CHAIRPERSON
His five year banning order was due to expire in March 1978.   He was not certain whether his banning order would be renewed.   The fact that his application to go to Germany being refused made the likelihood seem very very possible that the banning order would not be lifted, and, in fact, be renewed.    In January 1978 friends of ours from Germany, who were mounting a campaign at the diplomatic level to get the State to rescind its decision so that Richard could travel to Germany, they arrived.   They were not granted visas to enter South Africa.