Some of the legends of freedom who were charged with four crimes at the Rivonia trial are Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Elias Motsoaledi, Andrew Mlangeni, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada.
At the exhibition, a police docket opened in 1963 against the freedom fighters, who were regarded as terrorists by the apartheid regime, reads: State versus Nelson Mandela and others.
The charges in that docket are recruiting persons for training in preparation and use of explosives and in guerrilla warfare for the purpose of violent revolution and committing acts of sabotage; conspiring to commit the aforementioned acts and to aid foreign military units when they invade the Republic; acting in these ways to further the objects of communism and soliciting, and receiving money for these purposes from sympathisers in Algeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Tunisia and elsewhere.