S13E246 - Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid

Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade that saw him more often in court than out. How did Mandela defend himself? What changed from his first trial to his last? Could any justice be found in a system of blatant oppression? And what happens when the line between lawyer, defendant and prisoner becomes impossibly blurred?

The final film in our season at the Regent Street Cinema in London is coming up on Friday 19th December: a scr...