TRIALISTS of the historic Liliesleaf Rivonia Trial will on Saturday meet in a reunion for the first time in 38 years. Nadine Bainbridge, a representative for the Liliesleaf Rivonia Trialist Reunion organisers, said on Monday the function — at the history-making Rivonia farm — would bring together for the first time all those closely associated with Liliesleaf Farm. ”We will be honouring an epoch of South Africa’s history as well as launching the Liliesleaf Trust which will develop Liliesleaf Farm as a South African historical heritage site,” she said. The reunion would also mark the beginnings of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the African National Congress’ armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe of which the farm was used as its high command headquarters. Most of those arrested during the raid on the farm were given lengthy jail terms, including life imprisonment and were only released after the unbanning of political organisations in 1990, paving the way for the first democratic elections in 1994. – Sapa