Information about a meeting of the Urbanisation working group on 6 June 1989[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Date(s): 6 June 1989"Fighting the drawing of a pen": Braklaagte's struggle against incorporation[Transvaal Rural Action Committee Records] Date(s): 1989"Finding land, housing and services for homeless people"[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 1991-1992"The Orderly Movement and Settlement of Black Persons Bill"[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Under letterhead of Black Sash Cape Western.Date(s): July 1982 "We demand fair redistribution of this country's land": The struggle for the restoration of land[Black Sash Collection] Date(s): March 1992'Cruel, inhuman and degrading' situation in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Refers to a study by the Black Sash which showed that over a 20-year period, at least three million blacks had been forcibly relocated and another one million were still to be removed.Date(s): March 1983. Accessed 13 December 2007 'We will never be Ciskeians': The incorporation of the East Peelton and the first six months of their struggle against Ciskeian authority[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 19891968 Durban Conference[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes agenda, rules of procedure, minutes, proceedings, regional reports, memorandum for Citizens Action Committee re removals and fact papers (listed separately in this database).Date(s): 1968 1968 Durban Conference Fact Paper: Black Spot removals in Northern Natal[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19681968 Durban Conference Fact Paper: Group Areas Removals from Simons Town[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19681968 Durban Conference Fact Paper: Preliminary information for those affected by Group Areas proclamations[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19681968 Durban Conference Fact Paper: Ressettlement of Indians in Johannesburg[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19681971 Cape Town Conference Fact Paper: Dimbaza[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19711971 Cape Town Conference Fact Paper: Three different Indian communities affected by Group Areas Board (Wyebank, Stockville and Grey Street)[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19711973 Durban Conference Fact Papers: From Fingo Village to Committee Drift[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19731973 Durban Conference Fact Papers: Removals[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19731975 Cape Town Conference Fact Papers: Removals[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19751976 Grahamstown Conference Fact Papers: Fingo Village and Resettlements[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19761980 Johannesburg Conference Fact Papers: Makgato and Batlokwa removals[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 19801980 Johannesburg Conference Fact Papers: Winterveld[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1980A basic guide to the reconstruction and development programme[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: PamphletDate(s): 1994 A Brutal harvest[Transvaal Rural Action Committee Records] Date(s): 1990A brutal harvest: The roots and legitimation of violence on farms in South Africa[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 1991A brutal harvest: The roots and legitimation of violence on farms in South Africa[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. Donated 1998. Report from the Project for the Study of Violence.Date(s): 1991 A land divided against itself: A map of South Africa 1977[Black Sash Papers] Description: Showing Homelands and some mass removals and conditions in resettlement areasDate(s): 1977 A toehold on the land[Transvaal Rural Action Committee Records] Date(s): 1988A toehold on the land: Labour tenancy in th South Eastern Transvaal[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Donated 1998. Pamphlet.Date(s): 1988 Affidavits 1986[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): 1986Annual 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 Application by Citizens Action Committee to protest against arbitrary uprooting[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1968Article in Sash re District Six 1966[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): February/April 1966Article in Sash re forced removals, 1968[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): August 1968Article in Sash re Group Areas, November 1967[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): November 1967Article in Sash re removals, 1968[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): August 1968Article on Sash re Ciskei, May 1982[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Date(s): May 1982Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA) newsletter: Removals, Resistance and Development[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Date(s): 1988Bantu Administration[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Representations from the Black Sash to the Bantu Administration Department of the Divisional Council of the Cape and the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, protesting, inter alia, the Council's actions in enforcing laws concerning infl [. . .]Date(s): 1963-1983 Black Local Authorities and Government 1983-1992[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): 1983-1992Black 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 1995Black Sash film recordings[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Film reels. Includes film on national conferences (including presidential address for 1965 and by Jean Sincliar for 1966); meetings of branches; Dr Birley's addresss 1966; David Russell 1970; talks on Group Areas Act, Education, Labour (by Monica Wil [. . .]Date(s): 1950s-1970s Black Sash flyer on Crossroads