The Forgotten People

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Foreword

Preface

List of abbreviations

INTRODUCTION

1 Banishment: an old and common practice

2 Banishment and rural resistance in the early 1950s: GaMatlala and Witzieshoek

3 Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s: Bahurutshe and Sekhukhuneland

4 Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mpondoland, Thembuland and Natal

5 Urban political opposition and banishment

6 Banishments under the Suppression of Communism Act

7 Life in banishment

8 Responses to banishment

CONCLUSION

Appendix 1: Copy of banishment order

Appendix 2: Release order from banishment

Appendix 3: Can Themba, ‘Banned to the bush.’ Drum, August 1956

Appendix 4: Cosmas Desmond, ‘Vorster’s forgotten people.’ Guardian Weekly, 19 June 1971

Appendix 5: List of people banished

Notes

Index