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Revision as of 12:01, 24 May 2009 by Beno1000 (talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'Under the Apartheid system in South Africa, a '''ban''' was a police or court order similar to a house arrest. Typically, a banned person could only com…')(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Under the Apartheid system in South Africa, a ban was a police or court order similar to a house arrest. Typically, a banned person could only communicate with one person at a time from outside their immediate family, would have their movements restricted to a small administrative area, and could not write any document, whether for public or private consumption, and could not leave the country.
A ban was usually used to silence anti-Apartheid dissidents, especially where other sentences such as prison may only inflame social unrest.