A "slide into anarchy" for strife-torn South Africa? Widening divisions between blacks and whites bode ill for a nation where racial turmoil has become a fact of life.[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Title is quote from Joyce Harris, then-president of the Black Sash re use of violence by blacks and whitesDate(s): 12 August 1985. Accessed 13 December 2007 'A racial hell in which life is cheap and authority is despised'[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Title of the article is a quote from Black Sash describing township life in the 1980s, particularly towards the youth.Date(s): 15 June 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 'Cruel, inhuman and degrading' situation in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Refers to a study by the Black Sash which showed that over a 20-year period, at least three million blacks had been forcibly relocated and another one million were still to be removed.Date(s): March 1983. Accessed 13 December 2007 'She brings us together': An activist is mourned and the blood keeps flowing[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Molly Blackburn funeralDate(s): 13 January 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 'Sue who?' a likely ace in the hole for foreign affairs[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Johannesburg Business Day Editor profiles new Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Sue van der Merwe and discusses her credentials from her time with the Black Sash.Date(s): 14 May 2004. Accessed 4 January 2008 39 killings South Africa can no longer ignore[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash investigations into excessive force used by security guard Louis van Schoor.Date(s): 25 February 1990. Accessed 13 December 2007 A tale of two paradoxes: Media censorship in South Africa, pre-liberation and post-apartheid[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash as one of the organisations who documented infringements on human rights.Date(s): January 2001. Accessed 15 March 2007 Access to justice for rural women[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: University of Cape Town Institute of Criminology and Black Sash reportDate(s): 1998. Accessed 3 January 2008 ANC flags fly at township burial[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article about the funeral of 17 activists killed in riots and clashes with police in Alexandra in 1986. Black Sash members are noted among the whites who attended.Date(s): 6 March 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 Archbishop Denis Hurley: a light for many[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Obituary for Catholic Bishop Denis Hurley. The article mentions that he was an honourary member of the Black Sash and an ardent supporter of gender equality.Date(s): 21 March 2004. Accessed 13 December 2007 Asking for a Chance to Live: A rape survivor calls for change in South Africa's policies on sexual violence and the spread of HIV[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief article about Charlene Smith's rape and subsequent campaign against sexual violence and for access to anti-retrovirals. The article mentions that she had been a member of the Black Sash.Date(s): 10 September 2001. Accessed 13 December 2007 Balancing means and ends - population policy in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Part one refers to the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC), a division of the Black Sash and their contribution to the improvement of rural women's rights. Part two mentions the Black Sash in stance of abortion - the right to choose.Date(s): May 1993. Accessed 11 January 2008 Bitter harvest: Gail Smith discusses the renewed fight against poverty in the new South Africa.[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash mentioned as one of the organisations campaigning for the Basic Income Grant.Date(s): June 2002. Accessed 11 January 2008 Black economic empowerment in South Africa: A case study of non-inclusive stakeholder engagement[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference of Black Sash as an example of organised civil society groups.Date(s): 2003. Accessed 15 March 2007 Black Facism: The white liberals who opposed apartheid are despised; the blacks who supported it are eulogised[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash as one of the white liberal organisations whose contribution to the struggle are not recognised.Date(s): 5 July 2003. Accessed 15 March 2007 Black police killed in tribal clashes over homeland[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article re opposition to possible incorporation of Moutse into KwaNdebele homeland. Mentions Black Sash statement on the violence.Date(s): 3 January 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 Black Sash[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: ArticleDate(s): Accessed 15 March 2007. Article from 1996 Black Sash 1956-1986[University of South Africa Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 1956-1986Black Sash lists 'mystery killings'[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Report on Black Sash list of those it described as opponents of apartheid who have disappeared or been killed by unknown assailants in mysterious circumstances over the past decade.Date(s): 29 January 1988. Accessed 13 December 2007 Black Sash was all she had. Okay.[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: PoemDate(s): Accessed 15 March 2007. Poem from 1989 Blacks are treated in white hospitals in election protest[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to temporary detention of Black Sash demonstrators in support of the defiance campaign which saw blacks present themselves for treatment at whites-only hospitals.Date(s): 3 August 1989. Accessed 13 December 2007 Blacks rally to national strike call[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash in support of stayaway organised by COSATU in 1988Date(s): 7 June 1988. Accessed 13 December 2007 Book review of Black Sash: The Beginning of a Bridge in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Date(s): Accessed 15 March 2007. Book review from June 1992Campaign of the iron fist; a new crackdown on protestors backfire[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash protest against regulations prohibiting protests against detention without trial.Date(s): 27 April 1987. Accessed 13 December 2007 Campaign on jailed children[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article about the Black Sash campaign, supported by the UDF and other human rights organisations, to have the children detained under the State of Emergency freed by Christmas 1986.Date(s): 15 November 1986. 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Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide