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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 t