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William Charles Marinus Struben

  • ZA HPRA A1265
  • Fonds
  • 1894

Letter of appointment to the 'Centraal Kinderpokken Comittee Johannesburg', signed by S.J.P. Kruger, State President and W.J. Leyds, State Secretary, Pretoria, 7 August 1894.

Unemployment Commission records

  • ZA HPRA A1280
  • Fonds
  • 1920 - 1921

Minutes of Evidence pp. 1-5777.

Preliminary Memoranda of Evidence 1st Sitting 27 September 1920.

Chairman: Mr H.L. Lindsay.

Verbatim Record of Conference between Mayors of Reef towns and the Supt. of White Labour on the Question of Unemployment 1 October 1920.

Papers of William Charles Scully

  • ZA HPRA A1312
  • Fonds
  • 1850 - 1967

Literary manuscripts, personal reminiscences, correspondence, short stories and reviews both by and on William Charles Scully, Magistrate, author and poet. The papers contain items relating to Scully's wife Nora, children and his in-laws, the Richards family of 1820 settler stock. Correspondence, mainly family, is personal but includes comments on his literary ambitions, work as a magistrate and topics of the day.

Swiss Mission in South Africa

  • ZA HPRA A1379
  • Fonds
  • 1876 - 1896

UNISA Documentation Centre for African Studies, May 1981.

The documents of the accession, totalling 118 pages, relate to the early work of the two missionaries in Valdezia between 1874 and 1899 and give an insight into the difficulties and hardships of early missionary life in Southern Africa of that period.

There is an extensive and almost complete set of correspondence (including copies and translations) and other documents in connection with the missionaries' requests to the authorities, namely of the Transvaal Republic, for permission to "preach the gospel to the heathen" of the Spelonken area. The request was refused in spite of the fact that the Church already owned a farm in Valdezia. Later after the two men had been taken to Marabastad and kept prisoner there for a considerable time for ignoring the orders from the State Secretary to cease their activities, permission was eventually granted to do missionary work - but only on their own farm! So the battle for recognition continued. Of special interest here is the 'Declaration' of the 'Commission des Missions' of October 1876 and a copy/translation of a letter from the President of the Swiss Confederation asking for the same rights to be given to Rev. Creux and Berthoud as to other missionaries of "friendly nations".

There is further considerable correspondence between Creux and the 'Commissaris naturellen' re various troubles concerning the local inhabitants in connection with work, taxes and warfare with chiefs Modjadji and Magato. Other letters deal with diseases and the need for vaccine, gifts of fruit, milk and meat. Documents concerning Albasini, 'Commissioner over the Natives of Spelonken' and 'Knopneus kaptein,' are kept separately.

All letters are, except where indicated, handwritten and in the original. They are in English, French and Dutch with a few in Tsonga.

The spelling of names of places and persons are given as they appear in the documents and therefore varies.

Swiss Mission

Church of The Nazarene records

  • ZA HPRA A1441
  • Fonds
  • 1907 - 1980

Establishment of first school of the church of the Nazarene in Africa Married Rev. H.A. Shirley who later headed printing work of the Nazarenes.

Proceedings of the General Assembly.

Possible funding of Swazi Schools.

Facts about Nazarene Foreign Missions.

Africa mission Station Reports, 1911-1923.

Reports to General Missionary Board Reynolds, Rev. H.F.

Girdling the globe with Nazarene Missions - 1961-1980.

Information on world mission work & on missionaries.

History of missions, Guide to Historic Resource Materials.

Names of major correspondents: Etta Innis (later Shirley), Rev. Dr. H.F. Reynolds, Brother Andersson, Irene Jester, Myrtle Pelley, Bertha Parker, Margaret Latta, Dr. William Esselstyn, Louise Robinson, Harmon & Lula Schmelgenbach, Ora Lovelace.

Names of sub-groups:

Pentecostal Church of Nazarene.

Department of Foreign Missions.

Nazarene Headquarters Library.

General Missionary Board.

Church of the Nazarene (U.S.A.)

Arthur Aaron Boss

  • ZA HPRA A1631
  • Fonds
  • 1879

Arthur Aaron Boss (1861-1955) was a soldier and stockbroker. His diary, dated 22 February - 29 June 1879, relates to the campaign against Chief Morosi, the taking of the mountain and death of the Chief which resulted in the decline of the Baphuti tribe. It is accompanied by a plan of the mountain, a typscript of the diary by Dr P.H. Butterfield (30 pages) and an article on the campaign in The Star, 29 June 1929. The original can be found in the Johannesburg Public Library.

Pieter Retief

  • ZA HPRA A1620
  • Fonds
  • 1838

Replica of the Treaty between Pieter Retief and Dingaan, by which Dingaan ceded substantial land to Retief, signed on the 4 February 1838.

Underneath the text of the Treaty is a certificate in Dutch, to the effect that the Treaty was found on the 21 December 1838 in a leather satchel near the bones of Retief, and it is signed by E. Potgieter. The text of the Treaty has been translated into English, and both, the Treaty as well as the certificate have been pasted on a board. Research has uncovered that a number of such replicas of the Treaty have been made.

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