Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund in Australia - records, 1961-1981, together with the records of Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group, 1981-1987

MLMSS 6630

fonds

1961 - 1987

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

395270

14 boxes - 2.28 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)
Photographs

The Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund in Australia (SADAF) was founded in 1963 by a small group of South-African post-Sharpeville refugees headed by John Brink, a former Chairman of the Liberal Party of South Africa, and several interested Australians. In 1967 he succeeded Edward St. John as President of SADAF. A registered charity, SADAF's main aims were 'to aid and defend the victims of unjust legislation and oppression in South Africa, including support for families and dependents of victims' and 'to keep the conscience of the world alive to the issues at stake'. SADAF was affiliated to the International Defence and Aid Fund which channelled money into Southern Africa for use in special projects or by individuals. The SADAF Newsletter was for much of its life the sole Australian periodical of current anti-apartheid opinion. In 1981 SADAF was dissolved and reconvened as the Southern Africa Group of Community Aid Abroad (CAASA). Like its predecessor, CAASA maintained close ties with Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE), a national anti-racist umbrella organisation whose activities focused on anti-apartheid and Australian Aboriginal issues. CAASA folded in 1987.

A. Minutes of meetings, with related papers, 1963-1981
B. Financial records, 1963-1978
C. Correspondence files, 1963-1981
D. Subject files, 1963-1981
E. Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group, 1981-1987

A. Minutes of meetings, with related papers, 1963-1981
1963-1970; Minutes of Executive Committee meetings, 16 Apr. 1963-11 June 1969, with list of Committee members as at 25 Feb. 1970 and copy of Constitution as amended at 31 May 1967 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/1)
1969-1975; Minutes of executive Committee meetings, 25 June 1969-29 Apr. 1975 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/1)
1975-1976; Minutes of Executive Committee meetings, 13 May 1975-18 May 1976 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/1)
1976-1981; Minutes of Executive Committee meetings, 22 June 1976-30 Jan. 1981 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/1)
1975-1981; Papers concerning Annual General Meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/1)

B. Financial records, 1963-1978
Include accounts and receipts, donation slips, newsletter subscriptions, and membership application/subscription forms, 1976-1976, with certificate of registration, 20 Nov. 1963, under the Charitable Collections Act (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/2)

C. Correspondence files, 1963-1981
1963-1967; 'SADAF Correspondence 1963-7 E. St John', mainly concerning sponsor proposals. Correspondents include Phyllis Altman, Sir Garfield Barwick, E. H. Burgmann, C. B. Christesen, Rae Else-Mitchell, W. K. Hancock, Dorothy Helmrich, Francis James, James McAuley, Sir Frank Packer, Helen G. Palmer, Peter V. Russo, Edward St. John, Kylie Tennant and Judith Wright (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/3)
1963-1970; 'Correspondence re Sponsors' Correspondents include Frank W. Coaldrake, D. N. Everingham, Malcolm Fraser, Joan Maclagan, John Wheeldon and Patrick White (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/3)
1969-1971; Correspondence, with minutes of meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/3)
1972-1973; 'SADAF Correspondence from May 1972 to May 1973' concerning general business, news, committees and movements, sponsors, trade unions, politicians, International Defence and Aid Fund, and United Nations (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/3)
1970-1974; 'SADAF March 1973 to March 1974', being correspondence concerning business, minutes, financial statements, constitution, committees and movements, trade unions, politicians and United Nations (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/3)
1971-1976; 'SADAF File 1974-1975', being correspondence mainly concerning prospective sponsors, requests for newsletters, politicians, Australian Council for Overseas Aid and International Defence and Aid Fund (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/4)
1976-1977; Miscellaneous correspondence mainly with H. (Hans) Bandler, Margaret Jones and Kenneth Rivett (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/4)

