Prior to the 1994 elections, the Nationalist government applied the policy of apartheid or separate development with whites holding both political and economic paper. Apartheid was enforced through legislation such as the Group Areas Act.

All Kairos campaigns had a human rights grounding, campaigns that relate to this sub-inventory are:

1976 Campaign calling for a boycott against one of the of the major banks in the Netherlands.

1979 Campaign against the role of the Royal Dutch Shell in South Africa.

1982 United Nations year for sanctions against South Africa. Several activities to promote boycotts, sanctions and disinvestment.

1985 Steunt uw geld apartheid? (Does your money support apartheid?) Campaign in co-operation with ten church organisations. Focus on economic sanctions against South Africa, boycott of tourism to South Africa and boycott of fruit from South Africa.

1986 Trade union leader speaks on behalf of Kairos at Philips shareholders meeting.

1993 25 October 1993. Lecture by Justice R Goldstone.

See 11.3. The Kairos Foundation for a list of publications and information booklets, many of which were written for Kairos campaigns. Many of these are Dutch titles, but were also issued in English.

Subjects include apartheid, justice, legislation, Hoexter Commission, Rabie Commission, traditional authorities, refugees and exiles, sport, the United Nations and Amnesty International. The material covers a broad area of human rights issues, not all in depth. There is a large amount of material about legislation and the judicial process. The material under 6.5. Sport has a number of documents about sports boycotts.

Unpublished material may only be quoted with the permission of the author.

The material dates from 1962 to 2001. Dates refer to the dates on the material.

There are three main categories of material:

Clippings consist of popular newspaper and magazine articles.

Documents include organisational newsletters, letters, memoranda, and reports.

Publications include published reports, seminar and conference papers, pamphlets, magazines, handbooks and educational material and books.