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An interview with her husband, Peter Dobson who was a "computer analyst" at the time in Joburg: https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/sedec8... (pg. 21)

(this is an ANC publication from 1989)

It deals with American and Japanese tacit support of the regime (despite US sanctions on "computer technology" being sold to the ZA government) and the types of (IBM) systems running at the time.

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Cool magazine, are there more issues there?

It would appear the filename format is "se{three letter month code}{two digit year}.pdf" so there are indeed other issues:

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/sejan9... for instance.

Publication appears to have been monthly.

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You can also try finding more through the Collections site on the university website.

https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/Collection

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