This is a selection of people subject to a "banning order" by the apartheid-era South African government.
Banning was a repressive and extrajudicial measure[1] used by the South African apartheid regime (1948–1994) against its political opponents.
[2] The legislative authority for banning orders was firstly the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950,[3] which defined virtually all opposition to the ruling National Party as communism.
[2][4] A banning order entailed restrictions on where the banned person could live and who they could have contact with, required that they report weekly to a police station, and proscribed them from travelling outside a specific magisterial district.
The banned person was prohibited from attending meetings of any kind, speaking in public, or publishing or distributing any written material.