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Liturgy records

  • ZA HPRA AB1038
  • Fundos
  • 1935 - 1975

(See also: AB Ross Paull E.R. papers).

Louis De Souza

  • ZA HPRA A781
  • Fundos
  • September 1899 - June 1900

The De Souza papers consist primarily of copies of telegrams which were kept by Louis de Souza in his capacity of Secretary for War in Krugers cabinet. When the British captured Pretoria in June 1900, he took the telegrams to a place of safety. For many years they lay in a tin trunk of the garage of his son Cyril Webley Lovell de Souza. They were re-discovered in 1950 when the tin trunk was opened and 7 cardboard files were found in it, containing tissue-thin copies in perfect condition. C.W.L. de Souzas first attempt to have a selection published came to nothing and the papers were replaced in the trunk. In 1966 a reporter from The Star visited Mr de Souza at Pafuri on the Mozambique border and asked permission to publish a few. These articles aroused the interest of Professor Marais of the Department of History at the University of the Witwatersrand, who spent some time going through the telegrams and said they were a most valuable treasure of Africana. The papers were subsequently purchased by the University of the Witwatersrand, 16 April 1972, from F.C.L de Souza and J.J.L de Souza, the sons of C.W.L. de Souza, who died in 1967 before the publication of a selection of the telegrams under the title No charge for delivery, Cape Town, Books of Africa in 1969.

The papers consist of 7118 items, of which 7049 were telegrams and 69 other miscellaneous items. They cover the years 1899-1900, from the beginning of the War to the capture of Pretoria in June 1900. They are mostly in High Dutch and a few are in English. The telegrams consist of 6999 flimsy copies and 19 originals. From them, a very clear picture emerges of the difficulties of fighting a war with volunteer commandos, the members of which were not amenable to discipline. The senders and recipients included the Presidents of the Boer republics, the Boer generals, other civilian and military officials and a few from the British officials and military officers. Subjects covered included descriptions of skirmishes and battles, requests for reinforcements, news of enemy troop movements.

The British blockade prevented supplies reaching the republics. There is much concerning the treatment of prisoners, the cutting of railway lines, the effect of the war on the civilian population and differences between the Boer generals.

In addition to the telegrams, there are 69 miscellaneous items of correspondence, notes, count summonses, proclamations and notes. They refer mainly to the treatment of British prisoners in Pretoria and to the Boer and British casualties. Of there the most interesting are 3 drafts of telegrams apparently in the handwriting of W.S. Churchill, describing his capture and giving his impressions of the Boers and the possible length of the war. They were attached to a letter from Dr. J.W.B. Gunning, a member of the Board of Management which administered the officers prisoner-of- war camp in the State Model School, Pretoria, to L. de Souza (also a member of the Board), in which Gunning recommends the censorship of certain words as likely to persuade the Imperial government to send more troops from India and Britain to fight against the Boers. He also accuses Churchill of continued jingoism and says he doesnt trust him. It appears that the telegrams were never sent. This is substantiated by Churchills own account of the armoured train incident in which he was captured, published by The Morning Post on 1 January 1900 and later reprinted in his book. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria was dispatched by him from Durban in late December (see R. Churchill Winston Churchill v.1, p.461). The handwriting of these drafts has been compared with real and facsimile versions of Churchills script and the similarities are so great that it seems certain that they were written by Churchill.

Archbishops of Cape Town, Part 2 records

  • ZA HPRA AB1363
  • Fundos
  • 1840 - 1982

The first part of the collection of the records of the Archbishop of Cape Town was transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand Library in 1974 to be added to the central Record Library of the C.P.S.A. which, since 1937, had been in the care of the University Library. It was described in 'Selected Records of the Archbishops of Cape Town', No. 6 in the Library's series of Historical and Literary Inventories of Collections,.

This present inventory, 'Selected Records of the Archbishops of Cape Town Part II', describes records transferred to the Library in instalments from 1980 to 1990 from Bishopscourt, the home of the Archbishop of Cape Town, by Mrs. A.R. 14o-tee. Provincial Archivist. The records in Part II relate, in general, to the years 1940 to 1982, later period then those in Part I but there is some overlap, there being several items from as far back as 1840.

It in a large collection in 288 pamphlet boxes and follows the alphabetical arrangement by subject used at Bishopscourt. A condensed description of each subject file is given in the inventory together with an index of personal names, churches, parishes and selected subject fields. For the benefit of researchers a list of the names of bishops in each diocese, from the origin of the diocese to date, has been provided together with a map showing the dioceses or the C.P.S.A. in existence in 1991.

The records relate to the whole of the C.P.S.A. but there is a heavy preponderance of Cape documentation because of the Archbishop's residing in Cape Town and his dual role as head of The Diocese of Cape Town as well as being Metropolitan, for the Province. They include the Archbishop's correspondence with bishops of the various dioceses and with individual members of the clergy. Not only do the records show the inspiration of the C.P.S.A. and its work, particularly in the fields education, health and social services, but they also reflect the Church's attitude to social and political problems in South Africa,.

There is much about the Church's confrontation with the State over the issue of apartheid, notably the effects of the Group Areas Act on black churches in white areas and the admission or all races to church schools. Other topics are conscientious objection and the refusal of young Anglicans, both lay and clerical, to serve in the South African Defence Force and the question of Namibia's independence and the expulsion of Bishops Mize and Winter for promoting it.

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Edward Arthur Maund Papers

  • ZA HPRA A77
  • Fundos
  • 1885 - 1930

Correspondence, diary, telegrams, reports, notes, printed items, scrap-book, photographs, share certificates and photograph albums relating principally to Rhodesia, the Charter Company, the gold mining concession from Lobengula and the Matabele Rebellion. Other subjects are the Warren expedition to Bechuanaland 1885 and a visit to Tunisia by Maund in 1887. The scrap-book relates to gold mining on the Witwatersrand 1896-1898 including items on the Barnato Group of Companies (J.C.I.), Chamber of Mines, Black labour, the Gold Law, the cyanide process and a report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry, 1897, appointed by the Volksraad.

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Stephen C Volz

  • ZA HPRA A3218
  • Fundos
  • 2006

Dissertation for a D Phil, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006, entitled "'From the mouths of our countrymen': the careers and communities of Tswana evangelists in the nineteenth century.".

S.G. Byala

  • ZA HPRA A3230
  • Fundos
  • 2006

Copy of the PhD Thesis submitted by S.G. Byala to Harvard University, 2006, entitled "Thinking in three dimensions: John Gubbins, Museum Africa and the making of modern Johannesburg 1902-2004".

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