Four young people from Soweto appeared in Johannesburg Regional Court on 24 July charged with murder. The state alleges that Rose KUNENE (18) Gideon NKUTHA (20) Lydia DAKILE (20) and Jefferson LENGANE (22) were responsible for the death of a WRAB official on the first day of the uprising 16 June 1976.
Jefferson Lengane was one of the accused in the SASM Eleven trial and was given a suspended five-year sentence. His name does not appear to have been added to the charge sheet until July; press reports in June referred only to the others having appeared at a preliminary hearing
One of the state witnesses in this trial, Sidwell Mosiwa CUKULU (20) was arrested and charged with perjury after repudiating the evidence he had given in Court. He appeared in Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court on 30 July.
David GASA, of Umlazi, who was banned in 1976, has applied for leave to appeal against a jail sentence for breaking his ban. He has also applied for bail.
In January 1978 Mr. Gasa was sentenced to a total of 20 months' imprisonment, conditionally suspended. The sentence was invoked in February 1979 after he was again convicted.
Opposing bail, a police officer told the court it was almost impossible to keep banned people under constant observation and said he feared that Gasa would try to leave the country illegally.
Govin REDDY, banned at the end of 1976 applied for permission to move from Durban to Phoenix, Natal, where his wife had obtained a nursing job, and was refused. The Minister of Justice, in answer to a parliamentary question, declined to explain this refusal.
Ebrahim ISMAIL (40) banned on his release from Robben Island in February and restricted to Pinetown, applied to go to Durban for a job interview on 4 July and was refused permission. The magistrate refused to comment on this decision. A relative told the press that the banning order had effectively blocked all Mr. Ismail's attempts to find work
