| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, leaflets, copies of published material, leaflets, newsletters, reports and funding requests relating to South African Military Refugee Assistance Fund (SAMRAF), Alternative Service and the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR). Funding source(s): Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: SAMRAF was established to establish the rights of conscientious objectors in a non-apartheid South Africa. The organisation also seeks to assist those fleeing conscription in South Africa. COSAWR is an organisation of South African war resisters and conscientious objectors in Britain and the Netherlands who have become political refugees rather than serve in the apartheid armed forces. COSAWR functions as a self-help group raising the issue of militarism and war resistance in South Africa, providing assistance to refugees and public information and research activities. Nature of support: In 1978 the Fund approved a grant of £750 to SAMRAF to cover three months of publishing costs for its newsletter, 'Omkeer'. In 1980 the Trust approved a grant of £600 to COSAWR to allow it to publish three additional editions of 'Resister'. A further £900 was allocated to COSAWR publishing costs in 1981. Minutes: BCF 2003, BCF 2151. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered '2/3/1'. |