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This material has been arranged in two sections to maintain their original order. Access to this material is with permission of the individuals concerned.

Lists and articles about torture of detainees. This file includes Hansard extracts.

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The Commission of Inquiry into Kangwane.

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Consists of material about areas in Western Cape that were resettled or were under threat of resettlement and material of Werksgroep Kairos relating to the organisations campaign against the threatened removal of people from Crossroads, Nyanga and KTC to Khayelitsha. Organisations and titles include:

Black Sash:

Athlone Advice Office/ Athlone Advies Kantoor, Annual Report October 1979-September 1980, under the auspices of the Black Sash and the SA Institute of Race Relations, Mowbray.

Black Sash Advice Office Annual Report, Mowbray, 1983.

Black Sash Advice Office Annual Report, Mowbray, 1984.

Black Sash Advice Office Annual Report, Mowbray, 1985.

Black Sash Advice Office, Mowbray, 1986.

You and Khayelitsha, 1984.

Centre for Intergroup Studies:

Squatter crisis, The background to the low-income housing shortage in the Cape Peninsula, an overview of the squatter phenomenon, early history, legislation and policy, past squatter communities and crisis, and contemporary developments, the broader socio-economic context as well as guidelines for policy and alternative approaches, Graham Howe, Occasional paper no 3, Rondebosch, March 1982.

District Six, A brief review of the controversy surrounding the renewal of the area, the zoning in terms of the Group Areas Act, the removal of coloured residents, the siting of the Cape Technikon and the future development of District Six, Occasional paper no 2, Rondebosch, January 1980.

Department of Economic History, University of Cape Town:

Oral history and the reconstruction of District Six, Dr B Nasson.

Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town:

Elsies River, Don Pinnock.

National Union of South African Students:

Crossroads, Would you make a deal with this man? Rondebosch.

International University Exchange Fund:

The struggle for Crossroads, We will not move, revised and edited by IUEF in 1978.

Republic of South Africa:

Prevention of Illegal Squatting Amendment Bill, as read the first time, 1976.

South African Institute of Race Relations:

Regional topic paper 84/1, 'Khayelitsha, The present situation', Cape Region, George Ellis, Mowbray, December 1984.

The squatter problem in the Western Cape, some causes and remedies, G Ellis, J Maree, D Hendrie, A Kooy, Johannesburg, 1977.

Surplus People Project:

State urban policies and land struggles in the 1980s, the case of the Western Cape, May 1989.

Union of South Africa:

Act to Provide for the Prevention and Control of Illegal Squatting On Public or Private Land, no 52, 1951.

Urban Problems Research Unit, University of Cape Town:

The concept of Khayelitsha, A planning perspective, Project report, Working paper no 31, D Dewar, V Watson, December 1984.

Werkgroep Kairos:

Crossroads, als het gezinsleven een misdaad is, Dossier, Aldert Schipper, 1978.

Kaapstad wanhoopt, steun het verzet tegen de deportaties in Zuid-Afrika, Utrecht, February 1984.

From Crossroads to Khayelitsha, May 1985.

Geoff Budlender:

Squatters, is there a solution? Speech delivered at the Institute of Citizenship, Cape Town, 4 September 1975.

CA Glover:

The illegal housing market in Crossroads.

David Russell:

Crossroads squatter camp, a report on the disruption of African family life, Cape Town, August 1975.

Prof WH Thomas:

The Squatter Problem and the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Amendment Act 1976.

Other:

Atlantis, high class resettlement, 1980.

Varsity, University of Cape Town Student Newspapers no 9, 'Nyanga homeless deported, protestors hounded', Varsity pull-out supplement p8, 26 August 1981.

South African Outlook, 'Cape Town, Crossroads', April 1976.

The war on poor, November 1982.

Squatters, South African Outlook, Cape Town, August 1975.

Crossroads/Khayelitsha, Informa, vol XXXII, no 4, p1-5, May 1985, Pretoria.

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Black Sash.

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Include campaign material and letters for their release, also court documents, letters from various organisations, a letter in response from the SA Embassy, a letter to one of the accused and a UN resolution. One file contains clippings.

Material includes letters, statements and press releases reflecting the involvement of anti-apartheid organisations in the efforts to obtain the release of political prisoners. Appeals from groups of prisoners are also included. After the announcement of the Pretoria Minute, there were renewed efforts to hasten the release of political prisoners. The issues and debates included, the definition of political prisoner, the membership and powers of the Amnesty Committee, the conditions of imprisonment in South African and Bophuthatswana prisons and the slow pace of releases. These documents are arranged chronologically and reflect the discourse. Items include: