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South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), Part 1 records

  • ZA HPRA AD843B
  • Fonds
  • 1908 - 1962

The "B" box collection relates mainly to the period 1930 to 1950, although there are some documents as early as 1926 and some all late as 1961. This inventory boar the title "Part I" as there have been subsequent deposits of the Institute's archives which will be inventoried at a later date.

The "B" box collection has been retained as an entity in accordance with Standard archival practice and the files have been kept in their original order. Many of the files overlap and contain material irrelevant to the subject matter of the file. In view of the extensive use made of the collection over the last ten years by researchers who took references according to the then existing arrangement, it was decided not to re-sort. The present box numbers have been retained, but the files which previously bore an alphabetical notation have now been given a numerical one, e.g. the original 4f now becomes 4.6.

This inventory lists the number of items in each file, mention the names of the principal correspondents, indicates the subject field and itemises anything of particular importance. A brief sketch of the Institute is included and a comprehensive index of all personal names mentioned in the inventory and of selective subject fields has been provided, thus bringing together scattered subjects. The words "Native", "African", "Bantu" and "Non-European" have been used where they were the approved nomenclature of the day.

Subjects covered are the social and economic conditions of Blacks, Coloureds and Indians, with particular reference to education, literacy, land, farm labour, labour relations, housing, the urban Black, health and welfare services, medical training, juvenile delinquency, the liquor problem, discriminatory legislation and penal reform. This collection, covering almost three decades, in of great importance to economic, social and political historians.

Anna M. Cunningham, 1 August 1981.

South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)

Papers of Joan Pim

  • ZA HPRA A882
  • Fonds
  • 7 November 1805 - 26 October 1977

The Joane Pim papers span the years 1939-1974, with the preponderance between the years 1950-1974 when Miss Pim was actively employed by the Anglo-American Corporation, although there are a few items going back as far as 1805.

They contain correspondence, minutes, reports, addresses, lectures, manuscript and typescript notes and notebooks, photographs and photographic albums, press cuttings, slides and plans as well as her book 'Beauty is Honorary'. Her private correspondence is to be regarded as 'Closed Access' for the next 10 years (until 1 January 1985).

The papers should be of great interest to several departments within the University. Her collection of slides illustrating her work in beautifying the gardens of many fine private homes, as well an the mines, would he of particular interest to the Department of Architecture and Town Planning. The botanical specimens and notes would he welcomed by the Department of Botany. Miss Pim's work covered the whole of South Africa and with the growing awareness of the need to preserve the best of the past, her papers are of national interest. Her death is a great loss to environmental consciousness in South Africa and particularly to landscape architecture of which the was a pioneer.

All the papers and printed items are of immense research value and will be preserved and made available to bona fide students and researchers.

Pim, Joane

Swiss Mission in South Africa records

  • ZA HPRA AC1084
  • Fonds
  • 1878 - 1976

Part 70.19 - The Bible in Standard Tsonga. There is a listing of the items, stored in 58 boxes, which is attached to the hardcopy inventory.

Part S 1-8 - Schneider Papers. The items stored in these S 1-8 boxes are referred to in the inventory. The listing of the items is attached to the hardcopy inventory.

Swiss Mission

Black Sash, Records

  • ZA HPRA AE862
  • Fonds
  • 1955 - 1999

The papers consist partly of administrative records and partly of the records of political actions undertaken by Black Sash. There is also a large part of press cuttings and scrap books.

Black Sash

Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) records

  • ZA HPRA AH1999
  • Fonds
  • 1939 - 1986

This inventory (no.17) describes the Records of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) and covers the years 1939-1986.
The records inventoried pertain mainly to FOSATU (1977-1986) as well as to the South African Trades and Labour Council (1939-1954), The Trade Union Advisory and Co-ordinating Council (1974-1979), Central Administration Services (1973-1984), and the Institute for Industrial Education (1973-1980).

The records are of considerable interest to the historian, the industrial sociologist and the student of politics. There is much about the internal organisation of FOSATU including the activities of its committees, its education projects, its affiliates, its dealings with overseas labour organisations, as well as other trade union bodies and non-trade union organisations. Subjects covered are: the rise of black trade unionism, labour legislation, 'racial registration' recognition agreements, health and safety, working conditions, strikes, and trade union unity.

The records are classified into separate national bodies. They are further sub-divided into the broad categories of national organisation, regional and special topics. The records are separated by form into minutes, reports, memoranda, correspondence, printed items and press cuttings. A brief history of FOSATU, comprehensive index of all personal names and selected subject fields, and a table of the development of black trade unions from 1972-1984 have been provided.

Abbreviations.

AAWU - African Allied Workers Union.

AFCWU - African Food and Canning Workers Union.

DAMCWC - Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers Union.

BAWD - Black Allied Workers Union.

BC - Black Consciousness.

BEEWU - Black Electronics and Electrical Workers' Union.

