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 Association of Western European Parliamentarians for Action against Apartheid (AWEPPA)[Mary Burton Papers]Banning and detention: 1963-1966[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Protest re banning and 90- and 180-day detention laws. 1964-1966. Circulars and correspondence. Plans for demonstrations. 'Points for discussion' re 90-day lawsDate(s): 1963-1966 Bantu Homeland Citizenship Bill and Bantu Laws Amendment Bill 1969[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: Letter from Jean Sinclair to Minister of Bantu Administration protesting against The Bantu Homeland Citizenship Bill and the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill.- 'Slave Labour Bill'. Correspondence and a memo on the Slave Labour Bill.Date(s): 1969 Bantu Laws Amendment Bill 1957[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Memoranda, circulars, pamphlet "The Native Laws Amendment Bill; its effects on religious and other freedoms" by the South African Institute of Race RelationsDate(s): 1957 Bantu Laws Amendment Bill 1963[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Protest against Bill; correspondence, memoranda, etc. Act to amend the Native Labour Regulation Act, 1911..., No. 42, 1964Date(s): 1963 Bedrywighede: Black Sash, "Kinders in Aanhouding"[Dept. van Onderwys en Opleiding Versameling] Description: From SAPS. Lists activities planned by Black Sash to draw attention to children in detention: Christmas card campaign where part of the card gets sent to the State President to draw attention to the plight of children in detention; pamphlets; and bro [. . .]Date(s): November 1986 Behind the Black Sash: Protest movement of South African Women[City of Johannesburg Library and Information Service] Description: American Universities Field Staff Newsletters ESM-5-'56: Africa. Located in the African Studies Library.Date(s): 1956 Betacams for making of documentary "Black Sash: The Early Years": Telecine of convoy[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: 2 Betacams: "Black Sash 000: Telecine of convoy" and "Telecine of convoy (Dumped x 2. Second transfer better)"Date(s): Undated Beva Runciman: Semi-personal records[Beva Runciman Papers] 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): 1980s Black Sash banner: "Black Sash Justice Peace Democracy"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Cotton cloth with painted balck letters, newspaper backing. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Date(s): c. 1990 Black Sash banner: "Black Sash Justice Peace Democracy"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Paint on cotton cloth. Traces of newspaper backing, cord toes. Presented by the Black Sash, August 1995.Black Sash banner: "Black Sash reject Group Areas, Slums and Squatter's Bills"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Painted cotton cloth with rope for hanging. Fabric damaged. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Black Sash banner: "Death Squads: The Truth Must Be Told"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Black paint on white cotton. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Black Sash banner: "Forward to a united democratic South Africa"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Black paint on white cotton cloth, wooden batons. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Black Sash banner: "Human Rights Now"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: White paint on red cotton cloth. With Women's Movement logo. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Black Sash banner: "Parliament Can"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Black paint on white cotton cloth. Presented by the Black Sash, August 1995Black Sash banner: "The Black Sash - Justice Peace Democracy"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Paint on cotton cloth, cord ties. Soiled. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Black Sash banner: "The Black Sash feminism is a liberating alternative. Bread and roses. Free the children. Save the humans. Remember all our women for the fighting years. Remember all our women for their triumphs and their tears"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Coloured cotton cloth, painted with newspaper backing. Elastic ties. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Date(s): c. August 1989. Date taken from newspaper backing Black Sash banner: "The role of paralegals in South Africa. Working for justice Cape Town 1990"[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Cotton cloth painted, with newspaper backing, masking tape edging, string ties. Presented by the Black Sash in August 1995Date(s): c. July 1990. Date taken from newspaper backing Black Sash booklet: You and the New Constitution, Vote NO[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): August 1983Black Sash Calendar 1987[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Calendar of black and white political cartoons by Grogan. The calendar notes important dates for example, the founding of the ANC and of the Black Sash, the adopting of the Freedom Charter, and International Children's Day.Date(s): 1987 Black Sash Calendar 1989[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Calendar of black and white political cartoons by Grogan, Zapiro and Stent. The dates are annotated by hand. It is unclear who made the notes.Date(s): 1989 Black Sash demonstration[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): Undated |
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide