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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Sheena Duncan (7 December 1932 – 4 May 2010) was a South African anti-Apartheid activist and counselor. Duncan was the daughter of Jean Sinclair, one of the co-founders of the Black Sash, a group of white, middle-class South African women who offered support to black South Africans and advocated the non-violent abolishment of the Apartheid system.
Occupation (s) anti-apartheid activist, political activist, civil rights campaigner and politician. Known for. Black Sash. Political party. Progressive Federal Party. Relatives. Judy Chalmers (sister) Molly Bellhouse Blackburn OLS (12 November 1930 – 28 December 1985) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, political activist, civil ...
The Azanian People's Organisation was the leading Black Consciousness group of the 1980s. Most of its support came from young black men and women—many of whom were educated at colleges and universities. The organisation received a lot of support in Soweto and also amongst journalists, who helped to popularise its views.
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Occupation. political activist. Spouse. Geoffrey Burton. Children. four sons. Parent (s) Molly and Peter Ingouville. Maria Macdiarmid "Mary" Burton (born 19 January 1940, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a South African activist, former president of the Black Sash and was a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission .
Ruth First was born in 1925 and brought up in Johannesburg. Like her parents, she joined the Communist Party, [1] which was allied with the African National Congress in its struggle to overthrow the South African government. As a teenager, First attended Jeppe High School for Girls and then became the first person in her family to attend ...
After the creation of Khayelitsha, Robb would visit residents of the segregated area and was known as "Mama Robb, Black Sash." In March 1989, she was elected as lifetime Vice President of Black Sash. In 2006, she published a memoir, The Sash and I: A Personal Memoir and a Tribute to the Black Sash. References