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Hal Miller, A Memoir

  • ZA HPRA A3464
  • Fonds
  • 2023

"Hal Miller: A memoir and personal history of The Argus Newspaper Group", with a foreword by Rosemary Miller and an afterword by Jonathan Hobday, former Argus Group editor.

Miller, Hal

Goldstone Commission, Boipatong Massacre Records

  • ZA HPRA AK2672
  • Fonds
  • 1990 - 1999

Records of Goldstone Commission enquiry (1992), an appeal heard in the Supreme Court (1994) and Amnesty Committee records.

Includes some Sebokeng records, 1990-1991.

These papers relate to the events which took place on June 17 1992 at nBoipatong, during which 39 people were murdered, several people injured and property was stolen or destroyed. There were accusations of police involvement in the crime.

The collection comprises 3 sets of documents: the Goldstone Commission of Enquiry (1992), the Appeal Court record with accompanying documents (1993-1994) and the Amnesty applications with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1999).

Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation

George Wyndham Hamilton Knight-Bruce, Diary

  • ZA HPRA AB265
  • Fonds
  • 23 May - 5 December 1888

George Wyndham Hamilton Knight-Bruce (1852-1896) was the Bishop of Bloemfontein (1886-1891) and the Bishop of Mashonaland (1891-1894).
His Diary contains the account of a pioneer trek through Mashonaland.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

Faku, Statement

  • ZA HPRA A289
  • Fonds
  • 1830

Paramount chief of the Pondos

Statement in Zulu, to the government of Natal, signed with Faku's mark.

British Colonial Government Natal

Dirk Coetzee, Testimony

  • ZA HPRA A2790
  • Fonds
  • 1990, 1994

Hitsquads. Testimony of a South African Security Policeman: the full story, by Dirk Coetzee

The testimony was written by Dirk Coetzee in exile, at the ANC Headquarters in Lusaka and in London, with the help of his brother Ben Coetzee. The main body was completed in 1990, and was spell checked and reprinted by Ben Coetzee in 1994.

Dirk Coetzee's testimony would also form part of the submissions to the Harms Commission of Inquiry, which he gave in London.

Dirk Coetzee

Diocese of Cape Town, Chronicle

  • ZA HPRA AB1159
  • Fonds
  • 1847 - 1865

Kept by Sophy Gray, the wife of Robert Gray, first Bishop of Cape Town, this volume contains the chronicle of the Province, together with an index. The entries were done in fine calligraphy.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

Department of Justice File

  • ZA HPRA A3302
  • Fonds
  • 1964 - 1994

The compilation contains a list of persons which were held in custody or listed as members of subversive organisations in terms of the Act on Terrorism, Section 6 and 29. Some of the listed persons were charged and tried.

Constitution of the Church of the Province of South Africa

  • ZA HPRA AB2891
  • Fonds
  • 1870

Text of the original Constitution, inscribed by Sophia Gray, and signed and sealed by the Bishops of Cape Town, Grahamstown, St Helena and Maritzburg, amongst others.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

Church of the Province of South Africa, Constitution

  • ZA HPRA AB1160
  • Fonds
  • 15 February 1876

Ratified deed, with the signatures of W.W. Jones, Bp. of Cape Town and Metropolitan, N.J. Merriman, Bp. of Grahamstown, and others.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

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