WOMANHOOD AT WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA

Subtitle: The Story of the SAWAS Author: Gwen Hewitt Publisher: Gwen Hewitt (1947) Condition: Good. The DJ has minor wear and tear along the edges and corners with slight water and handling stains. The boards and spine are creased and faded on the edges. Interior: the paste-downs, front-free end papers and title page are slightly water damaged (wrinkled). Binding not perfectly straight. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 173 Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.1 x 1.2 cm +++ by Gwen Hewitt +++ The backroom girls or the Cinderellas, these descriptions have been given to the SAWAS, because the work they did during the War was the kind of work that nobody else wanted to do. Cinderella in the fairy tale married the prince, but the majority of Cinderellas jus go on with their little jobs, and never see the limelight. They get no medals or decorations. But the comfort they gave is cherished, a warm shining light, in the minds of many thousand of people, whose job, now the was is won, is to live, and to bring up their children to live, decent kindly lives as good citizens. Much of the impetus for this sort of living came through the self acrificing work of the SAWAS. Their leaven may be unobtrusive, but it works, and through its work South Africa is everlastingly enriched.