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Includes: March 1963-February 1964 the case of retired teacher Z.Z. Tutu, taught for 41 years but doesn't get a pension; 13/03/1964 letter from Ruth Slovo (First) asking Helen Suzman to assist her mother Tilly (Mathilda) First to get a passport: this letter was written the day before she left SA on an exit permit and in it she says: "I should have written to you a long while ago to say that no one could have done a better job against the 90 day detentions and I admire tremendously your sledge-hammer attack on this and so many other vital issues. In the House at least you have to fight almost single-handed and, apart from the scandal that the real anti-Nationalist fight has been whittled down to the efforts of one intrepid member, you seem to get in as many blows as any team could manage."; 12/03/1964 Helen Suzman requests Minister of Justice, Vorster, to allow Toni Bernstein to visit her father(Rivonia trialist Rusty Bernstein) in jail; man classified "Bantu" trying to persuade authorities that his birth certificate says "Coloured" but can't get a copy of it; 01/04/1964 re Gabula Mahlasela detained under 90-day legislation; February-April 1964 concerning the Kraaifontein Rehabilitation Centre; 24/04/1964 letters concerning 2 banned persons — Wilfred Cecil Joseph Brutus and W.T. Mhlambiso; 08/05/1964 issue of exit permits for Cosmo Pieterse and C.M.W. Marney; 27/05/1964 letters concerning banished people (original letter dated 19/02/1964, Helen Suzman response to letter from Helen Joseph); 28/05/1964 correspondence, some by telex, between Helen Suzman, Ray Swart, Dr. Luthuli and the Dunn family concerning the disappearance / arrest of husband of Dr. Albertina Luthuli (daughter of Chief Albert Luthuli), Dr. Pascal Ngakane, and a coloured law student Sydney Dunn; 29/05/1964 letters about used clothing and shoes sent by Oxfam in the UK for families of TB patients being helped by the Alexandra Anti-Tuberculosis Association run by Clare Rheinallt-Jones.
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Items include: Many letters about the problems of white pensioners; letter from SA Consumers Association enquiring why no woman has been appointed to the Public Service Commission; February-June 1964 correspondence concerning brothers Dennis Brutus (imprisoned and prevented from studying) and Wilfred C.J. Brutus (banned and can't find work); 05/06/1964 letters concerning the provision of a phone line to Dr. Rajmahomed of Tongaat who had been trying to get one since 1961; 18/06/1964 Helen Suzman to Eulalie Stott concerning possibility of release for Robert Sobukwe if he will renounce the P.A.C.; July 1964 correspondence concerning the banning under Suppression of Communism Act and house-arrest of former 90 day detainee Malek Rassool; November 1964, considerable correspondence concerning a Mr. Jozua Francois "Ismail" Joubert re his application to be racially re-classified from "White" to "Cape Malay" after converting to Islam (NB: 3 b&w photos attached); November 1964 attempts by brothers Essop and Aziz Pahad to get passports in order to do post-graduate study in the UK [they had to get exit permits in the end] Essop Pahad writes "May we once again thank you for your sterling efforts to right the wrongs in South Africa.".