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.
Description: Title is quote from Joyce Harris, then-president of the Black Sash re use of violence by blacks and whitesDate(s): 1985
"Greenflies": Municipal police in the Eastern Cape
Date(s): 1989"Sash" and human rights: A content analysis 1976-1990
Description: M Bibl thesis for University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) completed in 1995. The journal exposed human rights abuses by the apartheid government and provided organisational information to the wholly female Black Sash membership. The analysis utilises [. . .]Date(s): 1976 - 1990
"This money will be used to bury me": The current state of Black pensions in South Africa
Description: A Black Sash National Advice Office ReportDate(s): 1990
'A racial hell in which life is cheap and authority is despised'
Description: Title of the article is a quote from Black Sash describing township life in the 1980s, particularly towards the youth.Date(s): 1986
'Cruel, inhuman and degrading' situation in South Africa
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): 1983
'She brings us together': An activist is mourned and the blood keeps flowing
Description: Molly Blackburn funeralDate(s): 1986
'Sue who?' a likely ace in the hole for foreign affairs
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): 2004
39 killings South Africa can no longer ignore
Description: Reference to Black Sash investigations into excessive force used by security guard Louis van Schoor.Date(s): 1990
A tale of two paradoxes: Media censorship in South Africa, pre-liberation and post-apartheid
Description: Brief reference to Black Sash as one of the organisations who documented infringements on human rights.Date(s): 2001
Access to justice for rural women
Description: University of Cape Town Institute of Criminology and Black Sash reportDate(s): 1998
Advice Office Annual Report 1983
Date(s): 1983Advice Office Work Report: Cape Western
Date(s): 1989Alice in Colourland
Date(s): 1970 - 1979ANC flags fly at township burial
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): 1986
Annual Report of Athlone Advice Office 1982?
Date(s): 1982Archbishop Denis Hurley: a light for many
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): 2004
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
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): 2001
Athlone Advice Office Annual Reports 1982
Date(s): 1982Balancing means and ends - population policy in South Africa
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): 1993
Bitter harvest: Gail Smith discusses the renewed fight against poverty in the new South Africa.
Description: Black Sash mentioned as one of the organisations campaigning for the Basic Income Grant.Date(s): 2002
Black economic empowerment in South Africa: A case study of non-inclusive stakeholder engagement
Description: Brief reference of Black Sash as an example of organised civil society groups.Date(s): 2003