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Informationen zum Autor Lord Joel Joffe CBE is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. He has previously served as Chairperson of Oxfam and worked as a human-rights lawyer. Klappentext Back Cover: "I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die" Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial, 1964 "A remarkable piece of contemporary historical writing that will serve as one of the most reliable sources for understanding what happened at that trial and how we came to live to see democracy triumph in South Africa." Nelson Mandela - Nobel Prize winner and former president of South Africa "Everyone interested in Nelson Mandela's life and South Africa's transition to democracy should read this book." Arthur Chaskalson - Chief Justice of South Africa, 2001-2005 "A hard-hitting and compulsively readable account of one of the great state trials of the 20th century." Sir Sydney Kentridge QC - former acting judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and recipient of the "Lifetime Achievement" award at the UK Chambers Bar Awards 2006. Inside Left (Front) Flap: On 11 July 1963, police raided Lilisleaf farm at Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial and charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. In this compelling book, their defence attorney, Joel Joffe, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa's history, vividly portraying the characters of those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as showing their incredible courage under fire. Inside Right Flap (Back): Lord Joel Joffe CBE is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords. He has previously served as Chairperson of Oxfam and worked as a human-rights lawyer in South Africa. Zusammenfassung In The State vs. Nelson Mandela, Joel Joffe, the Instructing Attorney of the defendants at the time, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa’s history....