and copies of relevant pressclippings[Beva Runciman Papers] Date(s): 1986Black Sash map showing forced removals[Laura Pollecutt Papers] Description: 1982 editionDate(s): 1982 Black Sash Paper re Orderly Movement and Settlement of Black Persons Bill[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial]Black Sash Removals Committee Minutes 1987-1990[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1987-1990Black Sash: Memorandum on the application of the pass laws and influx control[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 1966Bophuthatswana[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 Brief chronology of involvement of Black Sash in events at Crossroads[Beva Runciman Papers] Date(s): 18-26 May 1986Calendar: "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 Case histories of some people still in Sophiatown[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1959-1960Case records of problems handled by the East London Advice Office[Black Sash (Border Region) Archive] Description: Filed in numerical order by case number.Date(s): January-December 1989 Citizens Action Committee: Campaign to stop forced removals[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1968Comment by Black Sash to Churches re Orderly Movement and Settlement of Black Persons Bill[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial]Comments on a proposal for the development of a healthy and viable human settlement at Galeshewe, Kimberley by Jane Prinsloo[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1979Conference 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: 1985[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes: Report on African Marriage Laws by Cape Western Region; "South Africa's ongoing occupation of Namibia" by Molly Blackburn and Di Bishop; Report on Repression; Statements (on detentions, court interpretation, free legal aid, Namibia); "Ethni [. . .]Date(s): 1985 Conference Records for National Conferences: 1985[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes: Regional Reports (Cape Western, Natal Midlands, Natal Coastal, Transvaal, Cape Eastern, Albany); Advice Office Reports (Pretoria, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown); Minutes; agenda; presidential address by Sheena Duncan; opening ad [. . .]Date(s): 1985 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: 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 records include: agenda; rules of procedure; minutes; statements (land and shelter, death penalty, CCB, Natal, Amscor, Winnie Mandela trial); index to papers and reports; presidential address on reconstruction by Jenny de Tolly; Advic [. . .]Date(s): 1991 Conversion of certain rights to Leasehold Act: Working paper for Advice Office Workshop, Durban 29 February 1989[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Date(s): 29 February 1989Correspondence 1978 re work of the Durban Advice Office[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Letters to various people re the following problems: Disability grants, Pensions, Workmen s compensation, Unemployment insurance fund (UIF), Transfer of prisoner another prison, Wages disputes, Emancipation of deserted wife, so that she can get divor [. . .]Date(s): 1978 Correspondence of Natal Coastal Region[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Includes: letters to the press, thank you letters from Black Sash members, general office correspondence. Issues includes demolitions of Clare Estate shack dwellers.Date(s): 1987-1993 Court Cases: Port Elizabeth - Humansdorp: Fingo resettlement 1977[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Date(s): 1977Crossroads, 1980s[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: South Africa, May 1986: At a political Crossroads?; information and comment concerning current events and developments. Compiled and issued by the National Executive of the Black Sash, June 1986; newspaper clippings, chronological record re events at [. . .]Date(s): 1976-1988 Crossroads, 1990s[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Date(s): 1990sDemanding a place under the Kgotla tree: Rural women's access to land and power (TRAC)[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1991Dimbaza[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1972Dimbaza Township[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Includes: list of grocery prices in Soweto; hardship of Dimbaza families; analysis of diet; Table 73 Recommended minimum daily dietary standards by the National Nutrional Council; letters and comments on memorandum issued by Minister of Bantu Adminis [. . .]Date(s): Undated and early 1970s Discussion documents[Laura Pollecutt Papers] Description: Includes documents on: exceptions to marital powers; State of Emergency (August/September 1985); forced removals at Magopa; Black Sash's attitude to violence; National Security Management System; Regional Services Councils; the post-apartheid structu [. . .]Date(s): 1980s and 1990s Dispossession: Report from a workshop held in the southern Cape 1-3 September 1989[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Date(s): 1-3 September 1989Dispossession: Report from a workshop held in the southern Cape 1-3 September 1989[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 1-3 September 1989Distrcit Six fits city development[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): 1966District Six[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Date(s): 1966, 1979-1985District Six - March 1980 by N Robb[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): March 1980District Six - March 1981 by Di Bishop[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): March 1981Draft local area plan for the Rondebosch/Mowbray area[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Date(s): 1990Driefontein (resistance to removals)[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1983Fact Paper: African