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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.

Tsiamelo: A Place of Goodness

  • ZA HPRA A3291
  • Fonds
  • 1984

Made by Ellen Kuzwayo, Betty Wolpert, Blanche Tsimatsima. Directed by Betty Wolpert.

The collection consists of background material to the documentary film "Tsiamelo: A place of goodness, produced by Betty Wolpert. The film is based on a project undertaken by Ellen Kuzwayo, where she tells the story of the friendship between her grandfather and Sol Plaatje, and their efforts to have the 1913 Native Land Act repealed. The consequences of this act on succeeding generations are explained, and made vivid to the viewer through the story of the removal of mrs. Kuzwayo's aunt, Blanche Tsimatsima, from the family farm Tsiamelo.

The collection contains mostly photographic material, being copies of existing archival originals, prints of family photos, photos taken during the film production, few copies of letters and a digital copy of the video "Tsiamelo - a place of goodness".

Wolpert, Betty

Tudor Gruffyd Trevor, Novel

  • ZA HPRA A121
  • Fonds
  • 1902

Geologist, mining official and author of 'Forty years in Africa'

"Tradition counts" a novel set partly in Johannesburg.

Tuli Elephants, Records

  • ZA HPRA A2926
  • Fonds
  • 1995-2002

The collection contains court records, correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the legal matter between the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) and African Game Services / African Game Properties, held at the Magistrate's Court for the District of Brits, held at Brits.

Between 1998 and 2000, thirty wild baby elephants were forcibly removed from their mothers and families in Botswana and taken to South Africa, where their spirits were intentionally broken for captive exhibition and display to feed the trade in wild animals.

Because of the conditions under which these elephants were 'trained', a case of cruelty to animals was brought against wild-life dealer and owner of African Game Services (AGS), Riccardo Ghiazza, and his employee. Five years later they were found guilty. The legal wrangle around the Tuli elephants illustrated how weak animal protection legislation is in South Africa.

Fiona Macleod

Umuhle ... Umubi - The good one ... the bad one

  • ZA HPRA A3379
  • Fonds
  • 2013

The television documentary was inspired by the story of the march of about 7000 Zulu mine workers from the Witwatersrand to the rural areas of Zululand / Natal at the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899. The repatriation march of the mine workers was led by John Sydney Marwick, a public servant at the time, saving them from certain starvation, as Gold mining on the Witwatersrand had come to a grinding halt.
The documentary places the story of John Sydney Marwick against the historic background of British colonial conquest in Natal and resistance by the Zulu nation, covering the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 to the Bambatha rebellion of 1906.

Kevin Harris

Unemployment Commission records

  • ZA HPRA A1280
  • Fonds
  • 1920 - 1921

Minutes of Evidence pp. 1-5777.

Preliminary Memoranda of Evidence 1st Sitting 27 September 1920.

Chairman: Mr H.L. Lindsay.

Verbatim Record of Conference between Mayors of Reef towns and the Supt. of White Labour on the Question of Unemployment 1 October 1920.

Union Day Photograph

  • ZA HPRA A3304
  • Fonds
  • 1910

One photograph of the Union Day celebrations that took place in Johannesburg on the 31 May 1910. The photo shows a sportsground and the march past of 12,000 children carrying the British flag, with inscription on the photo.

Not original photo.

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