The Black Sash of South Africa

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.