- ZA SAHA AL3283
- collection
- 1993 - 1994
The De Wet Potgieter collection consists of three series:
The oral history interviews with individuals in military intelligence include the audio interviews (MP3), transcripts and translated transcripts (Afrikaans and English) of interviews, and interviewee release forms. De Wet Potgieter conducted these interviews on behalf of SAHA in 2009-2010 as a contracted employee. SAHA is the copyright holder for these materials.
The document collection, relating to the activities of Military Intelligence and the Security Branch of the SAP during the apartheid era and extremist right wing organisations in South Africa (1980s-1990s), contains top secret and confidential documents, booklets, pamphlets, information sheets, correspondence, notes, including explanatory notes/narratives by the donor for each of the sub-series. Faxed items in the collection have been photocopied and/or scanned due to the fading nature of this format. Photographs contained in an Appeal document and 6 videos form part of this series.
The Doug Lee photographic material constitutes a selection of digitised images of negatives from the photographer's collection that is most pertinent to the De Wet Potgieter collection as a whole.
Due to the nature of this collection a substantial portion of the material is in Afrikaans. These are indicated in the inventory.
The first series of oral history interviews has been arranged chronologically.
The second series of documents came to SAHA already sorted by the donor, and this greatly assisted with the final arrangement of the materials as the order defined by the donor was mostly retained. In 2014 De Wet Potgieter added documents relating to the assassination of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme to his collection and these documents are archived as sub series B1.5.6.
The Doug Lee photographic material consists of negatives stored in 6 files, 1 box and 1 envelope. Although the photographer filed these negatives according to the dates on which the photographs were taken, the dates of events overlap in some of the files, e.g. File 1 (1993-1994), File 2 (1994-2003), File 3 (1997), and File 4 (1996-1999), File 5 (2000-2003), File 6 (2002-2003). Only those negatives containing images relevant to the De Wet Potgieter collection as a whole were selected for digitisation, and only those are described in the inventory. However, the numbering of the selected images indicates that these images form part of a larger collection of Doug Lee materials.
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