Clive Nettleton was Assistant to the Director of the S.A. institute of Race Relations. This collection comprises SAIRR documents from 1970-1974 including minutes, correspondence, papers, records of the Youth Programme and Open School as well as records of other organisations - such as SASO, NUSAS, and Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre.
Julius Lewin was born in Oudtshoorn in 1907, and was educated at the University of Cape Town (B.A.1928, Ll.B. 1930). He practised at the Bar in Cape Town 1931-1933 and at the Middle Temple in London, 1936, later working as a Research Assistant and Tutor in the Colonial department of the university of London and as a lecturer at the London School of Economics.
From 1939-1967 he was a lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, later Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and African Government at the University of the Witwatersrand. He emigrated to England in 1968, first taking up a research fellowship at the University of Manchester. Later he was visiting professor of public law at Columbia University, New York, {1969) and then he worked at the North East London Polytechnic.
He was a prolific writer, producing 4 books and a great number of articles in British, American and South African journals and newspapers, mainly on the subjects of law and politics in South Africa. He died in 1984.
David Everatt combined years of experience in applied social research, particularly in the areas of youth, violence and voter education in South Africa. He has received a doctorate from the University of Oxford and taught at the Universities of Cape Town, Rhodes and the Witwatersrand. He was formerly the Executive Director of the Community Agency for Social Research (CASE) and later went on to become a founding partner of Strategy and Tactics in 1998.
Also, see collection number A2419 for his PhD entitled "The politics of non-racialism: white opposition to apartheid, 1945-1960".
Abram ("Bram") Fischer was a leading Afrikaner advocate, defence lawyer in the 1956 Treason trial and the 1964 Rivonia trial, a member of the South African Communist Party and the Congress of Democrats.
C.T. Loram 1879-1940, educator and professor of education in South Africa and later at Yale, was inspector of schools in Natal 1906-1917, Chief Inspector of Native Education 1917-1920, member of the South African Native Affairs Commission 1920-1929, Superintendent of Education 1930-1931. He was the first chairman of the South African Institute of Race Relations but left to take up a position at Yale University in 1931.
Member of Parliament for Johannesburg North - Progressive and Democratic parties.
David Webster, born 19/12/1945 in Luanshya, (Northern Rhodesia) Zambia, studied Social Anthropology at Rhodes University and was a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand at the time of his assassination at the hands of a pro-apartheid hit squad on 1 May 1989. He was a dedicated anti-apartheid activist and supporter of NUSAS, the Detainees' Parents Support Committee, and Five Freedoms Forum. His research covered the Va-Chopi of Mozambique, and the Tembe Thonga of Ingwavuma, and he also did studies on poverty, TB and migrant labour. (For detailed biographical notes see file A1)
Broadcaster with SABC, Springbok Radioand Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation.