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BC 668 THE BLACK SASH (CAPE WESTERN REGION) ARCHIVE  

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

 

deposited in

The University of Cape Town Libraries

by

The Black Sash (Cape Western Region)

A List

compiled by

Leonie Twentyman Jones

Additions and Revisions

by

Jill Gribble

1992

revised February 1996

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION - THE COLLECTION

A

MINUTES

B

CONFERENCES

C

CORRESPONDENCE

D

NEWSLETTERS

E

SPECIAL PROJECTS

F

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION - CAPE WESTERN REGION

G

FINANCE

H

PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATIONS

J

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, HANSARDS, GOVERNMENT GAZETTES

K

TAPES, SLIDES, VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

L

OTHER ORGANISATIONS

M

NATIONAL

N

OTHER REGIONS

P

ELECTIONS 1994

Z

MISCELLANEOUS

 

BC 668 BLACK SASH (CAPE WESTERN REGION) ARCHIVE

A.

MINUTES

 

Regional Council: 23/01/1956 - 27/08/1956

 

08/04/1957 - 19/08/1957

 

24/03/1958 - 29/11/1960

 

13/03/1972 - 29/06/1987

 

(missing 1974/75)

 

06/07/1987 - 20/03/1995

 

General Meetings (formerly All Branches Meetings)

 

1961, 1977-1979, 1981-1982 (incomplete)

 

1988-1995

 

Notes taken at Regional Council, Executive and General meetings, 1974-1976, 1982 - 1987

 

Branch Meetings: Camps Bay, Green & Sea Point, 20/9/1956 - 06/3/196

 

Claremont, 05/03/1956 - 24/10/1961, February 1980 - March 1986

 

Elgin, 29/01/1963 - 29/01/1971

 

False Bay, 10/01/1956 - 30/11/1982

 

Fish Hoek, 27/02/1956 - 26/02/1965

 

Kenilworth/Wynberg, 01/03/1955 - 29/05/1962

 

Rondebosch, February 1956 - April 1962, 21/5/62-23/7/68

 

Rosebank, 27/04/1956 - 29/09/1961, 26/05/1970 - 10/03/198

 

Simon's Town, 1956-59, February 1965 - April 1977

 

Somerset West, 07/09/1955 - April 1980

 

Wynberg, 1962-1973, 1978-1995

B

CONFERENCES

 

Regional 1958, 1964, 1966, 1970s-1980s (very incomplete) 1993, 1995

 

Chairman's Annual reports, 1964-1977

 

National, 1955-1962 1963, 1966, 1967 (very incomplete)

 

National 1975-1992 (fairly complete) 1992-1995

C

CORRESPONDENCE

 

Pre 1974 A-Z

 

General 1958-1991

 

Branch correspondence: Claremont 1969-1979

 

Elgin 1962-1971

 

False Bay 1964-1979

 

Gardens/Sea Point, 1967-1980

 

Plumstead, 1971-1979

 

Rondebosch 1969-1979

 

Rosebank 1969-1979

 

Simon's Town 1962-1966

 

Somerset West, 1960-1971, 1979

 

Wynberg, 1969-1979

D

NEWSLETTER AND CIRCULARS

 

Cape Western Region Newsletter, 1956-1991 (incomplete)

 

Head Office circulars, 1958-1988 (incomplete)

E

SPECIAL PROJECTS

 

Abortion

 

Acronyms

 

Affidavits

 

Affirmative Action

 

AIDS

 

Alternative National Service (see Conscription)

 

Archbishops Conference, 1959-1962 correspondence, minutes, reports

 

Arts Festival 1986

 

Bail Fund, 1950s-1960, includes pass laws & influx control

 

Banished People, 1959-1966

 

Bannings, 1966-1977

 

Bantu Administration, 1963, 1969, 1972-1983

 

Beaches & Beach survey 1968-73

 

Bills - Protests Against

 

Bantu Laws Amendment Bill, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1969

 

Bells Against Bills Campaign, 1988 (Slums, Squatters & Group Areas Bills)

 

General Laws Amendment Bill, 1962

 

Identification Bill 1986

 

Improper Interference Bill, 1966-1967

 

National Council Bill, 1986

 

Nursing Bill, 1957

 

Orderly Movement & Settlement of Black Persons Bill, 1982

 

