Collections: guided search: Themes
  • Browse across all collections in the database containing materials on, or related to the Black Sash. Click on a theme from the list below.
  • Advice Office Trust (1985-1995)
    This theme covers the period 1985-1995. The advice offices were administered by the regions until 1985 when the Black Sash Advice Office Trust was established to administer and raise funds for the advice offices. The Advice Office Trust fell away in 1995.
  • Advice Offices (pre or post 1995)
    This theme covers the period 1955-present and may include records related to the advice offices when they were under the regional structures of the Black Sash (pre 1995) or the remaining advice offices under the Black Sash Trust (post 1995) or both.
  • Advocacy
    This theme covers any advocacy conducted by the Black Sash throughout their existence (1995-present).
  • Apartheid-era black affairs
    This theme covers any issue related to "black affairs" that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with, or protested during Apartheid. Includes: Bantu administration boards, Coloured population group memorandum, etc.
  • Awards, honours, tributes
    This theme covers any award, honour, tribute received by the Black Sash or personnel at any time in its history (1955-present).
  • Black Sash Trust (post 1995)
    This theme covers the period from the Black Sash Trust's inception in 1995 to the present and relates to records from Trust's National Office and Advocacy Unit. The records from the Trust's Advice Offices are under the theme Advice Offices.
  • Branch administration (pre 1995)
    This theme covers records related to the administration of the branch structures (which fell under the regions) in the period from the inception of the Black Sash in 1955 up until 1995 when it became the Black Sash Trust. The theme Black Sash Trust describes post 1995.
  • Children
    This theme covers any issues related to children that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes Free the Children Campaign, family violence, children's rights etc.
  • Conferences
    This theme relates to conference proceedings at any time in the Black Sash's history (1955-present). They are either conferences held by the Black Sash or ones members attended.
  • Culture
    This theme covers any issues related to culture that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: Arts Festival, etc.
  • Economy
    This theme covers any issues related to the economy that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: taxation, money-lending, personal finances etc.
  • Education
    This theme covers any issues related to education or training that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: literacy, universities, adult education, training etc.
  • Finances
    This theme covers any issues related to the finances of the Black Sash (in any organisational form) at any time throughout their period of existence (1955-present). Includes funding
  • Freedom
    Includes: democratic elections, issues related to freedom of expression, from discrimination, equality , democracy, etc.
  • Health
    This theme covers any issues related to health that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time in their period of existence (1955-present). Includes: hospitals, HIV/Aids, etc.
  • History
    The history of the Black Sash can be broken up into roughly the following periods: Establishment of the Black Sash: 1955-1956; Early years of the Black Sash: 1956-early 1960s; Persistence and protest: 1960s-1980s; Transformation and evolution: 1990s-present. This theme pertains mainly to records that describe significant events in the organisation's history.
  • Housing
    This theme covers any issue related to housing that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: Squatters, etc.
  • Human rights
    This theme covers any issues related to human rights that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: socio-economic rights, declaration of rights, civil rights etc.
  • International affairs
    This theme covers any issues related to other countries that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present).
  • Justice
    Includes: affirmative action, reparations, TRC, administrative justice, injustice etc.
  • Labour
    This theme covers any issues related to labour that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: farm labour, domestic workers, migrant labour, job reservation, pass laws, influx control, unemployment etc.
  • Land
    This theme covers any issue related to land that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: forced removals, homelands, etc.
  • Legal issues
    This theme covers any legal issues that the Black Sash assisted with, contributed to, protested or advocated at any time in their period of existence. Includes: apartheid legislation, constitutional reform, paralegal matters and training, trials, court cases, Bail fund, government etc.
  • Media
    This theme covers any issues related to the relationship between the media and the Black Sash at any time during their existence (1955-present).
  • Military
    This theme covers any issues related to the military that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: conscription, conscientious objectors, militarisation, etc.
  • Monitoring
    This theme covers any monitoring conducted throughout the Black Sash's existence (1955-present). Includes: monitoring of the courts, etc.
  • National administration (pre 1995)
    This theme covers records related to national administration (including constitutions) in the period from the inception of the Black Sash in 1955 up until 1995 when it became the Black Sash Trust. The theme Black Sash Trust describes the post 1995 period.
  • Other areas of involvement or concern
    This theme covers any areas of involvement or concern not described in the other themes.
  • Other organisations
    This theme covers any records of other organisations embedded in Black Sash records or Black Sash records embedded in other organisations' records.
  • Personnel
    This theme includes paid and unpaid personnel and spans the period of existence of the Black Sash and Black Sash Trust (1955-present). It includes: members, staff, trustees and volunteers.
  • Policy statements
    This theme covers policy statements, memoranda and submissions that the Black Sash (in any organisational form) made at any time throughout their period of existence (1955-present).
  • Politics
    This theme was added after the others and so was only used from BSu860 onwards. As a lot of the issues Black Sash were involved in are political in nature, this themes covers issues related directly to politics and not covered by any of the other areas in the themes.
  • Poverty
    This theme covers any issues related to poverty that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: unemployment, hunger, etc.
  • Protests, demonstrations, campaigns
    This theme covers protests, demonstrations, campaigns by or recorded by the Black Sash throughout their existence (1955-present). Includes: Bells against bills campaign, etc.
  • Regional administration (pre 1995)
    This theme covers records related to the administration of the regional structures in the period from the inception of the Black Sash in 1955 up until 1995 when it became the Black Sash Trust. The theme Black Sash Trust describes post 1995.
  • Repression
    This theme covers any issues related to repression that the Black Sash monitored or protested at any time in their period of existence (1995-present). Includes: political unrest, violence, torture, detentions, deaths in detention, bannings, capital punishment, banishment, discriminations, oppression, racism, passes, prisons
  • Rural work
    This theme covers any issues related to the rural work of the Black Sash at any time during their existence (1955-present).
  • Social welfare
    This theme covers any issues related to social welfare that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: pensions, grants, etc.
  • Special projects
    This theme covers any special projects that the Black Sash was involved in at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes newsletters, magazines, volunteer projects, programmes like TRAC. Also includes topics listed as special projects or subjects in the inventories.
  • Transport
    This theme covers any issues related to transport that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present).
  • Women
    This theme covers any issues related to women that the Black Sash monitored, assisted with or protested at any time during their existence (1955-present). Includes: abortion, women's rights, domestic and family violence, surrogacy etc.