8 February 1989
The Star reported that a number of women called on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make their contribution to the nation in a 'non-punitive, constructive alternative service'. They stressed that they had gathered as mothers, wives and sisters and not as members of any organisation.
References

South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, pp. 521 & 597.