Jail Break!
One of the frustrating things when studying the efforts of anti-apartheid campaigners in the 1950s and 1960s is seeing how the might of the South African state was so successful in closing off avenues of protest and in criminalising dissent. Prominent South African activists, even when not detained, found themselves voiceless due to banning orders. [1] They were also frequently harassed by the police and often were threatened with arrest. My research has paid particularly close attention to the Rivonia trial of 1963-64, but this trial was just one prominent example of many such prosecutions, and a particularly significant success for the South African Government in its attempts to remove the influence of the anti-apartheid movement in the country. Anti-apartheid protest within South Africa was hit to such a degree by the mid-1960s that it took years to recover. In the years following, it was reliant on a network of anti-apartheid campaigners working around the world to continue