Remember th Mandela reference!

Life imprisonment Mandela had been sentenced to five years in prison on November 7, 1962 – three for incitement, two for the passport violation – but documents retrieved at Liliesleaf, including the diary of his African tour in the first half of 1962, and a scribbled note on a map of Johannesburg’s Fort prison, where he had once been held, reading ‘I need not mention the disastrous effects politically of an abortive attempt’, decisively linked him with the armed wing of the ANC.

This ensured that when the ‘Rivonia Trial’ began in October 1963, Mandela became the government’s ‘accused No 1’.