- Rev. Mogenthau D. MDOLO of Tabankulu, Transkei, was in October banished to Xolobe in the western Tsomo district of the territory. The order states that he may not return to Tabankulu, nor the Ngqeleni area where his Methodist church is, nor Umtata.
Rev. Mdolo was detained for 82 days in April 1979 and on his release laid charges against the Transkei Minister of Justice and the security police for unlawful detention.
- Chief Solomon LION (69) of Maboloka district in Bophuthatswana was banished from Maboloka near Brits to a remote village near Kuruman.
Chief Lion was detained on 22 August for "illegally entering the homeland" and later charged. Lion was deposed from his position for opposing BophuthaTswana, and deported to Lesotho
