BANS AND BANISHMENTS
OVER 4,000 BANISHED
The Minister of Co-operation and Development, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, revealed in March that 4,082 people were still subject to banishment orders in terms of the Black Administration Act, the law most commonly used to banish Africans to remote areas. This figure does not include those banished under laws in the 'independent' bantustans.
The 'Prime Minister' of the Transkei bantustan, Chief George Matanzima, announced in May the names of 20 people who had been banished from one area to another within the Transkei. Among them was Prince MADIKIZELA, a lawyer from Umtata whose first banishment in October last year was reported in FOCUS. He was banished again on 21 February to the Xalanga area of the Transkei (see CONTRAVENTIONS). Other names were: Chief Sobantu Mafu MABANDLA, Matatu KAPAYI, Novili JOYI, Notemba JOYI, Anderson Dalaguba JOYI, Marelane JOYI, Gweti BASI, Pahlana BASI, Dingindlela BASI, Gengelele NTINDE, Xagelegusha BISIWE, Mcilizwa HANGXA, Nqangi Herbert DLAMINI, Major DIKENI, Thembekile NWELENDE, Yakazela KAPYI, Johnson Gxoloti DOKO, Zelapele MBELE and Bangilizwe MBEKI.
RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
- A former attorney from East London who served four and a half years' imprisonment on Robben Island in the 1960s for 'defeating the ends of justice' and for breaking a restriction order, has been released from his banishment order, it was announced in March. Louis Leo MTSHIZANA was first banished from the Ciskei bantustan in 1974 to Sterkspruit in the Transkei. On 3 July 1981 he was again banished under the Transkei Public Security Act to the Maluti district of the Transkei. Mtshizana is a former member of the Transkei National Independence Party.
- The banning order on Bonisile Jacob CEKISANI, a former president of the now banned Black People's Convention, was lifted in September last year, but was not reported in the press. Cekisani was banned for five years in 1979, and re-banned for three years in July 1983 following the review of banning orders that took place under the 1982 Internal Security Act. There are now eleven people banned under the Act.
CONTRAVENTION
Prince MADIKIZELA, a lawyer from Umtata twice banished to different areas of the Transkei bantustan since last October, was on 21 May found guilty in the Umtata Magistrates' Court of breaking his banishment order. He allegedly left the Xalanga district and remained in Umtata on 20 May without the permission of the Commissioner of the Transkei Police. Sentence was due on 28 May.