resettlement[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1968Fact Paper: Black spot removals in Northern Natal by Doreen Patrick[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1968Fact Paper: Group areas[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1968Fact Paper: Group areas removals from Simonstown by Barbara Willis[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1968Fact Paper: The resettlement of Indians in Johannesburg by D Hill and M W Cluver[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1968Fact papers and other documents regarding: Influx control and pass laws[Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 1978, 1979, 1984, 1985Farm dwellers and welfare: A report compiled for the Farmworker Task Group of the National Land Committee[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. Bound with a copy of the Government Gazette vol. 323 no. 13961.Date(s): 1994 Faxes re general business and removals: 1989-1990[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1989-1990Fingo Village and resettlement[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1976Flyers/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 Focus on farm evictions (AFRA)[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1987Forced Removals[Noel Robb Papers] Description: Includes Black Spots, farms, relocation, resettlement and rural areasForced removals[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes Kayamandi location, Stellenbosch 1969Date(s): 1968-1973, 1978-1986 Forced Removals[Jo MacRobert Papers] Date(s): 1983-1989Forced removals[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Series of photographic prints, some damaged, of people in areas affected by forced removals in various parts of the country (possibly related to the Surplus People Project); copy of letter (1982) from H J D van der Walt, Deputy Minister of Developmen [. . .]Date(s): 1980s? Forced Removals 1983-1990[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): 1983-1990Free settlement areas 1989[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Date(s): 1989Government schemes for the removal of Africans from"White" to "Black" areas[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): UndatedGrahamstown Advice Office workers' record sheets for 1989[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Filed alphabetically by name of workerDate(s): 1989 Grasping the prickly pear: The Bophutatswana story[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Date(s): 1990Grasping the prickly pear: The Bophuthatswana story[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Pamphlet. Donated 1998 and 2001Date(s): 1990 GroundWork: Border Rural Committee newsletter[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: v.1 no.1, March 1993 - v.5 no.2 July 1997; v.5 no.4 Nov 1997 - v.6 no.3 May/June 1998; v.6 no.5 Sept/Oct 1998 - v.8 no.5 Sept/Oct 2000, ceased. The Border Rural Committee was formerly the Grahamstown Rural Committee. Groundwork continues the G.R.C. N [. . .]Date(s): 1993-2000 Group Areas[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, Simon's Town 1958-1968Date(s): 1956-1989 Group Areas - Yes or No[Black Sash Collection] Date(s): UndatedGroup Areas - Yes or No 1989[Natal Midlands Black Sash Papers] Date(s): 1989?Group areas 1984-1989[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Date(s): 1984-1989Group areas 1986-1988[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): 1968-1988Group Areas workshop 1987[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1987Group areas/Open City[Jo MacRobert Papers] Date(s): 1983-1989Group Areas: 'Who Cares?' Campaign 1970-1971[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes information on Group Areas and a leaflet 'Who Cares?' produced by SASH and correspondence re distribution of this and of the 'Memorandum on the Application of the Pass Laws and Influx Control'Date(s): 1970-1971 Homeland consolidation and disintegration: The case of the Transkei by Larry Field[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1990Homelands and Citizenship 1977-1989[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes memoranda on Transkei and Bophuthatswana, papers on the Ciskei Independence Commission, letters to the press re deprivation of SA citizenship for homelands Blacks and the inadequate economic viability of homelands, address by Sheena Duncan t [. . .]Date(s): 1977-1989 Homelands/Bantustans 1981-1994[Mary Burton Papers] Date(s): 1981-1994Housing and Homelessness 1984-1990[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes 'Nearly an A-Z Guide to Homelessness on the Witwatersrand', pamphlets on homelessness, report to National Conference from Urban removals and homelessness group; 'Property Rights and shelter rights: a question of balances'; the Weiler's Farm [. . .]Date(s): 1984-1990 How the Bantu Urban Areas Act affects black women and family life[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Date(s): UndatedHuhudi: A case study in resistance to removals by Marj Brown[Records of the Black Sash] Date(s): 1984Human rights and repression in Southern Africa: The apartheid machine grinds on[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Donated 1998. Cover title: Human rights & repression in South Africa : the apartheid machine grinds onDate(s): 1989 Human Rights Institutions: The commission for the restitution of land rights (CRLR)[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: PamphletDate(s): c.1997 Individual case histories of clients of Durban Advice Office[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Problems dealt with include influx control (endorsed out), including an appeal to the Supreme Court (Natal Provincial Division - M520/75) re endorsement out, unfair dismissal of blind workers, permit for a black person to live in a "coloured" group a [. . .]Date(s): c. 1974-1978 |
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa: A Guide