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Sunday Times Heritage Project (STHP) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3282
  • Fundos
  • 2006 - 2007

The collection comprises digital and physical material. Hard copy items are marked with a single asterisk (*); digital items with two asterisks (*) and items that appear in both digital and physical form with a single + two asterisks symbol (+**) Some parts of the digital collection are located on CD's.

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Forgotten Voices of the Present Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3280
  • Fundos
  • 2008

The collection consists of audio interviews, video footage, transcripts and project specific documentation.

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Gille de Vlieg Photographic Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3274
  • Fundos
  • 1989

The collection consists of black and white digital images, sorted by year from 1983 to 1989.

Gille De Vlieg started her photographic career in 1983, and this collection documents her journey through the different provinces of South Africa (North West, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal) to explore and capture events and issues as they happened. She has been meticulous in dating her photographs, so events unfold chronologically through her lens.

She manages to reflect the tranquility of typical day to day life in a serene rural setting, in contrast to the more harsh township lifestyle, against the stark contrast of the sometimes violent political activities of the era. The repetition of certain themes through the years, such as land removals, mass funerals, political protests, etc. further strengthens her body of work as a document to the turbulent political past. Capturing gender and lifestyle issues, for example depicting women embroidering, making batik patterns on cloth, pottery, basket-making, always remain an important part of her work throughout.

Each year, however, is marked by specific political, cultural or other events:-

1983 is a small collection of 7 photo’s of rural lifestyle in the mostly North West province.

1984 focuses on the political activities of the UDF, Cosas and ECC, while 1985, still focusing on the UDF, also shifts to detentions, police brutality and the Mandela Rally in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.

1986 is dominated by images of the anti-harassment campaign, death penalty protest, Black Sash activities, and protests against the anti-incorporation into Bophutatswana. Many prominent people feature in these photos, amongst others, David Webster, Winnie Mandela, Sheena Duncan, Frank Chikane, Beyers Naude, Albertina Sisulu, Helen Joseph and Helen Suzman.

1987 contains a smaller number of photographs, and focuses mostly on the effect of the apartheid land removals on women’s everyday existence. Prison releases show photos of activist lawyer Priscilla Jana, Epinette and Govan Mbeki, Albertina Sisulu.

1988 brings an interesting angle to the collection as De Vlieg captures Afrikaner nationalism in all its glory during the 150th Celebration of the Groot Trek (unfortunately not in this collection), and Day of the Vow (Gelofte Dag) celebrations at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. With people like Betsie Verwoerd, PW Botha, FW de Klerk, Pik Botha, Eugene Terreblanche on his horse, she catches the essence of the Afrikaner of the day! She also photographs the AWB swinging their flag with a swastika against the Voortrekker Monument as backdrop.This year also features a large number of photos of the REEA Care Centre.

1989 contains a small collection of photos of street scenes in Harare, Zimbabwe and of Namibia, including Herero and Himba people. Back in South Africa the images of this year focus on street children, evicted and homeless people, and township lifestyle of Tembisa and Eureka, and the ANC Welcome Home Rally for Robben Island leaders.

19 photographs taken by De Vlieg in the township of Tembisa in 1984-1990 were added to the collection in 2011. These photographs were part of an exhibition 'Entering Tembisa - an oral and photographic exploration of the community' which was hosted in the Tembisa West Library to celebrate Heritage Day 2011. This exhibition forms part of an oral history and archival collection project on Tembisa, conducted by SAHA in 2010 and 2011.

While Gille de Vlieg is responsible for the digitisation of some of her photographs, the majority was digitised by Africa Media Online (AMO), a Pietermaritzburg based organisation, in 2009.

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John Harris Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3273
  • Fundos
  • 1964

Materials comprising the John Harris collection consist of Harris's police docket, trial records, prison and media files donated by his son David Wolfe; his Security Legislation Directorate (SLD) file obtained through a Promotion to Access of Information Act (PAIA) request, and a collection of letters donated by Jane Harris. Materials in each series have been described on item level.

