Winnie Mandela was banned for another five years and continued to be banished and restricted to the small Orange Free State town of Brandfort.
29 December 1981
Winnie is served with Banning Order

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- 30 Sep 2019

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- 01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.
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