Prevention of Illegal Squatting Amendment Bill, Speakers, May 1976

 

Restoration of SA Citizenship Bill, 1986

 

Senate & Education Bill, 1960

 

Transkei Constitution Bill, 1976

 

Undesirable Publications Bill, 1962 & Publications & Entertainments Bill, 1963

 

Bill of Rights

 

Birthday celebrations, 30th anniversary & other historical matters

 

Black affairs, general, 1957, 1963, 1969, 1974, 1976, 1987

 

Bus Survey, 1970s

 

Cape Flats Committee for Interim Accommodation, 1978

 

Cape Town - growth

 

Capital punishment see also Death Penalty

 

Change and reform, 1970s-1980s

 

Children, 1985-1989 see also Women

 

Coloured Labour Preference Policy, 1983 & other Coloured affairs

 

Conflict Intervention

 

Conscientious Objectors (Support Group), 1983, 1989

 

Conscription - `Give our sons a choice' campaign 1989-1990

 

Constitution, 1977, 1982-1983

 

Constitutional Court

 

Cooperatives

 

Corporal punishment

 

Court monitoring, 1977-1992

 

Cradock, 1984

 

Crossroads, 1976-1988

 

Death Penalty, 1988-1989, 1990s

 

Declaration of Rights of Africans in the Western Cape, 1983-1984

 

Detention, including correspondence, reports, clippings, lists of detainees, deaths in detention etc.

 

1960s-1980s.

 

Dimbaza, 1974

 

District 6 1966, 1979-1985

 

Domestic Workers, 1973-1986

 

Donaldson Trust, formerly Bantu Welfare Trust, 1964-1983

 

Education, 1949, 1956-1991

 

Elections, 1987-1988

 

End Conscription Campaign

 

Farm labour, 1959-1960, 1980s, 1990s

 

Fattis & Monis Strike, 1979

 

Fingo Village National Conference, 1973

 

Forced removals, 1968-1973, 1978-1986

 

Ford Foundation, 1984

 

Franchise, 1977

 

Freedom Charter

 

Goldstone Commission Report see also Repression Monitoring

 

Group Areas, 1956-1989, correspondence, newspaper clippings, etc including much information on Simon's Town, 1958-1968, also Slangkop and Ocean View, 1967-1970

 

Health, 1973-1974, 1978, 1990s

 

Homelessness

 

Housing, 1970s-1980s

 

Human Rights, 1957-1958, 1987-1989, 1990s

 

Influx control, 1974, 1985-1987, see also Pass laws, Forced removals

 

Intelligence

 

Investment

 

Job reservation, 1950s

 

Khayelitsha, 1983-1987

 

Labour-general, 1970s - see also Migrant labour

 

Land Issues

 

Land Reform

 

Legal affairs, opinions, correspondence, etc 1960s-1980s

 

Liberalism

 

Libraries, 1950s-1970s

 

Literacy, 1974

 

Local government 1983, 1990s

 

Matrimonial Property Act, 1984

 

Media Group including workshops, 1985

 

Migrant labour

 

Militarisation

 

Mixed marriages

 

Mozambique

 

Namibia

 

Namibian independence, 1989

 

Need for Change Symposium, 1976

 

Newspaper Vendors, 1984-1985

 

Nico Malan boycott, 1972

 

Non-Violent Direct Action

 

Open City Initiative

 

Paarl riots, 1962

 

Paarl removals, 1963-1970

 

Paarl interviews, 1963-1968

 

Paarl Project 1980s NB Restricted access, Written permission required from Mrs Candy Malherbe

 

or Dr Margaret Nash

 

Paralegal Information

 

Parliament, opening of 1957-1958, general 1960, 1975

 

Pass laws, 1960-1961, see also Influx control

 

Peninsula African Students Association, 1970

 

Peninsula Welfare Forum, 1982-1985

 

Pensions, 1971-1978, 1984, 1992

 

Petitions including District 6, 1960-1979

 

Police conduct in Eastern Cape, 1985 including Police general

 

President's Council

 

Press

 

Prisons & prisoners, 1966-1986, hunger strikes, release of, 1980s, 1990s

 

Privatisation 1990s

 

Programme for Social Change, 1971-1976

 

Quail Commission Report, 1980

 

Reconstruction and Development Programme

 

