"The Black Sash: its history"
Description: Anonymous typescriptAida Parker Newsletter attacking the ECC
Date(s): 1986Anglicans against militarisation
Date(s): 1983 - 1989Anti-apartheid organisations
Description: Mostly white. Five freedoms forum (FFF) material (?1988-1989), largely about a conference "The role of whites in a changing society" held in Lusaka in June - July 1989, including application forms of Beva Runciman and Mary Burton, list of delegates t [. . .]Date(s): 1985 - 1989
Beva Runciman (notes, aides memoire etc)
Description: Manuscript notes written on index cards, pressclippings, factsheets etc, presumably for use in talks about the Black Sash, about children in detention, detainees, state of emergency etcBeva Runciman: Semi-personal records
Description: Including references to protest action at gates of Parliament by Beva Runciman (10 July 1985) about the death in police detention of a child, Johannes Spogter; letter (November 1988) to Beva Runciman from Jen (?Jennifer Schreiner), in Pollsmoor Priso [. . .]Date(s): 1980 - 1989
Black Sash fact sheets
Description: Re Section 10 qualifications, and Memorandum on stands (1982), re relationship of the Black Sash and the UDF (1983), re changing population and social trends in Cape Town (1986)Date(s): 1980 - 1989
Cape Town End Conscription Committee
Description: Includes constitution, minutes of meetings, reports etc.Cape Western Regional Council: Reports, motivations, assessment, nominations and elections
Date(s): 1986 - 1989Cape Western Regional Executive: Minutes of meetings
Description: Incomplete runDate(s): 1986 - 1990
Challenging the myths of war
Description: Extracts from Professor J Dugard's address at AGM of the Civil Rights League September 1983. Also includes pamphlet published by the Civil Rights League.Date(s): 1983
Chronological report of events in Old/New Crossroads
Date(s): 1986Circular from Sheena Duncan to all Black Sash advice offices re workshop in September 1989
Date(s): 1989Conscription Action Group
Date(s): 1983 - 1989Constitution
Description: As amended ?1984. Only page 1 and 2.Date(s): 1984
Copies and original correspondence re ECC
Date(s): 1983 - 1989Copies of "The Objector"
Description: early 1984?; July 1984, March/April 1985, May 1985, August and December 1989Date(s): 1984 - 1989
Copies of messages of support for ECC et al
Description: From various international religious/human rights bodies, some referring to a proposed ECC peace festival (?May/June 1985)Copies of pressclippings and journal articles
Description: Local and overseas, including article on nonviolence published in the USA by New Society Publishers (?1984) and an article "South Africa - Whites who won't fight" in the Progressive (September 1985) by David L Goodman of Boston, USA.Date(s): 1983 - 1989
Copies of reports from Laurie Nathan re programme for the ECC peace festival and other matters
Date(s): 1985Copy of Dunstan Runciman's "Public statement of conscience"
Description: Re his decision not to serve in the SADFDate(s): 1989
Crisis news
Description: with article about Revd Gottfried KraatzDate(s): 1986
Detention without trial, detention barracks, political prisoners, political violence, police violence, state of emergency etc
Description: Press clippings from the Cape Times and the Sunday Times, June 1972, with reports of police brutality against UCT students demonstrating against apartheid; "Detention focus" (October 1987); duplicated information brochure "Who are the women in prison [. . .]Date(s): 1972 - 1990
Development of managerial/supervisory skills
Description: Various items including printed notes from several sources re effective facilitation of group work, inter-personal relationships etc; undated duplicated ts "A code of conduct for activists" a lecture to "help activists develop their understanding of [. . .]Date(s): 1985 - 1989
Discussion paper re pro-militarisation organisations and anti-militarisation organisations
Date(s): 1989 - 1990Duplicated anonymous account of his experiences by a national serviceman involved with SADF in Port Elizabeth townships
Description: Type scriptDuplicated anonymous paper:"There shall be peace and friendship - the South African Peace Council in the 1950s"
Description: Type scriptDate(s): 1950 - 1959
ECC "Troops Out" Campaign
Description: "Give our sons a chance - Mothers' call for alternatives to military service", undated duplicated typescript compilation of statements about military service with the names of mothers who signed itDate(s): 1985
