Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1970-1983 (Production)
- 1967-1993 (Production)
Niveau de description
collection
Étendue matérielle et support
43 boxes of transcripts, 198 sheets of microfiches in 83 envelopes, 201 tapes, cassette and 1/4 inch and 29 sets of additional notes found within tape boxes, 114 slides
Zone du contexte
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Oral interviews related to the history of Swaziland and neighbouring regions, mostly taken from oral accounts of events passed down through clans. Mainly in SiSwati with English translations in some cases.
The bulk of the material dates from 1970, collected by Philip Bonner, and 1983, collected by Carolyn Hamilton, working with a number of SiSwati-speaking researchers and assistants. Some of the interviews were undertaken at the behest of Bonner and Hamilton. Others were undertaken at the behest of the Swazi King, Sobhuza II, or by the Swaziland Broadcasting Corporation and others were collected by or given to the Swaziland Oral History Project in the early 1980's.
The description of this collection is mainly based on the written information available on the outside of tapes and tape boxes, microfiche pockets, and on the covers of the 'jotters'. It was not possible to establish the exact content on the tapes, the microfiches and slides.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Conditions de reproduction
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Instruments de recherche
Instrument de recherche téléversé
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
The digital items from this collection were used in the curation of this project for the 500 Year Archive, a project of the NRF Chair in Archive and Public Culture, based in the History Department, University of Cape Town. https://fhya.org/fhya-curation-of-a-selection-of-the-swaziland-oral-history-project-from-historical-papers-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg
Zone des notes
Note
The digitisation of the audio recordings in this collection was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 2012.
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
2019
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Note de l'archiviste
This inventory was re-compiled by Ruth Muller in 2015 as part of the Five Hundred Year Archive Project with funding from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the National Research Foundation.