The materials contained in the police docket kept on John Harris (series A), the John Harris trial records (series B), his court exhibit file (series C), prison files (series D and D1) and media file (series E) form the bulk of the collection. Copies of the police investigation file and the court transcripts were obtained from the SAPS Museum in Pretoria. The prison files and court exhibit file were obtained from the Department of Correctional Services Archive at Pretoria Central Prison. Most of the documents are photocopies of the original documentation. Materials in the court exhibit file and the two prison files have been digitised by Specialised Archival Solution in 2009 and are only available in digital format.

Materials obtained from the SAPS Museum and the archive of the Department of Correctional Services were secured by SAHA on behalf of John Harris's family, and donated to SAHA by his son, David Wolfe in 2009.

A copy of John Harris's Security Legislation Directorate (SLD) file was released to SAHA by the National Archives in respect of PAIA request number 0064/NAR/2008, and is archived in the Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) collection as AL2878_B1.3.6.9, and cross-referenced and described in series F of the John Harris collection.

Letters written by John Harris to his sister Jane whilst in prison (1964-1965) were donated by Jane Harris to SAHA. In 2014 Jane Harris requested the return of the original letters to the family. To replace the original letters she donated ring-bound photocopies of the letters. The photocopied letters are contained in series G.

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Zenzo Nkobi Photograph Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3265
  • Fundos
  • 1976 - 1980

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL ITEMS, PLEASE SEE CONTAINER LISTS

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Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3183
  • Fundos
  • 1993

The record collection consists of 129 archival boxes, occupying approximately 12 linear metres. The collection covers the period 1988-2002.

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NAMDA Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3182
  • Fundos
  • 1988 - 1991

The National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA), an organised body of health care professionals, was established in 1982 to directly counter the effects of apartheid policies on the provision of health care services in South Africa. Records from affiliated or associated groups are also included in the collection, including: the Organisation for Appropriate Social Services in Southern Africa (OASSSA), the Health Workers' Association (HWA), the National Emergency Services Group (NESG), the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network (NPPHCN), the South African Health and Social Services Organisation (SAHSSO), the National Health and Unity Forum (NHUF), the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU), and the South African Health Workers' Congress (SAHWCO).

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Zackie Achmat, Jack Lewis and Treatment Action Campaign Political Papers

  • ZA SAHA AL3165
  • Fundos
  • 1980 - 2003

The collection is organized by two major themes: activist work in the 1980s and up to 1998 (when the Treatment Action Campaign was formed); and activist work post-1998, concentrated around the Treatment Action Campaign. The brief biographies of Zackie Achmat and Jack Lewis contained in the introduction of this inventory provide some indication of the work done by each as individuals and as part of a collective.

Often either Jack or Zackie would start a project and then include the other in its ongoing implementation. As a result, the authorship of many documents in this collection cannot be clearly attributed to either Jack Lewis or Zackie Achmat.

The collection comprises of documents (hard copies) stored in archive boxes and electronic documents (stored on the SAHA drive according to file number) as well as audio-visual materials (please see the SAHA archivist for access to these documents). There are also a number of posters in the collection that is stored with the SAHA Poster Collection (AL2446).The SAHA Posterdatabase indicates the cross-referencing of the posters to this collection.

Some materials are restricted access. Restrictions are noted next to the title of the documents. Please see the SAHA archivist should you require access to these documents.

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S.J. 'Kobus' van Zyl Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3157
  • Fundos
  • 1985 - 1999

OGSP - official government selling price

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OSP - official selling price

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Spot - spot market price

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VLCC - very large crude carriers

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The material in this collection comprises the papers collected by Van Zyl when he was General Manager at Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF), which he gave to Stephan Brummer of the Mail and Guardian, then donated to SAHA. It includes transcripts, earlier documents brought in as evidence, reports of the inquiries or hearings, as well as documentation contemporary to the main period in question. The bulk and detail of evidence brought was such that particularly detailed documentation (such as individual shipping movements, audit trails, financial transactions), plus duplicates of pertinent correspondence and reports as presented in sequence, will be found in the series ‘G’ called Evidence.

