Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Bechuanaland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 June 1964.
Mr Nigel Fisher
, Surbiton
12:00,
16 June 1964
The maximum penalty for leaving the Republic or South-West Africa is, in fact, two years' imprisonment. Nine of the immigrants have returned of their own accord, and no report has been received of any punitive action taken against them at all. I therefore do not think that these people are in danger, but if they establish that they are political refugees, naturally, they will not be returned to South Africa.