BEGINS -
LUSAKA, Zambia -- News has been received here that the trial for Leo L. Sihlali, former president of the Unity Movement,. and Louis L. Mtshizana, former chairman of the East London branch of the Society of Young Africa, was set for April 5 and has presumably begun. It was scheduled in the Regional Magistrate's Court in Port Elizabeth, a distance of several hundred miles from their homes.
Both men face charges of attempting to flee from their country.
In addition they are charged with leaving the magisterial. ©.
districts of. Queenstown and East London respectively without authority, thus violating their. banning orders which restrict thém in freedom of movement, thought and association. A
Mtshizana was placed under a five-year banning order in July, 1963, and confined to the magisterial district of East London, Sihlali was served with a similar banning order in March 1964. In addition, he was placed under house arrest, denied the right to receive visitors in his house, and confined to the magisterial district of Queenstown,
The two African leaders were arrested February 22 and have been held in prison since then. Bail of £500 posted by Mtshizana in a case pending appeal was estreated. The case followed his serving as an attorney for school boys charged under the Anti-~Communist Act.
The local magistrate sentenced him to two years for his temerity in appearing as defense counsel.
THE ZACA, ZULU AND NYAKENTI CASES
LUSAKA, Zambia -- The fascist government of South Africa is continuing to persecute members of organisations affiliated to the Unity Movement. The leaders are served with bannings, house arrests, detention and imprisonment. Rank-and-file members are similarly made to feel the cruel hand of the Verwoerd machine.
Three recent cases involve members of the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa [APDUSA], one of the affiliates of the Unity Movement. Last January, to gain temporary relief from persecution, they went to Basutoland, but were soon thrown in jail in Maseru. They were brought into court March 16 and their