David JOHNSON was served with a five year banning order on 11 January which prevents him from attending or addressing meetings, and restricts him to the magisterial districts of Johannesburg and Vereeniging. He may continue his third year studies at Wits University where he has been chairman of the Black Students Society since Feroze Cachalia was banned in June 1981. He was detained, tried and given a four months suspended sentence under the Riotous Assemblies Act in 1980 and held again in detention under the General Law Amendment Act in 1981.
William MALEFANE was reported to be seeking a Supreme Court order forcing the Qwa Qwa bantustan authorities to lift the six month ban imposed on him on 17 December 1981. This is the second banning order imposed on him within a period of fifteen months: he was banned from staying in Qwa Qwa in September 1980 but the order was temporarily suspended by the Supreme Court. The new order became operative on 16 December 1981 and confines him to Phuthaditjhaba, the capital of the bantustan, for six months under Proclamation 195 of 1981.
William Malefane has long been an outspoken critic of the policies of apartheid and separate development and is now chief whip of the opposition party in Qwa Qwa - Matla A Sechaba. Dikwankwetla, the ruling party led by K Mopeli and a member of Chief Buthelezi's Black Alliance, holds all twenty seats in the Legislative Assembly.
Following evidence by Matla A Sechaba of unfair practices during the March 1981 elections when only 3.3 per cent of the population voted, the banning orders on William Malefane appear to be designed to stifle the opposition party.
Qwa Qwa covers an area of 48244 ha, and is situated on the north-east tip of Lesotho in the Orange Free State. Used as a relocation repository for the 'illegal' residents of Harrismith and Bethlehem (these towns still providing work for commuters travelling more than 50 kilometres on a daily basis). Unemployment in the bantustan is very high, the population increased ten-fold in the period 1970-80 from approximately 26,000 to an estimated 232,000.
Winnie MANDELA was served with her fifth banning order under the Internal Security Act, Section 9(1) on 29 December 1981, two days before the previous ban expired. She has now been either banned or detained for nineteen of the twenty years since 1962. Her last ban restricted her to Soweto but was changed in May 1977 when she was effectively 'banished' to Brandfort where she continues under house arrest. Her youngest daughter Zinzi maintains their home at Orlando West.
Winnie Madela's latest ban is harsher than the previous one. It includes an additional clause which prohibits her from lecturing to a group and therefore from finishing the practical work necessary for the Social Science degree she was studying for through the University of South Africa. 'She will turn to something else' said family friend Matthews Malefane, 'perhaps political science, at least something which does not require so much social contact'.
David Siponono GASA (a former director of Umlazi Residents' Association) Mawalal RAM-GOBIN (founder member of National Indian Congress) and Sheila WEINBERG were all banned for five years from attending gatherings, on 15 January. Their orders expire on 30 November 1986, 30 September 1986, and 31 October 1986 respectively, their previous bans having ended on the same dates in 1981.
The South African authorities in the bantustan areas continue to use banishment to control opposition. Recent court cases have focused attention on the extent of the security regulations in force in those areas.
Attorney Louis Leo MTSHIZANA was banished and restricted to the Ludidi area of Maluti, Transkei, in June 1981, under Section 41 of the Transkei Public Security Act. His wife and son appealed in court for a ruling that the order did not apply to them, but the application was dismissed with costs. Their lawyer Tandwefika DAZANA was subsequently detained. Mr Mtshizana fled to the Ciskei where he was detained for three weeks. In 1974 Mr Mtshizana was banished from Mdantsane to Sterkspruit in the Transkei.
Joseph KOBO, who was banished from the Ciskei in April 1979 under Proclamation R252 challenged the right of the Ciskei to banish its own so-called citizens. A journalist and former member of the Ciskei National Independence Party and a former general secretary of Transkei's Democratic Party he has been detained in both the Ciskei and Transkei and in 1981 lived in Duncan Village, an area where people are due to be resettled in the Ciskei.
Four officials of the King Williams Town and District Rugby Union (Kadru) who campaigned for non-racial sport, were detained in the Ciskei in late August. On their release they were served with 'deportation' orders issued under Proclamation R252. Three of them were prohibited from being in the Ciskei and the fourth was banished from Zwelitsha and resettled in Whittlesea.
