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Transvaal Rifle Volunteers, Records

  • ZA HPRA A120
  • Fonds
  • 1879

Minute-book and company record of No. 2 Company, Pretoria 8 March - 6 August 1879

Includes press clippings on rifle competitions and volunteer news and a list of those invited to a dance on 28 July 1879. The Commandant was Colonel Lanyon.

Also in the volume is the provisional share register of the Henry Nourse Prospecting Syndicate. The Syndicate held three blocks of claims on Doornfontein, Witwatersrand Gold Fields.

Travel diary

  • ZA HPRA A3400
  • Fonds
  • 1917 - 1918

The travel diary contains the notes of a lady (unknown) during her honeymoon in 1917-1918, travelling the Cape. She describes events and places such as Stormsrivier Drift, Knysna and Wynberg in Cape Town.

The last page of the diary includes the transcript of a letter written to her by her husband, named Christopher Morley (?).

Also included a loose letter, dated 6 January 1849, from the General Post Office, addressed to Francis Milnes, informing her of an appointment to the Postoffice in Aberdeen.

TRC Interviews: Oral History Project

  • ZA HPRA A2985
  • Fonds
  • 2004 - 2005

TRC INTERVIEWS Transcripts and Tapes 71 interviews recorded on tape cassettes.
40 of the interviews have been transcribed, and are kept in box no.1+2.

Treason Trial 1956

  • ZA HPRA AD1812
  • Fonds
  • 1956 - 1961

Records relating to the Treason Trial, Regina vs. F. Adams and 152 others on a charge of High Treason, 1956-1961.

Including: Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, printed items and court records including preparatory examination, indictment, arraignment and evidence, admissions, addresses, closing arguments, judgments and documentary exhibits. The exhibits relate to organisations including African National Congress, Communist Party of South Africa, Congress of Democrats, Congress of the People, Federation of South African Women, Natal Indian Congress, South African Coloured People's Association, South African Indian Congress, South African Peace Council, Springbok Legion, Transvaal Indian Congress, and to cultural-political groups, vigilance associations and trade unions. Also included are press summaries and bulletins of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. Amonst the many accused were Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Z.K. Matthews, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu.

South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)

Trials - Domestic Violence and Murder

  • ZA HPRA AK3088
  • Fonds
  • 1991 - 2001

Trial records are all cases of alleged murder of husbands by wives who had suffered domestic abuse and violence.

The records include petitions for clemency because of the abuse suffered by the perpetrators prior to the crime.

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