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Durban Former SASO vice-president and BPC member. In 1975 restricted with his wife Brigitte Mabandla to Tsolo area, Transkei. Exile

Banished on the 27th January 1967. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Dereliction of duty over number of years, caused unrest and division in tribe, failed to see to education of heir and was generally guilty of unsatisfactory conduct.

Mother of 11 children, banished in 1959 from Paarl in the Cape to a remote government farm in the Kuruman district. She refused to go there, to take her 11 children to that desolate place. She fled to Lesotho, yet as a refugee not materially better off, for Lesotho was a desperately poor country. Most of her family joined her, but life was a hard struggle for existence. According to the Minister, she had associated with Communists overseas and had “made it her task to incite the Bantu and Coloured peoples against the Whites and to encourge them to break the law,” but she was never charged in Court. She was a Vice-President of the ANC Women’s League and President of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union.

Durban. Convicted in 1964 of sabotage as a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe in the “Little Rivonia” trial and sentenced to imprisonment for 12 years. He was released from Robben Island in Dec’76 and immediately served with a banning and house arrest order. He had difficulty in finding a job. An application on his behalf for a relaxation of his restrictions to enable him to accept a job with a firm of attorneys was turned down by the chief magistrate of Durban. He escaped from South Africa in July’77 and was reported to be working for ANC in London.

Restricted to Victoria East. Convicted in Pretoria in 1963 with James Chirwa and 5 others for leaving the country without travel documents with the intention of undergoing military training with the ANC; sentenced to 2 years. imprisonment in April’63, but in October of the same year he was sentenced to 20 years. for the same offence under new legislation enacted that year; on appeal the sentence was reduced to 12 years.; banned on release in 1977 (see Malgas).

Banished on the 24th February 1956. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Convicted of being in posession of more than 150 lb. of dagga. Generally unreliable.

Banished on the 19th September 1955. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Convicted of perjury. Did not provide good example expected from a headman.

Restricted to Port Elizabeth. Former schoolteacher. President of the African Independent Churches Association as well as being a playwright. He wrot e a popular township play, “Give us this day”, which was banned in terms of the Publicationa Act. He was on his way to Umtata to stage his second play “The Trial”, when a banning order was served on him. His house arrest order required him to stay at home from 6pm to 6am every day. His banning was widely condemned by black writers and artists. He was arrested early in 1978 and charged with contravening his banning order. A bail application on his behalf was refused. The police indicated they were holding him in solitary confinement because of his banning order. In April he was convicted of 4 our of 7 counts to which he pleaded guilty. He was detained with several others on the eve of the anniversary of Steve Biko's death.

From the Royal Kraal in Sekhukhuniland banished twice to Kingwilliamstown. His banishment order had been brought by a colonel of the South African police, escorted by several vanloads of armed police. Like all the other banishment orders, it simply stated that his removal was in the interest of peace and good order - no details whatsoever.

Restricted to Durban. Former University of Durban-Westvile student. Expelled with 3 colleagues from the university in 1972 after a class boycott in support of the formation of a students’ representative council. Son-in-law of banned Durban sociologist, Fatima Meer, also banned. Research officer with the Institute for Black Research and a member of the editorial board of “Challenge”; detained under the Internal Security Act from 18 August to 28 December ’76. He successfully wrote his final year BA examination while in detention. He was charged with mrs. Meer in April ’78 for contravening his banning order by attending a dinner party.

Banished the 24th November 1955. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Convicted of ploughing on the commonage; did not provide leadership and good example expected of a Headman.

Johannesburg Reporter on the Star newspaper in Johannesburg; public relations officer for the Coloured Labour Party; organiser of the Union of Black Journalists and a prominent poet; charged in Oct. ’73 with obstructing the police (he had taken the names of some children arrested for pass offences while sitting outside the public library); acquitted and banned shortly afterwards; charged and acquitted in April ’78 with breaking his banning order.

Restricted to Dwashu, Middledrift in the Cape.Charged in Pretoria with James Chirwa and five others with leaving South Africa without valid documents and undergoing military training to further the aims of the ANC; sentenced in March ’63 to 2 yrs. imprisonment; under new legislation enacted during the year he was re-sentenced in Oct. to 20 years. imprisonment, reduced on appeal to 12 years. (see Makalima); banned on his release.

