Contents: Women in the struggle and under repression • Effects of the State of Emergency on women • 1. JUNE MLANGENI Fedtraw •2. KHOLA MAYEKISO • Women's experiences in detention • The women speak: Being detained • Profile of a detainee IVY GCINA • Detention of women: The statistics • Women in political trials, 1985 - 1987 • Women on Death Row • The women speak: A mother's cry • A silenced voice • A letter from Pollsmoor Prison • 'Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' lmbokotho' • This pamphlet was originally produced in South Africa, then banned in South Africa, then reprinted in the U.S. by The Africa Fund in cooperation with the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. The...
Contents: Women in the struggle and under repression • Effects of the State of Emergency on women • 1. JUNE MLANGENI Fedtraw •2. KHOLA MAYEKISO • Women's experiences in detention • The women speak: Being detained • Profile of a detainee IVY GCINA • Detention of women: The statistics • Women in political trials, 1985 - 1987 • Women on Death Row • The women speak: A mother's cry • A silenced voice • A letter from Pollsmoor Prison • 'Wathint' Abafazi, Wathint' lmbokotho' • This pamphlet was originally produced in South Africa, then banned in South Africa, then reprinted in the U.S. by The Africa Fund in cooperation with the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. The pamphlet gives acknowledgements for all the women, named and nameless, whose lives are bound up in these pages. The pamphlet says this book was compiled mainly from the records of DPSC and Descom. The pamphlet gives acknowledgements to Afrapix; the SACBC; The Weekly Mail; The Sowetan; The New Nation; City Press; TOPS; Madinepe; Gladys Thomas, Vicky Alhadeff; Agenda; NAMDA. The pamphlet includes the poem Cries of Freedom. The pamphlet discusses apartheid, the United Democratic Front (UDF), the African National Congress (ANC), consumer boycotts of white-owned businesses, the UDF Women's Congress, sexism, the pass system. Fedsaw, forced removals, the National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA), Victoria Mxenge, Molly Bill, Sister Mary Bernard Ncube, the Internal Security Act, Kagiso, Ivy Cikiswa Gcina, security legislation, the Tembisa Black Sash Advice Office, the Tembisa Detainees' Support Committee, DPSC (Detainees Parents Support Committee), the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organization (Pebco), Louis le Grange Square, Wendy Orr, Dorothy Nyembe, Theresa Ramashamola, the Sharpeville Six, Marilia Nhlabantsi, Bessie Fihla, Soweto, COSAS (Congress of South African Students), Albertina Sisulu, Amanda Kwadi, Nosiswe Madlala, Ntimbazana Botha, Lucile Meyer, Miranda Qwanyashe, the Minister of Law and Order, ECC, Kwa Thema, Joan Nontanda Gqueba, Monica Thabethe, Phinda Molefe, Alexandra, Popo Molefe, the Delmas treason trial, Marion Sparg, Nomvula Mokonyane, Johanna Makoao, Maria Letshaba, Johanna Makoao, Dorothy Nyembe, Emma Ntimbani, Rena Mokoena, repression in the Bantustans, restriction orders, bannings, deportations, the Ciskei National Security Act, the Transkei, Nomonde Matiso, Janet Cherry, Sue Lund, Claire Verbeek, Penelope Mosetle, Dorcas Dikana, Anika van Gylswyrk, Chris Bonner, the Chemical Workers International Union (CWIU),and the New Crossroads squatter camp.
