Percy Yutar (29 July 1911 – 13 July 2002) was a lawyer who became South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general. He was the state prosecutor in the Rivonia trial in which anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela and seven others were convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment.
PercyYutar (29 July 1911 – 13 July 2002) was a lawyer who became South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general. He was the state prosecutor in the Rivonia...
considered Goldreich to be "the arch-conspirator". The chief prosecutor was PercyYutar, deputy attorney-general of the Transvaal. The presiding judge was Quartus...
teacher PercyYutar (1911–2002), South African attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson Mandela in the 1963 Rivonia treason trial Sir Percy Blakeney...
against the republic, and furthering acts of communism. The prosecutor PercyYutar did not explicitly move for the death penalty, but it was generally believed...
chief prosecutor was PercyYutar. Judge Quartus de Wet soon threw out the prosecution's case for insufficient evidence, but Yutar reformulated the charges...
imprisonment instead of the death penalty, which the state prosecutor PercyYutar had been asking for. This was considered a victory for the defence. International...
Chief Justice of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1899–1977) PercyYutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson...
vicious taunting and many attempts to place him as a vital cog of MK by PercyYutar, finally Judge Quartus de Wet discharged him, stating Accused No 8 has...
life in prison, the Apartheid government praised then-Attorney general PercyYutar, who was Jewish as well, and held him as a 'savior of the country.' The...
retired in 1969, and died in 1980; he did not (unlike the prosecutor, PercyYutar) live to see Mandela's release in 1990. List of Judges President of the...
cricketer. Herbert Vesely, 71, Austrian film director and screenwriter. PercyYutar, 90, South African attorney general, prosecuted Nelson Mandela. Igor...
defence lawyers in the trial. After aggressive treatment by the prosecutor PercyYutar, who sought to portray Kantor as a vital cog of MK, finally Judge Quartus...
UCT Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist PercyYutar, South Africa's first Jewish attorney-general and prosecutor of Nelson...
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