Mr and Mrs Jack Grant, a missionary couple in their late 60's, have been declared prohibited immigrants by the Smith regime. They were told in mid-February that they had two weeks in which to leave Rhodesia. Jack Grant, who was born in Trinidad, first went to Rhodesia as a school-teacher in 1931. From 1949-56 he was Principal of Adams College, Natal. He was the founder chairman of Christian Care, a leading charitable organisation in Rhodesia which provides for the families of political prisoners and detainees and undertakes relief work in the Tribal Trust Lands. Jack Grant was also field secretary of the United Church of Christ in Rhodesia from 1968 to 1972 and is the author of the Minority Rights Group pamphlet: *The Africans' Predicament in Rhodesia*
Two weeks previously, a Swiss couple, Dr Carl Stiehle (55) and his wife Alida (19) were also declared prohibited immigrants by the regime. They had been trying for more than a year to obtain permanent residence permits for Rhodesia, having entered the country from South Africa in 1975. Mrs Stiehle is Coloured and comes from Port Elizabeth in South Africa. She took on Swiss nationality when she married Dr Stiehle. On 13 February, his appeal against their prohibited immigrant notice was dismissed by the Salisbury Magistrates Court.
