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
Website
https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/black-sash-collection
Country
South Africa South Africa
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University of Cape Town Libraries.
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[Black Sash Monitoring Group]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Monitoring of the 1994 General Election. Woman standing in front of posters for the Black Sash Monitoring Group and the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM)

[Advice Office Workshop, Port Elizabeth, 1993]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Head table at a Black Sash Advice Office workshop, held in Port Elizabeth

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

[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

[Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election. Val Goldschmidt talking to group of women

Mothers of Crossroads show us the conditions of the school - a polling Station in April 1994

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Women outside damaged school in Crossroads, Cape Town [1993]

Government subsidy housing a little more generous in rural Barrydale 1998

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Houses built by Government subsidy in Barrydale, 1998

NIM Monitors - an alliance of monitors that included Sash monitors over the election period

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

A group of Network of Independent Monitors (NIM), at the time of the 1994 General Election.

[Opening of the first democratic parliament in South Africa]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Crowds in Roeland Street, Cape Town, in front of Stal Plein.

Sash voter-education Val Goldsmit explains as Maureen Hamse translates at Topcor Centre Unathi Old Crossroads""

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Voter education prior to the 1994 General Election preparations. Sash voter-education Val Goldsmidt explains as Maureen Hamse translates at Topcor Centre Unathi Village, Old Crossroads

[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

[Advice Office Workshop, Port Elizabeth, 1993]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Head table at a Black Sash Advice Office workshop, held in Port Elizabeth

[Children in section 4 of Old Crossroads, 1993]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Group of four children sitting on ground alongside cars

[Cape Town on Inauguration Day of President Mandela]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Crowds in centre of Cape Town on the day of the inauguration of President Mandela, 10 May 1994

At a TRC hearing at Cape Town Adderley Street Offices; relatives and officials 1996

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1999

Group gathered for a hearing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Cape Town, 1996

[Small group discussion at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1998

Small Group Discussion At National Conference, 1989: L - R: Candy, Malherbe, Sarah-Anne Rayham, Izzie Pretorius, ?, Mary Burton

Anne-Marie Hendrikz, Carla Sutherland, Karin Chubb

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1998

Delegates at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989.3. From left to right: Anne-Marie Hendrikz, Carla Sutherland, Karin Chubb

[Delegate at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1998

Unidentified delegate at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989, wearing T-shirt with slogan ""Another mother for peace""

[Two delegates at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1998

Unidentifed delegates at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989

[Delegates at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989]

UCT: University of Cape Town · 1 October 1998

Informal photograph of delegates at the Black Sash National Conference, 1989, during a break