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Jan Christiaan Smuts

  • ZA HPRA A1480
  • Fonds
  • 1944

A synopsis of a series of 13 radio programmes on the life of J.C. Smuts, former Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. The programmes were compiled by S.G. Millin and presented in the Hotel Plaza, New York, on the 21 April 1944.

Sarah Gertrude Millin

Group Areas Act (Act No. 41 of 1950) Records

  • ZA HPRA A1485
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 1962

Records on the effects of the Act on the Indian community.

The collection includes a copy of the Act and memorandum on its administration.

Memoranda and press clippings 1953-1962 on its effects on the Indian community.

Agenda book of the 20th session of the South African Indian Congress Conference 1952.

Draft resolutions and papers presented to the Conference on the Group Areas Act convened by the Natal Indian Congress, 5-6 May 1956, Durban.

Agenda book and papers presented to the All-in Group Areas Conference of the Transvaal Indian Congress, 25-26 August 1956.

Reverend William Alfred Norton Papers

  • ZA HPRA A149
  • Fonds
  • 1918-1928

Papers relating to the history of the Basuto and Norton's work under the Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM).

Reverend William Alfred Norton

Emile Brehier

  • ZA HPRA A15
  • Fonds
  • 1937

Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Paris

'La signification du discours de la méthode': an address to the Descartes Tercentenary Celebration held by the Philosophical Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1937.

Accompanied by a translation into English by Dr. E.M. Papenfus and correspondence.

South African Mutual Life Assurance Society, Records

  • ZA HPRA A150
  • Fonds
  • 1845-1945

Photocopies of 16 original letters, documents and reports 1845-1908; Geskiedenis van het Zuidafrikaanse Onderlinge Levensverzekering genootschap 1845-1945 deur R. Van Selm, Cape Town, 1945.

C.F. von Huegel, Letter

  • ZA HPRA A151
  • Fonds
  • 8 June 1796

Letter, The Hague, to the 'Burgers Representanten' appointed by the National Assembly.

Encloses papers relating to his case and says he was the only captain of the whole Cape garrison who remained faithful to the Batavian Republic and did not submit to the English at the Cape.

Mock, a written will

  • ZA HPRA A152
  • Fonds
  • 16 September 1795

Will of William of Nassau and his wife distributing their possessions to various individuals at the Cape.

Maurits Bartels, Papers

  • ZA HPRA A153
  • Fonds
  • 1796-1801

Merchant, Cape of Good Hope

Correspondence and papers addressed to De Heeren J. Temmink en C. Van Twist, Amsterdam, re business affairs.

Robert E.E. Wilmot, Diary

  • ZA HPRA A1537
  • Fonds
  • 30 January - 22 July 1856

Diary of Robert Edward Eardley Wilmot (1830-1861), Captain of the 15th Company of rifle Volunteers and Magistrate of the County of Derby.

The diary, which was written between 30 January 1856 - 22 July 1856, describes a journey from Port Elizabeth through the Eastern Province of the Cape of Good Hope, during which he visited mission stations and military forts. Wilmot comments on the tribes, frontier politics, the importance of missions, natural history and on individuals such as Bishop J. Armstrong, C. Brownlee, A. de Smidt, J.B. Ebden, Bishop R. Gray, Sir G. Grey, T.J. Lucas, Chief Sandile, Sir R. Southey and Bishop T.E. Welby.

Wilmot, Robert Edward Eardley

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