Travel description entitled 'Second trip to the Diamond-fields'

Papers of the Leather Workers' Union.

Examples of passes and permits for work and residence purposes, issued between 1905-1983 to people classified as Natives. (folio items).

(See also National Union of Distributive Workers, AH1494).

Radio 702 interview with Joe Slovo. Relates mainly to the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress.

The documents are arranged in three sections:

The first section A (Boxes 1 and 2) consists of interviews with PAC member (a list is attached).

The second section B (Boxes 3 and 4) consists of some of the ANC, PAC and Black Consciousness papers that were microfilmed for CAMP (Cooperative African. Microform Project). There is an inventory of these microfilms and the numbers of the documents included in these boxes have been circled in the inventory.

The third Section C (Boxes 5 and 6) consists of miscellaneous documents of the same kind as in Section B, arranged roughly by date. (Some of the section C papers may correspond with descriptions in section B but they have not been numbered).

The documents include interviews, biographical profiles, ANC annual reports, newsletters, journals such as The Africanist and African Lodestar, correspondence, flyers about meetings and campaigns, press cuttings including some on Sharpeville and on PAC breakaway from the ANC. There is also material on FOFATUSA (Federation of African Trade Unions of SA).

Correspondents and authors of articles include PK Leballo, CM Makwetu, MC Mampunye, S Motjuwadi, M Nkoana, DJ Nyaose, R Sobukwe, etc.

D. Phil. Thesis, Oxford University, 1990

Title: "The Politics of Non-racialism: white opposition to Apartheid, 1945-1960"

The papers document the political, trade union, and intellectual life of South Africa. There are large quantities of material relating to the South African Trade Union Congress, the South African Trades and Labour Council, and the South African Congress of Trade Unions. The collection is also very strong in material relating to the African National Congress, the Communist Party of South Africa, and its successor, the South African Communist Party. There is also research material relating to Jack and Ray's sociological work on the administration of criminal justice in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and Kenya; the health of rural Africans; health and safety in the mines; legal status of African women; class and race in South Africa; and the industrial colour bar.

Ph.D. Thesis by Catherine Higgs, entitled "The Ghost of Equality: D.D.T. Jabavu and the decline of South African Liberalism, 1885-1959", submitted to Yale University, U.S.A., 1994.