Four university students had strict five year banning orders served on them in June under Sections 9 and 10 of the Internal Security Act. The orders may prevent them completing their studies. Three more people were banned, bringing the total to seven.
Sammy ADELMAN, president of Wits Student Representative Council (SRC), was served with his order on 18 June: the Wits SRC played a leading role in the Anti-Republic Day Campaign at the University.
Sammy Acelman was granted a special exemption allowing him to attend lectures, thereby enabling him to complete his third year law studies at Wits.
Andrew BORAINE (22), president of NUSAS, was released from detention in Pretoria Central Prison where he had been held since 27 May after an anti-Republic Day rally in Cape Town. He was discharged on 1 May, after appearing in the Durban Regional Court on a charge of convening and addressing a prohibited meeting in June 1980.
Boraine was banned on 30 June and is restricted to the magisterial districts of Wynberg and Cape Town. He can complete the course for which he is currently registered, for which purpose he is allowed to be on UCT premises. However, he has two more years to complete his degree but only has permission to study for the rest of 1981.
The two CACHALIA brothers, Azhar and Feroze, detained on 10 June, both executive members of Wits BSS and members of the Benoni Students Movement, were banned on their release from detention on 30 June. Both are allowed to continue their studies for this year. Feroze will also be allowed to continue his part-time job in Johannesburg every Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning.
Sibongile Susan MTHEMBU was jailed following the trial of 11 SSRC members in 1978-9 who were accused of organising the 1976 uprisings. She was released on 9 May after serving two years, along with Seth MAZIBUKO. In November 1978 the West Rand Administration Board advised the parents of the imprisoned members of the SSRC to begin building houses in the homelands in preparation for the release of their children who would not be allowed to live in Johannesburg. This policy had to be abandoned after protests and Mthembu is now restricted to the Johannesburg magisterial district and Zola township in Soweto under her three-year banning order. She may not enter any other black township, and has to report to Jabulani police station every Monday.
George SEWPERSADH, a lawyer, was also served with a five-year banning order on 24 June following his detention on 7 June. He was President of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) before he was first banned, and was re-elected after that five-year banning order expired in October 1978.
Sewpersadh was recently acquitted of charges of reproducing and distributing the Freedom Charter. Now confined to the districts of Durban, Pinetown and Inanda he is allowed to continue his practice as an attorney in Verulam, north of Durban.
Charles NOAKULA, acting president of the Media Workers Association (MWASA), and a senior reporter on the East London Daily Dispatch, has been served with a two-and-a-half year banning and house arrest order, due to expire on 31 December 1983. He is restricted to the districts of King William's Town and the township of Zwelitsha. His career as a journalist will be disrupted as he is forbidden to write for publication, attending gatherings or taking part in political or union activities.