This collection can usefully be seen in two contexts - the transition of government and its agencies from the Apartheid to the post-Apartheid eras, and the role that oil and its dealings play in governments.

Transition of government

Following the end of the government of national unity, and the democratic elections of 1994, the ANC-led government began vigorously to transform government agencies.

The agency which is the focus of this collection - the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF), and particularly its general manager, Stephanus Jacobus 'Kobus' van Zyl, came repeatedly under fire as the new Minister of Minerals and Energy Affairs, Penuell Maduna, set about implementing changes.

During the period of his ministry, (13.5.96 to June 1999) there were three major inquiries/hearings into the running and dealings of SFF, and its former General Manager.

There was also pressure on them to transform their staffing and new board appointments were made.

During Maduna's time as Minister, there were also two issues where the ANC government came into the firing line - namely the controversial appointment of former Liberian businessman/ politician, Emmanuel Shaw II of IAS, as a highly paid consultant to look at the re-structuring of CEF (parent company of SFF)[1], and the government's contentious sale of oil reserves reducing stocks from 35m to 10m barrels in 1998, raising R800m to go into the fiscus.

The role of oil and government in Apartheid-South Africa

SFF was set up by the Apartheid government in 1969 as a company to deal in and store crude oil. This was in order to beat the oil sanctions against South Africa. The nature of its role required protection under secrecy legislation[2], concealing deliveries and punishing any revelations about dealings with up to 7 years imprisonment.

SFF dealt through intermediaries, and via various shady shipping deals[3] - as suppliers tried to disguise their support of the Apartheid regime. SFF in fact not only built up considerable reserves of oil in storage, but had the position of supplying BP, Caltex, Sasol, and Engen with crude oil. Shell and Total managed to be supplied by their parent companies. SFF also sold internationally.

The proceeds of SFF oil sales were deemed to go into the government coffers.

With the lifting of oil sanctions by the UN in December 1992, the secrecy provisions were also revoked. In 1994, there were accusations that the climate of secrecy and control over oil imports was continuing. SFF sales were said to be at a large profit. The petrol companies as well as the new government wanted changes. For one, the Liquid Fuels Taskforce was set up to review and recommend new arrangements for controls over the oil industry.

Establishing the exact quantities of the oil reserves was another, and in 1995 the then Minister 'Pik' Botha, and supported by the deputy-President, Thabo Mbeki, ordered an extensive audit by Inspectorate M & L (Pty.) Ltd. of the accuracy of records as to strategic crude oil stock, and through this, the management of SFF.

Organisational structures and S.J. van Zyl

SFF was a subsidiary of the Central Energy Fund (CEF), along with Mossgas, and Soekor - each had roles as semi-government agencies to research, produce, deal in and store energy to aim for self-sufficiency in a sanctions-besieged country.

The CEF board was appointed by the Minister, and there was considerable overlap of membership on the boards of each company.

The General Manager (GM) of SFF, S.J. van Zyl, also had overarching roles of management in CEF, and directorships on the other companies. He was GM from 1.4.89 until his suspension in mid-1997.

He was attributed with making SFF profitable and market-wise, and was personally involved with the day-to-day international dealings.

Oil deals and oil accounting

It was particularly the relationship that Van Zyl had forged between SFF and Fakry Abdelnour, (trading as Interstate and African Middle East Petroleum AME - with offices in Geneva, Panama and Monte Carlo), that came under the spotlight by Minister Maduna. Abdelnour acted as an intermediary for the oil dealings between SFF and the Egyptian Government Petroleum Company (EGPC), for which he gained a commission of 6 US cents per barrel.

Prior to this, South Africa was relying on Iran, which had been virtually the only country which overtly exported crude oil to South Africa.

When the Shah was deposed, Iran joined the oil boycott.

