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Progressive Teachers' League Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2418
  • Fonds
  • 1986 - 1990

The PTL collection is a small collection (0.5 linear metres). It has been arranged to reflect its main activities. This collection also reflects the increasing militancy of teacher organisations, and the impact the education crisis of the 1980s had on teachers.

Sections A - H deals with the PTL itself and its membership. As the PTL was formed under the state of emergency and operated under repressive conditions, there are no minutes of its executive meetings available as these were not kept. This phenomenon holds true for many organisations during this period who were opposed to the apartheid regime.

Section I - K deals with the whole teacher unity process at the National and the Southern Transvaal regional and NECC level at which the members of PTL were involved. This process culminated in the formation of the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU). Copies of minutes as well as hand-written notes of some of these meetings provide interesting insight to the whole process of the formation of a national teacher organisation

Section L has files kept by the PTL on the various teachers organisations in the country. It was not uncommon for PTL executive members to also be members of some of these organisations, more notably TASA. Section M are miscellaneous documents relating to education that the PTL had collected in the course of its activities.

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South African Tin Workers' Union (SATWU) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2420
  • Fonds
  • 1937 - 1978

The collection is very small, 0.3 linear metres. SAHA received it as part of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) collection, but it is clear that it constitutes an archive in its own and was added to the NIC collection by mistake.

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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2421
  • Fonds
  • 1971 - 1990

This collection is not a large collection, comprising of 10 archival boxes. It is also not the official NIC collection but was donated to SAHA by the Centre for Community and Labour Studies (CCLS) in Durban. Some of the material given to us by CCLS has been separated from this collection as it was clear that it constituted a separate archive, that of the South African Tin Workers' Union.

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Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (JODAC) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2424
  • Fonds
  • 1983 - 1990

The collection includes minutes, reports, conference papers and audio recordings, photographs and other organisational material. Of particular interest are documents on the organisation of white activists in the Democratic Movement.

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South African Youth Congress (SAYCO) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2425
  • Fonds
  • 1987 - 1990

These documents received by SAHA from SAYCO Head Office are not the complete archives of SAYCO. It is doubtful if records of the period before 1990 were kept or even exist at all given the repressive conditions of the period. Thus, this collection has documents mainly from 1990. This is a small collection, comprising of 3 archival boxes.

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United Democratic Front (UDF) Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2431
  • Fonds
  • 1986 - 1991

Doc(s) - document(s)

Misc - miscellaneous

Incl - includes / including

Ts(s) - Typescript(s)

Ms(s) - Manuscript(s) i.e. anything hand-written

Corresp - correspondence

pcopy - photocopy

incomp - incomplete

n.d. - no date, i.e. undated

n.a. - no author

n.t. - no title

p - page (or pages)

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SAHA Slide Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2432
  • Fonds
  • 1980s - 1990s

Almost all the items in this collection are copies of posters utilised in the book "Images of Defiance". The majority of slides in this collection correspond to actual posters included in the SAHA Poster Collection (AL2446).

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SAHA Poster Collection

  • ZA SAHA AL2446
  • Fonds
  • 1980s -1990s

This collection consists of over 4000 unique posters dating mostly from the 1980s-1990s.
Duplicate copies of many of these posters exist. 327 posters from the collection have been
reproduced in the book "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s" by
Ravan Press. A considerable number of posters also feature in the STP publication "Red on
black: The story of the South African poster movement". Some of the posters are also available
in slides (See AL2432) and digital format. The collection includes a large number of posters from
the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the United Democratic Front (UDF) and also includes
posters relating to women, youth, AIDS, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) as well
Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) struggles.

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Portraits of ANC Leaders

  • ZA SAHA AL2448
  • Fonds
  • 1993

These paintings were painted in 1993. From 1912 to 1993 the ANC has had ten President-Generals. Only 9 portraits were painted, of which only eight are found in this collection. These are:

  1. John Dube

  2. Josiah Gumede (not sure)

  3. Pixley ka Seme (not sure)

  4. Unidentified

  5. Dr Moroka

  6. Chief Lutuli

  7. O R Tambo

  8. Nelson Mandela

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