Black Sash Collection

Black Sash Collection

University of Cape Town

The Black Sash was a non-violent white women's resistance organisation in South Africa. It was founded by Jean Sinclair in 1955. The organisation initially campaigned against the removal of mixed race voters.

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Mixed media
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https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/black-sash-collection
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South Africa South Africa
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University of Cape Town Libraries.
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The Opening of the first democratic parliament; awaiting the arrival of President Mandela

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Roeland Street, Cape Town, with members of the armed forces lining the street, in preparation for the opening of the first democratic parliament, 1994

Voter Ed[ucation] at Site C Philani Centre with Val Goldschmidt, Jenny de Tolly and Betty Davenport

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election.Val Goldschmidt and Jenny de Tolly giving voter education to group of women. Betty Davenport partially in photograph.

Sash Voter-education at Philani Centre, Town 2, Khayelitsha with Val [Goldschmidt] and Jenny de Tolly

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election. Group of women and children at the Philani Centre, Khayelitsha.

Norma Nabe of Cape Town A[dvice] O[ffice] at her desk 1993, Mowbray

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Athlone Advice Office, Black Sash. Norma Nabe at her desk, 1993

Sash Monitors join victims at Sister Mosala's press conference at Sosibenza Primary School

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Group of people from Khayelitsha, together with Black Sash monitors, at press conference [after taxi violence]

Young people in section 4 of Old Crossroads signal peace later in 1993

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Group of children in section 4 of Old Crossroads, 1993. On verso of photograph: Section 4 outside Nongwe's house

Two victims of Khayelitsha Greenpoint burning

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Two victims of the taxi wars in Cape Town, 1991

[Group of children in section 4 of Old Crossroads, 1993]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Group of children and woman in section 4 of Old Crossroads, 1993

[Government subsidy housing in Barrydale]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Houses built by Government subsidy in Barrydale, 1998

[ANC protest outside SABC TV Studios at Sea Point on 15/05/1991]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

ANC protest outside SABC TV Studios at Sea Point on 15/05/1992

Monitoring of ID Clinics - Eyona Shopping Centre Gugulethu - Lists of IDs to collect, early 1994

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

1994 General Election preparations. Eyona Bakery, part of the Eyona Shopping Centre in Gugulethu.

Processing of temporary voting cards in time for April 1994 General Election in New Crossroads

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

!994 General Election preparations. Young woman holding up card

Voters' Ed[ucation] at Philani 1994

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Voter education prior to the 1994. Val Goldschmidt and Jenny de Tolly talking to a group of women. Another woman in front is possibly translating

Sister Mosala, SHAWCO Office/ Centre in Town I Khayelitsha

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

SHAWCO Office/ Centre in Khayelitsha. On verso: SHAWCO in Khayelitsha were Sister Mosala is the director

View of township during taxi wars

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

View of township during taxi wars of 1991. Car with [monitors?] in foreground

Noxolo School, Section 1 of Old Crossroads, where problems surfaced in Jan/Feb 1993

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Classroom damaged during violence in Old Crossroads, Cape Town, 1993

Sash launch of a new vision statement later in 1994. Jenny de Tolly

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Jenny de Tolly, stanidng with microphone [at the launch of the new Black Sash vision statement]

David Vithi assists a disabled advice seeker at the Cape Town A[dvice] O[ffice], 1993

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Athlone Advice Office, Black Sash. David Viti assisting a client, 1993

Inauguration Day of President Mandela at the City Hall Cape Town, from the Grand Parade

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Front of the City Hall in Cape Town, taken on the day of the inauguration of President Mandela, 10 May 1994

Grand Parade, Cape Town, on day of inauguration of President Mandela

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Crowds on Grand Parade, Cape Town, on day of inauguration of President Mandela, 10 May 1994