THIRTEEN BANS LIFTED
After bans on 13 people were lifted during February there were still 90 people who were banned under the Internal Security Act, and also a number of people banished under various laws operating in the bantustan areas of South Africa.
The 13 people whose bans were lifted ahead of the due date of expiry (given in parentheses) are: * ADEREM, A A (31.3.82); ADLER, D (28.2.83); * DYANI, M (31.12.83); QEQE, D (31.1.83); * MALGAS, E (30.4.82); MATTHEWS, J E (31.12.82); * MPUMLWANA, M M (31.12.82); * MPUMLWANA, M F (30.4.82); NGUBENI, M (30.9.82); * PHUNGULA, H (31.3.82); * RAMBALLY, A (30.11.83); RAMOKGOPA (31.1.83); * TSHUME, P (31.1.83).
BANNED MAN KEPT FROM FUNERAL
The Rev Beyers NAUDE, the former director of the banned Christian Institute, was refused permission in March to attend the funeral of a personal friend and church minister, the Rev Frikkie Conradie.
The Rev Conradie was the first white to be ordained as a minister of the NG Kerk in Afrika (Dutch Reformed Church in Africa), after he had cut his ties with the white mother church, the NG Kerk. (The NG Kerk set up segregated daughter churches for the groups segregated by the apartheid system). Beyers Naude was also a member of the NGK in Afrika, belonging to the Alexandra Township congregation of which the Rev Conradie was the minister.
During 1980 Beyers Naude was prevented from attending the funeral of another church minister, the Rev Mayathula.
CONTRAVENTION
Jamalludien HAMDULAY appeared in the Parow Regional Court in the Cape, charged with breaking his banning order.
He is alleged to have broken his banning order by working in a factory different from the one in which his banning order allows him to work.
Jamalludien Hamdulay was banned in November 1980. At the time of his banning he was acting president of the South African Students Association which was active in the Western Cape during the 1980 school boycott.
CISKEI BANISHMENTS
- In February the Ciskei bantustan authorities lifted a banishment order on Mr F MABECE, one of four members of the King Williams Town and District Rugby Union (KADRU) who were banished in September 1981 on their release from detention.
According to the head of security forces in the area, Mabece, who was banned from Zwelitsha, had approached the bantustan authorities and asked for a pardon.
The other three, who are banished from the whole of the Ciskei area, are Douglas MAKU, Mr A F TYULU and Mr A M NYONDO. All three are officers of KADRU, which campaigns for non-racial sport.
- Joseph KOBO was found not guilty and discharged when he appeared in the Mdantsane Regional Court in February on a charge of breaking an order banishing him from the Ciskei.
Kobo is deemed to be a 'citizen' of the Ciskei bantustan, and was refused South African citizenship. He said in court that this fact meant that he could not legally be banished from the area. Press reports do not make clear what the magistrate's reasons were for finding him not guilty.
