On the bequest of £200,000 left by Alfred Beit to 'The University of Johannesburg' and the subsequent history of the bequest. Correspondents incluee O. Beit, B.F. Hawksley, F.S. Malan, L.Phillips, J.C. Smuts and Sir J. Wernher.
The collection contains the personal papers of Alexandre (Alex) Moumbaris, particularly his arrest, trial and imprisonment in South Africa. Also included are related documents covering the various anti-Apartheid movements in France, over and above Alex Moumbaris' records relating to his work for the African National Congress (ANC) and political activism, including the work of his wife Marie-José for BIAA and the ANC and anti-Apartheid movements, as well as documents relating to 'Okhela'.
Records of the Alexandra Local Peace Committee, a structure of the National Peace Accord in the Wits-Vaal Region. The records were assembled by Rev Dr Liz Carmichael, the Churches' Representative and first convernor of the Alexandra Interim Crisis Committee.
An account, compiled in 1935, describing how an elderly Zulu warrior was killed by order of Cetshwayo because he had dared to become a Christian. Also included two items of correspondence.
Possible different spelling provided as Maqamusela.
Correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Garment Workers Union, the South African Trades and Labour Council and the South African Defence and Aid Fund.
The collection consists of the scrap book of Alec Crosby, a lay worker at St. Mary's Mission, Ovamboland, from 1924-1931.
It includes manuscript notes, press clippings, photographs and printed reports, describing the early days of St. Mary's Mission in Ovamboland which was started by the Rev. George Tobias (later Bishop of Damaraland). Crosby was the brother-in-law of Tobias and worked as an agricultural and industrial instructor at the Mission.
The collection contains various papers relating to Chief Albert Lutuli, President-General of the African National Congress. A number of copies of correspondence originate from the evidence presented at the 1956 Treason Trial; two original letters written by Albert Lutuli, were taken from the Treason Trial Defense folder.