(after Progressive Party wins 6 more seats in 1974 General Election) includes from: Robert Birley; Judge Colman; Miss K. Saleh (Dearest Mother, Congratulations dearest mother of millions ... You are South Africa's only hope"); C.S. Mda, Democratic Party, Transkei; Denis Hurley, Archbishop of Durban; S.S. Mothapo, M.P., Lebowa; Rev. Peter Storey, Methodist Church; Peter Brown, Hilton; Helen Suzman to Chief Gatsha Buthelezi; Bridget and Harry Oppenheimer; Margot Fonteyn Arias (at the Scottish Ballet), Dunedin; Jeremy Thorpe M.P. (UK) "How bravely has Horatia held the Bridge"; Donald Woors (Daily Dispatch); Bernard Levin; Dr. Gluckman; Secretary-General Marematlou Freedom Party, Lesotho; Trevor Nunn; Janet Suzman; Beyers Naude & Theo Kotze; Athol Fugard and Mary Benson.
Includes: correspondents include: Prof. I.S. "Sakkies" Fourie, also known as "Tiger Tim", Bloemfontein, 06/03 asks re procedures for visiting Bram Fischer (taught him Afrikaans at Grey College 1921-22 amongst other connections which he relates) and in December he writes of how he refused membership of the Broederbond in 1928; 11/03 Helen Suzman to Laurie Gandar, comments "Thank goodness Kruger has relented on Bram Fischer. I have a shrewd idea why he has, because he knows ... The last days are near ... he looked like a frail little bird"; Mrs. Merle Graham (re maintenance for her daughter);.
Includes: Maurice McGregor re The Montreal Star and Gerald Clark; Gordon W. McKinley (article on SA and Helen Suzman from New York Times, 18/11/74); Helen Suzman to D.J. McQuoid-Mason re legal aid 'developments'; 02/06 cable from John Magill, IBM; 20/02 Geoff Manual, UWC, invites Helen Suzman to address SRC meeting; Mrs. Beatrice Martin re her son Ian; 25/05 Frans Matlala re his pension (Bophuthatswana); Lucas Matlebyane (re his housing problems).
Includes: Mrs. Ethel de Keyser writes about her brother Jack Tarshish who has been released from prison but refused an exit permit; January 1974-June 1975 case of Mr. Colin Collins and refusal to renew his SA passport (he is mentioned in final report of the Schlebusch Commission); April - June, refusal of passport to Mr. Indhrasen Moodley; case of Bernard Sydney Allison detained in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique, apparently for gun running; refusal of permission to enter SA to Mr. J.A. Jacquesson (former South African); appeal to lift some of the restrictions on John Nkadimeng and his family; Mr. Habibullah tries to get a firearm licence.
Includes: 03/09 Helen Suzman letter to Theo Coggin re Saths Cooper; refusal of gun licence to a Dr. Habibullah; Mr. Eric Wilfred Butler, white man married to a Coloured woman and living in the UK, cannot be re-classified as Coloured, so they can return to SA; request from Mr. A.M. Masina re the establishment of a clinic in Lothair; granting of passport to Rev. Albert Danker, Congella; 25/09 Minister J. Kruger removes name of L.G. Green from list of Communists; November 1975 Jonty Driver, former NUSAS activist and 90-day detainee, about to write biography of Patrick Duncan, wants to know if will be allowed to return to SA.
Includes: Richard Bernstein — 21/02 Helen Suzman writes at length about split in the United Party & possible merger with the RP, 17/10 Helen Suzman re visit to Australia to which she isn't going to emigrate as there are "not enough red-blooded Jews, and no black faces either other than the very occasional aborigine, and he is not nearly as attractive a specimen of humanity as the African — something Neanderthal about them."; Mrs. Horace Flather (Yvonne); Jefferey Jowell; Pat O'Sheel; Hella Pick (about to marry Ralf Dahrendorf); Lord John Redcliffe-Maud; David Welsh; Charles Woodsworth.
Includes: May-August correspondence with Brian Doctor and Richard Bernstein in the UK, Helen Suzman comments on post-Soweto situation, also mentioning Rabkin case, Paddy Weech, Tony Holiday and Mashabala; November 1976 Mr. G.R.A. Dunkley sends copy of his article in The Certified Engineer of February 1975 "Society use your land!" & "Where Human and Natural Resources Meet"; 11/12 A.K. Davis, a Port Elizabeth graphologist analyses Helen Suzman handwriting; 16/11 reference for qualified welder Phillip du Toit, Mamelodi.
Includes: Andrew Orkin re continual refusal to grant him a passport; 22/11 Mrs Chris O'Sullivan writes to Helen Suzman about Olive Schreiner's book 'Woman and Labour'; Miss Anne Pasquallie writes re her brother who has been sentenced to death; 26/01 note from Africa Literature Centre, Zambia, re Pearl Nkumane; Dr. P.J. Price, Bloemfontein; Pamela Paton writes from Grahamstown about enforcement of the Group Areas Act; memorandum about the PRP Caucus System, 16/08/76; Mr. R.S. Quibell sends a cutting on Tom Jones' tour of SA.
