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Achmat Dangor Papers

  • ZA HPRA A3462
  • Fonds
  • 1960s-2000s

Included are manuscripts, correspondence, awards, journals, diaries, notebooks, newspaper clippings, photographs and artwork, as well as working papers from various institutions, and oral history interviews.

Dangor, Achmat Ebrahim

James Lycett, Journal

  • ZA HPRA A72
  • Fonds
  • 1854

Journey: August 8, 1854 – November 11, 1854

The James Lycett Journal describes a “Journey to Namaqualand from Cape Town, commenced on Tuesday August 8th, 1854 in company with J. Calvert Esq., Coachman John Southgate, and Daangie, a Hottentot” (p.1) Another man named March, described as a “Hottentot boy,” also travelled with them. The Journal ends on November 11, 1854, with Lycett alone in Hondeklip Bay.

The Lycett party was part of the Namaqualand copper boom of 1854, and crossed paths with other prospectors, local farmers, and some government officials, including Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor General, and Dr. William Guybon Atherstone, who later reported on the geology of the region to the Government. Atherstone kept three notebooks of his 1854 trip to Namaqualand, which describe similar struggles of travel but offer a different perspective on the people he met - including John Calvert.

The Atherstone notebooks are held in the Albany Museum in Grahamstown (Makhanda) in the Section that used to be the Settler Museum. My thanks to Dr. Elizabeth van Heyningen, Honorary Research Associate [HRA], History Department, University of Stellenbosch, for this information.

Lycett, James

Goldstone Commission 1991-1994, Compilation of documents

  • ZA HPRA AK3342
  • Fonds
  • 2009

Contained in this collection is the Project report relating to the Goldstone Commission, published by the Human Rights Institute of South Africa, and the DVD, compiled by HURISA contains a compilation of reports, press releases, submissions and verbatim evidence.

Human Rights Institute of South Africa (HURISA)

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

Barnett Collection of Photographs

  • ZA HPRA A3311
  • Fonds
  • 1890s-1913

The photographs of Joseph and David Barnett cover the early years of Johannesburg, its buildings and streets; gold mining, mainly on the Witwatersrand, but also as far as Barberton; events like the Jameson Raid in 1895, the Matabele Rebellion in 1896, the Queen Victoria Jubilee in 1897, and the South African War (Anglo Boer War) in 1899-1902; as well as personalities like Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger.

"The Star" Newspaper

Biko and Solidarity, Poster

  • ZA HPRA A3250
  • Fonds
  • 1977

Tribute poster to Steve Biko that was carried by mourners at his funeral in 1977, released by the Black People's Convention.
Original size 35,5 x 54,5cm.

Richard Turner Murder Investigation, Press Cuttings

  • ZA HPRA A3461
  • Fonds
  • January 1978-November 1997

The scrapbook with the collection of press cuttings was compiled by Michael Hubbard, following the aftermath of the killing of Rick Turner.

Hubbard, Michael

Wulf Sachs, African tragedy: the life story of a native doctor

  • ZA HPRA A2120
  • Fonds
  • 1944

The collection contains the typescript for "African tragedy: the life story of a native doctor", written by the Psycho-analyst Wulf Sachs.

There is no date on the typescript, it was received in 1944, and has 'Draft' written on its spine. The content is similar to "Black Anger" by W. Sachs, published in 1947, as it deals with the same character 'John'. But whereas "African tragedy" is told in the first person, "Black Anger", although including identical incidents, is written by Wulf Sachs as told to him by 'John'.

Sachs, Wulf

Ernest Cole, Photographic collection and Papers

  • ZA HPRA A3440
  • Fonds
  • 1960s-1970s

The collection contains the photographic work of the South African photographer Ernest Cole, some of which culminated in the iconic book "House of Bondage", published in 1967. Also included are his notes, correspondence and research material, as well as his photographic work which he continued in the USA.

Cole, Ernest

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