A number of whites, mainly connected with the church, have been deported or declared to be prohibited immigrants by the Smith regime. In addition to Sister McLaughlin they include:
- Father Laurence Lynch, an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had lived in Rhodesia for many years and ran the Mount Meleray Mission in the Inyanga district, was declared a prohibited immigrant in July. Father Lynch was given a 3½ year conditionally suspended prison sentence in April 1977 on conviction of assisting and failing to report guerillas. He was in Ireland at the time of his prohibition order. (RH 16.7.77; see FOCUS 10 pp. 6-7)
- Michael Pocock, the British-born Anglican headmaster of St. Mary Magdalene School, Inyanga, who was tried and sentenced together with Father Lynch, was also declared a prohibited immigrant in July (RH 16.7.77; FOCUS ibid).
- Charles Roberts, a lecturer in sociology at the University of Rhodesia, was end of the month. (RH 23.8.77)
- Sister Teresa Corby (36), an Irish doctor of the Order of the Little Company of St. Mary was given seven days to leave Rhodesia in September. Sister Corby was the only doctor for the Buhera and Charter areas round Mount St. Mary's mission in Wedza TTL, 50 miles south-east of Salisbury, an area in which there has been extensive guerilla activity (GN/T 21.9.77)
- Father Pascal Slevin, the Irish-born superintendent of Mount St. Mary's mission who had lived in Rhodesia since 1962, was deported at the beginning of October. Father Slevin, who took a number of photographs and made available other evidence on security force atrocities subsequently published by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, told a press conference in London that the Wedza Mission had developed a close relationship with the guerillas of the liberation movement, "for whom our respect grew with every meeting". "Of course there are atrocities on both sides. This is in no doubt. But what is still doubted abroad is the truth of the accusations against the security forces and the fear in which they are held by the people. It is not true that the guerillas have no support from the people. In my experience they are seen by the people as their liberators". (Obs. 9.10.77; T 12.10.77).
- Roger Riddell, a British born Jesuit missionary, teacher and author of a number of studies of the Rhodesian economy, was banned from re-entering the country in October. Riddell, who had been working at a British university for two years, was due to take up an appointment as economics lecturer at the University of Rhodesia. Some of his research had been published by the Catholic Commission. (GN 14.10.77)
