The Sun Will Rise: Statements from the dock by Southern African political prisoners

This collection of statements made during political trials since 1960 testifies to the high courage, determination and humanity which distinguish the struggle for liberation and for a just society in South Africa and Namibia.
The earliest of the statements in the collection is by Robert Sobukwe, late leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress. It expresses a theme running through all the statements: “The history of the human race has been a struggle for the removal of oppression, and we would have failed had we not made our contribution. We are glad we made it.”
Nelson Mandela’s powerful statement in Pretoria’s Palace of Justice on 20 April, 1964, when he and other members of the African National Congress and the Congress Alliance were in the dock in the Rivonia Trial, has become an historic document…