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. Accessed 13 December 2007 Canon Gonville Ffrench-Beytagh: Obituary[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Obituary for Anglican Dean of Johannesburg. Mentions his prosecution for allegedly inciting a group of women in his congregation, members of the Black Sash, to violent revolution.Date(s): 15 May 1991. Accessed 13 December 2007 Cape Town protestors call for more Government spending on poverty alleviation[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash demonstrates for reparations, as provided for by the TRC, to be paid. The protest took place before the budget speech.Date(s): 21 February 2001. Accessed 4 January 2008 Centre for study of violence and reconciliation: Research available online[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): January 2000Chorus of anger over murder of apartheid critic[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reactions to the assassination of Dr David Webster. Includes statement by Mary Burton, then president of the Black Sash.Date(s): 3 May 1989. Accessed 13 December 2007 Churches condemn 'evil' forces after bomb destroys HQ[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to bombing of Khotso House, headquarters of amongst others, the Black Sash.Date(s): 1 September 1988. Accessed 13 December 2007 Civil Society Bodies Call for Income Grant[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash support for Basic Income GrantDate(s): Posted to the web 10 June 2003 Civil Society Conference closes; Youth 'grill' Bill Clinton on issues[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Sheena Duncan is mentioned as one of the speakers at the conference.Date(s): 25 April 2001. Accessed 4 January 2008 Coalition building, election rules, and party politics: South African women's path to parliament[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Mary Turok representative of the Black Sash re gender equality.Date(s): 2002. Accessed 15 March 2007 Cry the beloved country[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to testimony of witness at the TRC recalling Black Sash helping trace her missing son.Date(s): 14 September 1996. Accessed 13 December 2007 Daughters of devotion[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Catharine Smith, daughter of John Smith Britain's Labour leader as having volunteered for the Black Sash while on a stay in South Africa.Date(s): 4 October 1998. Accessed 13 December 2007 De Klerk orders up troops in crackdown, South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash backing de Klerk's call to use troops to qwell violence in Natal in 1990Date(s): 3 April 1990. Accessed 13 December 2007 FF Leader Says ANC Using Reconciliation Campaign for 'Political Points'.[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Mention of Mary Burton's involvement in the 'Home for All' campaignDate(s): 16 December 2000. Accessed 4 January 2008 Figures given by police challenged[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article re detention of children in South Africa and Black Sash campaign to raise awareness of their plight and fight for their release.Date(s): 9 December 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 Getting out the vote (South Africa's elections)[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash and its voter education campaign for the first democratic election in 1994Date(s): July-August 1993. Accessed 15 March 2007 Howe fights on as chance of success fades[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article is about British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's talks with South African government officials about ending Apartheid. Brief mention of Sheena Duncan, former national president of Black Sash, who also met with him.Date(s): 28 July 1986 Inthuthuko Means That We Are Going Forward: Hearing the Voices of Domestic Workers in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: This seven part article deals with an Amercian intern's research into the experiences of domestic workers through her work in the Black Sash Johannesburg Advice.Date(s): 1992. Accessed 11 January 2008 Introduction: Fugard, women and politics[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash being admired by Athol Fugard.Date(s): 1993. Accessed 15 March 2007 Jean Sinclair: Obituary[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 8 June 1996. Accessed 13 December 2007Lawyers to give 24 free hours to the poor[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash and its paralegal servicesDate(s): Posted to the web 27 September 2005 Mbeki Presides at Honours Ceremony Under New National Orders[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Mary Burton being awarded the Order of Luthuli is mentioned.Date(s): 2 December 2003. Accessed 4 January 2008 Militants suspect police of Soweto student's murder[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Mentions Black Sash action of silently holding up placards with names of 19 other activists at press conference regarding the death of a Soweto teenager Godfrey Sicelo Dhlomo in suspicious circumstances.Date(s): 29 January 1988. Accessed 13 December 2007 Mozambique rebels 'press ganged' in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Eastern Transvaal police are accused of helping Renamo rebels and fuelling unrest. Black Sash mentioned as they reported that South Africans were being detained without trial and made to say they were Mozambicans.Date(s): 7 July 1985. Accessed 13 December 2007 Nadine Gordimer, J M Coetzee, and Andre Brink: Guilt, expiation, and the reconciliation process in post-Apartheid South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Mary Burton as former president of the Black Sash and her involvement in a petition to get whites to collectively apologise to blacks for apartheid.Date(s): 2001. Accessed 15 March 2007 NGO says the poor should not apply for loans they can't afford[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash on the Emergency Loan Clause in the proposed National Credit ActDate(s): Posted to the web 5 August 2005 NGO, groups urge Mbeki to 'quickly' pay reparations to apartheid victims[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash