The Very Rev. Michael MOLALE, Dean of Gaborone and a Botswana citizen, was arrested in the international area of Jan Smuts airport on 26 July while en route to the Transkei. He was held by the SA Security Police for a week before being freed.
The international area at Jan Smuts is supposed to confer immunity from arrest for travellers not visiting South Africa but having to pass through the airport to reach Lesotho, Swaziland etc. This incident indicates that neither this arrangement nor the possession of foreign citizenship offer protection from arrest should the SA police decide otherwise.
