Anti-Apartheid Activist Freed : S. African Journalist Put Under Tight Restrictions
Prominent anti-apartheid activist and journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu, who has been detained without charge for two years, was released today and placed under tight restrictions.
Sisulu, editor of the New Nation newspaper, will not be allowed to work on the publication, cannot give interviews or be in the presence of more than 10 people and must remain in the Johannesburg area, said his lawyer, Priscilla Jana.
“The restrictions are very, very heavy,” Jana said as she ushered Sisulu from Diepkloof Prison in the Soweto township outside Johannesburg.
Sisulu, 37, had been held without charge since December, 1986, under state of emergency regulations.
His parents also are among the country’s best-known activists. Sisulu’s father is jailed African National Congress leader Walter Sisulu, a close colleague of ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
Sisulu’s mother, Albertina, is a co-president of the United Democratic Front, a banned anti-apartheid coalition. She works as a nurse in the Soweto township and is under government restrictions.
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