# BANS ## BANS UNDER THE EMERGENCY
Eight more activists were reported to have been restricted on their release from detention in terms of Section 3 of the emergency regulations, while restrictions on three others have been lifted. By November 33 people had been reported restricted under this regulation, but the Detainees Parents Support Committee (DPSC) said it had the names of at least 47 people restricted under emergency regulations, and a DPSC spokesperson, Dr Max Coleman, said that the number was 'well into the hundreds'. (WM 24.10.86, 27.11.86; FOCUS 67 p.8)
The eight most recently restricted were Roelien THERON (22) (Rhodes University student); Bridget HILTON-BARBER (22) (End Conscription Campaign – ECC); Philip WILKINSON (ECC); Gert KOENANA (Food and Allied Workers Union); Stanley MATHATHA; Maxwell MOSS; Rev Gerald VAN DER SOMPELE; and Andre ROUX (UDF).(Star 4.10.86; DD 6.10.86; CT 17.10.86; WM 24.10.86; CT 27.10.86)
Following legal action the restrictions served on two trade unionists, Daniel SAMELA and Joyce Nana SEDIBE, of the Council of Unions of South Africa, were set aside as incorrect. Another trade unionist, Rae LAZARUS, of the General Workers Union, received a letter from the Minister of Law and Order stating that her order had been lifted.(Cit 16.10.86; CT 21.10.86; see FOCUS 67 p.8)
NEW RESTRICTION ORDERS
In November last year seven members of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (JODAC) and the Black Sash were served with restriction orders effectively preventing their participation in certain organisations. Restriction orders under the emergency regulations had hitherto been served only under the authority of the Minister of Law and Order and only on people released from detention. JODAC said that members were told on receiving the orders that their restrictions were an alternative to detention. The new orders were issued by the Divisional Police Commissioner for the Witwatersrand using powers conferred on him under Section 7(1) of the emergency regulations.
The conditions imposed on the seven — Marguerite SCHNEIDER, Karen COOPER, Sheila WEINBERG, Anne Marie RADEMEYER, Anene DAWBER, Joy HARNDEN and Colin PURKEY — appeared aimed at preventing them from campaigning in the white community. Although the terms applied to the Randburg and Johannesburg districts, the African townships within Johannesburg, which were already covered by orders under the emergency regulations restricting the activities of various organisations, were specifically excluded. The seven may not participate in any activity of the Black Sash, DPSC, Detainees Support Committee, ECC, Federation of Transvaal Women, JODAC, National Education Union of South Africa or the UDF if in doing so they incite others to take part in protests against any 'security force' action or to support or promote a call for the release of any detainee or political prisoner or a call for the end of the State of Emergency, the unbanning of the ANC, the withdrawal of troops from any area, the resignation of any Coloured or Indian MP, or for an end to compulsory military service. They are also banned from taking part in an ECC campaign against the Emergency in the areas specified.
The orders are effective for the duration of the Emergency. While the terms are not as severe as those restricting emergency detainees, which have usually included confinement to a magisterial district or a ban on attending political meetings, both types of order carry the same penalty for contravention.(Cit 8.11.86; WM 20.11.86; see FOCUS 67 p.8)
