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Denis Goldberg

Rivonia Trialist
High Command, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
Political Prisoner, 22yrs (1963-1985)
The Rivonia Trial charge sheet contained 193 acts of sabotage

Denis Goldberg supports the Cure Racism South Africa initiative.
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Denis Theodore Goldberg is a South African hero who was part of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. He is an engineer by training, was born on 11 April 1933 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). He married Esme Bodenstein, who was born in Johannesburg, on 9 April 1954.

Bodenstein was also a political activist. She was subjected to solitary confinement under the 90 Day Detention Law in 1963 after Goldberg had been arrested and had escaped and been recaptured. For her and their children’s safety, she was asked to go into exile in Britain. While Goldberg was in prison, Bodenstein sustained his mother who helped her to bring up their two children, Hilary and David, in exile. Bodenstein passed away in February 2000.

During the State of Emergency Goldberg and his mother were detained for four months. After his release he was dismissed from his job for his political activism. In 1963 he was served with a stringent banning order.

Goldberg was tried from June 1963 to October 1964 in the Pretoria Supreme Court along with Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Andrew Mlangeni and others in the Rivonia Trial. Goldberg was charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for ‘campaigning to overthrow the Government by violent revolution and for assisting an armed invasion of the country by foreign troops’. The charge sheet contained 193 acts of sabotage allegedly carried out by persons recruited by the accused in their capacity as members of the High Command of uMkhonto we Sizwe.

Goldberg was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment in Pretoria Local Prison. From the time of his arrest, Goldberg was in jail for a total of 22 years before being released in 1985.

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