Memorandum to the State President and supreme chief of the African peoples of the Republic of South Africa to accompany petitions about removals[Records of the Black Sash]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 Minutes of combined Durban/Pietermaritzburg Advice Office meeting, Shongweni 5 June 1992 re National Pension Campaign[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 5 June 1992Minutes, reports, campaigns etc[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 1992-1993Mock-up of comic strip sketch in part entitled: "The creeping coup" and in part with pencilled dialogue[Beva Runciman Papers]Moral resistance[C van Heyningen Collection] Description: This speech expresses strong sentiments against the National Party and the idea of a republic. It mentions the Black Sash twice.Moral resistance is strongest weapon against tyranny[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1956Moral resistance is strongest weapon against tyranny[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1956Namibia[Beva Runciman Papers] 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 Natal Midlands Region Black Sash: Paula Krynauw's file[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Description: Containing: General meeting notes 8 October 1986-11 June 1987, Annual Report 1987, Natal Midlands Crisis Committee draft constitution, letter of support to Else Schreiner and her reply 1987, letters to Mr Cecil Dicks (Pmb Magistrate) requesting permi [. . .]Date(s): 1986-1987 Natal Rural Freehold Communities Reprieval Campaign June 1990[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Description: Pat Merrett was the Black Sash representative at the Association for Rural Advancement Meetings (AFRA). Affected communities: Matiwane's Kop, Steencoalspruit, Stepmore and Stoffelton, Roosboom, CornfieldsDate(s): June 1990 National and Regional: Newsletters, November 1995-March 1996 and Undated[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: November 1995-March 1996 are Constitutional Campaign Monthly Reports vol. 1, issue 2- vol. 2, issue 3Date(s): November 1995-March 1996 and Undated Nationalist reaction to criticism in the press by Southern Transvaal Region[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1959Negatives of Special Branch man photographing a Black Sash Stand (Group Areas Protest)[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Small box.Date(s): Undated Nelson Mandela's Birthday 1988[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): 1988Newsletter: Constitutional Campaign monthly report 1995-1996[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): November 1995-June 1996Newsletter: Constitutional Campaign monthly report 1995-1996[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes drafts, contributions for the newsletter, invitation from Madiba 8 June 1996Date(s): 1995-1996 Newspaper Clippings: Campaign against Beyers Naude[Hoer Meisieskool Helpmekaar Versameling] Description: In Afrikaans.Date(s): 1930-1962 Nico Malan Boycott[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Date(s): 1972 |
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide