Banning orders have confined Mrs. Mary Moodley to her Benoni home for the past fifteen years. When the third ban expired at the end of March, she was allowed just three days' freedom from restrictions before the Minister of Justice imposed a fourth ban, which will expire in 1983, when widowed Mrs Moodley will be 70 years old. Mary Moodley was a trade unionist and active in the Coloured Peoples Congress before her first banning in 1963. She has eight children, one of whom described the latest ban as the 'act of a frightened regime'; her mother was 'a born fighter... a courageous woman who will never sell her principles'.
Bans were also renewed for the fourth time on Joseph Morolong, who was banished to the Ditshipeng Reserve, a remote area in the northern Cape, in 1963. Morolong was a former trade union organiser and one of the accused in the marathon Treason Trial from 1956-61. When news of the renewed ban reached the Reserve, residents reported that Morolong had been murdered in November 1977.