1965-1981; 'Current Correspondence' files, A-Z:
1967-1981; 'A' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1978; 'Australia - Politics' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1981; 'Azania - Political Prisoners - Death Lists' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
Date unknown; 'Azania - Political Prisoners and Dependents Appeal' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1977; 'Brink's Bookshop Correspondence' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1973-1980; 'B' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1975-1981; 'C' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1975-1980; 'Churches' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1977; 'Contacts for Functions' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1975-1981; 'D' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1976; 'E' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1965-1978; 'F' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1977-1978; 'G' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1968-1980; 'H' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1976-1979; 'I' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1980-1981; 'IDAF' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1980; 'IDAF Related Councils' correspondence' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
'J' [empty file] (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1975-1978; 'K' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1976-1978; 'L' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1978-1980; 'M' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/5)
1974-1981; 'Members of Parliament' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1967-1978; 'N' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
'O' [empty file] (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1976-1979; 'P Q' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1968-1976; 'Press - General' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1966-1968; 'R' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1967-1981; 'S' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1970-1981; 'SADAF' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1977; 'Schools' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1976; 'T' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1976-1979; 'Trade Unions' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1977-1981; 'U' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1976-1979; 'W' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1976-1980; 'X Y' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)
1976; 'Z' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/6)

D. Subject files, 1963-1981
1976; 'ACFOA [Australian Council for Overseas Aid] (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
197-; 'Addresses' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1973-1978; 'Advertisements & Propaganda re South Africa' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1970-1977; 'Africa - General' including documents from Organization of African Unity (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1977-1978; 'Africa News', being mainly issues of news and information service of Southern Africa Liberation centre (Sydney, N.S.W.) (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1969-1970; 'Africa Newsletter', being issues of newsletter published by Friends of Africa (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1974; 'African States Leaders Visits to A'lia' concerning the visit of President Julius Nyere of Tanzania (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1973; 'Amandla', being bulletin of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, Vol.VIII No.6, Oct. 1973 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1975-1976; 'Angola' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1969, 1971, 1976-1979; 'Anti-Apartheid News', being issues of the newspaper of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (UK) and a copy of Apartheid : A Threat to Peace by Abdul S. Minty (1969) (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1973; 'A'lia - Parliamentary Bills' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1974; 'Australian Broadcasting Commission', being transcript of talk by Adbul Minty, Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, broadcsat on 2FC, 31 Mar. 1974 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1968-1970; 'Australian MPs - Speeches, Hansards' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1968; 'Australian Parliamentary Hansards' featuring debate on United Nations resolution calling for complete sanctions against Rhodesia, 30 May 1968 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/7)
1967; 'Azania - Foreign Politics' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
197-; 'Azania - Labor & Industry' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1963; 'Azania - Law', being a copy of South Africa : A Survey by South Africans in Australia, with an article by Edward St. John (Rev. ed., 1963) (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
Date unknown; 'Azania - Liberation Movements' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1963; 'Azania - Political Prisoners' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1970-1977; 'Azania - Non Government Publications' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1978; 'Biko - Feature Articles' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1977; 'Bophutha-Tswana' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1977-1978; 'Botswana, Lesotho & Swaziland' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1975-1979; 'Calendars & Correspondence about Calendars', including correspondence with New Zealand Defence Aid Fund for Southern Africa (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1974-1980; 'CARE [Campaign Against Racial Exploitation]', including minutes of meetings, newsletters and press releases (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/8)
1974-1976; 'CARE - Consumer Campaign, Woolworths', being papers mainly concerning national campaign by anti-apartheid groups in Australia under CARE against the sale of South African and Namibian food products, particularly fish, in Woolworths stores, and including correspondence with Woolworths Ltd (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1975-1977; 'Conzinc Rio Tinto' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1977-1979; 'DEFA Research' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1977-1981; 'Drum Articles', being issues of and articles from the African magazine Drum (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
197-; 'Film Scripts, Slides Etc' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1975-1981; 'Focus', being issues of Focus on Political Repression in Southern Africa : News Bulletin of the International Defence and Aid Fund (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1976-1981; 'Hakika', being issues of Hakika : A Bulletin of Political News and Comment on South Africa, published by Southern Africa Liberation Centre (Sydney, N.S.W.) (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1964-1975; 'IDAF' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1967-1977; 'IDAF 2' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/9)
1976-1977; 'Information from other groups in Sydney' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1970; 'Johannesburg Racist', being issue of Foundation Day magazine of the University of NSW (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1975-1976; 'Liberate Southern Africa', being issues of bulletin of CARE (Canberra) (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1968-1977; 'Namibia' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1977-1980; 'New Afica News' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1975, 1977; 'Newsmedia, Scripts, MSS etc' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1971-1981; 'New Zealand Publications' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1961-1977; 'Pamphlets - Miscellaneous' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/10)
1977-1980; 'Parlty [Parliamentary] Sub-C'ttee on Southern Africa' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1974-1978; 'Pictures, Photographs, Poems', including United Nations photographs of apartheid in South Africa (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1964-1978; 'Race Relations News', being mainly publications of the South African Institute of Race Relations (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1969-1973; 'Racism - General', being mainly newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1970; 'Rhodesian Government Publications', being issue of Rhodesian Scene (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1965-1977; 'Rothmans' concerning campaign against Rothmans of Pall Mall (Australia) Limited, and including correspondence with National Anti-Apartheid Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1964; 'Sachs, E. S.', being correspondence with E. S. Sachs and South Africa Protest : A Campaign for Human Rights in South Africa (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/11)
1969-1979; 'SADAF Newsletter' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1966-1977; 'SADAF Publicity (Pamphlets, Manifestos etc) Press Releases' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1977-1978; 'SALC [South African Liberation Centre] & Africa News' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1970-1980; 'South Africa - Pamphlets Misc' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1963-1979; 'South African Government Pamphlets', with issue of Resister : Bulletin of the Committee on South African War Resistance, No.5 Nov.-Dec. 1979 (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
197-; 'Soweto' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1977; 'Special Articles from the Media' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1963-1973; 'Sport' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1968-1971; 'Sport - Springbok tour 1971' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/12)
1966-1972; 'Universities publications (Includes South African Unis)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)
1966-1970; 'Visiting Speakers' mainly concerning Robert Resha, Director of International Affairs, African National Congress (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)
1975; 'Woolworths' concerning national campaign against the sale of South African foodstuffs by Woolworths (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)
1975-1976; 'Woolworths Campaign & Fishing Industry' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)
1972-1980; 'X-Ray', being issues of X-Ray : On Current Affairs in Southern Africa (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)
1976; 'Zambia - Miscellaneous' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)
1968-1980; 'Zimbabwe - Miscellaneous' (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/13)

E. Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group
1981-1987; Records, including minutes of meetings, correspondence and newsletters (Call No.: MLMSS 6630/14)

Author/artist entries:
Altman, Phyllis
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Australian Council for Overseas Aid
Bandler, H. (Hans)
Barwick, Garfield, Sir, 1903-1997
Brink, John
Burgmann, E. H. (Ernest Henry), 1885-1967
Campaign Against Racial Exploitation
Christesen, C. B. (Clement Byrne), 1911-2003
Coaldrake, Frank W., 1912-1970
Community Aid Abroad (Australia). Southern Africa Group
Else-Mitchell, R. (Rae), 1914-
Everingham, D. N. (Douglas Nixon), 1923-
Fraser, Malcolm, 1930-
Friends of Africa
Hancock, W. K. (William Keith), 1898-1988
Helmrich, Dorothy, 1889-
International Defence and Aid Fund
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
James, Francis, 1918-1992
Jones, Hazel Rose, 1921-1989
Jones, Margaret, 1923-
McAuley, James, 1917-1976
Maclagan, Joan
Minty, Abdul S.
National Anti-Apartheid Committee
New Zealand Defence Aid Fund for Southern Africa
Organization of African Unity
Palmer, Helen G. (Helen Gwynneth), 1917-1979
Rivett, Kenneth
Russo, Peter V. (Peter Vasquez), 1908-1985
Sachs, E. S. (Emil Solomon)
South Africa Protest : A Campaign for Human Rights in South Africa
South African Institute of Race Realations
South African Liberation Centre (Sydney, N.S.W.)
St. John, Edward, 1916-1994
Tennant, Kylie, 1912-1988
Wheeldon, J. M. (John Murray), 1929-
White, Patrick, 1912-1990
Woolworths Ltd
Wright, Judith, 1915-2000