Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1860-1946 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
4 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Sub-Native Commissioner, Northern Transvaal, Native Affairs Department of the Republic of South Africa, in the early 20th century.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection comprises the memoirs and some of the official and personal papers of Donald Rolfes Hunt, a Sub-Native Commissioner who worked amongst the Bapedi people in the Lydenburg district of the Transvaal in the early Twentieth Century.
Reference is made to Hunt's experiences in the 2nd Anglo-Boer war and the first world war, but the collection focuses on the history, culture and administration of the people with whom he worked: the Bapedi; the Bakgatla, the Barolong, the Batlokwa & the Batlov. Much of the material relates to directives of The Native Affairs Department of The Transvaal; also included are government and other publications, annotated by Hunt, as well as maps and a photograph album compiled by Hunt. He died on 3 May 1949.