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Lanerolle left the Women's Press in 1991 after a decade at the helm. She was already ill when in 1993 she made the second of two visits to South Africa since her name was removed from the banned list; she was planning new publishing ventures that would be compensatory and beneficial to Black
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by women. At the time of her premature death from cancer in 1993, aged 61, she was "at the height of her career as a feminist publisher".
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Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid
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