death of Tembuyise MNDAWE (see above) the Commissioner of Police, General Geldenhuys, reported that police had detained eight alleged guerillas, killed five others and confiscated weapons, ammunition and explosives during operations in late February and early March. Four more men were detained at a roadblock near the Lesotho border on 22 March. General Geldenhuys reported that three of them had been positively identified as trained guerillas of the ANC and linked their detention to the discovery of arms caches near Ulundi in the KwaZulu bantustan.
TRADE UNIONISTS
Authorities in the Ciskei bantustan sustained the high level of repression reported in FOCUS 45 p. 6-7, with the trade unions particularly under attack. On 16 March police detained six trade unionists.
Lieutenant-General Charles Sebe, Chief of Security, said all the trade unionists would be charged alongside other detainees with taking part in ANC activities. However, the Attorney General declined to prosecute and all were released.
CONSTITUTIONAL PLANS
A number of people from Cape Town were detained during January and February. Informed sources linked the detentions to local community opposition to the government's constitutional proposals. All the detainees belonged to groups opposing the proposals and affiliated to the Cape Areas Housing Action Committee (CAHAC) which comprises 32 civic organisations. Michael COETZEE, a student at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) was detained in Port Elizabeth in January and brought to Cape Town the following month.
Two teachers, Daphne WILLIAMS and Zelda HOLTZMAN, and a former UWC student, Hedley KING, were detained in February. By the end of March only Daphne Williams had been released.
In a move aimed at curtailing opposition to the proposals from the Indian community, six students of the Witwatersrand University were detained on 2 March and questioned for some hours about a newsletter issued by the Transvaal anti-SAIC committee.
RELEASES
Three detainees held in the Ciskei bantustan were released on 30 December 1982. They were Godfrey SHIBA and Veronica NTOZINI who were detained in October and Sebenzile MDYOGOLO who was held on 16 December 1982.
