(including copy of letter from PM Margaret Thatcher addressed to Evita Bezuidenhout).

(Includes 1978 press clippings and transcript of an interview with BBC TV in January 1978).

Topics include: level crossings, 10, 000 cattle stuck in lorries in Newtown without water, employment of naval cadets, assault by a ticket inspector, "foreign Bantu" in SA, influx control in Western Cape, kidnapping of 3 men from Basutoland British Protectorate, Pondoland situation, unemployment, Group Areas Act.

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.

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.".

Includes: copy of banning and house-arrest order issued to Petrus William Letlalo of Dube, February 1965 and cutting; 21/01/1965 letter from Vera K. Webber, Principal of the Nursery School Teachers Training College, Hillbrow re the African Self-Help Association and decrying the apathy of most of her students; 25/01/1965 letter from Helen Suzman to the Johannesburg Town Clerk raising threats made against a young (black) boy boarding a bus in Dunkeld; February 1965 correspondence concerning Annie Silinga's daughter Elsinah Lwana, son-in-law and baby grandson; letters re the non-delivery of avocado pears in the UK by Cleghorn & Harris Ltd.; correspondence re attempts by Simonstown artist Frank Brown, a "Coloured" person, to get a passport to study in Bombay; 25/02/1965 letter from Helen Suzman to Secretary for Justice proposing people to be appointed as Justices of the Peace in Johannesburg because "we are finding it very difficult indeed in Johannesburg to make the necessary arrangements for our postal voters".

Includes: letters concerning rail fares between Johannesburg, Lenasia and Soweto; August-September letters concerning the moving forward of Johan Bloemsma's military service; letters re United Mutual Benefit Association.