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.”

David Ngwabeni originally a resident at Ngwabeni Location, Victoria East District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], had his banishment order issued on 19 June 1953.

However, before the order was served, Ngwabeni was tried on a charge of public violence and sentenced by the Supreme Court to three years imprisonment with compulsory labour. 

David Thlolanyane Mabe, originally resident at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Western Transvaal [now North West Province] was banished on 26 January 1956to Driefontein Native Trust Farm, Vryburg , Western Transvaal. 

One of the five members of the Bathlako community, together with Chief Jeremiah Mabe, was banished from Mabieskraal to the Driefontein banishment camp. It was claimed that their presence in Mabieskraal was ‘inimical to the peace, order and good government of the African people living there.’

The case of Douglas Ramokgopa illustrates various aspects of banishment: the issue of freedom of movement while in banishment and, in this instance, the sheer intransigence of the national Native Affairs Department (NAD) regarding his movement, communication between local and national authorities regarding a banished person; movement out of banishment, and the conditions imposed in this regard.   

Frans Ramaro and his cousin Morris Ranoto were banished on19 January 1955 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal, [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province] to Natives Reserve 7B, Lower Umfolozi District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal].

Ramaro was summoned to the police station and did not return. It was alleged that he was one of the supporters of the banished Makwena Matlala who was opposing the state in gaMatlala.

Jackson (Balisile) Nkosiyane, Twalimfene Joyi, Bangilizwe Joyi and McGregor Mgolombane were all banished on 30 May 1958 from Thembuland, Umtata District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] to Voorspoed Farm No. 1376, District of Zoutpansberg, Transvaal [Limpopo Province].  Their banishment orders were, however, signed some two weeks earlier, on 14 May 1958.

Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the Mbali surname as it was more appealing and adopted it instead. Mbali was the main stem of the Mkhonto family tree line. He spent the first four years of his life at Eqolweni  where he and his sister, Liziwe lived with his paternal grandfather, Gadu and his wife, Mas’Thathu. His biological mother, Nomanundu, worked as a domestic worker in Queenstown at the time.

Kaizer Matanzima, chief of the Thembu people, was keen to banish Abel Ntwana, claiming that his presence at Manzimale Location, Xhalanga District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was “detrimental to the administration and development in that area.”

Anger at the unilateral imposition of state policies and attempts to appoint pliant pro- Kaizer Matanzima, (chief of the Thembu people) headmen resulted in violence erupting in Cala, [Eastern Province now Eastern Cape], withhut burnings at Emnxe, Eastern Province  in July-August 1960.