BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 5th August, 1962, Nelson Madiba Mandela was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for inciting a workers’ strike in 1961. A year later, in July 1963, the government launched a raid on the Lilliesleaf farm in Rivonia, which had been used as an ANC hideout. It arrested 19 […]
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