Units: Guided Search : Themes Found 136 matches for Advocacy - Click the Unit Title for full details

1973 Durban Conference

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes agenda, minutes, proceedings, presidential address, highlights of the conference, headquarters report, auditor's report, magazine report, advice office reports, regional reports, resolution to investigate land tenure for blacks, memorandum t [. . .]
Date(s): 1973

Administrative Justice NGO meeting 1996

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Hosted by the Legal Resource Centre and Black Sash
Date(s): 1996

Advocacy training and workshops 1990-1999

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), IDASA's role in advocacy, lobbying.
Date(s): 1990-1999

AIDS policy conference hosted by Democratic Alliance 2001

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes National strategic framework for children infected with HIV/AIDS 1999
Date(s): 1999-2001

Annual Reports and papers for 1986 National Conference

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Reports for National Conference 1986, some annotated. Includes Chairmen's Report, regional reports (Albany, Cape Eastern, Transvaal, Cape Western, Natal Coastal); Advice Office reports (Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth), Reports by special projects or ot [. . .]
Date(s): 1985-1987

Annual Reports and papers from 1987 for National Conference 1988

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Reports for National Conference 1988 in Johannesburg, some annotated. Includes: Cape Western Regional Report for 1987 by Jenny de Tolly, National Headquarters Report for that year March 1987-March 1988, Advice Office Trust report, financial statement [. . .]
Date(s): 1987-1988

Black Sash banner and sticker project: Children's detention

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Video Cassette. U-matic, sd, col.
Date(s): Undated

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

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

Child Support Grants 1994-2003

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes statement by Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi
Date(s): 1994-2003

Children and detention

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Donated 1998.
Date(s): September 1987

Children on the frontline: The impact of apartheid, destabilisation and warfare on children in southern and South Africa

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. One copy donated in 1998 (photocopy). Contents Include Children in Southern Africa by Reginald Herbold Green; Children in South Africa by Francis Wilson and Mamphela Ramphele.
Date(s): 1987

Comment by the Black Sash on the draft amendment bill: Domestic Workers c. 1993

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): c. 1993

Conference Records (Pietermaritzburg, April 1993)

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: Agenda, Presidential Address (Jenny de Tolly), Vision Statement, Minutes, Resolutions and Statements, possible job description for Sash lobbyist, constitution (as amended) reports (Headquarters, Magazine Committee, Treasurer's, Report of th [. . .]
Date(s): April 1993

Conference Records for National Conference: 1989

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1989 records (some annotated) include: Advice Office and Fieldwork Reports (Port Elizabeth, Cape Western, Natal Coastal, Khayalitsha, Border Region, Southern Cape, Cape Eastern); regional reports (Border, Cape Eastern, Transvaal, Natal Coastal), minu [. . .]
Date(s): 1989

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1983, 1984

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1984 conference records include magazine report, treasurer's report, Headquarter's report, presidential address by Sheena Duncan, minutes,resolutions, regional reports (Transvaal, Cape Western, Natal Coastal, Natal Midlands, Cape Eastern); advice off [. . .]
Date(s): 1983-1984

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1987

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes advice office reports (Natal Coastal, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Pietermaritzburg); minutes, Headquarters Report; magazine report; Advice Office Trust; treasurer's report; regional reports (Cape Western, Cape Eastern, Albany, Border, Natal Midl [. . .]
Date(s): 1987

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1987 and 1988

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1987 Conference papers include: Papers: "Lwaaikamp: Another Forced Removal", "Homeless in and around the Witwatersrand", "Operation Oliekol: Removals and Orderly Urbanisation in the PE/Uitenhage areas" by Rosalie Kingwill of Eastern Cape Region, "Wor [. . .]
Date(s): 1987 and 1988

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

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1990

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Conference records for 1990 include (some annotated): agenda, resolutions (Advice Office Trust, Cape Western, Pretoria Branch becomes the Northern Transvaal Region), regional reports (Southern Cape, Cape Western, Border), advice office and fieldworke [. . .]
Date(s): 1990

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1990

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes minutes, presidential address by Mary Burton "Fighting out of the darkness"; Headquarters Report; magazine report, regional reports (Transvaal, Pretoria, Albany, Cape Eastern, Border, Southern Cape, Cape Western, Natal Coastal); papers: "Str [. . .]
Date(s): 1990

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1991

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1991 Conference papers include: Treasurer's Report, Repression Portfolio report, reports by affiliated organisations (TRAC), advice office and fieldworker reports (Grahamstown, Border Region, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Boland, Southern Cape), regional r [. . .]
Date(s): 1991

Correspondence from Sheena Duncan re Immigrants Selection Board, including reference to immigrants and Transparency International (June-July 1995)

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Includes further comments from Sheena Duncan on Immigrants Selection Board and suggestion that Legiwatch lobby senators, as questions asked in the Senate might be answered more satisfactorily (August 1995)
Date(s): June-August 1995

Disability grants 1994-1997

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Project leader: Zola Dabula. Includes assessments and applications, correspondence, goals document, strategy pack
Date(s): 1999

Documents re Black Sash application to the Constitutional Court

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Re the fact that the Western Cape Constitution had not been publicly distributed before certification (May 1997) and extract from the Constitutional Court's judgement re Black Sash challenge regarding the Western Cape's Constitution (faxed September [. . .]
Date(s): May and September 1997

Faxed item from Jenny de Tolly re a call for the repeal of the Further Indemnity Act of 1992

