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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. [1]
Zille was active in the Black Sash, an organisation of white women formed in 1955 to oppose the removal of Coloured (mixed-race) voters from the Cape Province voters' roll. Although they failed, the organisation continued to assist blacks with issues such as pass laws, housing and unemployment.
She became involved with the Black Sash in 1965 and was chair of the organisation's Western Cape regional council from 1974 to 1986. During this time she also studied at the University of Cape Town, graduating with a BA degree in 1982. She was arrested after a protest march to Pollsmoor Prison in 1985.
The Black Axe seems to have engaged in political misconduct. [11] For example, Augustus Bemigho, a 2019 APC party candidate for political office, was connected to the Black Axe. Emails show that he "sent guidance on scamming to a network of collaborators on 62 occasions and communicated with others about specific scamming targets."
In June, Nigeria Episcopal Area, with reportedly 600,000 members, also quit United Methodism, though dissenters pledged to remain in the old denomination. A smattering of other churches in Africa ...
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.
Zille is a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist [4] [5] [6] and was one of the journalists who exposed the cover-up around the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko while working for the Rand Daily Mail in the late 1970s. [7] She also worked with the Black Sash and other pro-democracy groups during the 1980s. [8]