"The World" and its weekend edition was banned by Minister of Justice Jimmy Kruger in 1977. Qoboza and "The World"'s editorial staff were detained in Modderbee Prison in Benoni on 19 October 1977. One of the detainees was Aggrey Klaaste (1940-2004), later editor of "The Sowetan". Klaaste suggested that one of the motivations for the closure of "The World" was that The Committee of Ten was formed in the newspaper's offices to help run Soweto after the 1976 protests. Six of the newspapers' reporters disappeared in the late 1970s after being arrested by the police.