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   From: zabodie@REMOVETHISgmail.com   
      
   I seriously can't believe Mrs Hayes is still spouting this kind of CRAP   
   after 20 years.   
      
      
      
      
      
   On 8/8/2020 7:39 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > Black Sash celebrates the life of Phoebe Brown:   
   >   
   > Phoebe Brown (nee Barlow), who died on Saturday 25th July, will be   
   > remembered as a quiet, shy, and unassuming person with a strong social   
   > conscience, and a deep concern for people whose situations were very   
   > different from her own.   
   >   
   > She grew up in Somerset West, and went to school at Herschel, an   
   > independent Anglican school for girls in Claremont, Cape Town. While   
   > still living in Cape Town she   
   > volunteered to work for the Cape Flats Distress Association, which was   
   > founded to help alleviate the problems of poverty, disease and   
   > malnutrition on the Cape Flats.   
   >   
   > Her contact with the Black Sash started in 1955 when the then   
   > Nationalist government decided to remove ‘coloured’ voters from the   
   > voters’ role. Phoebe believed that every piece of legislation that was   
   > passed by the apartheid regime was moving away from her values so she   
   > needed to stand against it. She took part in many protest stands   
   > opposite the Pietermaritzburg City Hall, and spoke about one   
   > frightening march organised by the University of Natal. It was night   
   > time and many carried banners, and torches; young men ran alongside   
   > the marchers taunting them, and the police joined the unruly mob. At   
   > least one of the marchers was set alight when a torch behind him fell,   
   > although no one was seriously hurt.   
   >   
   > Phoebe met Peter Brown at the Durban July Handicap in 1948, and they   
   > were married in Somerset West on 15 April 1950, holding their   
   > reception at the historic wine estate Vergelegen, owned by the Barlow   
   > family.   
   >   
   > Peter soon became very involved in anti-apartheid activities, with   
   > many friends from a wide range of social and racial backgrounds. Among   
   > his many activities, he was Natal Chairperson of the Liberal Party,   
   > formed on 9 May 1953, and banned by the regime in 1968. He was also   
   > instrumental in the 1979 founding of The Association for Rural   
   > Advancement to support rural communities in their resistance to forced   
   > removals imposed by the Black Spots legislation designed to move black   
   > people from freehold land in areas that the Nationalist regime   
   > declared white. He was imprisoned during the 1960 State of Emergency,   
   > and later ‘banned’ from public life for a decade from 1974 to 1984,   
   > confined to their house in the Pietermaritzburg district, and required   
   > to report weekly to the local police station. When he needed to visit   
   > their farm at Mooi River he had to have permission and was told on   
   > which day he could go, and which day to return.   
   >   
   > Throughout this turmoil Phoebe was always an enormous support to   
   > Peter, she simply did not make an issue of their difficulties, nor try   
   > to divert Peter from his political activities. She knew their house   
   > was continually watched by security police, but tried not to be   
   > intimidated by this. She was allowed to visit the schools of their   
   > children, Christopher, Vanessa and Anton, and to move around   
   > relatively freely, but she chose to stay at home in order to give   
   > Peter as much support as possible.   
   >   
   > When asked how she felt about the closure of the membership of the   
   > Black Sash in 1995 Phoebe said that by this time she had began to feel   
   > a bit alienated by the young, feminist, seemingly radical women who   
   > had joined the organisation. She remembered a meeting she went to with   
   > Joy Roberts, when they initially felt they had come to the wrong   
   > venue, waited a while, and then discovered that it was, in fact, the   
   > Black Sash meeting.   
   >   
   > However, she remained committed to the work of the Black Sash,   
   > regularly attending gatherings. One of the last things she said to me   
   > was, “I was proud of having belonged to the Black Sash, and I still   
   > am. I have always kept my Sash.”   
   >   
   > - Mary Kleinenberg (1 August 2020)   
   >   
   > http://www.blacksash.org.za/…/tributes-to-black-sash-stalwa…   
   >   
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