Several meetings were banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act between the end of May and mid-June, during the Anti-Republic Day Campaign and at the time of the commemoration of those killed by police during the uprising of June 16 1976.
- On 18 May an Anti-Republic Day meeting due to take place on the Rhodes University campus was prevented by an order prohibiting all political meetings in the Albany magisterial district for a period of 24 hours.
- Three meetings planned to take place on 1 June in Port Elizabeth were banned. One was a meeting at which trade union representatives were to report back on negotiations with management at the Ford, General Motors and Firestone factories. The other two were meetings of school pupils, who had previously decided on a class boycott in protest at the Republic Day celebrations. One meeting was called by the Congress of South African Students, the other by the Coloured Students Representative Council.
- Meetings planned for the weekend 13-14 June in Port Elizabeth were prevented by an order prohibiting all meetings in the area during the weekend. The order was issued by the chief magistrate at the request of the security police.
Commemorative services, planned for the same weekend were also banned in Durban, and services were banned in the Lenyenye district in Northern Transvaal on 15 June.
