Race relations and conditions of black, coloured and Indian peoples.

Black healthA.B. XumaBlack educationR.V. Selope-ThomasBlack wagesS.P.M MqubuliBlack trade wivesJ.D.R Rheinallt-JonesBlack juvenile delinquencyMr W.G. BallingerRace relationsAfrican Laundry Workers UnionLandAfrican Commercial vs DistributiveColoured in the CapeWorkers UnionIndian Health serviceBank Welfare TrustCrime in the Witwatersrand and PretoriaDr J. SimonsBus boycottsNative Mine Wages Commission

Manuscript records of the Broad Bottom and Deadwood camps.

'Paul Bekker' verse by G. Engelbrecht; 'Notulenboek der Commissie tot het tegengaan van werken voor de Engelschen' Jan.1902; 'Kort begrip' by J.H. Smutz; 'Joernaal van de Broad Bottom Krijgsgevangenen Debats Vereeniging' 1901-1902; 'Notulen' 1901-1902; 'Verslag voor de maand Mei van Std.V' by H.H. Niekerk; Transcript of poem 'Stryd' by J.W. Cilliers; Affidavit by witnesses of the shooting of Marius Godefroy at Deadwood Camp 9 Dec.1900.

Explorer

'Journal of a cruise on the Tanganyika lake, Central Africa' and 'Captain J.H. Speke's discovery of the victoria Nyanza Lake, the supposed source of the Nile from his journal' 1859. Printer's proof copy interleaved with extensive Ms noted by the author.

Please note: The listing of items often contains the racial language and terms used at the time.

Names of major correspondents:

Other members of the Commission, F. Clarke, J.H. Hofmeyr, G.Lowe, Secretary to the Commission.

H.C. Green, Organiser v Inspector of Continuation Classes Govt departments.

P. Duncan, Minister of Education.

Topics:

Education.

Technical Training.

Names:

Commission Sir Ernest Chappell.

J.H. Hofmeyr.

F.Clarke.

Clifford Meyer van Coller.

Africana collector

Letters from J.G. Gubbins, mainly to his sister Bertha Tufnell (née Gubbins), 1900-1935, with a gap between 1924 and 1931; wills and testaments, genealogical notes and photographs of the Gubbins Family; letters of Mona Gubbins (wife) and Bertha Tufnell; articles by John Gubbins and Bertha Tufnell; diary kept by Richard Rolls; Gubbins in the South African War 1899-1902; daily diary kept by Bertha Tufnell on a world cruise with Gubbins in 1932, trying to replace the Africana collection destroyed by fire at the University of the Witwatersrand.

The papers relate to Gubbins' experiences in Johannesburg 1902-1903, farming at Ottoshoop in the Western Transvaal, discovery and mining of fluorspar and the building up of a great Africana collection. Other subjects are theosophy, diamond and gold mining, Chinese labour on the mines, description of Bechuanaland and Rhodesia in 1906 and the 1914 Rebellion.

Correspondents include Gen. Louis Botha, Flinders Petrie and Gen J.C. Smuts.