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Much to the dismay of the cadres of social conservatives and Moral Majoritarians who helped elect Ronald Reagan, the Administration insisted last year that the most prickly proposals on the New Right agenda, such as outlawing abortion and banning busing as a tool to desegregate schools, be put off while...
Suppression by banning
Banning is one of the most chilling methods for suppressing dissent in South Africa. There is no requirement for formal charges, no trial, no appeal. Individual cases vary, but banned people may be confined to specific districts away from their homes and are often restricted to their quarters at night...
While the privations of banning are harsh, they are not as unpleasant in most cases as the more common punishment of indefinite detention without trial. In 1960 the government began to practice detention in addition to banning, which was ten years old. The two repressive measures have become part of...
Following a wave of riots and demonstrations that disrupted official celebrations of the 20th anniversary of South Africa as an independent republic last May, the security police have stepped up their campaign of repression. Since then, Winnie Mandela has been joined in her unusual exile by a dozen or so...