THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, political banishment under apartheid

352 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2012

Foreword by George Bizos.

A study of banishment under apartheid that looks at why people were banished by the state, their lives in banishment and the activities of the Human Rights Welfare Committee, led by Helen Joseph, that worked to assist them. Includes case studies of activists who were banished, like Ben Baartman, Elizabeth Mafekeng, Louis Mtshizana, Frances Baard, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Mamphela Ramphele.

Saleem Sadat is Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University.