Call to government to repeal Clause 20 of the Bantu Laws Amendment Act[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): UndatedCampaign for African Women 1970-1971[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes 'Charter for Women' Articles, memoranda, correspondence, petition handed in to the House of Assembly by Mrs Helen Suzman, signed by all delegates at National Conference, 1971.Date(s): 1970-1971 Campaign for Effective Equality: Interim Research Report[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 1993-1994Campaign 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 convoy and vigil at Houses of Parliament[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Arrangements, programme, report, correspondenceDate(s): 1955-1956 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 Capital Punishment[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Research on people on Death Row in the Eastern Cape; working paper for proposed campaign against capital punishment; information on the Sharpeville Six; information on Evelina de Bruin etc.Case histories of some people still in Sophiatown[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1959-1960Children: Free the Children 1985[Jo MacRobert Papers] Date(s): 1985Christian-themed anti-apartheid poster[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Illustrations comprise a picture of the crucifixion, and workers with hands raised; references to several biblical texts "for reflection" include: " stand for the truh", " say no to ungodly apartheid elections, " Christians working for a non-racial, [. . .]Date(s): Undated Circular on Black Sash and its objectives[Douglas Mitchell Papers] Description: "Parliament opens today...we, the people want just laws justly applied..."Date(s): Undated Circular on Black Sash and its objectives[Douglas Mitchell Papers] Description: "The Black Sash wants...Good Government for South Africa."Date(s): Undated Citizens Action Committee: Campaign to stop forced removals[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1968Cloth printed by the Black Sash in the style of African commemorative cloth.[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Design input by P. Davison. Presented by Dr. P. Davison, December 1993Commission of Enquiry into riots at Soweto June 1976[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): June 1976Commission of Inquiry into matters relating to the Coloured population group[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Black Sash memorandum to this CommissionDate(s): 1973 Complaint re mass police raids in northern suburbs[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1965Conference Records for National Conferences: 1989 and 1990[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1989 records include: papers: "Sash Protest: Quo Vadis? By Merry Dewar, "Profile of a Death Row Prisoner", "The State of Emergency in the Eastern Cape", "Death sentences for politically-related crimes in the Eastern Cape", "An Open-City Initiative" b [. . .]Date(s): 1989-1990 Conscientious objection[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes "Thoughts on 'conscientious objection'; a personal viewpoint" by Margaret NashDate(s): 1975 Conscientious Objectors Support Group[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes statement by Paul Dobson, September 1983 and "Statement in support of Paul Dobson in his right to refuse military service"; papers re Black Sash involvement in COSG 1983; statement by Black Sash in support of men who refuse to serve in the S [. . .]Date(s): 1983; 1989, 1991-1993 Copy of Dunstan Runciman's "Public statement of conscience"[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Re his decision not to serve in the SADFDate(s): September 1989 Correspondence and annexures[Professor W A Kleynhans Collection] Description: Includes press releases for demonstrations to Rand Daily Mail, letter from Office of Minister of Native Affairs refusing request from Black Sash to send a deputation to meet the Minister to discuss the ban on native meetings imposed in April 1958, le [. . .]Date(s): 1958-1973 Correspondence and pressclippings re security police activity at memorial service for Neil Aggett and again during the subsequent Black Sash stand in which Di Bishop participated[Di Bishop Papers] Date(s): 1980-1986 |