Units: Guided Search : Themes Found 161 matches for Children - Click the Unit Title for full details

'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

Adoption Law 1992-1997

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes Children's Court Pretoria North, family law, Rights of the Child
Date(s): 1992-1997

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

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

Beva Runciman (notes, aides memoire etc)

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Manuscript notes written on index cards, pressclippings, factsheets etc, presumably for use in talks about the Black Sash, about children in detention, detainees, state of emergency etc

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 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

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

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Includes Apartheid's Children, Child Welfare, Early Childhood Education, International Conference on Children 1987, Oliver Tambo's statement on the repression of children, Rights of the Child, UNICEF publication: "Children on the front line". See als [. . .]

Children and detention

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

Children in detention

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Includes The Children Action Group, children at risk, Free the Children Campaign, pamphlets and posters

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

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: 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

Detentions/detainees

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes: Overview of repression of children in South African during the period January 1988 to November 1989. Who are the women in prison, Western Cape, October 1988. Information, articles.Taking her place in the battlefront of the struggle: women i [. . .]
Date(s): 1967-1990

Development of a National Family Policy 1995

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Human Science Research Council Workshop
Date(s): 1995

Documents on children

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes: survey of some of the facilities available for pre-school children in Cape Town and environs, 1971; United Nations documents on the rights of children 1979; Black Sash memorandum on the suffering of children in South Africa, April 1986; inv [. . .]
Date(s): 1970s and 1980s

Documents on children

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes: Summary of report: Visits to prisons (May 1986) by Professor Norma Saxe and Dr Margaret Elsworth, accompanied by Brigadier E C van Zyl, Director of Information Services, as arranged by the South African Prison Service on behalf of Committee [. . .]
Date(s): 1986, 1987

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

Domestic Violence (Lifeline), 1995

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: Includes: Correspondence; Memorandum; Training Course timetable; Counselling manual
Date(s): 1995

Education: 1961-1982

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes papers on educational matters, papers from the Education Vigilance Committee Conference and resolutions (1961); 'Care of the Pre-school child'; 'The allocation of educational resources' by Michael Corke (1977?); information on industrial tra [. . .]
Date(s): 1961-1982

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

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

[City of Johannesburg Library and Information Service] Description: One double-sided typed page laying out who is classified as children, how many children are in detention, legal implications of this, a statement by the National Medical and Dental Association. Located in the African Studies Library.
Date(s): Undated

Free the Children Alliance Records

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Press statements, booklet 'Children and detention'; declaration of the rights of the Child (UNO); press cuttings, list of committee members and lists of children arrested. 'Children: their courts and Institutions in South Africa', by Fiona McLachlan [. . .]
Date(s): 1986-1988

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

Information regarding the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers' Association

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Including suggestion (? late 1987) that Black Sash should address the needs of the cr ches in townships and informal settlements
Date(s): ? 1987

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

Maintenance Court: Namibia 1995

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes The Constitution of Namibia 1998
Date(s): 1995

Media from various organisations 1980s-1990s

[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Description: Journals, pamphlets, booklets, newsletters and newspapers. Some topics/publishers are: AIDS, anti-censorship, Beyond Reform...NUSAS, Ceasefirm Campaign, children, death penalty, detentions, End Conscription Campaign, Gun Free South Africa, Jews for J [. . .]
Date(s): 1980s-1990s

Memorandum on paternal maintenance

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Donated 1998
Date(s): June 1995

Memorandum/Fact paper: Youth Project

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Social mixing of children of different races
Date(s): 1972

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

Photograph of women from Black Sash with placard: "Free Detained Children"

[IDAF Photographic Collection] Description: Women are speaking to a mother (holding a baby) of a detainee outside Westville prison, Durban picketing the detention of children
Date(s): 6 December 1986

Photograph: Children in prison

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. Colour print.
Date(s): 14 November 1992

Photograph: Eviction of street children 14 April 1989

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. B/W print.
Date(s): 14 April 1989

Photograph: Street Children, Christmas Day 1989

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. Colour print.
Date(s): 25 December 1989

Photograph: Street Children, Victoria Road. M Kleinenberg and Busi Wyide

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. Colour print
Date(s): 10 August 1989

Photograph: Ved Dharma Sabha Youth Rally

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. Colour print.
Date(s): 10 December 1989

Photograph: Ved Dharma Sabha Youth Rally

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. Colour print.
Date(s): 10 December 1989

Photograph: Ved Dharma Sabha Youth Rally

[Photograph Collection] Description: From the Mary Kleinenberg Collection. Donated 12/01/2005. Colour print.
Date(s): 10 December 1989

Poster of the Albany Black Sash: "Let the children go"

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Used in stands and demonstrations against unjust apartheid laws. Some mounted.
Date(s): c.1987

Poster of the Albany Black Sash: "Only Whites have family rights"

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Used in stands and demonstrations against unjust apartheid laws. Some mounted.
Date(s): 1980s

Poster of the Albany Black Sash: "Pass laws separate children from parents"

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Used in stands and demonstrations against unjust apartheid laws. Some mounted.
Date(s): 1980s

Poster of the Albany Black Sash: "Release detainees alive now"

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Used in stands and demonstrations against unjust apartheid laws. Some mounted.
Date(s): 1980s

Poster: "Our children need peace not bullets"

[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Two copies. Child in front of a target. Donated 5 February 1999. Displayed in the Black Sash Advice Office in the old Khotso House and the Detainees Parents Support Committee offices in the mid 1980s. Cleared in 1985 to avoid seizure in first State o [. . .]
Date(s): 1980s.

Reports

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes a letter to Jimmy Kruger, Minister of Justice, re child detainees, and reply from Ministry of Justice.1977
Date(s): 1977

Review of the Child Care Act 2000

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: South African Law Commission Project
Date(s): 2000

Right to social security and children's right to basic social services, n.d.

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes discussion papers and draft chapters
Date(s): n.d.

Rights and welfare of the child 1998-1999

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
Date(s): 1998-1999

Social Welfare

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Includes child support
Date(s): 1995-1997

South African rights group claims torture of children is widespread

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Memorandum compiled by the Black Sash re children under 16's experience in detention.
Date(s): 16 October 1986. Accessed 13 December 2007

Squatters: Lists: Nyanga Site List 1981

[Black Sash Advice Office Archive] Description: Children separated from their parents
Date(s): 1981

Swart Serp

[Dept. van Onderwys en Opleiding Versameling] Description: Marked "Uiters Geheim" (Top Secret). Records that the Black Sash Head Office in Johannesburg is planning a "Release the Children" campaign that includes a Christmas party where no children are present (as they are in detention), and Christmas cards w [. . .]
Date(s): November 1986

Sweat shirt: "Free the children"

[Iziko Museums of Cape Town Social History Collection] Description: Printed for the Black Sash campaign for the release of children in prison or detention. Presented by Mrs S Morton, December 1994

Teachers Association of South Africa (TASA) poster and flyers

[Records of the Black Sash (Natal Coastal Region)] Description: TASA poster and flyer re TASA Women's Committee Launch and flyer re Child Care Day: "Workers are parents too"
Date(s): 15 September 1990 and 20 September ?

The Children's Bill 2003

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Initially developed by the South African Law Reform Commission
Date(s): 2003