Regional Services Councils, 1986

 

Religion

 

Repression Monitoring Group, 1986-1990

 

Republic Day Celebration, 1960

 

Resettlement camps & villages, 1960s-1980s, including Langa

 

Rule of law, 1950s

 

Rural Interest Group, 1986-1988

 

Sanctions

 

Schlebush Commission, 1973

 

Security, 1980s

 

Separate Amenities Bill, 1966

 

Sharpeville 1983

 

Shawco 1984

 

Somerset West Lwandle Hostel, 1976

 

South African National Convention, 1961

 

Squatter Support Group 1986

 

State of Emergency, 1986

 

Steyn Commission, 1982

 

Taxi apartheid, 1964

 

Theron Commission 1973

 

Thirty years of National Party rule, 1978

 

Township Liaison Project, 1986-1988

 

Transport 1980

 

Unemployment

 

Unrest Monitoring

 

University Apartheid, 1957-1959

 

Upington 26

 

Vagrancy, 1980

 

Violence/Non-violence, 1977-1988

 

Violence in Natal, 1990

 

Wages, 1970s

 

Women, 1954-1989

F

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION - CAPE WESTERN REGION

 

Address lists

 

Agreements with SAIRR and Christian Institute

 

Archive

 

Artwork

 

Assessment of Cape Western Region, 1986, 1987

 

40th Birthday

 

Branches

 

Constitution (Black Sash) various drafts and amendments

 

Correspondence 1980-1982, 1992, 1993

 

Court Monitoring Forms

 

Front office diaries, 1985-1986 & notes

 

Hire of halls 1980s

 

Information gathering

 

Invitations

 

Media Liaison

 

Membership, including lists, questionnaires, recruitment, addressograph plates of members (o/s)

 

Monitoring Group - Reports etc

 

Newsletter

 

Nkosi Sikelel'i-Afrika

 

Office equipment, leases etc

 

Posters

 

Regional Council Nominations 1991

 

Regional Executive, Notes etc 1987-1994

 

Reports, miscellaneous

 

Resource Manual

 

Running an Organisation

 

Sash Directory

 

Speakers, including speeches, correspondence with speakers 1970-1978, 1980-1987

 

Staff

 

Stands, including lists, correspondence with City Council, 1972-1976, 1979-1989

 

Statements, letters to editors, officials etc

 

Talks, addresses etc

 

UCT Summer School

 

Which way forward? November 1989

 

Miscellaneous

G

FINANCIAL RECORDS

 

Treasurer's Reports and Circulars, 1958-1963, 1969-1979, 1980s

 

Advice Office Treasurer's Working Papers 1991-1992

 

Financial statements, 1957/1958-1969, 1971, 1973-1986

 

Finance Sub-Committee Minutes, 1985-1989

 

Donors 1975

 

Contributions to Bail Fund, 1954-1962, and other donations, appeals, etc

 

Fundraising including Morning Market, 1974, 1979, 1986-1991; Calendar

 

US Aid correspondence 1988-1991

 

Cash book, 1975-1978

 

Account book, 1972-1977

 

Miscellaneous

H

PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATIONS

 

Letters and statements to the Press, 1959-1990

 

Correspondence re publications, 1989-1990

 

Correspondence re Kathryn Spink's The Black Sash

 

Athlone Advice Office Monthly reports, 1974-1986 (incomplete)

 

Annual reports, 1966-1986 (incomplete)

 

Leaflets, booklets, posters, etc 1950s-1990s

 

(NB full set of Sash kept in African Studies Library, Leslie Building, and not with the Archive)

 

Fact papers

J

NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS HANSARDS, GOVERNMENT GAZETTES

 

Newspaper clippings, 1950s-1990s, general and on specific topics

 

Extracts from Hansards, 1970s-1990s

 

Extracts from Government Gazettes, 1970s-1990s, on specific topics

 

Newsclips on particular topics

 

Biko see Police Affairs

 

Botha, PW

 

Business

 

Children in Court

 

Church

 

Civic

 

Conscientious Objectors see Defence

 

Constitutional Reform - Party Politics

 

Defence

 

Detention

 

Domestic Social Issues

 

Education

 

Group Areas

 

Hiemstra Commission

 

Hit Squads

 

Housing

 

Influx Control

 

KTC

 

Law

 

Mandela, Winnie

 

Police

 

Police cases

 

Police Investigation Unit cases

 

Police, Major trials

 

Political Prisoners - Detainees, Restrictees

 

Removals

 

Resistance to Government propaganda

 

Rural areas

 

Social Domestic Issues

 

Townships

 

Yengeni Trial

 

Zolani

K

TAPES, SLIDES, VIDEOS AND PHOTOGRAPHS

 

Tapes of general meetings, National Conferences, etc.