Restricted to Durban. Distinguished sociologist and lecturer at Natal University; banned in the ‘50’s, accused in the Treason Trial 1956-61 and acquitted; President of the Black Women’s Federation; again banned in 1976 for 5 years.; restricted to the magisterial area of Durban, but allowed to continue lecturing; detained under the Internal Security Act from August to December 1976; refused a passport, preventing her from accepting an invitation to lecture in Britain; in December 1977 her house in Durban was subjected to gunshot and arson attacks. In April ’78 she was charged together with Mr. Bobby Marie of contravening her banning order by attending a dinner party.

Durban: Son of Fatima Meer, also banned. Fine Arts student at the Universtiy of Durban-Werville. Detained in terms of the Internal Security Act from Aug. to Dec. ’76. Subsequently banned. In May ’77 the Minister of Indian Affairs refused him permission to continue his studies in Fine Arts at UCT after he had been refused re-admission to the University of Durban by the University Council. He subsequently fled the country and was reported to be studying at the University of Sussex in England. Exile

Banished on the 2nd April 1955. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Certified as mentally abnormal.

Zwelitsha SASO regional secretary in E. Cape; detained in Nov.’74 and released in April ’75; in Sep.’75 banned and restricted to Kingwillliamstown, where he became administrator of the Zimele Trust Fund established to assist released political prisoners; on 15th July’76 detained under the Terrorism Act and held in East London where he died on 5th August ’76.

Restricted to Durban. Founder member of the BPC and a doctor at the King Edward VII Hospital in Durban at the time of his banning; detained in Sept. ’74 and sentenced in Dec.’76 to 6 years. imprisonment in a trial of nine SASO and BPC members.

Restricted to Johannesburg. Articled clerk, studying to become an attorney; secretary of the University of Christian Movement at the time of his first ban in 1973; in 1975 sentenced to one year imprisonment suspenden for 3 yrs. for failing to report to the police; detained in 1976 under the Internal Security Act from Aug.-Dec.

Banished on the 8th March 1955. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Convicted of stock theft.

Restricted to Benoni. Leading figure in the CPC and the South African Women’s Federation; organiser of the Food and Canning Workers Union; member of SACTU; detained during the 1960 State of Emergency; banned in 1963; detained in 1964; charged with helping fugitives to escape from South Africa and given a suspended sentence; her ban hasbeen continuously in force since 1963, with the result that 1977 was her 14th year under restriction.

Mrs. Moodley, the wife of Strini Moodley, lived in Durban. She was a Research Assistant to the Black Community Programme and a founding member of the Natal Theatre Council, which presented plays against apartheid.

Banished on the 31st January 1957. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Bantu Administration and Development: Allowed unauthorized persons to build kraals on the commonage, addicted to alcohol and was generally guilty of unsatisfactory conduct.

Restricted to Pinetown, Durban. Convicted with 18 others and sentenced to 14 yrs. imprisonment in Feb. ’64 for sabotage; banned on his release; former member of the NIC.

Chief Mopeli and his wife Treaty Mopeli were in exile since 1954, first at Groblersdal and latterly at the Frenchdale camp. Chief Mopeli was banished after serving a prison sentence for refusing to cull cattle and repair fences at Witzieshoek. At Frechdale they were 12 miles from the nearest store, and some 60 miles from Mafeking itself. They were allowed to leave the camp and travel into Mafeking if they walked 12 miles to catch the nearest bus. There is no school, no post office, no medical facilities, no opportunities for work. They have refused to accept the Government allowance. Chief Mopeli died later in this place of desolation.

Vryburg Trade union organiser; accused in the Treason Trial 1956-61 and acquitted; collaborated with Helen Joseph in tracing and assisting Africans who had been banished to remote areas of South Africa for indefinite periods; endorsed out of Cape Town where he lived and worked and restricted to his father’s kraal; could receive no visitors except his immediate family and a medical practitioner; has been under banning orders since 1963; in Feb.’75 he was charged with breaking his banning order; spent almost one third of his life and half his adult life in jail or in restriction; died aged about 50. Morolonng’s ban expired in March’78 and was renewed for the 4th time ; when news of the renewed ban reached Detshipeng Reserve, the remote area to which Morolong had been banished, residents reported that he had been murdered in Nov.’77.

