Summary
Four-page Eenheid-Unity newspaper which is a bilingual South African newspaper connected to the Federal Coloured People's Party. This demonstrates the progressive ideas and actions of Lindsay and Sylvia while they were both living under apartheid.
It includes stories about a record number of coloured nurses graduating from the Somerset Hospital's training program and one about training centres for coloured cadets, as well as a Party News Section.
Sylvia Boyes (a South African-born orphan) and Lindsay Motherwell (a Melbourne-born drummer) met in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 through their theatre connections. They fell in love but due to apartheid laws were forced to leave South Africa to marry in London. They subsequently relocated permanently to Melbourne in 1970.
Physical Description
Four-page newspaper It includes stories about a record number of coloured nurses graduating from the Somerset Hospital's training program and one about training centres for coloured cadests, as well as a Party News Section.
Significance
Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection provides a significant opportunity to represent political and personal freedom as a motivation for migrating to Australia within the international context of both apartheid in South Africa and the end of the White Australia policy in Australia. The personal narrative is well documented and the objects provide a material way to follow the lives of both Lindsay and Sylvia, both separately and where they coincide in South Africa and onwards together to Melbourne. While this is ultimately a love story, it plays out through the collection against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, sixties London and an increasingly multicultural Australia.
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Collecting Areas
Information & Communication, Migration & Cultural Diversity, Politics & Society
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Classification
Politics & public protest, Anti-racism, Promotional materials
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions - Closed
221 mm (Width), 282 mm (Height)
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Overall Dimensions - Open
442 mm (Width), 282 mm (Height)
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Keywords
South African Immigration, Travel, Musicians, Jazz Bands, Immigration Policies, Apartheid, Racism, Newspapers, Political Parties