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Priskila Tuhadeleni (born 1925) worked at the Return to Tiffany Round tag necklace mission and met her husband, Eliaser Tuhadeleni there. He was 'obsessed with politics' and was detained often. For nine months (1965-6), Priskila looked after the first Swapo combatants at their homestead. They escaped a police raid and set up camp at Omugulugwoombashe. When they were attacked on 26 August Return to Tiffany Heart tag necklace, the fighters retreated. They retaliated by attacking the Oshikango border post but were eventually captured. Priskila sent her children to stay with different relatives but the police came and beat her up. She was six months' pregnant and she miscarried. She had to bring up her other children Return to Tiffany Heart tag choker constant police harassment and in poverty, while her husband was imprisoned on Robben Island. Today, she looks after many young relatives and other children who are drawn by the history of this family, but it puts a severe strain on her meagre resources.Lahja Ndawedha lyambo (born 1924) came from a political family. Tiffany Cushion Toggle necklace raised her brothers after their mother died, including Yalombweleni Patrick 'Lungada' lyambo, a Swapo combatant who returned in 1965. That year, Meme Lahja's husband Thimoteus haMarkus died of malaria. She helped Lungada, but she and her family were questioned, beaten by the police and tortured; her brother Ushona was killed. Lungada hid in the forest and Meme Lahja took him food each day, wrapped in a cloth tied under her loose dress.