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State vs Hélène Passtoors, Trial records

  • ZA HPRA AK2426
  • Fonds
  • 1986

Hélène Passtoors was charged with treason in 1986. She was observed establishing an arms cache and it was found that she had knowledge of other arms caches and that she was a supporter of the ANC. She was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.

Satchwell, Kathleen

State vs Cedric Mayson

  • ZA HPRA AK2428
  • Fonds
  • 1982 - 1983

Cedric Mayson was accused in 1982 of high treason or alternatively of terrorism and furthering the aims of the ANC. The case was heard in the Supreme Court but during an adjournment Mayson absconded and left the country so the case was never concluded.

Detainees

  • ZA HPRA AK2450
  • Fonds
  • 1984 - 1989

Also files on Wits Students, Women's group (detained at Moroka), Krugersdorp detainees, and miscellaneous files, etc.

Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA), Part 1

  • ZA HPRA AH646
  • Fonds
  • 1915 - 1954

Minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, newsletters and press clippings relating to TUCSA and its predecessors the Cape Federation of Labour Unions, the South African Industrial Federation, the South African Trade Union cngress and South Africn Trades and Labour Council, and to individual trade unions.
Topics are labour relations, industrial legislation, African trade unions, 1922 strike, trade union unity, relations with the government and trade union organisations overeas. Includes material on the National Health Services commission.
The records are of interest not only to the economic and industrial historian but also to those researching the social and political history of South Africa. Topics covered include: individual unions, their relationship to each other and the attempts to form a national association and so bring unity to the trade union movement; relations between South African trade unionism and international bodies, with political parties in South Africa such as the Labour Party and the Communist Party and with government through its committees, commissions, boards and departments; disputes, strikes, arbitration and industrial legislation; race relations, job reservation and the recognition of Black, Coloured and Asiatic unions.

Anna M Cunningham April 1979.

Abbreviations.

AEU Amalgamated Engineering Union.

BWIU Building Workers Industrial Union.

ERPM East Rand Proprietary Mines.

FWIU Furniture Workers Industrial Union.

GWU Garment Workers Union.

ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

ICU Industrial and Commercial Workers Union.

IFTU International Federation of Trade Unions.

ILO International Labour Organisation.

MLA Member of Legislative Assembly.

MPC Member of Provincial Council.

MTWA Manufacturing Tailors Workers Association.

NEC National Executive Committee.

NUDW National Union of Distributive Workers.

SAAEO South African Association of Employees Organisations.

SAAME South African Association of Municipal Employees.

SAIF South African Industrial Federation.

SALP South African Labour Party.

SAMWU South African Mine Workers Union.

SAP South African Party.

SAR and H South African Railways and Harbours.

SATUC South African Trades and Labour Council.

SATUC South African Trades Union Congress.

TUC Trades Union Congress.

TWIU Textile Workers Industrial Union.

TWU Tobacco Workers Union.

WEA Workers Educational Association.

WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions.

WTA Witwatersrand Tailors Association.

WWMA Witwatersrand White Miners Association.

Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)

Church of the Province of South Africa, Constitution

  • ZA HPRA AB1160
  • Fonds
  • 15 February 1876

Ratified deed, with the signatures of W.W. Jones, Bp. of Cape Town and Metropolitan, N.J. Merriman, Bp. of Grahamstown, and others.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

"Now and Then", Newsletter

  • ZA HPRA AG3387
  • Fonds
  • 1960-1962

The newsletter "Now and Then" was published by the local committee of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) at the Johannesburg College of Education, and later became the official newspaper of the Johannesburg College of Education.

Included are the following issues:
First - Third issue 1960 and 12 October 1960
March, April, May, August, November 1961
April and September 1962

National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)

Anna Bremont

  • ZA HPRA A16
  • Fonds
  • 1850

Comtesse de, Author of The Gentleman digger, London, S. Low, 1891, and A son of Africa, London, Greening 1899.

'The burning of Johannesburg, a Christmas story of South Africa founded on historic fact.
Relates to the Tyumie valley massacre of the military villages at Woburn and Auckland on Christmas Day 1850.

British Association of Science

  • ZA HPRA A17
  • Fonds
  • 1905

Photograph album entitled 'The British Association meeting, South Africa 1905'.

Photographs taken by delegates on board ship, in Madeira, Las Palmas, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, Kenya and Egypt.
The South African scenes include Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Pretoria, Johannesburg (Chinese labourers and mining scenes), Bloemfontein, Kimberley and places of Anglo-Boer War interest; the Rhodesian scenes include Bulawayo, Umtali, Matopos, Victoria Falls and Bridge.

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