Trust mentioned as one of the organisations calling for the payment of reparations speedily in terms of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ActDate(s): 14 August 2002. Accessed 4 January 2008 Persistant collective violence and early warning systems: The case of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash as an organisation at grassroots level who could provide early warnings signs of the potential for political unrestDate(s): 1998. Accessed 15 March 2007 Playing her part against Apartheid; Janet Suzman[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash as one of the women's organisations who played a role against Apartheid.Date(s): 4 November 1990. Accessed 13 December 2007 Police 'in the dock' and accused go free in Trojan Horse Trial[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article about various incidents of police brutality, mainly the incident in Athlone where police concealed themselves in crates in a truck and then opened fire on protestors, killing three. The article ends with a reference to Black Sash member Annic [. . .]Date(s): 9 August 1986. Accessed 13 Decmeber 2007 Police guard may persuade Mandela witnesses to testify[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash expresses its disapproval of the alleged kidnapping and intimidation of witnesses during the Winne Mandela trial and the ANC's indifference.Date(s): 6 March 1991. Accessed 13 December 2007 Pretoria shelves plan for new township[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash mentioned as one of many organisations opposed to new township (Norweto) being built north of Johannesburg. Black Sash believes the only way to address the crisis in black housing is to remove Group Areas Act.Date(s): 11 February 1987. Accessed 13 December 2007 Protest and resistance in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1976-1990[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Ph. D. Thesis from Howard University, 2006. Black Sash is discussed alongside Black Conscious Movement, ANC, Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) and how their position was strengthened after the formation of the UDF.Date(s): 1976-1990 Rape victims are no longer probable liars[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash as one of a number of organisations applauding changes to the laws governing rape trials that view women as probable liars in rape trials.Date(s): 15 April 1998. Accessed 11 January 2008 Reflections of a first time voter (South Africa)[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: An aside re Black Sash members holding up banners thanking the police for their efforts after the Jan Smuts Airport bombing at the time of the 1994 general elections.Date(s): July 1994. Accessed 15 March 2007 Reproductive rights and the politics of transition in South Africa (Rhetorics, Rituals and Conflicts over Women's Reproductive Power)[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Women need to fight for reproductive rights in democratic South Africa because abortion is illegal in most cases and right to life supporters are claiming it outlawed by the transitional constitution. Both social ignorance and religious prejudice wor [. . .]Date(s): 1995. Accessed 15 March 2007 Resistance born from the death of a constitution[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article about the Black Sash, its history and work, after the death of Molly Blackburn.Date(s): 31 January 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 Review of US-South Africa Relations[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Transcript of Edward J Perkins' address to winners of the eighth annual Think Internatioal Essay Contest. Reference to Black Sash as an example of people opposed to Apartheid.Date(s): September 1989. Accessed 15 March 2007 Sanctions: Blacks fearful of a Thatcher ploy[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to a Black Sash member being harassed by the security police.Date(s): 27 July 1989. Accessed 13 December 2007 Sash 1987-1994[University of South Africa Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 1987-1994Sexual abuse mars gains by South African women[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Newsletter. Reference to a statement by Alison Tilley of the Black Sash re violence against womenDate(s): 23 August 1999. Accessed 13 December 2007 Skweyiya Calls for Basic Income Grant for Poor[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: News article in the Business Day (Johannesburg). Reference tp Black Sash's support for the Basic Income GrantDate(s): Posted to the web 10 November 2006 South Africa renews State of Emergency[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash is mentioned as one organisation (amongst others) who protested the renewal of the State of Emergency. Their protest took the form of silently holding placards with slogans like "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" in rush hour traff [. . .]Date(s): 10 June 1989. Accessed 13 December 2007 South Africa: A country up against a wall[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article quotes Sheena Duncan, then-president of the Black Sash about supposed reform to apartheid.Date(s): 23 May 1983. Accessed 13 December 2007 South Africa: Agent 452 turns up[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Sub-title: There has been a dramatic twist in the fight between the deputy president, Jacob Zuma, and the national director of public prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka. The article is about Vannessa Brereton's admission that she was a police informant wh [. . .]Date(s): December 2003. Accessed 13 December 2007 South Africa: Beyond sanctions[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash's opposition to US sanctions.Date(s): 29 June 1985. Accessed 13 December 2007 South Africa: Government can afford a Basic Income Grant for the Poor[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash support for Basic Income GrantDate(s): Posted to the web 6 August 2004 South Africa: Government reforms archaic marriage and family laws[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash reacts in favour of changes to the Customary