AA News July–August 1992

This issue led on COSATU’s call for a general strike following the Boipatong massacre and the breakdown of negotiations. Natal rural development worker Thabi Shange told AA News how South African women were shielding their families from political violence. Sadie Forman wrote about women’s attempts to change patriarchal attitudes within the ANC. A centre spread catalogued Inkatha’s township massacres. AA News reported on the civil wars in Angola and Mozambique. It recorded the historic decision by the South African Council of Churches to disobey ‘unjust laws’.