Correspondents: J.H. Hofmeyr, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, D.B. Molteno, F.C. Sturrock, Q. Whyte.

Subjects:

1935 Analysis of the Native Bills.

1939 Farm labour in the Orange Free State.

1941 Race relations.

1946 Proposed incorporation of S.W. Africa in the Union.

1946 Proposal by Rheinallt Jones that the Institute should help the Prime Minister with regard to race relations.

1947 Literacy for Africans.

1947 Natives Representative Council.

1948 Request that the Leech bequest for the South African Betterment Fund be exempt from death duties.

1948 Operation of Apprenticeship Act.

1948 Apartheid.

Includes memoranda issued by the Institute 1946-1948 and an address by J.D. Rheinallt Jones on the international aspect of race relations, 1946.

Subjects:

1936 The Inter-Departmental Committee on Native Education.

1948 Expenditure on Black education.

1948 Report of the Second General Conference of UNESCO by the Secretary for Union Education.

1948 Vocational education.

NUSAS' complaint about the introduction of apartheid to Universities.

Page-proofs of P.C. Schoonees' 'Die Afrikaanse woordeboek' BAALBAIR.

National Commission for UNESCO in the Union.

Correspondents: C.F. Clarkson (Minister of the Interior), J.H. Hofmeyr, J.S. Hurter (Minister of the Interior), E.G. Jansen (Land and Agricultural Bank), J.D. Rheinallt Jones, Q. Whyte.

Subjects:

1935 Decision to erect a monument to commemorate the Voortrekkers.

1942 Ownership of the Monument: the Central National Monuments Committee or the government.

1943 Expenditure on the monument.

1944 Transfer of the land on which the monument stands.

1945 Frieze for monument showing murder of Boers by Zulus likely to offend.

1946 Question of the Board of Control.

Subject:

Correspondents: J.H. Hofmeyr, P.O. Sauer.

The approach made by Hans and Karlow Denk, on behalf of Germany, to nationalist politicians in South Africa in 1940, offering to recognise an enlarged South Africa (to include Rhodesia and the Protectorates) in return for South Africa's neutrality in the war and return of Germany's colonies.

Includes copies of documents from the German Foreign 0ffice, 1940, and a legal opinion by H.M. Block and L. de V. van Winsen, 17 June 1946, on the culpability of Dr Malan for not reporting this approach to the authorities.

Correspondents: Sir S. Raza Ali, F.N. Broome, L.C. Caney, C.F. Clarkson, Durban Joint Words Committee, W.L. Eales (Sec. for Labour), Bishop C. Ferguson-Davie, I.I. Hazaree, J.H. Hofmeyr, Indian Freedom League, A. Ismail, J.D. Rheinallt Jones, A.I. Kajee, H. Lawrence, A.H. Moosa, S.R. Naidoo, S.M. Nana, Natal Indian Congress, C.H. Neame (Sec. for Justice), J. Nehru, P.R. Pather, O. Pirow, J.H. Smit, J.C. Smuts, South African Indian Congress, C. Stallard, A.M. Stern, R. Stuttaford, Transvaal Cape Malay Association, Transvaal Indian Congress, J. Vlok, I. Walker, M. Webb.

Subjects:

1934 Employment of white girls in Asiatic shops in Springs.

1936 Proposal that the government forbid the employment of Europeans by Asiatics.

1937 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Bill.

1937 Reaction to the Asiatic Bills (Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Bill and Provincial Legislative Powers Extension Bill).

1938 Criticisms of the Transvaal Land Tenure Commission Report.

1939-1941 Question of the government implementing the Feetham Commission resolution that certain Transvaal Indians be permitted to own land in otherwise prohibited areas.

1941-1943 Reaction to the proposal to extend the Asiatic Transvaal Land and Trading Act.

1942 The problem of segregating Indians.

1943 Complaint about Colonel Stallard's attitude to the Indian question.

1944 Application of the Pegging Act in Natal and request for its repeal.

1944 Need for improved civic amenities for Durban's Indians.

1944 0bjections to the Draft Residential Property Regulations Ordinance and question of whether the ordinance is intra vires the powers of the Provincial Council.

1944 Government of India's statement that they will not be bound by any agreement between Natal Indian Congress and the Union government.

1944 Statement by Natal Indian Congress on the Natal Housing Draft 0rdinance.

1944 Deputation from Natal Indian Congress to the Prime Minister.

1945 Demand by Indians for repeal of repressive legislation, right to purchase property and to have the franchise.

1946 Resolution by the United Nations General Assembly on the treatment of Indians in South Africa.

1946Report of the deputation to the Prime Minister, 11 February1946.