 

See separate list. 31 Tapes

 

Crossroads slides (5 boxes)

 

Black history (no slides, boxes empty)

 

Slide and tape shows (folder)

 

Records:- Brains Trust on Pass laws; Address to the Churches;

 

People in Protest 3

 

Miscellaneous photographs of Sash activities and interests

 

Black Sash Video

L

OTHER ORGANISATIONS

 

Abortion Reform (A.R.A.G.)

 

Advice Centre Association

 

Ad-hoc Group against New Repression Bills

 

ADAC Detention Action Committee

 

African National Congress

 

Amnesty International

 

Aspen Institute

 

Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA)

 

Board of Social Responsibility

 

Bush Radio

 

Canada. External Affairs (attitude to SA)

 

Cape Chamber of Industries

 

Cape Democrats

 

Cape Town City Council

 

Cape Town Diocesan Synod

 

Catholic Welfare Bureau

 

Ceasefire campaign

 

Centre for Intergroup Studies

 

Citizens Action Committee

 

Civil Rights League

 

Committee against Political Imprisonment

 

Community Video Resource Association

 

Concerned Citizens Action Committee

 

Conference for a Democratic Future

 

Congress of South African Students

 

Congress of South African Trade Unions

 

Co-ordinating Committee for Compassion

 

Democratic Party

 

Detention Treatment Team DTT

 

Development Action Group

 

Early Learning Centre

 

Ecology Group

 

EDASA

 

Education Action for Peace

 

Education Co-ordinating Council of South Africa

 

End Conscription Campaign

 

Federation of South African Women

 

Five Freedoms Forum

 

Gender Advocacy Programme

 

Grahamstown Rural Committee

 

Grassroots

 

Human Awareness Programme

 

Human Rights Commission

 

Institute for a Democratic Alternative for SA IDASA

 

Institute of Criminology Indicator

 

Interface

 

Jewish Leadership Seminar, Cape Town, 04/06/1978

 

Justice and Peace Commission

 

Lawyers for Human Rights

 

Let South Africa Speak

 

Masakhane Crossroads Project Fund

 

Masifundise

 

Mirge - Mowbray Inter-Race Group

 

Mission of the Churches for Community Development

 

Namibia

 

National Committee Against Removals

 

NACCW

 

National Council of Women

 

National Institute for Crime Prevention & Rehabilitation of Offenders (NICRO)

 

National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA)

 

90-Day Protest Committee

 

NUSAS and Friends

 

Open Society Foundation

 

Operation Hunger

 

Organisation for Appropriate Social Services in South Africa

 

Pan Africanist Congress

 

Patriotic Front

 

Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA)

 

Preventative Legal Education Association, Natal University

 

Prisoners Education Committee

 

Pupils United for Peace an Awareness (PUPA)

 

Quakers

 

Response to Relocations

 

Rural Legal Studies, Centre for

 

Save the Press Campaign

 

South Africa Foundation

 

South African Allied Workers Union

 

South African Association for Conflict Intervention

 

South African Council of Churches

 

South African Council of Trade Unions

 

South African Domestic Workers Association

 

South African Forum

 

South African Institute of Race Relations

 

South African Military Refugee Aid Fund

 

South African National Council for Child Welfare

 

South African Students' Education Trust

 

Southern African Association for Early Childhood Education

 

Southern African Catholic Bishop's Conference

 

St Mary's Cathedral

 

St Stephen's Church

 

Surplus People Project

 

Theology Exchange Programme

 

Transformation Resource Centre - Work for Justice

 

Trust for Christian Outreach and Education

 

Union of Jewish Women

 

United Democratic Front (UDF)

 

United Nations Centre Against Apartheid

 

United Nations Commission for Human Rights

 

United Party

 

UWO

 

University of Cape Town

 

