Units: Guided Search : Themes Found 605 matches for Protests, demonstrations, campaigns - Click the Unit Title for full details

Flyer protesting against problems associated with pensions

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: From a group of organisations including COSATU and NADEL
Date(s): 1978-1994

"Give our sons a chance campaign" 1989

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Signed statements of support for alternatives to compulsory military service
Date(s): 1989

"Need for Change": Black Sash Public Meeting, Cape Town

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Audio Cassette. Side A: Mary Burton speaks on the need for change and introduces the speakers. Sheena Duncan, National President, speaks on education and gives the background to the 16 June 1976 unrest. Catholic Bishop Steven Naidoo speaks on change [. . .]
Date(s): 13 October 1976

"The Upington 26" Photographs

[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Mounted colour photographs re: "The Upington 26" with captions
Date(s): February 1989

"The Voice of the Women", News sheet produced by the Women of the Defence of the Constitution League. June 29, 1955, in laager in the Union Buildings grounds, Pretoria

[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Two copes, A and B, are noted as accessioned but only A was available. Also photocopy of A is available at MA1955-671A copy. Protest against the Senate Bill.
Date(s): 29 June 1955

'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

1969 Pietermaritzburg Conference

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes agenda, minutes, proceedings, treasurer's report, magazine report, regional reports, resolutions, memorandum to Commission of Enquiry into matters relating to the Security of the State, Bantu Laws Amendment Bill (1969), and copy of a letter [. . .]
Date(s): 1969

90 Day No Trial File

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes Black Sash protests and letter to Dr Z de Beer
Date(s): 1963

90-day torture in South Africa

[University of South Africa Libraries' Collections] Description: Abridgement of a speech made in Johannesburg on 26th February 1964 at a meeting arranged by the Black Sash and the National Council of women for World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners.
Date(s): 1964

Alternative National Service

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Papers re Alternative National Service working group, 1989-1990 and proposals on alternative/civilian national service
Date(s): 1989-1990

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

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

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 laws
Date(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 Relations
Date(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, 1964
Date(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 1995
Date(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 1995

Black 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 1995

Black 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 1995

Black 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 1995

Black 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 1995

Black 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 1995

Black 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 1995
Date(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 1995
Date(s): c. July 1990. Date taken from newspaper backing

Black 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 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 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 Conference
Date(s): 1956-1966

Black Sash Organisation Microfilm: Correspondence

[Microfilm Collection] Description: Includes correspondence with Cabinet Ministers and letters to the press
Date(s): 1956-1966

Black Sash Organisation Microfilm: Multi-Racial Conference, Multi-Racial Forum

[Microfilm Collection] Description: Also includes Bantu Laws Amendment Bill, SABC, demonstrations
Date(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 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 slides

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Mainly demonstrations

Black 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 1988
Date(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

Brochure entitled "The Black Sash programme for 1996"

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Describing the three national campaigns
Date(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

Campaign 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 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, correspondence
Date(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.

Christian-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: "The Black Sash wants...Good Government for South Africa."
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

Cloth 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 1993

Conference 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 Nash
Date(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 SADF
Date(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

Death penalty, 1980s

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Also see capital punishment. Includes: Black Sash's involvement in protests against death sentences, including those passed on Evalina de Bruin, the Sharpeville Six, Robert McBride etc. Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty: Papers. Papers r [. . .]
Date(s): 1980s

Defiance Campaign 1989

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Includes women's participation in the Defiance Campaign
Date(s): 1989

Detentions: 1977-1994

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Memoranda, correspondence, information re detainees, judgement in a matter between GRC, Black Sash et al and A.W.van Zyl re the holding of a protest meeting in Grahamstown. Includes 'Preventative Detention: tool of repression.'
Date(s): 1977-1994

Development Action Group (DAG) to Black Sash

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Re petition from Ad Hoc Committee for the campaign on social and economic rights addressed to the Constitutional Assembly
Date(s): July 1995

