Any breaking of the contract, such as quitting or labour organizing, brought criminal sanctions alongside severe disciplinary punishments that could be exercised by the employer.
[7][8] For contract work under SWANLA, workers were classified into 4 separate grades of physical fitness, and to some extent job experience: Class A, B, C, and [Child].
[9] Later following the end of the 1971-72 contract workers strike, SWANLA was dissolved and replaced with several non-governmental contractors.
[6][10] According to one South African Journal, contract labour continued until it was banned in 1977 through the General Law Amendment Proclamation, AG 5 of 1977.
[11] There have been attempts to re-abolish such as the Namibian Labour Act of 2007, but this was reversed by the courts system in December, 2009 before it could be implemented.
[11][13]"[91] For these reasons, the prohibition of the economic activity defined by s. 128(1) in its current form is so substantially overbroad that it does not constitute a reasonable restriction on the exercise of the fundamental freedom to carry on any trade or business protected in Article 21(1)(j) of the Constitution and, on that basis alone, the section must be struck down as unconstitutional.
[14] However, in practice the law was never implemented as its legal power was suspended on February 27 till the court decision finished.