Rivonia Trial

• The headquarters of MK, at a small farm in Rivonia, north of Johannesburg, was raided in 1963 and most of the leaders arrested and tried
• Rivonia Trial


  Trial of Mandela and MK leaders at the Pretoria Supreme Court in Johannesburg from 1963 to 1964
• Mandela did not deny that he had espoused armed struggle and again explained why
• The Rivonia accused were defended by an able group of white lawyers sympathetic to the liberation movement, led by Bram Fischer, an Afrikaner