Author: Badat, Saleem.
Title: The Forgotten People. Political Banishment Under Apartheid.
Description: Jacana 2012. 352pp illustrated large format paperback. No inscriptions. a VG copy. ISBN: 9781431404797 During the apartheid years the government employed many weapons against its opponents: imprisonment, banning, detention, assassination, and banishment. In a practice reminiscent of Tsarist and Soviet Russia, a large number of 'enemies of the state' were banished to remote areas, far from their homes, communities and followers. Here their existence became 'a slow torture of the soul', a kind of social death. This is the first study of an important but hitherto neglected group of opponents of apartheid, set in a global, historical and comparative perspective. It looks at the reasons why people were banished, their lives in banishment and the efforts of a remarkable group of activists led by Helen Joseph to assist them.

Keywords: politics south southern africa african banishment house arrest banishment order helen joseph