ECC promotional material and publications
Description: Including "Out of step" May 1987 and "Frontline Angola" October 1987Date(s): 1987
ECC workshop on speaking skills
Date(s): 1983 - 1989End Conscription Campaign (ECC) meetings in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg
Date(s): 1983 - 1989Extra-parliamentary opposition groups etc
Description: Letter (? 1987) from CPSA synod commission re intention to "gather information about extra-parliamentary opposition groups" especially in the light of ongoing attacks, and seeking information about ECC; first edition of the "Cape Democrats bulletin" [. . .]Date(s): 1983 - 1989
Extract from unidentified journal re CPSA provincial synod's call for an end to conscription
Description: ?Searchlight, printed in Port ElizabethDate(s): 1985
Fact sheet issued by NUSAS
Description: Including an article headed "JMC (Joint Management Councils): The silent coup"Factsheet: Conscientious objectors support group (COSG)
Date(s): 1989 - 1990Financial reports, budgets etc
Date(s): 1985 - 1990Flyers re meetings and advice services
Description: Also to recruit support for ECC and related human rights activities.Date(s): 1983 - 1989
Flyers/Statements/Papers re various social and political issues
Description: From various sources. 1987 elections; Free the children alliance (FCA) (Western Cape): items re campaign to release children in detention (1987) and reprint of a UNICEF report "Children on the front line - the impact of apartheid, destabilisation and [. . .]Date(s): 1975 - 1989
Forced removals
Description: Series of photographic prints, some damaged, of people in areas affected by forced removals in various parts of the country (possibly related to the Surplus People Project); copy of letter (1982) from H J D van der Walt, Deputy Minister of Developmen [. . .]Date(s): 1980 - 1989
Information regarding the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers' Association
Description: Including suggestion (? late 1987) that Black Sash should address the needs of the cr ches in townships and informal settlementsDate(s): 1987
Items related to education
Description: Including provision of bursaries for marginalised students, including correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports etc (1997-1999) of Catholic Educational Aid Programme (CEAP), Tertiary Education Fund of South Africa (TEFSA), Bursary Council of South [. . .]Date(s): 1989 - 1999
Just war theory
Description: manuscript notesLetter from Mary Burton to South African newspapers re "a campaign to defy apartheid legislation"
Date(s): 1989Letter reporting on the cancellation of a protest march in Cape Town because of security issues and ensuing tensions
Date(s): 1989Manuscript notes and comments re ECC
Description: Includes fact sheet for use by participants in protest standsDate(s): 1983 - 1989
Members and addresses
Date(s): 1984 - 1988Minutes of a meeting of the Finance Committee
Date(s): 1989Minutes of Branch Chairpersons meeting
Date(s): 1987Minutes of regional conferences
Date(s): 1986 - 1990Minutes of ten meetings of the Advice Office Committee in Cape Town
Date(s): 1987 - 1989Minutes of the End Conscription Campaign General Body Meeting 1985-1987
Description: Incomplete, comprising those dated September 1985 and March-June 1987Date(s): 1985 - 1987
Minutes of the Regional General Meetings
Date(s): 1985 - 1989Minutes: Cape Western Regional Council
Description: Incomplete run and some with years not givenDate(s): 1986 - 1990
Miscellaneous pressclippings, journals and published items
Description: Donated with Beva Runciman's papers, containing articles related to her Black Sash and human rights activities, including occasional copies of Monitor, Upfront, SA Outlook etcNamibia
Description: Published and duplicated ts items (1988 - 1989 and undated) re Namibia; notes on Namibia, including reference to talk by Molly Blackburn and Di Bishop (March 1985); permission for a stand in Cape Town in protest against South African troops in Namibi [. . .]Date(s): 1984 - 1989
Newsletters, circulars etc
Description: Incomplete runs. From National President, regional and project leaders, to all members or groups of members: including memorandum (July 1987) on the Advice Office Trust and update on Advice Office Trust's financial crisis (November 1989)Date(s): 1985 - 1990
Notebooks
Description: Wirebound. Containing Beva Runciman s miscellaneous ms notes and reminders, mostly undated, including references to ECC, Black Sash, various meetings and protests, the death penalty, education and other current topics: three notebooks are un-numbered [. . .]Date(s): 1986 - 1990