Marriages Act which raises the status of women in traditional marriages.Date(s): 6 October 1998. Accessed 11 January 2008 South Africa: Paying a heavy price for Botha's bad timing[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article about PW Botha missing the opportunity to announce reversal of some Apartheid laws when the world was watching and instead announcing them a month later. Sheena Duncan believes the reforms are significant but need to be speeded up and continu [. . .]Date(s): 15 September 1985. Accessed 13 December 2007 South Africa: Raymond Tucker put liberal beliefs into practice[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Opinion piece in the Business Day (Johannesburg)Date(s): Posted on the web 21 September 2004 South Africa; the business of fighting apartheid; American companies seem to have little impact on the system, whether they stay or leave[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash poll of twenty-five companies on their policies for paying employees detained under the state of emergency.Date(s): February 1987. Accessed 13 December 2007 South African press controls: Journalists face tighter restrictions and self-censorship demand[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash is mentioned as being critical of media as it leans towards self-censorship rather than censorship imposed by the Government.Date(s): 8 December 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 South African rights group claims torture of children is widespread[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Memorandum compiled by the Black Sash re children under 16's experience in detention.Date(s): 16 October 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 Speaker recalls days of protest[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: British Speaker Betty Boothroyd addresses Nelson Mandela on his release from Britain and recalls how she was a member of the Black Sash who demonstrated outside South Africa House in London.Date(s): 12 July 1996. Accessed 13 December 2007 Suspect justice on road to Pretoria's Death Row[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Article about high number of executions in South Africa and lack of justice. Based Black Sash report "Inside South Africa's Death Factory".Date(s): 13 March 1989. Accessed 13 December 2007 The Black Sash of South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Book review of Black Sash of South Africa by Cherry MichelmanDate(s): Accessed 15 March 2007 The exile returns[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: African Report 40th anniversary. Reference to the author's mother working in a Black Sash Advice OfficeDate(s): 1994. Accessed 15 March The Federation of South African Women and the Black Sash: constraining and contestatory discourses about women in politics, 1954-1958[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: UCT MA (political science) dissertation. Investigates the mobilisation and active political campaigning by women of all races in South Africa during the period 1954 to 1958. These campaigns were split along lines of race and class, as evidenced in th [. . .]Date(s): 1996 The gender pact and democratic consolidation: Institutionalising gender equality in the South African state[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Alison Tilley, member of the Black Sash, and her comments on the Welfare Bill.Date(s): 2003. Accessed on 15 March 2007 The illegitimate and the illegal in a South African city: The effects of apartheid on births out of wedlock (Cape Town)[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash Athlone Advice Office's legal battle against black women being endorsed out of white areas in 1960s and their losing of the case.Date(s): 1996. Acccessed 15 March 2007 Thomas G Karis and Gail M Gerhart, From protest to challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South Africa, 1882-1990, Volume 5: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964-1979[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: This volume is the fifth in a series of books by historical analysts Thomas Karis, the late Gwendolen Carter, and Gail Gerhart that narrate and document African resistance to the segregationist policies of apartheid in South Africa. Reference is made [. . .]Date(s): July-December 1998. Accessed 15 March 2007 Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC)[University of South Africa Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 1983-1994Unmasking the 'Third Force' (South Africa's death squads)[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to the bombing of Khotso House, headquarters of the Black Sash and South African Council of Churches in 1988Date(s): 1995. Accessed 15 March 2007 US Businessman is Favoured as Envoy[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Elizabeth Furse whose mother was a founding member of the Black SashDate(s): Posted to the web 15 January 1999 Violence in Natal keeps the undertakers busy[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Fidela Fouche attempting to investigate and curb violence in NatalDate(s): 19 February 1990. Accessed 13 December 2007 Watching rights[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Mentions Black Sash monitoring police involvement in unrest or their failure to intervene in early 1990sDate(s): 3 August 1992. Accessed 13 December 2007 Where is South Africa going?[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Black Sash women witnessing police brutality at Uitenhage police stationDate(s): July-August 1985. Accessed 15 March 2007 Whites on holiday as blacks protest: 'Christmas against the Emergency' in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Mentions Black Sash support for the 'Christmas against the Emergency' campaignDate(s): 17 December 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007 Wife of Tutu held during Christian protest at apartheid, Leah Tutu[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Reference to Mary Burton, then-president of the Black Sash being arrested in a Christian women's protest outside a Methodist Church hallDate(s): 31 August 1989. Accessed 13 December 2007 |
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide