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Bishop Ambrose Reeves Papers

  • ZA HPRA AB388
  • Fonds
  • 1949 - 1962

Personal and official correspondence and memoranda on diocesan affairs such as church schools and orphanages, retreats, ordination candidates and the Bishop's matrimonial court, and on contemporary questions such as Bantu education and housing, marriage guidance, juvenile delinquency, mental health and church unity.

Reeves, Bishop Ambrose Richard

Shooting at Sharpeville: The agony of South Africa, Book

  • ZA HPRA CPSA0003
  • Fonds
  • 1960

The book was written by Ambrose Reeves during his time as Bishop of the Diocese of Johannesburg, with the assistance of Mary Benson and Christian Action, with reference to Jack Halpern. It contains a Foreword by Chief Luthuli.
The book was banned on the 24 February 1961, and included in the "Jacobsens" Index of Objectionable Literature under its titles "Bloedbad in Sharpeville" and "Shooting at Sharpeville. It was unbanned on the 9 January 1987, Government Gazette entry 10578, according to a note on the back cover of one of the books.

Reeves, Bishop Ambrose Richard