PRISONS RELEASES * A former member of COSAS, Sizwe John GUMEDE (19), who refused to testify against six people charged with recruiting for the ANC, was released from Helderstroom Prison at the beginning of September after one year in jail.
- Benjamin Sello RAMOTSE (60) was released from prison on 28 September after spending 15 years on Robben Island.
- Lukas MAKUNYANE was released in September after serving four years for ANC activities. On his release he faced a charge of allegedly running an ANC cell in prison.
PRISONER DIES An 18 year old youth, G MTUNGWANA, serving a two-year prison sentence for public violence was found dead in St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth on 8 October.
NELSON MANDELA On 3 November Nelson Mandela underwent surgery to remove an enlarged prostate gland. Stringent security arrangements were in force around the Volks Hospital in Cape Town where the operation took place and where he was allowed to remain for two weeks to recuperate.
BANS Five people detained under the Emergency regulations were served with comprehensive restriction orders in November under a clause of the Emergency regulations almost identical to banning orders under the Internal Security Act.
The five, detained on 21 July last year, the first day of the State of Emergency, and released on 12 November, are: Rashid SALOOJEE (52), the Transvaal president of the UDF, acting president of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and vice-president of the Islamic Council of South Africa; Simon RATCLIFFE, employed by Media and Resource Services; Neil COLEMAN, a community worker; Maurice SMITHERS, a rural development worker previously banned between April 1982 and July 1983; and Auret VAN HEERDEN (30), a former NUSAS president.
NEW BANNING ORDER The secretary of the UDF in the Western Cape, Trevor MANUEL, was served with a five year banning order on 15 November, while held in detention under the Internal Security Act. The order, backdated to 22 October, the day of his detention, confines him to his home in Cape Town at night and on weekends and public holidays, and bans him from gatherings 'at which any form of state or principle or policy of or action by the government of a state is propagated, defended, criticised or discussed'. Manuel was released from detention on 20 November.
TRANSKEI BANTUSTAN Thirteen people were either banished or banned by Transkei bantustan authorities in October following the killing by police of a former student leader, Batandwa NDONDO. Six bantustan residents were banished within the bantustan: Lungisile NTSEBEZA and Dumisa NTSEBEZA to Mhahlane in Tsomo district; Godfrey Meluxolo SILINGA to Baziya, near Umtata. All three are former political prisoners. Monde MVIMBI was banished to Nqadu, near Willowvale. No details of the banishments of Zingisa MKHABILE and Victor NGALEKA were reported. Nonene MATANYA, a student, was confined to her home in Ngwamekwe.
