On 13 July the Government Gazette issued its annual list of all persons under banning orders as at 30 June 1979.
The list contains 154 names and details, comprising 39 white persons and 115 blacks. All are contained in the IDAF publication Prisoners of Apartheid (to 30 June 1978) and in subsequent issues of FOCUS.
Two persons from the Ingwavuma district of Natal near the Mozambique border were on 3 August 1978 removed under the Black (Native) Administration Act and sent to the Ezingolweni district in the extreme south-west of Natal. They are Mbolekelwa MNGOMEZULU and Piet Mzondeki MDKHUNGA.
No other removal orders under this Act lapsed or were withdrawn during 1978.
Two persons detained under Ciskei emergency regulations R252 were subsequently ordered to remove themselves to the Transkei. They were Joseph Zoyisile KOBO and Livingstone MALOTANA who were released early in May. Both are domiciled in East London and stated that they did not intend to go to the Transkei
