Black Sash

It would later open advice offices to provide information concerning their legal rights to non-white South Africans affected by that legislation.

In fact, during the 1960s and most of the 1970s the Black Sash and National Union of South African Students represented the only consistent white opposition to the government outside Parliament.

Many members were vilified within their local white communities, and it was not unusual for women wearing the black sash to be physically attacked by supporters of apartheid.

[4]: 61  TRAC employed Lydia Kompe to coordinate the RWM in 1986, and Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize, from Driefontein, became its first chairperson.

Prior to the 1994 multi-racial elections, Black Sash conducted voter education and produced a booklet called You and the Vote.