wnl22. AAM Women’s Newsletter 22, Sept/Oct 1985

South African human rights lawyer Victoria Mxenge was brutally murdered by apartheid agents outside her home near Durban in August 1985. This issue of the newsletter celebrated her life and quoted from the speeches made at her funeral. It carried extracts from a new book on South African women, South African Women Speak, and reported on the AAM Health Committee’s campaign for South Africa’s expulsion from the International Planned Parenthood Federation.