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Tanzanian Treason Trial Entering Third Week
July 13, 1970
Credit...The New York Times Archives
July 13, 1970,
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, July 12 — The trial of seven leading Tanzanian political fig ures on charges of treason will enter its third week tomorrow, and lawyers expect it to con tinue for four more weeks.
Each or the seven is charged on three counts of treason in allegedly plotting — between March, 1968, and October, 1969 — a coup d'etat and the assassination of President Julius K. Nyerere.
The accused are Grey Li kungu Mataka, former news editor of the Government owned Daily Nationalist; John Dunstan Chipaka, former secretary general of the defunct ANC African National Congress party; Miss Bibi Titi Moham med, former president of UWT the Union of Tanzanian Women; Michael Marshall Kamaliza, former Minister of Labor; Eliya Dunstan Chipaka, former captain in Tanzanian ArmyTPDF; colonel William Makbri Chacha, former military attaché to Peking, and Alfred Phillip Millinga, a former lieutenant in the Tanzanian Army TPDF.
The prosecution charges that the seven conspired with Oscar Kambona, former Minister of Regional Administration who is now in exile in London, to overthrow the Government of Tanzania by force.
The prosecution charges that the defendants attempted to re cruit Potlako Leballo, acting president of the Pan African Congress of South Africa, to act as a recruiting officer for men to take part in the planned coup.
Mr. Leballo, who has been on the witness stand since June 30, told Tanzanian authorities of the conspiracy, the prosecu tion said. Cross‐examination of Mr. Leballo will continue when the trial resumes tomorrow in the High Court here.
Chief Justice Philip Telfer Georges is conducting the trial with the assistance of four others.
Mr. Leballo told the court that he had been approached by Mr. Mataka in Nairobi with a message from Mr. Kambona saying a number of people in Tanzania were working with Mr. Kambona to overthrow the Government. He said that later,” acting under the instructions) of Tanzanian officials, he had met with Mr. Kambona in London to discuss the proposed coup.
He said that in later meet ings Mr. Kambona gave the impression that the planned coup had been abandoned. The prosecution says the reason was that Mr. Mataka had been arrested In Nairobi in October, 1969, after officials had been tipped off by Mr. Leballo...
Source : The New York Times