Tony Hall: first reporter from a daily newspaper to be banned in South Africa, (The Star Johannesburg 1964)
Listed Reporter to leave
[From the Star in February 1964 (?)]
Staff reporter
Mr. TONY HALL, a young journalist who has been "listed" under the Supression of Communism Act, plans to leave South Africa at the end of this week.
Mr Hall, 27, is the first reporter on a South African daily newspaper to be listed [banned] It means that he may no longer work for any publication in this country. When Mr. Hall was first warned, last September, that his name was to be added to a list of ex-members and active supporters of the now-banned Congress of Democrats, he protested to the Deparment of Justice.
LIVELIHOOD
"I asked for reasons and pointed out that I would be forced to give up my job and would lose my livelyhood." he said yesterday.
I was simply told that I had attended certain meetings and demonstrations. But the question of my career being wrecked was ignored."
The father of three small children, Mr. Hall received his final notice last week that his name had been added to the list.
"I have never broken any laws," he said. "This is retrospective punishment for something which I could not have known would have become punishable.
"At the time any activity of mine was quite legal."
[From the Star in February 1964 (?)]
Staff reporter
Mr. TONY HALL, a young journalist who has been "listed" under the Supression of Communism Act, plans to leave South Africa at the end of this week.
Mr Hall, 27, is the first reporter on a South African daily newspaper to be listed [banned] It means that he may no longer work for any publication in this country. When Mr. Hall was first warned, last September, that his name was to be added to a list of ex-members and active supporters of the now-banned Congress of Democrats, he protested to the Deparment of Justice.
LIVELIHOOD
"I asked for reasons and pointed out that I would be forced to give up my job and would lose my livelyhood." he said yesterday.
I was simply told that I had attended certain meetings and demonstrations. But the question of my career being wrecked was ignored."
The father of three small children, Mr. Hall received his final notice last week that his name had been added to the list.
"I have never broken any laws," he said. "This is retrospective punishment for something which I could not have known would have become punishable.
"At the time any activity of mine was quite legal."
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