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): July 1994

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

Ingrid's Weekly Wail 1999-2000

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Information packs dealing with a wide range of topics
Date(s): 1999-2000

Labour Relations Act/Bill 1994-2000

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes discrimination in selection and recruitment 1995, discrimination on the basis of age and disability 1994 and submissions
Date(s): 1994-2000

Legal Education Action Project (LEAP) Conference

[Community Video Education Trust (CVET) Collection] Description: Video Cassette. Tape 3. Play for conference in which Black Sash played a large part. Sue van der Merwe was the main link between the Black Sash and LEAP and a paralegal handbook was published jointly. 00:00: Drama performance starts. Drama instructs [. . .]
Date(s): Early 1990s

Legiwatch Committee: Minutes of meetings, monthly reports etc: 1992-1994

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): 1992-1994

Legiwatch Committee: Minutes of meetings, monthly reports etc: 1995

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): 1995

Legiwatch Committee: Minutes of meetings, monthly reports etc: 1996

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): 1996

Legiwatch Committee: Minutes of meetings, monthly reports etc: 1997-2001

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): 1997-2001

Lobbying in the new South African Parliament: The Black Sash experience

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Regional topic paper/South African Institute of Race Relations; 95/3
Date(s): 1995

Lund Committee for Child and Family Support 1996-1997

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes minutes, press releases, responses to the Lund Committee, statements by Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, submissions from various organisations
Date(s): 1996-1997

Manuscript notes on civil society etc by Mary Burton

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Partly written on the reverse of an invitation to the launch of Sash magazine's issue on Civil Society, and to meet the legislation monitor. Also includes copy of MPD Chrter labelled in pencil "for Civil Society lecture"
Date(s): September 1994

Miscellaneous National Conference records: 1984, 1986, 1991

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: 1991: Advice Office Trust report, Albany Fieldworker's report, Fieldworker training project report, Southern Cape Fieldworkers Yearly Report, 1991 Conference Assessments; papers: "Clare Estate Shack Settlement", "Out of the Fire to Find New Fetters" [. . .]
Date(s): 1984, 1986, 1991

Money Lending 1998-2002

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes pamphlet "About drowning in debt", access to credit for the poor, consumer education, correspondence with the Knysna Office, discussions on Harmful Business Practices Act 23 of 1999, loans to retrenched workers, booklet on microlending from [. . .]
Date(s): 1998-2002

New ground: The journal of development and the environment

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Cory has: v.1 no.1 September 1990 - no.19 Autumn 1995. Latest issue received : no.19 Autumn 1995. Thrice yearly.
Date(s): 1990-1995

Press releases 1992 by Mr Justice R J Goldstone

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): August-September 1992

Records relating to Molly Blackburn's term of office as Progressive Party MPC for Walmer during the early 1980s in the Eastern Cape.

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Includes proceedings in the Provincial Council; press cuttings relating to the State of Emergency in 1985, the "Cradock Four", the Port Elizabeth Public Library and other political issues; letters to Parliament, government officials, the press, lawye [. . .]
Date(s): c.1985

Resolution to be proposed at the 1993 Conference regarding the need for a full-time Black Sash representative in Parliament, to continue the work of the Constitution and Legislation Group of the Cape Western Region

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance.
Date(s): February 1993

Road Accident Fund grants 1999

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Project leader: Glenise Levendal, Knysna Office
Date(s): 1999

Sashspeak! 2000-2001

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Information packs dealing with advocacy issues
Date(s): 2000-2001

Socio-Economic rights in the constitution: Correspondence, notes, statements, discussion etc on Legiwatch, representing the views of members of Black Sash and other interested groups c. June 1983-June 1995

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Legiwatch was involved in lobbying/advocacy, monitoring government's legislative programme, implementation and performance. Includes: letter dated June 1983 from Mary Burton on behalf of the Black Sash, to the then Secretary of Parliament, commentin [. . .]
Date(s): c. June 1983-June 1995

Sources pertaining to domestic violence and Domestic Violence Act 1987-1998

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Titles include: Counselling services: contact details n.d.; domestic violence and the transformation of the legal system and police force: workshop report 1996; "Government support of poor single-parent households: Luxury or tool for development" 199 [. . .]
Date(s): 1987-1998

South Africa: Government reforms archaic marriage and family laws

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Black Sash reacts in favour of changes to the Customary Marriages Act which raises the status of women in traditional marriages.
Date(s): 6 October 1998. Accessed 11 January 2008

Southern Transvaal Region Reports

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Memoranda comprising reports to Southern Transvaal Region 1959; Annual Reports to Conference 1959-1961; Minutes of Committee Meeting October 1961; Regional Executive November 1961; Why the Black Sash should work for a National Convention which could [. . .]
Date(s): 1959-1961

The Equality Alliance's submission to the Consultative Workshop of the Equality Legislation Drafting Unit held on 12 and 13 June 1999

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Includes their revised proposal on dealing with sectors, definition of discrimination, defences and burden of proof in the equality legislation (July 1999)
Date(s): June-July 1999

Women 1991-1996

[Sue Philcox Papers] Description: Includes articles by Black Sash and others on women, raising the status of women, the Women's Groups, Women Advocacy Education
Date(s): 1991-1996

Working for justice: The role of para-legals in South Africa

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Proceedings of a July 1990 conference. Donated in 2003
Date(s): 1990

You and the final Constitution

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Booklet.
Date(s): Undated