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In June 1983 three young Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants, Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi and Marcus Motaung, were hanged by the apartheid government. The newsletter reported on their mothers' bravery and asked readers to send messages of support to their families. Its guest column presented an analysis of the relation of feminist concerns and national liberation struggle by SWAPO Women’s Council member Bience Gawanas. It also carried a response from a black woman AAM member to the debate column in the previous issue questioning the argument that the AAM should ‘make a particular point of addressing itself to the Black community’.

Issue No 10 highlighted the situation of Ida Jimmy, a SWAPO member imprisoned by the apartheid government whose son was born in prison and died when he was two years old. The debate column argued that collections of material aid must be set in the context of building political support for the anti-apartheid struggle. It reported on the growth of the United Democratic Front in South Africa and the prominent role played by women in its formation.

In November 1983 the AAM Women’s Committee and the ANC Women’s Section organised a meeting to publicise the impact of forced removals on South African women, featured in the newsletter together with an exposure of the high incidence of cervical cancer. Its guest column focused on the apartheid government’s plans to destroy Cape Town’s Crossroads ‘squatter camp’. The newsletter also announced the formation of a new AAM Women’s Committee drama group in co-operation with Women in Entertainment.

This issue asked British women’s organisations to celebrate 1984 as ‘The Year of the Women’, designated by the African National Congress. Its debate column defended the decision to set up the women’s committee, partly on the grounds that women faced special obstacles in taking part in political campaigns. It also remembered the women and children who died in the South African armed forces attack on Namibian refugees at Kassinga, Angola in May 1978. Its guest column, by the Greater London Council’s Anti-Racist Year Co-ordinator Pamela Nanda, reported on the action taken by the GLC to implement its Anti-Apartheid Declaration.

Issue 13 featured an interview with veteran anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Joseph, former Secretary of the Federation of South African Women and treason trialist, for many years banned for her role in the struggle. The debate column presented an alternative perspective on the contraceptive Depo Provera, arguing that it was a convenient option for many black South African women. The issue called for the release of Albertina Sisulu and highlighted the special deprivations faced by women political prisoners.

South African Prime Minister P W Botha’s visit to Britain in 1984 provoked an unprecedented wave of opposition. This issue of the newsletter asked women to join the AAM’s demonstration against the visit on 2 June. It also celebrated the release from prison of ANC women’s leader Dorothy Nyembe and carried Part 2 of an interview with Helen Joseph.

The South African Women’s Day issue mourned ANC member Jeanette Schoon and her daughter Katryn, assassinated by a parcel bomb in Angola, where they were living in exile. Its guest column by writer Beverley Naidoo exposed the racist literature available in many British public libraries. SWAPO activist Magdalena Nghatanga joined the debate on Depo Provera, arguing that all South African women should be offered a full choice of contraceptive methods and not be forced to use Depo Provera. 

Issue 16 featured 100 years of struggle for self-determination in Namibia and the visit to Britain of three leading members of the SWAPO Women’s Council. It reported on a 1000-strong meeting in Hackney Town Hall, held to celebrate South African Women’s Day on 9 August. It reproduced an article that first appeared in the South African War Resisters Journal Resister about the role of women in armed struggle in Namibia and South Africa.