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'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


























A 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



Advice Office Correspondence

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Consists of letters from advice office clients and replies from advice office workers. Also letters to officials on behalf of clients. Subjects include pass laws and the problem of workers being 'endorsed out'; foreign workers and migrant labour prob [. . .]


Alexandra Hostels Action Committee 1972

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: Letter to Minister of Bantu Administration, Memorandum and appendices giving information on Alexandra, (health, sociological aspects, transport etc)
Date(s): 1972


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










Bantu 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 housing - general 1982-1992

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes letters to press and reports of certain areas (Leandra, Crossroads, Khayelitsha, Inanda Dam, Levine's Farm and MacDonald's Farm, Ekangala
Date(s): 1982-1992


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 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 map showing forced removals

[Laura Pollecutt Papers] Description: 1982 edition
Date(s): 1982



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






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


Cape Western Region Conference records 1982

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Agenda, minutes, list of delegates, various reports, Memoranda on the President's Council recommendations and the housing shortage
Date(s): 1982







Coloured housing

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Facing the crisis in housing for the Coloured people by C P Cilliers. Paper read at a meeting of the Cape Chamber of Commerce 21 November 1972
Date(s): 21 November 1972

Coloured housing survey

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Information forms related to Coloured housing
Date(s): 1979-1992




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: 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: 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: 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

Correspondence 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: Payment on termination of employment, UIF, Unfair dismissal, Unfair dismissal and withholding UIF card, Assistance with application for work, Refund of payment for UIF incorrectly deducted, Informa [. . .]
Date(s): 1978



Court Cases: KTC 1983

[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Description: Includes court appearances and lists of those arrested
Date(s): 1983














Crossroads surveys 1979

[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Description: Shacks 1-2871
Date(s): 1979

Crossroads surveys 1980

[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Description: Shacks 1-946
Date(s): 1980

Crossroads, 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






Dimbaza 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










Fact paper on the housing crisis in Soweto with particular reference to the increase in rentals and the West Rand Adminstration Board.

[National Library of South Africa (Cape Town)] Description: Fact paper presented by Sheena Duncan to the Black Sash National Conference in Durban, 1978
Date(s): 1978
















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


Forced 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

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes Kayamandi location, Stellenbosch 1969
Date(s): 1968-1973, 1978-1986