BMWU - Black Mine Workers Union.

CCAWUSA - Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union.

CCOIITU - Consultative Committee of Black Trade Unions.

CIWW - Council of Industrial Workers of the Witwatersrand.

CTMWA - Cape Town Municipal Workers' Association.

CUSA - Council of Unions of South Africa.

CWII - Chemical Workers Industrial Union.

EAWU - Engineering & Allied Workers Union.

FTWU - Furniture and Timber Workers Union.

FWN - FOSATU Workers News.

GAWU - General and Allied Workers' Union.

GFWBF - General Factory Workers Benefit Fund.

GWU - General Workers Union.

IAS - Industrial Aid Society.

IAWUSA - Insurance and Assurance Workers Union.

ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

IIE - Institute for Industrial Education.

JGU - Jewellers & Goldsmiths Union.

JLDF - Joint Legal Defence Fund.

MACWUSA - Motor Assembly and Component Workers' Union.

MAWU - Metal and Allied Workers Union.

MGWUSA - Municipal and General Workers' Union.

MWASA - Media Workers' Association of South Africa.

NAAWU - National Automobile and Allied Workers Union.

NFBW - National Federation of Black Workers.

NFW - National Federation of Workers.

NGWU - National General Workers Union.

NSIEU - National Sugar Industrial Employees Union.

NUTW - National Union of Textile Workers.

RAWU - Retail and Allied Workers Union.

SAAWU - South African Allied Workers Union.

SALB - South African Labour Bulletin.

SFAWU - Sweet Food & Allied Workers Union.

TGWU - Transport and General Workers Union.

TUACC - Trade Union Advisory and Co-ordinating Council.

TUCSA - Trade Union Council of South Africa.

TWP - Transvaal Workers Project.

UAW - United Automobile Workers.

UBJ - Union of Black Journalists.

UTP - Union of Black Journalists.

WPMAWU - Western Province Motor Assembly Workers Union.

WPWAB - Western Province Workers Advisory Board.

Note: Diagram of Black Trade Union Development 1972-1984 not reproduced.

Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)

Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA) records

  • ZA HPRA AG2466
  • Fonds
  • 1992 - 1994

The Geneva office of EMPSA, responsible for recruiting, screening and selecting international monitors for the purposes of the programme, could then forward names to EMPSA South Africa for a final decision and endorsement. In practice, given the urgency of the situation, much of the liaison took place directly between international partners (church bodies; non-governmental organisations) and EMPSA South Africa.

Correspondence, lists, profiles on monitors and application forms resulted from this 'recruitment drive' and they are included in the collection.

The Johannesburg based EMPSA head office was responsible for coordinating the programme within South Africa. It provided the base from which monitors were deployed to various regions. Minutes, reports, correspondence, press statements and publications generated by this office are included.

Detailed reports, each with its own distinctive character, submitted by successive monitoring teams deployed in priority areas such as KwaZulu Natal, the Eastern Cape and the PWV make up the bulk of this collection. It should be kept in mind when reading the reports that some of the monitors, unfamiliar with the circumstances in which they found themselves and given the shortness of their stay (approximately six weeks), experienced difficulties in adjusting to the many demands that were placed upon them during the course of their work. Thus certain reports might represent events in a 'subjective light'.

This in no way invalidates their relevance as social documents attempting to convey the intensity of events as they unfolded. Daily and weekly reports (this includes correspondence) supplements the monitors regional final reports. During the approach to the elections, and the elections themselves, the EMPSA monitoring presence was increased. Election teams were grouped under specific areas in a particular region and their reports can also be found under daily/weekly reports.

Monitors were handed background information packs at the start of their programme. They were also issued with a uniform which served to identify the programme. These items are to be found in the collection.

EMPSA worked closely with church networks and established links with other non-governmental organisations, both nationally and internationally. Some of these records are reflected in the collection, notably the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), the Independent Forum for Electoral Education (IFEE), the National Peace Accord, the Network of Independent Monitors, the Panel of Religious Leaders for Electoral Justice, Media Monitoring Projects and other observer missions to South Africa.

Other topics in the form of background documents are also included. They include education/youth, election monitoring and observing, policing, negotiations and violence.

Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA)

South African Police, Van Reenen records

  • ZA HPRA A1352
  • Fonds
  • 1903 - 1927

Contains correspondence, circulars, telegrams, orders, duty and occurrence books, patrol reports, case dockets, charge sheets, lost and found lists, returns and statements.
Subjects are poll and dog tax, stock disease and theft, crime, registration of voters, agricultural census and the administration of the police at Van Reenen.

South African Police

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

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, Photographs

  • ZA HPRA A1384
  • Fonds
  • 1914 - 1916

5 Photographs including the deputation of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) to England in 1914; Sol Plaatje in England and Canada in 1921; and two unidentified and undated groups including Sol Plaatje.

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje

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