Black Sash Advice Office (Athlone etc.) case files and reports

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	union or movement records
Producer	Black Sash / SAIRR
Coverage	1960s-1982
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	3
Coloured Labour Preference policy in the Western Cape	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Sanctions, disinvestment and the anti-apartheid movement	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
(ed.) et al. (1983)	Athlone Advice Office (Black Sash) case files and client records, 1980-1981	1980-1981	Basis for the Nyanga East sample survey (673 clients), the February 1980 client survey and 18 case studies of influx control.
(ed.) et al. (1983)	Athlone Advice Office annual reports and survey of Cathedral squatters (1982)	1980-1982	Used to describe the volume of cases handled by the Advice Office and the profile of the fasting squatters (tenure, arrests).
Davenport (1969)	Case work of the Black Sash and South African Institute of Race Relations	1960s	Cited as the source of examples of spouses separated under administrative endorsement-out rulings.
Horrell et al. (1972)	Advice Office reports of Black Sash (Johannesburg, Athlone) and Memorandum on the Application of the Pass Laws and Influx Control	1970-71	Documents effects of pass laws on housing, wives and widows.
West (1982)	Athlone Advice Office court visitors' records and Black Sash files	1981	Provide two sample court sessions (38 and 47 cases) illustrating pass court outcomes.