Winnie Mandela

South African History Online (SAHO) (læs mere om projektets formål her)
skriver i biografien over “Winnie” Madikizela-Mandela således:

"In 1969, she was detained under the Terrorism Act and was placed in solitary confinement for seventeen months."

I 'List of people banned under Apartheid' (bogstav M) står der om Nomzamo Winnie Mandela:

"... detained under the Terrorism Act in ’69; twice tried and twice acquitted after 15 months in detention; banned and partially house arrested after the second acquittal; frequently harassed by Security Police; sentenced in March ’71 to 12 months imprisonment for communicating with another banned person, sentence of 12 months confirmed in ’74 but reduced to 6 months on appeal; ban expired in September ’75 ..."

'Act No. 44 of 1950' (The Suppression of Communism Act), der er angivet i kolonne to i ovennævnte liste, kan du se nærmere beskrevet på denne side:

"... The Act, later extended through the Internal Security Act, sanctioned the banning/punishment of any group or individual intending to bring about 'any political, industrial, social or economic change in the Union by the promotion of disturbances or disorder, by unlawful acts or omissions or by the threat of such acts and omissions'. This definition of communism was so broad and crude that its liberal opponents suspected it was seeking also to trap liberals in its net.

The Act was progressively tightened up in 1951, 1954, and yearly from 1962 to 1968.

Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned more than 1,600 men and women. Banned persons endured severe restrictions on their movement, political activities, and associations intended to silence their opposition to the government’s apartheid policies and stop their political activity. ..."

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