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"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

"Woman Talk"

[Records of the Delmas Treason Trial] Description: Article in Sash February 1976
Date(s): February 1976





A bound work: Access to justice for rural women

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: Incomplete. Report prepared for the Black Sash by Lillian Artz. Presumably incorrectly assembled as nearly all the even-numbered are missing and nearly all the odd-numbered pages are duplicated.
Date(s): c. 1997


Abortion

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Information about abortion; statement on abortion by the Black Sash Cape Western Region; various Abortion Rights Action Group (ARAG) papers; papers re legislation
Date(s): 1988-1996

Abortion: 1991-1994

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Black Sash statement (1994) and documents for and against abortion
Date(s): 1991-1994

Access to justice for rural women

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: University of Cape Town Institute of Criminology and Black Sash report
Date(s): 1998. Accessed 3 January 2008






Albany Black Sash monthly programme

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Cory has: October 1990, December 1990, May 1992-November 1994, February 1995 to April 1995 (with gaps)
Date(s): 1990-1995


Balancing means and ends - population policy in South Africa

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Part one refers to the Transvaal Rural Action Committee (TRAC), a division of the Black Sash and their contribution to the improvement of rural women's rights. Part two mentions the Black Sash in stance of abortion - the right to choose.
Date(s): May 1993. Accessed 11 January 2008


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: "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 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 Trust Annual Reports

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Cory has: 1984, 1993-2001 (with gaps). Latest issue received: 2003/03
Date(s): 1984-2003



Black Sash: Women for human rights

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Leaflet (fold.)
Date(s): 1994

Brochure entitled "The Black Sash - Women for human rights"

[Mary Burton Papers] Description: With information on the Black Sash Programme for 1996
Date(s): 1996


Calendar 1993: "Open the doors we're coming through..."

[Museum Africa Collection] Description: Calendar of black and white photographs depicting mainly women. Include quotation on each page describing the struggles of women. The last page of the calendar contains a page entitled "The Rights of South African Women".
Date(s): 1993

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




Cape Western Region Conference records 1978

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Circulars, correspondence, agenda, minutes, draft Charter for Women, notebook with handwritten minutes.
Date(s): 1978


Chairman's Conference 1971 (East London, October 1971)

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes agenda, minutes, press statements, annual reports, correspondence. Report on the Campaign for African Women, Malnutrition survey in Natal.
Date(s): October 1971





Coalition building, election rules, and party politics: South African women's path to parliament

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Mary Turok representative of the Black Sash re gender equality.
Date(s): 2002. Accessed 15 March 2007




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 and reports (Johannesburg, May 1995)

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: Minutes, financial statement, press statement, Resolutions, rules of procedure, National Constitution as amended, Presidential address - 'Citizens and comrades under the Law' (Mary Burton). Reports: (Headquarters, Magazine, Advice Office Tr [. . .]
Date(s): May 1995

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: 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: 1992

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes: Agenda; Index to papers and reports; presidential address by Sheena Duncan "Outside the walls"; Headquarter's Report; Treasurer's Report; Magazine Report; Advice Office Trust Report; Regional Reports (Albany, Cape Eastern, Natal Midlands, B [. . .]
Date(s): 1992

Conference Records for National Conferences: 1994

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Includes: Agenda; Index of reports and papers; Headquarter's Report; Financial statements (Advice Office Trust); Advice Office Reports (Coordinator, Researcher, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Pietermaritzburg, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Knysna, Cape Weste [. . .]
Date(s): 1994

Conference Records for National Conferences: Resolutions from 1992 and 1993 Conference

[Jenny de Tolly Papers] Description: Also includes 1993 Black Sash Recommended Wages, "Outline of a possible job description for a Black Sash Lobbyist" by Sue van der Merwe and "Comments from the Black Sash on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Women's Bills
Date(s): 1992 and 1993

Conference records/reports (Cape Town, July 1994)

[Records of the Black Sash] Description: Includes: Agenda, National Conference memo No 1, Discussion Paper: 'The development of an affirmative action policy in Black Sash Employment Procedures'; Black Sash advice offices evaluation; National Advice office coordinator's mid-year report; Advi [. . .]
Date(s): July 1994




