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- October-December 1964 (Creation)
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Includes: 28/10/1964 correspondence concerning banning of Liz (Elizabeth) Abrahams of the Food & Canning Workers Union, copy of banning order; 9/11/1964 Helen Suzman responses to a Rand Daily Mail questionnaire about SA women; 12/11/1964 Helen Suzman to old friend Alf Adams now in Vancouver, commenting on politics in SA and Rhodesia and saying, amongst other things "Very often, I must tell you, I bitterly regret ever having left academic life and the campus, because there is something specially good about working with young and open minds rather than old and vacant ones"; June to November 1964 correspondence concerning NUSAS and the African Self-Help Association (trainee nursery school teachers helping African women) — includes letters from one F. de Klerk Minister of Education, Arts and Science saying "N.U.S.A.S. has through the agency of what may seem to be harmless organisations, sown seeds of discord amongst the Bantu people..."; 12/11/1964 Emergency camp / Squatter's Camp for "Coloureds" at Worcester; 12/11/1964 Helen Suzman letter to Major General J.C. Steyn, Commissioner of Prisons concerning "Tarshish, Strachan, Goldberg and Turok" being kept in isolation at Pretoria Central Prison; more on fluoride; 20/11/1964 Thanksgiving letter from Angus J. Tressider, Public Affairs Officer, US Embassy, Pretoria; 23/11/1964 Transvaal African Cricket Union asks Helen Suzman for a donation; 08/12/1964 correspondence concerning the removal of the G.M. African Congregational Church of SA from their premises in Lady Selbourne under the Group Areas Act; correspondence to and from Helen Suzman research assistant Jackie Beck.