1946 Reaction to the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill.

1947 Establishment of an Indian Advisory Board.

1947Boycott of Indian shops in the Transvaal.

1947 Natal Indian Provincial Conference: resolutions.

1947 Need to improve Indian-European relations.

1948 Round table conference on the Indian question.

Includes notes by Hofmeyr on mixed marriages and on the employment of Europeans by Non-Europeans 1937 and draft letters to Pirow on Asiatic penetration and to the Indian Agent-General on the proposed commission 1937; account of a meeting between Hofmeyr and Smuts on Indian penetration 1937; memorandum by the Transvaal Indian Congress on the Transvaal Land and Trading Act, 1943, (45p.); memorandum by L. Blackwell on the Transvaal Land Tenure Amendment Act 1936 (34p.); memorandum by Colin Legum 'Background to the Indian boycott movement' (5p.); resolutions and presidential address of South African Indian Congress 1946; draft letter from Hofmeyr to Smuts on the Asiatic Bill 1946; broadcast by G. Heaton Nicholls, 1947 (op.); talk to Maritzburg Rotary by A.I. Kajee, 1947 (6p.).

Correspondents: H.J. Bodenstein, A. Broeksma, J.H. Hofmeyr, P.F. Kincaid, J.C. Smuts.

Subjects:

1934 Proposal to end anti-Jewish feeling and boycott by legislation and through the public service.

1936 Importance of the universities not subscribing to anti-Semitism.

1936-1937 Statistics of the country of origin of immigrants.

1936-1937 Appeal by General Smuts for an end to anti-Semitism.

1936-1937 Anti-Jewish feeling in. South Africa.

1936-1937 Problems of refugees from Europe and need to control immigration.

1936-1937 Jewish interest in and contribution to education.

1937-1938 Operation of the Aliens Act.

1937 Dangers of fascism in South Africa.

1938 Religious and racial persecution.

1939 Proposed restriction on aliens in the exercise of trades, professions etc.

1939 Criticism of Eric Louw's Aliens (Amendment) and Immigration Act.

1939 Benefits gained in Britain from the skills of immigrants.

1939 Question of "assimability" of Jews.

1939 Denial by Jews that South Africa is being flooded with Jewish immigrants.

Includes memorandum on European immigration to South Africa, signed by E.H. Louw, H.D. van Broekhuuzen, A. Heymans, C.T. te Water and S.F. Cie, 1936 (19p); notes on the Jewish question by J.H. Hofmeyr and an article by him 'The position of Jewry today' published in Common Sense, September 1939.

Subjects:

1946 United Nations criticism of South Africa's rule in South West Africa.

1946 Agreement between United National South West Party and the National Party of South West Africa re the constitutional future of the territory.

1946 Exchange of telegrams between Hofmeyr, Smuts and the South African legations in Paris, New York and Washington re the presentation of South Africa's case before U.N.O.

1946 America's views on the subject of the mandate.

1947 Report of cabinet sub-committee on Germans recommended for deportation.

1947 German activities in South West Africa: a memorandum by E. Emmett (177p.).

Correspondents: C.W. Connell, C.W.A. Coulter, R. Currie, J.S. Dunn, G. Foster, J.H. Hofmeyr, A.A. Hope. W.H. Hutt, E. Knight, W.M. Martin, C. Meeser, R.S. Mennie, J.A. Neser, L.S. Raymond, W. Southey, A. van Eyssen, J. Weil, S. Williams.

Subjects:

1931 Trend of commodity gold prices.

1931 Evidence of Low Grade Ore Commission.

1931 Gold in relation to industrial prosperity.

1931 Price stabilising policy of the British government.

1931 Theory that European and American depression due to loss of Eastern trade markets.

1931 Need for an index of real values.

1932 Question of South Africa remaining on the gold standard " Possibility of Hofmeyr resigning over the gold issue.

1932 Problem of remedying capital shortage.

1932 Desperate plight of farming community.

1933 Question of the mining industry being allowed to retain gold premium, which resulted from South Africa leaving the gold standard.

1933 The gold premium and mining taxation.

1933 Reaction to the Gold Mines Excess Profits Duty Bill.

1933 Necessity to lower mine taxation to allow for capital development.

Includes Report of the proceedings at a general meeting of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines on the gold standard, 1931 (13 pages) and statement by the Gold Producers Committee, 1932 (24 pages).