Documentary "The Black Sash: The Early Years"

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Betacam Tape. Rostrum Shoot: Photographs and pressclippings: People, Various
Date(s): 21 February 1992

Documentary "The Black Sash: The Early Years"

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Betacam Tape. Rostrum Shoot: Photographs and pressclippings: Pass Laws, Cartoons
Date(s): 15 January 1992

Documentary "The Black Sash: The Early Years"

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Betacam Tape. Rostrum Shoot: Photographs and pressclippings: Haunting, Harrassments, Advice Office, Pass Laws
Date(s): 15 January 1992

Documentary "The Black Sash: The Early Years"

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Betacam Tape. Rostrum Shoot: Photographs and pressclippings: Cavalcade, Vigils, Stands, Haunting
Date(s): 15 January 1992

Documentary "The Black Sash: The Early Years"

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Betacam tape. Rostrum Shoot: Photographs and pressclips: People, First March in Johannesburg, Petition, Pretoria March, Women's Laager, Book March, Car Cavalcade.
Date(s): 15 January 1992

Documents on children

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes: Problems of township children and youth: Report of a seminar organised by the Townships Liaison Project of the Black Sash (Cape Western), 4 September 1986. Edited by Margaret Nash. Also South African Outlook, March 1987; The constitutional [. . .]
Date(s): 1980s

ECC "Troops Out" Campaign

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: "Give our sons a chance - Mothers' call for alternatives to military service", undated duplicated typescript compilation of statements about military service with the names of mothers who signed it
Date(s): 1985

Fact sheet issued by NUSAS

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Including an article headed "JMC (Joint Management Councils): The silent coup"

Farm workers

[Transvaal Rural Action Committee Records] Description: Includes farmworkers and the law 1987, health and safety of farmworkers 1987; Western Transvaal regional workshops on farmworkers 1990-1991; campaign for farmworkers rights 1990-1992
Date(s): 1987-1992

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

Flyer entitled: "Why do detainees die?"

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: In LA Hewson Collection. Records (355)
Date(s): 1971

Flyers/Statements/Papers re various social and political issues

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: From various sources. 1987 elections; Free the children alliance (FCA) (Western Cape): items re campaign to release children in detention (1987) and reprint of a UNICEF report "Children on the front line - the impact of apartheid, destabilisation and [. . .]
Date(s): 1975-1989

Free the Children Alliance Records

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: 'Memorandum of children under repression' by Marian Jooste and Janet Hollingshead (1985); a SASH publication 'Memorandum on the sufferings of children in South Africa (1986); documents re Free the Children Campaign. 1985-1994
Date(s): 1986-1988

Free the Children Alliance Records

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Letters of support to child detainees and to their parents, and letters to the government protesting about detention of children and asking for their release. (mainly overseas correspondents)
Date(s): 1986-1989

General Law Amendment Bill 1962 (Sabotage and bannings of gatherings)

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes legal opinion re legality of Sash protest, memorandum on legal forms of protest, memorandum on the bill, statements re Black Sash stand at City Hall, correspondence.
Date(s): 1962

Grasping the prickly pear: The Bophuthatswana story

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. Donated 1998 and 2001
Date(s): 1990

Handbill: "To all men and women voters of South Africa"

[Museum Africa Collection] Description: With sign of mourning attached
Date(s): 1956

Housing - Cape 1977-1980

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes memoranda, Petition by residents of Southern Protea to retain and develop their township, correspondence and documents re Crossroads and Mitchell's Plain
Date(s): 1977-1980

Improper Interference Bill 1966-1968

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes submission by the Black Sash to the Commission of Enquiry, copy of Bill, addresses by Jean Sinclair and Alan Paton, correspondence, notes of meeting planning protest action, appeal to church leaders
Date(s): 1966-1968

International Conference and Campaigns

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Conferences includes Bermuda, Dakar, Mount Etjo