Why mandela was jailed

Justice Quartus de Wet refuses bail to Kantor and Bernstein. The case is remanded to 12 November. Yutar presents a new indictment splitting the sabotage charges into two parts. The case is remanded to 25 November. The alleged acts of sabotage are reduced to The defence applies to have the new indictment quashed.

Mandela makes his famous "Speech from the Dock", in which he says he is "prepared to die" for a democratic South Africa. All except Goldberg are sent to Robben Island to serve their sentences. Goldberg, as the only white person convicted in the trial, is held in Pretoria Central Prison. Mandela is forbidden from attending his son's funeral.

She said Nelson Mandela was afraid they would confiscate the camera and terminate the visit. Amina Cachalia laughed at the thought of the impact her photograph would have had. Fellow prisoner Ahmed Kathrada recalled that in Pollsmoor in , Nelson Mandela was called to the prison office and then returned to his ANC colleagues and started reading the newspapers.

After a few minutes he said to them: "Oh by the way chaps, I was told President Botha has offered to release us. We all read through it and signed it, rejecting the offer. Even though later Nelson Mandela was to have many meetings with the government and to be moved to the more comfortable conditions of his villa at Victor Verster prison - attending Sunday services, playing chess, teaching political economy to his fellow prisoners - he always sought to give the ANC exiled leadership no cause to be suspicious of his intentions and refused to put his own freedom before that of others and before the goals of the movement.

Ahmed Kathrada told me that Nelson Mandela fought a war of attrition in everything. In prison, he once played chess against a medical student who had just come in for five years. They continued the next day and each move was so slow this was a war of attrition. After a few hours the young chap said 'Look, you win. Just take your victory. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The longest spell of his prison life was spent on Robben Island.

Access to books was sometimes limited - this complete works of Shakespeare was shared by Mandela, who signed this passage from Julius Caesar, as well as other inmates. A portrait of Mandela now hangs in what was Victor Verster prison The late s and early s were a period of growing tumult in South Africa, as African nationalists allied with the South African Communist Party challenged the apartheid state.

When protest was met with brute force, the ANC launched an armed struggle with Mandela at its head. He was arrested and charged with treason in After a trial lasting five years, Mandela was acquitted.

But by now the ANC had been banned and so Mandela embarked on a secret trip to ask for help from other African nations emerging from colonial rule. However in he was arrested and sentenced to five years in jail.

As a consequence, it was the black community who were the poorest members of the South African population. However, the situation worsened for black population in , when the South African government made new laws to keep white and black people apart. This new system was called apartheid. Suddenly, a white person and a black person could not marry.

Black and white people could not share a table in a restaurant, or even sit together on a bus, and black children and white children were forced to go to different schools. Soon after, Mandela began to lead the ANC, and was joined by many people, both black and white, who wanted to speak out against apartheid. Mandela hoped that peaceful protest could get rid of the policy, but what he was trying to do was very dangerous, and in , Mandela and other people were arrested and imprisoned for treason.

It was only after a trial lasting five years that he was set free. In , some people held a demonstration against apartheid at Sharpeville, near Johannesburg.

The police shot dead 69 black people.