POWER OF ARREST
Restoration To 5.4. Minister (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) PRETORIA (South Africa), March 28. Three Judges in the Pretorian Supreme Court today restored to the Justice Minv ‘er (Mr Balthazar Vorster) his right to confine “Communisms” to house arrest under the sabotage law, according to the Associated Press. Percy John Hodgson, one of the first South Africans placed under 24-hour daily house arrest last November, had won an appeal against the Minister’s order and was temporarily relieved from strict confinement. Today the full bench of the Supreme Court rejected that decision 2-1. Hodgson’s lawyers said they would take the matter to thej appelate division of the Court Power of imposing house arrest without trial was granted to the Minister by the Anti-Sabotage Genera) Laws Amendment Act last year. Hodgson has been officially' named a Communist in terms ■ of South Africa’s Suppression of Communism Act.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30095, 1 April 1963, Page 3
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