This collection consists of audio-recordings and transcripts of interviews conducted with ZAPU survivors and other individuals portrayed in the Zenzo Nkobi images in SAHA collection AL3265 to source a more accurate and detailed analogy of events experienced by these individuals within the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and its armed wing the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) during that period, as well as their understanding of the role played by ZAPU in achieving independence in Zimbabwe. The interviewees are David Beer, Sibongile Khumalo (pseudonym), Dumiso Dabengwa, Benjamin Dube, Richard Dube, Charles Madonko, Caroline Mhlanga, Christopher Moyo, Jack Mpofu, Edward Nare, Mtshana Ncube, Longman Ndebele, Callistus Ndlovu, Moses Mzila-Ndlovu, Parks Ndlovu, Regina Ndlovu, Amos Ngwenya, Thomas Ngwenya, Meeting Nkala, Abraham Nkiwane, Zephaniah Nkomo, Percious Nleya, Grace Noko, Elingworth Poli and Cetshwayo Sithole.

This collection comprises the records of some of the land companies within the massive Schlesinger organisation, with the focus, through sheer volume, being on Zebediela Citrus Estate.

Numerous problems arose when trying to devise a cataloguing system: on the one hand were the citrus estates themselves and on the other, their financial underpinning of the real estate and investment companies that formed part of the Schlesinger Organisation. This was further complicated by the mergers, purchases and liquidations of the holding companies.

Was one then to organise the material in terms of holding company - African Realty Trust, African Irrigated Land Company and so on - or citrus estate? While Zebediela was obviously the focus of the collection, it could equally have been catalogued as merely one of the larger African Realty Trust concerns.

A compromise was therefore struck between chronological and substantive coherence and commercial accuracy. Thus sections A-C are concerned primarily with Citriculture, and are classified according to estate - Zebediela, Letaba and Nuden respectively. By 1962, Muden, Letaba and Zebediela had all been consolidated Into one company - Consolidated Citrus Estates, and thus form section D.

There is an artificial distinction between Sections A and E - Zebediela and African Realty Trust, respectively; however, in the interests of coherence, this was felt to he justifiable.

Unfortunately, few records remain to document events at Zebediela beyond the early 1960s. Zebediela then fell within Lebowa, having been taken over by the South African Bantu Trust in the mid 1970s. The latter, in turn handed it over to the Bantu Investment Corporation in 1976 for the sum of R1. 2 million.

Other records in this collection document, in bare outline, developments in other land companies owned by the Schlesinger Organisation.

The images in this collection are digital surrogates of a substantial portion of a unique and historically significant collection of photographic materials donated to the South African History Archive (SAHA) in October 2007 by former Rivonia Trialist, Mr Denis Goldberg whose late wife, Edelgard, had been married to Zenzo Nkobi and had taken possession and responsibility for these items following his death.

Over 10,000 images were given to SAHA, mostly in plastic sleeves within loose-leaf folders, held in cardboard boxes; with some dates and places handwritten on the sleeves (which do not always correspond to the images inside). The donated materials include images from the book Zimbabwe in the struggle, published in 1978 in East Germany, but generally there was very little identifying data accompanying the materials and it is difficult to discern from the negatives exactly what events are recorded in the collection without further research.

About 5,000 negatives were then selected for scanning from the Zenzo Nkobi materials, based on the scarcity and significance of the content of the images, as derived from labels on materials (where available) and from examining the negatives using a lighting box, where possible. These negatives were then scanned, with funding provided by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) in late 2008 and early 2009.

Only the digitised images from those donated are described in this finding aid. At a later stage, further images will be scanned and the remaining materials processed and added to this listing.

Original order of the materials has been retained, with box, file and sheet numbers used to indicate the location of the original materials donated to SAHA, with corresponding references used to label all digital copies. Because only a selection of materials has been scanned and the Edelgard Nkobi-Goldberg materials were subsequently removed, there are resultant gaps in the sequence of digital folder and file names.

SYNOPSIS OF DIGITISED MATERIALS SCANNED FROM ORIGINAL MATERIALS

AL3265 - BOX 1

From File A

Negative sheets 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45, 47, 48

From File C

Negative sheets 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 34, 35

From File D

Negative sheets 01, 03, 13, 40, 45, 46, 63, 65, 66, 67, 69, 73, 74, 78, 81, 82, 83, 91

From File E

Negative sheets 01, 02, 03, 04, 09, 10, 11, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 31, 33, 35, 39, 43, 44, 45, 56, 57

From File F

Negative sheets 05, 06, 07,.08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18

From File G

Negative sheets 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 09, 10, 11

AL3265 - BOX 2

From file A

Negative sheets 06, 07, 09, 10, 11, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 28, 29, 51, 57, 59, 61, 67, 71

AL3265 - BOX 3

From File A

Negative sheets 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

From File B

Negative sheets 01, 03, 04, 05, 07, 08, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41

BOX 4

From File A

Negative sheets 02, 17, 18, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 42, 44, 45, 46, 52, 53, 54, 58, 62, 64, 65, 66, 70, 71, 72, 73, 80, 89, 90, 92, 93, 97

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These records relate mainly to Zonnebloem College after it became a Training College for 'Coloured' students. For earlier records, see AB1363/Z2.

'12 jaaren speculatien sedert 1st Maart 1833 tot ultima February 1845 onder bestuur van L. Cauvin als agent', 1845.

A balance sheet for 12 years' operation of the South African Wine Depot. Includes names of ships, captains and destinations to which wine is being exported.

Treaties entered into by Sir Garnet Wolseley with the Zulu chiefs individually at Ulundi, Fort Cambridge, Conference Hill and Pietermaritzburg between September and October 1879, by which the Chiefs acknowledged British victory and accepted their territories and chieftainships under the British crown of Queen Victoria. Supplementary conditions were explained to Sibebu by the British resident, Zululand and agreed to at Inhlazatyi on the 5 January 1883.

These treaties bear the signatures of Sir Garnet Wolseley, Sir Theophilus Shepstone and the Chiefs and Indunas.