Date: 18 November, 1988

United Democratic Front (UDF) officials Patrick Lekota, the organisation's publicity secretary, Popo Molefe, its national secretary, and Moses Chikane, its Transvaal Province secretary, as well as the Reverend Thomas Manthatha, another activist, are convicted of treason with intent to overthrow the regime. Seven other defendants are convicted of terrorism, which like treason carries a maximum penalty of death, and eight are acquitted. That brings to eleven each the number of convictions and acquittals among the twenty-two persons accused in the more than three-year-long trial, one of the longest political trials in South Africa history.

References

• Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.