University of the Western Cape

 

Urban Foundation

 

Veritas

 

Western Cape Regional Civics Forum

 

Western Province Council for Churches

 

Witwatersrand Network for the Homeless

 

Women's Legal Status Committee

 

Womens Movement for Peace

 

World Conference on Religion and Peace

 

Zimbabwe Foreign Affairs

 

Miscellaneous articles by others etc Wendy Orr trial, 1985

 

Miscellaneous seminars, workshops, conferences etc

M

NATIONAL

 

National council minutes (very incomplete)

 

Central Executive minutes (very incomplete)

 

Correspondence, 1958-1963, 1982-1995

 

Correspondence with members of Government

 

Sheena Duncan correspondence 1994

 

Hate mail addressed to Black Sash

 

Statements, letters to editors, officials etc 1986-1994

 

National Newsletter 1986

 

Regional Reports pre June 1991, 1993-1994

 

Regional Representative meetings 7-8 June 1986

 

Membership, also Associate and Honorary

 

Mailing list of non-members

 

Sash staff

 

Unrest monitoring

 

Education

 

Capital punishment

 

National Conference Planning 1989-1992

 

Finance, including Disclosure of Foreign Funding Bill 1989

 

Advice Office Trust

 

Sash Magazine - correspondence, minutes, proofs, lists etc 1982-1994

 

Workshops

 

Restructuring of the Black Sash

 

Miscellaneous

N

OTHER REGIONS

 

Albany - reports, etc 1971-1990s

 

Border - correspondence, 1957-1977; reports, etc 1959-1974, 1980s

 

Cape Eastern - correspondence, 1961-1975; reports, etc 1957, 1961-1969, 1986-1990s

 

Lowveld - report 1957

 

Natal Midlands - correspondence, 1955, 1960-1975; reports, 1956-1962, 1973-1975, 1980-1990s

 

Natal Coastal - reports, 1987-1990s

 

Southern Transvaal - correspondence, 1959-1963, 1974-1978; reports, etc 1959-1961

 

Northern Transvaal - reports, etc 1988-1990

 

Transvaal - reports, etc 1986-1990

 

Miscellaneous

P

ELECTIONS 1994

P1

Negotiations

P1.1

CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa)

P1.2

MPNP (Mulit-Party Negotiating Process)

P1.2 1.

MPNP - Composite list of contributors Document pack for meeting of the Plenary Body 17 November 1993

P1.3

Constitution

P1.4.1

Electoral Act

P1.4.2

IEC Act (Independent Electoral Commission)

P1.5

Free Political Activity

P1.6.1

Policing - CCB (Civil Co-operation Bureau) etc

P1.6.2

Joint Forum on Policing

P1.7

TEC (Transitional Executive Council)

P2

Voter Education

P2.1

IFEE (Independent Forum for Electoral Education)

P2.1.1

Structure and Purpose

P2.1.2

General Organisation April 1993 - February 1994

P2.1.3

National Meeting 27 January 1993

P2.1.4

Workshop 8-10 August 1993

P2.1.5

Plenary Meeting 6 October 1993

P2.2

Education for Democracy Forum

P2.3

Voter Education - various organisations including Black Sash

P2.4

Voter Education - Questions and answers

P2.5

Voter Education - General

P3

Voter Registration

P3.1

Mobile ID Card Units

P4

Monitoring

P4.1

Independent Election Monitoring Commission February 1993 - January 1994

P4.2

Draft Electoral Regulations for Observers and Monitors

P4.3

International participants

P4.4

NEON (National Elections Observer Network)

P4.5.1

Regional Peace Committee

P4.5.2

Peace Alliance

P4.5.3

National Peace Accord 14 September 1991

P4.6

Western Cape Conference on Observing 11-13 February 1994

P4.7

NIM (Network of Independent Monitors)

P4.8

Monitoring - General

P5

Media

P5.1

Newsclips

P5.2

Various Publications

P6

General

Z

MISCELLANEOUS

 

History of Black Sash

 

C Moultrie. A survey of twenty years of deaths under security legislation in South Africa, 1963-1983, 2v. BA Hons., UCT 1983

 

Miscellaneous notes

 

Sash earrings and badge from 1950s

 

LTJ/

 

1992

 

revised

 

JG/yf

 

January 1996

 

 

 

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