CONTRAVENTIONS
Priscilla JANA, a lawyer banned for five years in August 1979, appeared for the third time in the Johannesburg Regional Court last November. She was charged with contravening her banning order last July by leaving the magisterial district of Johannesburg to which she is restricted. She was not asked to plead and was due to appear again on 14 March.
The case of Jamalludien HAMDULAY, reported in the last issue of FOCUS, was concluded last November when he was cautioned and discharged in the Parow Regional Court. Hamdulay, banned for five years in November 1980, was charged with contravening his banning order in June 1981 by leaving the Wynberg magisterial district to which he is restricted, 'and/or entering a factory', which is prohibited under the terms of his order.
BANNED UNIONIST FLEES
Sipho PITYANA, a former organiser of the Motor Assembly and Component Workers Union and the General Workers Union, who was banned for two years in March 1982, fled to Lesotho last September. He later joined his brother, Barney PITYANA, in Britain, where he was able to describe how during his detention he was subjected to days of torture that included electric shocks, suffocation and half-drowning in freezing sea.
BANISHMENT
Thembekile Templar NYHOBO, aged 50, was banished from his home in Tshatshu, near Zwelitsha in the Ciskei bantustan, on his release from detention last November, and sent to live in Peddie. He was among a group of six people detained by the Ciskei security police in August after attending the unveiling of a tombstone for PAC leader Robert Sobukwe.