When, despite the lifting of sanctions, this deal with Abdelnour continued, Maduna ultimately ordered Van Zyl to terminate the arrangement. Van Zyl insisted there was 'nothing untoward' in the deal. Abdelnour himself, declared there was no fraud involved, and that it was a contractual arrangement with SFF.

Independent audit ordered by Minister Maduna

When through a vigorous exchange of letters between himself and Van Zyl, and other attempts, Maduna could not get any satisfactory answers re the Interstate deals, in February 1997 he ordered that an 'independent audit' of SFF be conducted by Nkonki Sizwe Ntsaluba (NSN), an accounting firm[4]. Barend Peterson was the main NSN accountant involved in the process of auditing and investigative interviews. Their terms of reference included investigation of the 3rd party commission to Abdelnour, how much was paid out, who knew about it, and the accounting and auditing procedures which covered this.

NSN made their interim report to the Minister on 24.3.97. Van Zyl's suspension by CEF as general manager followed, pending an investigation, which led to an disciplinary hearing called by his employers.

Disciplinary hearing against Van Zyl

This took place over a year later after the suspension, and was initially under the chair of Dr Sereti, commencing on 31.8.98. CEF/SFF terminated this arrangement, and the hearing went ahead under Mr Sangon, and a verdict of guilty on 4 of 5 counts was declared on 2.11.98. Van Zyl was represented by Janse van Rensburg, Strydom and Botha.

Auditor-General's Special Report

Prior to this, on 18.6.97 the Minister raised in Parliament the discrepancy of R170m made in the Auditor-General's report to Parliament on 31.3.94 compared with Price-Waterhouse's (CEF/SFF auditor's) 7.2.94 report for the 1992-3 financial year. The amount had been ascribed to 'strategic stock transfers' - but the Auditor-General did not disclose it to Parliament.

The Auditor-General, H.E. Kluever, took exception to the Minister's speech in which he suggested that Kluever had 'done some nimble footwork'. He raised objections not only about the Minister implying loss, theft or transfer of the money, but also to the implied attack on the office of Auditor-General itself. Indeed the appointment of NSN without full consultation and collaboration with the Auditor-General also rankled.

The Special Report tabled in August 1997, detailed their responses, drawing on SFF documentation, and attempting to show that the reason they did not disclose was not because of something untoward, but because of the old secrecy provisions, and changed accounting procedures.

The whole matter was then taken up by parliament who requested the Public Protector investigate and report back to the National Assembly.

Public Protector's Inquiry

The Public Protector, Selby Baqwa, ran the inquiry assisted by auditors, and commencing hearings on 20.4.98. NSN, who finalised their 1st report to the Minister on 26.8.97 and their 2nd report on 13.10.97, furnished much of the documentation they had gathered during their investigations. Extensive verbal evidence was given in the hearings, resulting in reams of transcripts.

The bulk of these are from June, and then again from October finishing in December 1998.

The Inquiry had a broad mandate - to look into the alleged irregularities in SFF financial management, with the issue of the allegedly missing R170m being central. One of the arguments hinged on the change to the accounting policy in 1993.

Subsequent oil and government issues (beyond this collection)

Historically, CEF has stayed in place, with the now re-named iGas, the new PetroSA, Petroleum Agency of South Africa, and a diminished SFF as subsidiaries. Penuell Maduna left the Minerals and Energy portfolio after the June 1999 elections, and took on the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Development.

His successor, Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, in December 2000, dissolved the SFF board after 'serious irregularities' were revealed in the awarding of contracts to sell off and replenish oil reserves. She ordered three separate investigations into the matter.

SFF was also involved in dealing oil with the Saddam Hussein regime, using an intermediary, Imvume, which has allegedly close ties with the ANC, and in 2005 come before the public notice again regarding its dealings with PetroSA.

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Urban Research Services Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL3156
  • Fundos
  • 1955 - 1991

The Urban Research Services Group was formed in 1988 and provided support, in the form of a research capacity, to civic associations in South Africa, such as the South African Civic Association (SANCO).

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