Justice Ludorf convicts thirty men accused of conspiring to overthrow the SWA administration

The presiding judge in the Pretoria terrorist trial, Justice Ludorf convicted the thirty men accused of conspiring to overthrow the South West Africa administration (now known as Namibia). All accused were handed prison sentences ranging from five years to life. Nineteen were sentenced to life imprisonment, while nine and two others were sentenced to twenty and five years respectively. At the time of the trial the country was under South African administration, placed by the League of Nations at the end of the First World War in 1919. In 1990 Namibia became the last country in Africa to gain independence.