NOHLE MOHAPE
I stayed in Grahamstown for a month and then I was released. I took my children from my in laws.  Just a week after I took them, the police came again and they arrested me.  I had to take my children to my in laws again. After another week I was released again.  Thereafter my in
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laws preferred that I should leave the children so that they cannot be affected by these removals.  I took the children and they stayed with my in laws.  The children were attending school at the time but because I was under a banning order I was unable to visit them.  I was not even to take them to school and could not escort my little one to school like any other parent.  It was difficult for me to do so.  I was unable to attend the meetings which were attended by other parents.  I was unable to get jobs and I was labelled as a terrorist then.  I was restricted from being in the company of more than two people.
 It was a very difficult time for me and I was unable to get employment anywhere.  The banning order was for 1978.  In 1979 I got a job in a furniture shop.  I was employed for five days and the police came again at Elerines where I was working and they took me again. I was given an envelope. I was paid for the five days that I worked and was told that the job was finished.