Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 4. 21st March 1973
Illegal quotation
Illegal quotation
In Maritzburg, a large group of students "broke the law" by reading out loud passages from the writings of one of the banned NUSAS leaders, Mr Phillippe le Roux, at a meeting of 900 people at the University of Natal. It is illegal to quote people banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.
Moves are afoot to organise protest demonstrations, although these too are against the law. Mrs Helen Suzman, the sole Progressive Party M.P., sent messages to students in English language universities throughout South Africa warning that they faced "severe penalties" if they held protest processions without the permission of the local chief magistrate. In a statement Mrs Suzman said it was not generally known that the 1970 legislation prohibiting the holding of processions without the magistrate's permission was linked to the "extremely severe" 1953 Criminal Law Amendment Act.