The Terrorism Act trial of actor Bingo BENTLEY (46) of Eldorado Park and Archibald Monti MZINYATHI (24) of Soweto was postponed to 12 February by Krugersdorp Regional Court in November.
Alleged to have been trained by the ANC as a guerilla in the Soviet Union, Mzinyathi is accused of returning to South Africa in 1978 and Bentley is charged with harbouring him until April 1979. The two appeared in court in September, October and November, when state witnesses were brought from detention to give evidence in camera. One stated he had met Mzinyathi at "an ANC refugee camp" in Lesotho in 1977; another described helping Bentley to hide Mzinyathi at a farm in Leslie, Eastern Transvaal, and at the Bentleys' house. Bentley and Mzinyathi were both arrested on 9 April and held at John Vorster Square Police HQ.