Notes about the suggestions made by Cape Western members re the distribution of Sash Magazine
Date(s): 1989Notes by various Sash members about public reaction to their stands
Description: Includes an example of hate mail after a standDate(s): 1983
Notes on Africa Freedom Day
Description: Type scriptDate(s): 1983
Notes re possible relocation of Black Sash offices to Osborne Road, Mowbray
Description: ManuscriptOrganograms
Description: Cape Western and NationalProcedure for domestic worker cases
Date(s): 1987Promotional material published by the KwaZulu-Natal Indaba and a Black Sash factsheet critical of the Indaba proposals etc
Date(s): 1987 - 1988Protests/statements re South African government's military policy and attacks by security police
Description: Manuscript and typescriptReferences to other regions
Description: For example AlbanyReports from advice offices/fiedlworkers in the Cape Town area
Date(s): 1984 - 1989Reports from Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and Johannesburg
Description: One report eachDate(s): 1987
Reports on workshops, training etc in the Western Cape
Date(s): 1987 - 1989Reports/correspondence of the Media Group
Date(s): 1986Repression in a time of 'reform: A look at events in the Transvaal since August 1984
Description: Illustrated publication.Date(s): 1984
Research questionnaire on ECC
Date(s): 1998Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in South Africa (SADPSA)
Description: Wide range of items including minutes of meetings, flyers, correspondence, published material and pressclippings, including "Death penalty news" (May 1974); PACSA factsheet (September 1987) on capital punishment; list (faxed December 1988) of executi [. . .]Date(s): 1974 - 2000
Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in South Africa (SADPSA)
Description: Further material (correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports etc) regarding the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in South Africa; paper (1989) by Julia Sloth-Nielsen "Procedural aspects of the death penalty"; copy of article from "The [. . .]Date(s): 1987 - 1989
Standpoint of Western Cape PFP Youth
Date(s): 1983 - 1989Stands, protests, pamphlet distribution
Description: Including controversial demonstration against the death sentence passed on the Sharpeville Six, and references to differences of opinion among members regarding "principles and support for socialism"Date(s): 1984 - 1988
Statement from 1991 Black Sash national conference regarding human-rights issues
Description: Such as the death penalty, ongoing political violence, intimidation of witnessesDate(s): 1991
Statement in moral defence of peaceful procession towards Parliament on Tuesday 26 March 1985
Description: Duplicated typescriptDate(s): 1985
Summary of discussion at a special meeting ro discuss violent/non-violent protest and possibility of a National Convention
Description: Attended by Jakes GerwelDate(s): 1985
Surveys/questionnaires re conscription at Universities of Cape Town and Natal (Durban)
Date(s): 1983 - 1989Text of papers presented at ECC Peace Conference June 1985
Description: Presented by Jon Weinberg of Koeberg Alert and Carole Tongue of the European Peace MovementDate(s): 1985
Trials/Court appearances
Description: Manuscript notes about "Trojan horse" trial and the trial of "Christina" nd; duplicated ts : "The law courts and you" advice for people appearing in court; notes taken by Rosalind Bush at a talk by Wilfred Scharff (sp?) to court monitoring group (c S [. . .]Date(s): 1988 - 1989
Undated draft discussion memorandum re Alternative National Service (ANS) and circular covering letter (April 1989)
Description: With attached ANS working documentDate(s): 1989
Unidentified photograph of people at a braai, main focus being on pig on spit
Description: In The Objector Vol 2 No3 1984, there is a reference to the fact that a Namibian, Andreas Kapitingo, had been burned on a spit by SADF personnelUnused End Conscription Campaign diary 1988
Description: Sold for ECC fundsDate(s): 1988
Women's resistance
Description: United Women s Congress (UWCO) and Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW): newsletters, statements, draft constitution, songs etc; ms draft of greetings (30 August 1987) from Cape (Western) region of the Black Sash on the occasion of FEDSAW s lau [. . .]Date(s): 1979 - 1987