The banning order on Charles SIMKINS, university researcher served with a five-year banning order in November 1976 together with 20 others mostly involved in the black trade union movement, has been lifted.
So has that on John FRANKISH, former UCT medical student and NUSAS executive member, banned at the same time as Charles Simkins.
At the end of April the bans imposed on four persons who served ten-year sentences under the Sabotage Act as members of the Unity Movement expired and were not renewed. Those affected are
Dr. Neville ALEXANDER Ms. Elizabeth VAN DER HEYDEN Marcus SOLOMON Rev. Don J. DAVIS
All four were imprisoned from 1964-74 and banned on release. In late 1978 Dr. Alexander was permitted to take up a six-month fellowship in West Germany; on his return to South Africa he said he had no intention of going into exile
