The Black Sash of South Africa
Subtitle: a case study in liberalism
By: Cherry Michelman ; with a foreword by Sir Robert Birley.
Contributors: Institute of Race Relations.
Publisher: Published for the Institute of Race Relations, London by Oxford University Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Women's Defense of the Constitution League; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1961; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1961-1978
Description: This book is about the Black Sash, a very remarkable organization which in the seventies was the most active non-partisan exponent of protest in South Africa. Among the few remaining groups that make up the 'liberal establishment', it is the only one whose original, continuing, and primary purpose was protest. Some of the protest groups were founded as political alternatives to existing parties and turned to symbolic protest in frustration over their practical failure. Others were founded for social and intellectual purposes and have been turned to protest by nature of South African politics which has made race, in the form of white supremacy, its chief legislative concern.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.