17 May 1964 - Mafekeng To Pleade For Wife's Return
17 May 1964 - Mafekeng To Pleade For Wife's Return - Mr Moffat Mafekeng husband of Elizabeth Mafekeng. Mr Moffat Mafekeng, of Paarl, is to ask Mr Vorster to allow his wife, Elizabeth, who was banished in 1959, to return to South Africa. Mrs Elizabeth Mafekeng was National President of the African Food and Canning Workers Union. She was told to go to Southey, a small village 72 miles from Vryburg. Mrs Mafekeng, howecer defied the order and fled to Basutoland. When I spoke to Mr Mafekeng at his home in Barborosa Street, in Paarl, last week, he told me that his wife's banishment order was due to to expire in October this year. But he pointed out that as his wife defied the order she is liable to be arrested as soon as she returned to South Africa. Mr Mafekeng said he would ask Mr Vorster to allow his wife to come back. He said that his wife had had a heart attack recently. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
