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Flyleaf: "English-born Helen Joseph was Accused Number Two at the South African Treason trial. A teacher and a social worker, she had been uncon- cerned with politics all her life, and only became active in connection with the African National Congress as a result of what she learnt through her work of conditions of life among non-Europeans in South Africa. With many others she was arrested and charged with high treason, a capital offence, after Congress's declaration of its Freedom Charter in December, 1956. During the four-year trial which followed she was again arres- ted, this time under the Emergency Regulations which came into force after the Sharpeville massacre in March, 1960. She was then detained in gaol for five months, spending nineteen days of that time in solitary confinement, but apart from that being delivered to Court daily for the treason trial. Mrs Joseph's book gives a com- plete picture of the trial--of the absurdity of the Crown's case from the legal point of view, and of its tragic gravity in terms of rational humanity--but its core is the journal she kept during her detention after Sharpeville. This is a vivid, very personal document, all the more impressive

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Author

JOSEPH, Mrs Helen

Publisher

Andre Deutsch Limited

Published

1963

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction