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It was a fateful end to a special friendship between a white and a black. Donald Woods, a fifth-generation English-speaking South African and editor of the feisty East London Daily Dispatch (circ. 30,000), is now a "banned person, as was his friend Steve Biko, who died in...
No fewer than 18 black and interracial organizations were banned, among them the Black People's Convention, whose leader, Steven Biko, died while in police custody in September, igniting a fresh upsurge of protest (TIME, Sept. 26); and the Christian Institute, led by the Rev. C.F. Beyers Naude, an...
Banning and detention are cruel but not unusual punishments under South Africa's strict security laws. Banned individuals are, in effect, under house arrest for as long as the Justice Minister chooses. They may not contact more than one person at a time, other than immediate family. Their movements...
In the long run, is naked power enough? Before his banning, Donald Woods answered no, in these words about the Afrikaans mentality: "Like the Kremlin, they think the enemy is words. But the enemy is thoughts. You can't legislate against thoughts. You can't detain them, or...
The FDA directive banning saccharin came after Canadian studies showed that saccharin induced tumors in rats. Under the "Delaney Clause," an amendment to federal food and drug legislation, the FDA must declare unsafe any substance found to cause tumors when ingested by animals or man.