Union leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.

 Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Mayekiso was first detained in February 1986 and was released on 7 March about the same year. This was after metal workers in the Transvaal and Natal (now kwaZulu Natal) protested his release. On 28 June whilst Mayekiso was on his returning from Sweden, he was detained again under section 29 of the Internal Security Act. He spent seven months in solitary confinement. He and four others including his brother Mzanele were subsequently charged with treason and accused of plotting to seize control of Alexandra, render it ungovernable by the state, forming people’s courts, and acting as the courts’ functionaries.