Since the beginning of September bans have been repeatedly imposed on meetings, mainly affecting the areas of persistent popular protests in African townships around Pretoria, Johannesburg and Vereeniging. The following meetings were banned during this period:
- Meetings in Queenstown on 2 September organised by the Azanian People's Organisation, the Azanian Student's Movement, the Congress of South African Students and the Queens-town Sports Board.
- All gatherings in the Johannesburg area over the weekend of 8–9 September commemorating the death of any person in the 'recent unrest' or the death of Steve Biko.
- All gatherings in the districts of Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark between 9 and 11 September. This area includes the townships of Sharpeville and Evaton. Church services in the Sharpeville municipal area were excluded from the ban.
- All political meetings in 21 magisterial districts, mainly in the Vaal area, from 11 to 30 September.
- All political meetings and commemoration services in Alice in the Ciskei bantustan.
- All meetings in Seshego, in the Lebowa bantustan, from 12 to 14 September.
- All meetings, except church services, in Sharpeville over the weekend of 20–21 October. (The anniversary of the government's banning of 17 black consciousness organisations in 1977 falls on 19 October.)
- All meetings on 20 October in Mankweng, Lebowakgomo, Seshego, Lenyenye and Mah-welereng in the Lebowa bantustan.
- Meetings in Port Elizabeth of COSAS and the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) from 26 to 27 October.
- Meetings in Port Elizabeth organised for the weekend of 27–28 October by COSAS, PEBCO, the UDF, the Port Elizabeth Youth Congress, the Port Elizabeth Women's Organisation, the Motor Assembly & Component Workers' Union of South Africa (MACWUSA) and the General Workers' Union of South Africa (GWUSA).
- The seven organisations included in the above ban were once again banned from holding meetings in Port Elizabeth, between 3 and 4 November. This ban was extended until 6 November and again until 8 November.
- Meetings in Uitenhage of the UDF, the Uitenhage Youth Congress, the Uitenhage Health, Safety and Cultural Organisation, the National Automobile and Allied Workers' Union, MACWUSA and GWUSA between 7 and 9 November.
- All meetings in Namakgale, in the Lebowa bantustan on 25 November. Cyril RAMAPHOSA, the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, was arrested while taking statements from workers dismissed from a mine in Phalaborwa. He was alleged by police to have addressed an illegal meeting, but was released a day later.
- During this period restrictions were also placed on the funerals of some of those killed in the Vaal area during the unrest. The funeral in September of Bongani KUMALO, a COSAS leader, and that of Anthony MOSOENYANE who died in unknown circumstances outside the Katlehong police station in November, were both banned from taking place on a weekend. The bans also prohibited mourners from carrying placards or singing freedom songs. At two other funerals which took place on 9 September in Daveyton and in Wattille, thousands of mourners defied similar restrictions.
