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South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), Part 2 records

  • ZA HPRA AD843RJ
  • Fonds
  • 1930 - 1947

This "RJ" collection, spans the years 1929 to 1954 although there are some items as early as 1921 and as late as 1968. There is a large section on the foundation and work of the Institute covering its policy, publications, membership, administration, activities and regions. The other subject divisions are urban affairs, land, taxation, legislation, franchise, justice, economics, labour, education, Coloured and Indian affairs, social services, World War II, organisations with which the Institute was associated, Protectorates, Africa, church and missionary and J.D. Rheinallt Jones in his personal and senatorial capacity. The collection reflects the Institute's efforts to upgrade the economic, social and political status of Blacks, Coloureds and Indians in South Africa, with particular reference to housing, health, education and franchise, and to improving relations between the different races.

This inventory is dedicated to the late Jeanette Curtis, the SAIRR's archivist, who was responsible for gathering together this collection and ensuring its preservation for researchers.

South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)

Archbishops of Cape Town, Part 3 records

  • ZA HPRA AB2546
  • Fonds
  • 1872 - 1996

The first part of the collection of CPSA records deals with the foundation and progress of the various dioceses and activities of the church, and mainly covers the years 1848-1938.

It has been described in 'Selected Records of the Archbishops of Cape Town', No 6, in the library's series of Historical and Literary Papers: Inventories of Collections.

The second part, 'Selected Records of the Archbishops of Cape Town, Part II' describes records transferred to the Library from Bishopscourt, the home of the Archbishops of Cape Town, by Mrs Kotze, the Provincial Archivist. The records in Part II relate mainly to the years 1940-1982, and are described in No 16 of the Historical and Literary Papers: Inventories of Collections.

This present inventory consists mainly of additional records transferred from Bishopscourt between the years 1983 and 1996, and covering the episcopacies of Archbishops Russell and Tutu. (There are also some records from Church House, the Diocesan headquarters in Cape Town which cover an earlier period, - from 1855 - but for the sake of convenience these have been combined with the Bishopscourt records.) The files are arranged alphabetically by subject according to the Bishopscourt filing system. As in Part II, 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, and 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 of the CPSA in existence in 1998.

The records relate to the Church of the Province as a whole, but there is a preponderance of Cape records due to the Archbishop's dual role as head of the Cape Town Diocese and metropolitan for the province. They include the Archbishops' correspondence with bishops of the various dioceses and with clergy and lay people, and they reflect the administration of the CPSA and its work, as well as the Church's attitude to social and political problems in South Africa such as abortion, homosexuality and the church, conscientious objection, race, sanctions, violence and political negotiations.

A number of these files do not relate specifically to the CPSA but reveal the various interests of the Archbishops. Archbishop Tutu's files include correspondence from numbers of organisations within and outside South Africa that were dedicated to removing apartheid and restoring a just society. Examples are the Bishop Desmond Tutu Refugee Scholarship Fund, the Educational Opportunities Council, West European Parliamentarians for Action against Apartheid, etc. This collection therefore gives an indication of Bishop Tutu's influence, both in the Church and as a participant in many human rights and welfare organisations.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

Hendrik Heymans Papers

  • ZA HPRA A3399
  • Fonds
  • 1940s (1970s-1993)-2000s

The Papers of Hendrik (Hennie) Heymans cover his years of service in the South African Police (SAP), mainly in the 1970s to his retirement in 1993.

The papers include his personal and family history papers; various records relating to his career in the SAP; records and documents generated by the State Security Council, in which structures he served; general procedural, operational, strategic documents and administrative records of the SAP; course work material relating to policing and management courses mainly generated by the SAP Training Division and the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU); as well as submissions by former colleagues in the SAP.

Related records and subjects include the State Security Council and National Management System; the Security Branch; Vlakplaas; Koevoet; as well as Commissions of Inquiry; Goldstone Commission; submissions to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

Heymans, Hendrik (Hennie) Bernardus

Johannes Jacobus "Jannie" Geldenhuys Papers

  • ZA HPRA A3452
  • Fonds
  • 1940s-2000s

The collection contains the papers of the last Apartheid-era Chief of Staff of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Johannes Jacobus "Jannie" Geldenhuys. The main body of the collections consists of submissions which he and the SADF made to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Geldenhuys, Johannes Jacobus

Papers of Yvonne Abrahams

  • ZA HPRA A2054
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1988

Plays, short stories, poetry, drawings, tapes, diaries, notebooks, music sheets, theatre programs and correspondence mainly with Robert Abrahams and Norah Taylor. also a biography of Yvonne Abrahams, incapacitated from poliomyelitis, in the form of a book and a play.

Abrahams, Yvonne

National Union of Distributive Workers, Johannesburg branch, Records

  • ZA HPRA AH1601
  • Fonds
  • 1939 - 1984

Included are the organisational records of the Union, such as minutes, memoranda, correspondence, case records and photographs. Subjects of interest include wages, dismissals and the Shop Hours Ordinance.

National Union of Distributive Workers (NUDW)

Society of the Sacred Mission records

  • ZA HPRA AB2409
  • Fonds
  • 1906 - 1987

The Society of the Sacred Mission is a brotherhood devoting itself to education and mission work at Modderpoort in the Free State and Lesotho. It took over the mission in 1902 from the Brotherhood of St. Augustine at Modderpoort. The records include the constitution, history, minutes, correspondence and general records relating to the Society of the Sacred Mission.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

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