- ZA HPRA A1724-A-Ab-Abk-Abk3-Abk3iv-xxv-Abk3xi
- File
- July 1037 - August 1938
Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
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Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
Legal documents relating to the sale or the farm Buffelsfontein in the Port Elizabeth area
Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
This collection comprises the records of some of the land companies within the massive Schlesinger organisation, with the focus, through sheer volume, being on Zebediela Citrus Estate.
Numerous problems arose when trying to devise a cataloguing system: on the one hand were the citrus estates themselves and on the other, their financial underpinning of the real estate and investment companies that formed part of the Schlesinger Organisation. This was further complicated by the mergers, purchases and liquidations of the holding companies.
Was one then to organise the material in terms of holding company - African Realty Trust, African Irrigated Land Company and so on - or citrus estate? While Zebediela was obviously the focus of the collection, it could equally have been catalogued as merely one of the larger African Realty Trust concerns.
A compromise was therefore struck between chronological and substantive coherence and commercial accuracy. Thus sections A-C are concerned primarily with Citriculture, and are classified according to estate - Zebediela, Letaba and Nuden respectively. By 1962, Muden, Letaba and Zebediela had all been consolidated Into one company - Consolidated Citrus Estates, and thus form section D.
There is an artificial distinction between Sections A and E - Zebediela and African Realty Trust, respectively; however, in the interests of coherence, this was felt to he justifiable.
Unfortunately, few records remain to document events at Zebediela beyond the early 1960s. Zebediela then fell within Lebowa, having been taken over by the South African Bantu Trust in the mid 1970s. The latter, in turn handed it over to the Bantu Investment Corporation in 1976 for the sum of R1. 2 million.
Other records in this collection document, in bare outline, developments in other land companies owned by the Schlesinger Organisation.
Zebediela Citrus Estate
Dolagoa Bay Lands Syndicale Ltd Minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors
Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
Shares: preference and ordinary
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Particulars of Redemption Fund for Orange Grove, Mt. Pleasant, Killarney, Marlboro, Parkhurst
Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
Purchase of the farms Buitendag and Zandfontein
Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records
Contract between ART and P. Richardson
Part of Zebediela Citrus Estate, Records