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






Defiance Campaign 1989

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



Detention without trial, detention barracks, political prisoners, political violence, police violence, state of emergency etc

[Beva Runciman Papers] Description: Press clippings from the Cape Times and the Sunday Times, June 1972, with reports of police brutality against UCT students demonstrating against apartheid; "Detention focus" (October 1987); duplicated information brochure "Who are the women in prison [. . .]
Date(s): 1972-1990

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

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


Domestic Violence (Lifeline), 1995

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

Domestic Violence Act 1998-1999

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes correspondence and submissions
Date(s): 1998-1999

Domestic Violence Act 2000-2001

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Project: Shehnaz Seria. Includes correspondence, monitoring meetings, minutes and reports
Date(s): 2000-2001
















Factory and family: The divided lives of South Africa's women workers

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Book. Donated 1998. English and Zulu. By 992 women workers and the Institute for Black Research
Date(s): 1984


















International Human Rights Resources and Training Material 1995-2004

[Black Sash Trust Archive] Description: Includes "Women's rights in the UN" 1995
Date(s): 1995-2004

Inthuthuko Means That We Are Going Forward: Hearing the Voices of Domestic Workers in South Africa

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: This seven part article deals with an Amercian intern's research into the experiences of domestic workers through her work in the Black Sash Johannesburg Advice.
Date(s): 1992. Accessed 11 January 2008

Introduction: Fugard, women and politics

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Brief reference to Black Sash being admired by Athol Fugard.
Date(s): 1993. Accessed 15 March 2007

IRED forum: Information development

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Cory has: no.47, April-June 1993-no.48, July-September 1993. Quarterly. Both volumes in one folder. Donated 1998
Date(s): 1993


Johannesburg Advice Office Memoranda 1963-1980

[Jean Sinclair Papers (President of the Black Sash)] Description: Procedure; position of married African women residing with their husbands in proclaimed areas; cases endorsed out of Johannesburg; pass offenders; new procedure for making application for male employee as contract worker in proclaimed area of Johanne [. . .]
Date(s): 1963-1980

Joyce Harris Papers: 1973-1978

[Joyce Harris Papers (National President of the Black Sash 1978-1982)] Description: Papers include: Twenty-five years of apartheid 11 July 1973; Migrant labour 1973 (?); Is bureaucracy evil? 26 June 1974; Open letter to Prime Minister B J Vorster from the Black Sash 26 October 1974; Food for Thought 17 December 1974; For the Progres [. . .]
Date(s): 1973-1978

Joyce Harris Papers: 1985-1991

[Joyce Harris Papers (National President of the Black Sash 1978-1982)] Description: Subjects include: police brutality, sanctions, violence, removals, local government, Promotion of Orderly Internal Politics Bill, Emergency powers. Papers include: Memorandum on the sufferings of children in South Africa April 1986; Address to the A [. . .]
Date(s): 1985-1991


Land update: A publication of the National Land Committee

[Cory Library for Historical Research Collection] Description: Cory has: no.1 1990 - no 66 April 1998. Donor of some copies : Black Sash.
Date(s): 1990-1998

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



Liberating praxis and the Black Sash: A feminist theological perspective

[University of Cape Town Libraries' Collections] Description: Doctorate in Theology at UNISA completed 1990. Practical theology as a critical operational science is concerned with the formation of theories in respect of the actions of people of faith.This thesis brings a critical feminist perspective to bear on [. . .]
Date(s): 1990




Malibongwe Conference

[Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive] Description: Folder of photographs.
Date(s): 1990





Memorandum on paternal maintenance

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




Memorandum submitted to the Non-European Affairs Committee of the Johannesburg City Council by the Black Sash, Southern Transvaal Region re reference books for African women

[Sir de Villiers Graaff Papers] Description: These documents were read by Mrs Jean Sinclair at a meeting held between representatives of the Black Sash (Southern Transvaal Region) and Senior Office-Bearers of the United Party.
Date(s): 1 December 1958






Minute books of the Albany Black Sash

[Black Sash (Albany Region) Archive] Description: Includes minutes of annual and monthly general meetings, minutes of executive and sub-committee meetings
Date(s): 1972-1990


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