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List of banned persons:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Name	Act/Section/Issued up to: (delivery date)	Date on which notice expires:	Miscellaneous: (address, content of order, occupation, whereabouts)
Mabandla, Brigitte Sylvia (nee Nqoma)	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1976	31/10/1978	Pinetown Organiser with SAIRR.Exile
Mabandla, Lindelwa Mtutuzeli	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1974	31/10/1978	Durban Former SASO vice-president and BPC member. In 1975 restricted with his wife Brigitte Mabandla to Tsolo area, Transkei. Exile
Mabasa, Lybon	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1979	30/11/1983	Soweto
Mabe, Abel			Banished. Order onconditionally withdrawn.
Mabe, David Thloloyane			Banished, died in banishment on the 2nd february 1959.
Mabe, Acting Chief Jeremiah Rakoko			Banished on the 27th January 1967. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development: Dereliction of duty over number of years, caused unrest and division in tribe, failed to see to education of heir and was generally guilty of unsatisfactory conduct.
Mabe, Levi			Banished. Order unconditionally withdrawn.
Mabe, Ntloe			Banished. Order suspended for a certain time period.
Maboee, Eleazer	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	31/3/1968	Brakpan
Mabongo, Washington	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1973	31/8/1974	Xalanga
Maboza, Mackay Gaza, alias Makay Maboya	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	31/1/1968	Idatywa
Mabukela, Piet			Banished, died in banishment the 25 November 1954.
Maci, James			Banished
Madaka, Mbuyiselo	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1979	31/12/1983	Port Elizabeth
Madaka, Mzimazi Eric	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	31/7/1968	Port Elizabeth
Madapu, Magade			Vryburg Banished
Madikane, Bilton	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1970	31/10/1971	King William’s Town
Madikane, Jack	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1972	31/7/1973	Dimbaza
Madikizela, Cameron Mbulelo, alias Ganuza	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 196730 June 1972	31/3/1969 30/4/1974	JohannesburgBizana
Madlaka, Quyu	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	31/7/1968	Mquanduli
Madlebe, Mpumelelisi Synod	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	30/9/1968	Tsomo
Madola, Memory	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	30/4/1968	Port Elizabeth
Madumo, Ndakie Solomon	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 17 June 1969	30/6/1970	Pretoria
Maduna, Mncedisi Abednego	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1974	31/10/1975	Mount Ayliff
Madupa, Magade (or Vilile)			Banished
Mafanya, Welcome Zolile	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 17 June 1969	28/2/1971	East London
Mafekeng, Elizabeth	1959		Mother of 11 children, banished in 1959 from Paarl in the Cape to a remote government farm in the Kuruman district. She refused to go there, to take her 11 children to that desolate place. She fled to Lesotho, yet as a refugee not materially better off, for Lesotho was a desperately poor country. Most of her family joined her, but life was a hard struggle for existence. According to the Minister, she had associated with Communists overseas and had “made it her task to incite the Bantu and Coloured peoples against the Whites and to encourge them to break the law,” but she was never charged in Court. She was a Vice-President of the ANC Women’s League and President of the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union.
Mafenuka, Daniel alias Darky	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1972	31/7/1973	Dimbaza
Mafoka, Ras Thomas			Banished. Order suspended.
Mafuna, Bokwe James	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 30 June 1973	28/2/1978	Johannesburg
Mafuta, Elizabeth	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	28/2/1969	Brakpan
Magani, Mashamba Christopher, alias Shabalala	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967	31/8/1970	Pietermaritzburg
Magoba, Stanley Mmutlayane	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 28 April 1967(12/1/1967)	31/12/1968	Nebo
Magqabi, Cecil alias Tozamile	Act No. 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1) 17 June 196930 June 1971	31/8/1970 31/8/1972	Port Elizabeth