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Union Unity Truth Service and Truth Legion

  • ZA HPRA A1883
  • Fonds
  • 1932 - 1948

Constitution, correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes and printed items such as 'Libertas', the Truth Service magazine.
Subjects are primarily the organisation of the Truth Service and Truth Legion, pro-war an anti-fascist campaigns. Other subjcts are the bilingual school issue, malnutrition, gold standard, elections, Campaign for Right and Justice, Broederbond and Ossewa Brandwag.

Robertson, Thomas Chalmers

Union Day Photograph

  • ZA HPRA A3304
  • Fonds
  • 1910

One photograph of the Union Day celebrations that took place in Johannesburg on the 31 May 1910. The photo shows a sportsground and the march past of 12,000 children carrying the British flag, with inscription on the photo.

Not original photo.

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.

Umuhle ... Umubi - The good one ... the bad one

  • ZA HPRA A3379
  • Fonds
  • 2013

The television documentary was inspired by the story of the march of about 7000 Zulu mine workers from the Witwatersrand to the rural areas of Zululand / Natal at the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899. The repatriation march of the mine workers was led by John Sydney Marwick, a public servant at the time, saving them from certain starvation, as Gold mining on the Witwatersrand had come to a grinding halt.
The documentary places the story of John Sydney Marwick against the historic background of British colonial conquest in Natal and resistance by the Zulu nation, covering the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879 to the Bambatha rebellion of 1906.

Kevin Harris

Tuli Elephants, Records

  • ZA HPRA A2926
  • Fonds
  • 1995-2002

The collection contains court records, correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the legal matter between the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) and African Game Services / African Game Properties, held at the Magistrate's Court for the District of Brits, held at Brits.

Between 1998 and 2000, thirty wild baby elephants were forcibly removed from their mothers and families in Botswana and taken to South Africa, where their spirits were intentionally broken for captive exhibition and display to feed the trade in wild animals.

Because of the conditions under which these elephants were 'trained', a case of cruelty to animals was brought against wild-life dealer and owner of African Game Services (AGS), Riccardo Ghiazza, and his employee. Five years later they were found guilty. The legal wrangle around the Tuli elephants illustrated how weak animal protection legislation is in South Africa.

Fiona Macleod

Tudor Gruffyd Trevor, Novel

  • ZA HPRA A121
  • Fonds
  • 1902

Geologist, mining official and author of 'Forty years in Africa'

"Tradition counts" a novel set partly in Johannesburg.

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