Black Sash fact sheets[Beva Runciman Papers] 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): 1980s Black Sash Gardens Branch Meeting: "Memories"[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Audio Cassette. Start with music, meeting follows. This meeting inspired the making of the documentary film: "Black Sash: The Early Years". Speakers at the meeting include Mary Livingstone (on why the Black Sash came into being and early history); Jo [. . .]Date(s): 21 May 1990 Black Sash Grahamstown: Social security, old age pensions, disability, maintenance and foster care grants: An investigation into fraud and corruption in the Eastern Cape by Helen Holleman[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): January-March 1997Black Sash memorandum to Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the Coloured population group[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): UndatedBlack Sash Organisation Microfilm[Microfilm Collection] Description: Includes: petition, inaugural meetings, Constitution, Convoy to Cape Town, Sharpeville, Advice Offices reports and correspondence, pamphlets, information and education, publicity of committee meetings, minutes of meetings etc.Date(s): 1956-1966 Black Sash Organisation Microfilm[Microfilm Collection] Description: Includes: Letters to the press, finance, circulars, projects like Family day and 90 Days Detainees and Multi-Racial ConferenceDate(s): 1956-1966 Black Sash Organisation Microfilm: Correspondence[Microfilm Collection] Description: Includes correspondence with Cabinet Ministers and letters to the pressDate(s): 1956-1966 Black Sash Organisation Microfilm: Multi-Racial Conference, Multi-Racial Forum[Microfilm Collection] Description: Also includes Bantu Laws Amendment Bill, SABC, demonstrationsDate(s): 1956-1966 Black Sash play[Community Video Education Trust (CVET) Collection] Description: Video Cassette. The play is a take-off on the history of the Black Sash. In covers the plight of black women during the heyday of Apartheid, passes, Group Areas Act, influx control. The evening when it was performed also included poetry reading, trad [. . .]Date(s): 1988? Black Sash protest against Sabotage Bill[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): UndatedBlack Sash protest meeting - Joint Sitting with reconstituted Senate[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1956Black Sash reports[Professor W A Kleynhans Collection] Description: Athlone Advice Office 1959, 1965-1969, 1983; Transvaal (including Johannesburg Advice Office) Region 1960-1982; 180 day detention; pass laws; Sophiatown; Separate Representation of Voters; Meran; Bannings and BOSS; Eersterus; influx control; black lo [. . .]Date(s): 1955-1985 Black Sash telegram sent to members of Parliament re preventive detention[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): September 1984Black Sash: Bedrywighede met betrekking tot blanke skole[Dept. van Onderwys en Opleiding Versameling] Description: Note in general section of file from police describing how the head of a white school in Roodepoort received a letter from the Black Sash giving background to the 16 June 1976 and calling for him to be absent from school on that day. Marked "Geheim" [. . .]Date(s): 26 May 1986 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 Bophuthatswana[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes a paper 'The Reincorporation of Bophuthatswana' by Paul Daphne, 1992; records of protest action against human rights violations and information on the arrest of Black Sash members after a demonstration in 1991.Date(s): 1990s Boycott lesson is that natives will be heard[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): UndatedBrief chronology of involvement of Black Sash in events at Crossroads[Beva Runciman Papers] Date(s): 18-26 May 1986Brochure entitled "The Black Sash programme for 1996"[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Describing the three national campaignsDate(s): 1996 Calendar: "South Africa 1984"[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Calendar of black and white photographs depicting places in South Africa (name of place in left hand corner of the photograph) and the people's struggles there. Under each photograph is a quote in English and in another South African language describ [. . .]Date(s): 1984 Call for National Day of protest by South African Congress of Democrats[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): Undated |
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide