Collection of South African press cuttings

Press cuttings from South African newspapers. Subjects include:
* the Defiance Campaign, February - December 1952 (two albums);
* Drum's political coverage, 1958-60 (1 file);
* Pan-Africanist Congress and Pogo trials, 1962-69 (1 album); and
* the State of Emergency, March - December 1960 (four files).
An album of cuttings, 1942-46, whose subjects include:
* the 1946 Census;
* the 1945 National Health Services Commission;
* farm labour shortages, 1944;
* the Alexandra Bus Boycott, 1944;
* the Dundee colliery riots, 1942;
* the Rand power workers' strike, 1944;
* the Marabastad disturbances, 1943;
* the African miners' strike, 1946;
* the Unemployment Insurance Bill, 1946;
* the Chamber of Industries' proposal to recognise Black trade unions, 1946; and
* the Lovedale disturbances, 1946.

Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa, and brought up in Cape Town. Her father worked in the sugar cane business. Olive Schreiner, one of South Africa’s famous radical writers and early feminist, was a friend of the family.
Dick was involved in politics and a member of the Textile Workers' Union in the 1940s and 1950s, and c. 1953 was secretary of the Union's Cape Area branch. In 1950 she was listed under the Suppression of Communism Act and was later banned from union involvement. Although she did not join the South African Communist Party (SACP) she was to work closely with Ray Alexander, Jack Simons and Pauline Podbrey.
She was on the National Council of Women (NCW)’s African Affairs committee and worked with the Black Sash. As a result of her activism, the security police placed her under surveillance. In April 1960 she was arrested and detained for five months without trial by the Apartheid government.
Dick faced another ban between May 1966 and May 1971, and she left South Africa in 1967 and went into exile in the United Kingdom. There she became active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and other organisations, such as Oxfam. She died in November 1994.

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Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa, and brought up in Cape Town. Her father worked in the sugar cane business. Olive Schreiner, one of South Africa’s famous radical writers and early feminist, was a friend of the family.
Dick was involved in politics and a member of the Textile Workers' Union in the 1940s and 1950s, and c. 1953 was secretary of the Union's Cape Area branch. In 1950 she was listed under the Suppression of Communism Act and was later banned from union involvement. Although she did not join the South African Communist Party (SACP) she was to work closely with Ray Alexander, Jack Simons and Pauline Podbrey.
She was on the National Council of Women (NCW)’s African Affairs committee and worked with the Black Sash. As a result of her activism, the security police placed her under surveillance. In April 1960 she was arrested and detained for five months without trial by the Apartheid government.
Dick faced another ban between May 1966 and May 1971, and she left South Africa in 1967 and went into exile in the United Kingdom. There she became active in the Anti-Apartheid Movement and other organisations, such as Oxfam. She died in November 1994.

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