LISTED PERSON
The former founding chairman of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) now living in exile, Thozamile BOTHA, was made a listed person on the expiry of his three-year banning order this January. It is now an offence under the Internal Security Act for any speech or writing by him to be published or disseminated in South Africa. Botha was held in detention for over a month following his role in a strike at the Ford Motor Company, and banned on release in February 1980. He fled to Lesotho in May 1980.
EXPIRED BAN
The three-year banning order on a former journalist, Mono BADELA, expired in January. Badela, an executive member of PEBCO, was detained with Thozamile Botha in January 1980 and banned on his release the following February. At the time of his arrest he was also chairman of the Eastern Province region of the Writer's Association of South Africa (now the Media Worker's Association of South Africa).
CONTRAVENTIONS
Priscilla JANA, a lawyer banned for five years in 1979, received a suspended sentence of five years for contravening her banning order. She had left Johannesburg, to which she is restricted, to visit her mother who had had an operation.
