Untitled graphic by Thami Mnyele was distributed in 1984 newsletter.

Standing Committee of officials met on the 2/3 July, Council of members met on the 4 July 1984 and Summit on the 6th July at Gaborone, Botswana.

Poster card with the photo of Albertina Sisulu greeting and/or hugging Dorothy Mnyele on the release from jail. Post card is designed by Thami Mnyele.

FOSATU Education workshop, Johannesburg

Including "The making of the working class" Part 7 - Indian indented labour in Natal.

Including "The making of the working class" Part 10 - The formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU); also containing a pull-out calendar for 1985 .

Mentioning the decision by major independent unions to forming a new super federation of industrially based trade unions. Also included the story of the strike by Amato Textile workers in 1958, and the story of the Magopa people.

Including the history of May Day; and "The making of the working class" Part 6 - Gold Mining begins, containing Barnett photographs of mine workers.

This is the first issue of 1983. This edition, the first since the Culture and Resistance Conference, aims to prioritise the work of local artists. The edition consists of Medu Art Ensemble interviewing John Selolwane, a guitarist for the band Kgalagadi in Botswana, who has a wide experience of playing music in various parts of Africa. John Donne's poem, "After Maseru", follows the Maseru Raid on 9 December 1982 where 42 people suspected of being activists and members of the ANC were killed. Donne gives a sense of the ignorance and apathy of many South Africans to this gruesome massacre by the Apartheid government. There is also a review of the photographic exhibition "Art Towards Social Development" by Tim Williams. He showceses photographs that capture the "cultural reality of Apartheid" and "the vulerability of South African fascism". A second photographic exhibition "Portrait of people", a graphic record of the South African liberation struggle, is reviewed in this issue. It is explained that history of the people is incomplete without pictorial records of the people who made that history. Another interesting piece is an article about culture and resistance in South Africa by Keorapetse Kgositsile. The author explains that the determination and commitment to life which is reflected in arts and cultural resistance is not as new a development in South Africa as some people might think. Front page graphic by Mike Kahn on silkscreen print.