The Suppression of Communism Act, 1950, renamed the Internal Security Act in 1976, was legislation of the national government in apartheid South Africa which formally banned the Communist Party of Sou
More than 20,000 black, Indian and coloured South Africans gather in Durban on 28 May 1950 to protest the Group Area and Suppression of Communism bills.
The Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial was heard in the Supreme Court of South Africa from 21 October 1985 to 23 June 1986. In the largest political trial since the Rivonia Trial, the apartheid state purs
Anti-apartheid protestors in the 1980s
The Old Supreme Court building in Pietermaritzburg
An anti-apartheid protest at South Africa House in London, 1989
Durban Sign 1989