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STHLALI AND MTSHIZANA FOUND "GUILTY"
As was to be expected under the apartheid system of justice in South Africa, Port Elizabeth Regional Magistrate's Court, which heard the cases of Leo L, Sihlali and Louis L. Mtshizana April 26 and 28, automatically declared the two political oppositionists Wout ty. v
Sihlali, former president of the Unity Movement of South Africa, was given a sentence of two and a half years. Mtshizana, former chairman of the East London Branch of the Society of Young Africa (which is affiliated to the Unity Movement ), was sentenced to four and a half years,
‘They were charged under the notorious "Suppression of Communism Acti and also with trying to leave the prison house of South Africa without official permission.
Their “crime" was to leave their respective home towns to which they had been banned. On February 20 they were arrested néar Koster in the Transvaal. Various specific charges were listed against them, including absenting themselves from their magisterial districts without authority, communicating with another banned person, failing to report to the police in compliance with their banning orders, and attempting to leave South Africa without a valid passport. . :
Both men had: been placed under a five-year ban because of their political views and Sihlali was placed under house arrest in addition. Under South Africa's banning system, victims are required to stay within a specified circumscribed area, quarantine themselves from the rest of society and report regularly to the police,
Sihlali is the father of four children, Mtshizana of three.
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