If This Be Treason

✍ Scribed by Joseph, Helen

• Publisher: Kwela
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 136 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: La Vergne, South Africa--Pretoria.
• ISBN: 0795708505

✦ Synopsis

Helen Joseph, founding member of the ANC's ally, the Congress of Democrats, was one of the main organisers in the Women's March of 9 August 1956. Arrested on a charge of high treason in 1956, and banned the next year, Helen suffered constant persecution. The first person in South Africa to be placed under house arrest, she survived several assassination attempts. In this personal account, Joseph writes about enduring the Treason Trial - one of the longest and most important trials in South African history, where she stood accused along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. With disarming hone.;Intro; Title Page; Foreword: Benjamin Trisk; Foreword: Walter Sisulu; Foreword: Chief Albert Luthuli; Authorâ#x80;#x99;s Note; Background to the Treason Trial; Diary of Events; This Trial is Out of Date; After Sharpeville; The Accused Take Over; Queenâ#x80;#x99;s Guests (QCs); After the Emergency; Postscript; Profiles of the Accused; APPENDIX A: 1949 Programme of Action of the African National Congress; APPENDIX B: The Freedom Charter; About the Book; Summary; About the Author; Imprint Page.

✦ Subjects

South Africa -- Pretoria