[1] Eileen Haddon was born on 9 March 1921 in Boksburg, a South African mining town.
In October 1942 she married Michael Haddon, and lived in the United Kingdom while he served in the Royal Marines.
Influenced by Guy and Molly Clutton-Brock, they were also active in Garfield Todd's United Rhodesia Party.
They also donated their smallholding outside Salisbury, Col Comfort Farm, as the base for a multiracial cooperative led by the Clutton-Brocks, Didymus Mutasa and others.
In December 1965 the government forced the newspaper to close, and Haddon's husband Michael was himself jailed for three years.