A three-year banning order was served on Abel DUBE of Soweto, on his release from detention on 2 November. He was immediately taken to the remote northern Transvaal town of Messina, to which he is restricted in terms of the ban.
Dube, who was first detained in April 1982, had been held since November that year in 'preventive detention' under Section 28(1) of the Internal Security Act. The circumstances of his arrest are not known. It was reported that after his removal to Messina he was given a house, together with employment on a copper mine in the area.
The banning order on the anti-apartheid minister, Dr Beyers NAUDE (69), was lifted on 26 September, a year before it was due to expire. Dr Naude was first banned for five years in October 1977 when the government banned a number of organisations opposed to apartheid and served banning orders on some of their members. At the time that his order was served Dr Naude was chairman of the Christian Institute, which was also banned. The order on Dr Naude was renewed for three years in October 1982 and he remained restricted to Johannesburg.
Dr Naude became well-known as an outspoken opponent of apartheid in the 1960s when he left his position in the white section of the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) to help found the non-racial Christian Institute. He later joined the black section of the NGK. Commenting on the lifting of his banning order, Dr Naude expressed his solidarity with those still banned and said that during his period of banning his political convictions had been reinforced.
Prince MADIKIZELA, a lawyer from Umtata in the Transkei bantustan area, who has represented a number of opponents of apartheid, was banished from Umtata to Bizana on 10 October after being held by police. The notice, in terms of the Transkei Public Security Act, was served by the State President of the bantustan, Paramount Chief Matanzima, and stated that Madikizela's presence in the area was not 'in the general public interest'. Madikizela had been acting for the family of Mxolisi SIPELE, who died in July last year after being held in detention in the bantustan.
