years of the Treason Trial.†
Chpt 5.16
- We were charged with sabotage and conspiracy rather than high treason because the law does not require a long preparatory examination (which is highly useful to the defense) for sabotage and conspiracy as it does for treason.†
Chpt 5.20
- We were charged with sabotage and conspiracy rather than high treason because the law does not require a long preparatory examination (which is highly useful to the defense) for sabotage and conspiracy as it does for treason.†
Chpt 5.20
- With high treason, the state must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt and needs two witnesses to testify to each charge.†
Chpt 5.20
- In a staged conversation, I told our attorney Joel Joffe that I would need the Treason Trial record to prepare my testimony.†
Chpt 5.21
- We smiled at the notion of Yutar poring over the hundred or so volumes of Treason Trial transcripts.†
Chpt 5.21
- Yutar finished by saying that the case was not only one of high treason "par excellence," but of murder and attempted murder—neither of which was mentioned in the indictment.†
Chpt 5.21
- We had heard that John Vorster, the minister of justice, had told friends that Prime Minister Smuts's greatest blunder during the Second World War was not hanging him for his treason.†
Chpt 5.22
- The crime of which the accused have been convicted, that is the main crime, the crime of conspiracy, is in essence one of high treason.†
Chpt 5.23
- Among the men put with us was George Peake, one of the founders of the South African Coloured People's Organization, a Treason Trialist, and most recently a member of the Cape Town City Council.†
Chpt 6.24
- These included Mac Maharaj, a member of the SACP and one of the sharpest minds in the struggle; Laloo Chiba, also a member of the MK High Command, and a stalwart colleague who proved a great asset in prison; and Wilton Mkwayi, the Treason Trialist who had been mistakenly let go during a moment of confusion when the State of Emergency was declared in 1960.†
Chpt 6.29
- Those nights, as I wrote in silence, I could once again experience the sights and sounds of my youth in Qunu and Mqhekezweni; the excitement and fear of coming to Johannesburg; the tempests of the Youth League; the endless delays of the Treason Trial; the drama of Rivonia.†
Chpt 7.43
- Even though General de Wet and General Kemp had led a force of twelve thousand and occupied towns and caused many deaths, they were both released soon after their convictions for high treason.†
Chpt 7.44
- Maqubela was serving a twenty-year sentence for treason and had been transferred to Pollsmoor from Diepkloof in Johannesburg, where he had made waves by organizing prisoners.†
Chpt 8.51
Definitions:
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(1)
(treason) betraying someone or something -- typically betraying one's own country
(in this context, to betray is to not be loyal--often by helping enemies) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)