Phuti Matlala was banished on 7 March 1951 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]to Verdwaal Farm, Lichtenburg District in Western Transvaal (now in the North West Province) due to his ‘presence being inimical to the peace’.
The order was withdrawn on 9 February 1966 after Matlala spent 15 years in banishment.
Boy Seopa was 18 years old when he was banished on 21 July 1953 from his original residence at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] to Tabaans Location (Louis Trichardt [Makhado]), Sibasa District, [Tshivhase], Northern Transvaalwith his mother, Maphuti Seopa. He left his place of banishment to work in Johannesburg, noting that, ‘No one gave me permission to leave Davhana to work in Johannesburg.
The documentation related to the banishment of Gubuzela Ngubane provides an account of the historical process by which the Ntanzi community came in the 19th century to find ‘refuge with the Bomvu tribe, which inhabited the Umvoti Valley, Greytown District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal].’
Tensions between the Ntanzi and Bomvu communities developed in the 1940s, allegedly because Nembe Ntanzi, the hereditary leader of the Ntanzi section, ‘was dismissed from the office of induna [headman] by Nonkenkeza Ngubane, the Acting Chief of the Bomvu tribe.’
Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] in 1952 and taken to a police van, which already held other compatriots.
Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti was born in 1924 in the Kwalera district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to look for work, and the family moved to Tsolo Location on the East Bank in East London.
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew as the result of the wine making industry, tannery and fruit production. The family of Dorothy was directly associated with the introduction of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) in South Africa.
Proclamation No. 84 of 1951 declared, without providing reasons, the removal of the entire community from Area No. 54, Tenbosch Farm No.234, Barberton District, Eastern Transvaal, [now Mpumalanga Province].
They were to be relocated on Native Trust land elsewhere in the Barberton district. Several meetings were held from 1951 to 1953, at which the community repeatedly refused to vacate the land. They were informed that water supplies, adequate residential sites, arable land, funds to build schools and a clinic and travel arrangements for their stock would be made available.
Anna Mokete Mamolatelo Seopa was the 14 year old daughter of Maphuti Seopawhen she was banished, on 21July 1953 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] to Tabaans Location (Louis Trichardt [Makhado]), Sibasa District, [Tshivhase], Northern Transvaal.
Her banishment order was withdrawn, along with her mother and brother's, on 9 February 1966.
In terms of a banishment order dated 21 July 1953, Maphuti Molatela Seopa and her two children were banished in October 1953 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal,[now Polokwane and Limpopo Province] to Tabaans Location (Louis Trichardt [Makhado], Sibasa District, [Tshivhase], Northern Transvaal, for being ‘actively engaged in furthering’ Makwena Matlala’s ‘cause and in fomenting unrest and dissension in the tribe.’
Mogaramedi Godfrey Sekhukhune was one of the ‘most important’ of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s worked as a male nurse in a mine hospital on the East Rand.’ A liberation movement stalwart, David Bopape, recounts that Godfrey Sekhukhune ‘“heard I was organizing the ANC so he came to my place, then from there he attended meetings of the ANC and he became a member of the ANC and a very, very, very sensitive student he was and then later he went back home.”