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The State versus Nelson Mandela and others: address in mitigation, 12th June 1964

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Hanson argues mitigation for the accused, Nelson Mandela and others, on the last day of the Rivonia Treason Trial, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr. Justice De Wet, in the matter of the State vs Mandela and others, held in Pretoria, South Africa. The trial became known as the Rivonia Treason Trial.