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Radar at the Bernard Price Institute, 1939-1945

  • ZA HPRA A3377
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1945, 2016

The large leather bound original volume contains photographs and handwritten descriptions relating to the radar research and development at the Bernard Price Institute.

The radar development for the detection and location of aircraft and ships by radar, had been started by Britain some years before the outbreak of World War II. In 1939 General Jan Smuts appointed South African scientists, under the leadership of Dr. B.F.J. Schonland, then Director of the Bernard Price Institute of Geophysical Research and Professor of Geophysics at the University of the Witwatersrand, to gather information for the research programme.

The institute committed itself entirely to war work and became the headquarters for what became known as the Special Signals Services which was tasked with preparing to train people in the use of British radar. Britain shared secret information on radar technology with its Dominions, and in South Africa’s case, this transfer of information occurred primarily through Schonland being briefed directly by Dr Ernest Marsden. Ever the scientist, Schonland, rather than serve purely in a training capacity, set up a research and development team, and based on the information he received from Britain, the team developed a South African version of radar within a few months using components scavenged from radio shops. The South African radar’s functionality was first demonstrated in mid December 1939.

The album was comiled by Dr G.R. Bozzoli, together with members of the radar team, at the request of the committee formed to dissolve the team at the end of WWII. Members of the team included Basil Schonland, Bernard Price and Humphry Raikes (former Vice Chancellor of Wits).

Bernard Price Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB:

The NSP was a framework, developed under the auspices of SANAC, to guide the activities of all partners undertaking work relevant to HIV, sexually transmitted infections and tuberculosis in South Africa. It provided goals and strategies for response to the three diseases during the period 2012 to 2016. It informed the development of provincial and sector implementation plans.

File contains drafts and printed versions of the plan, correspondence, meeting minutes, discussion and content documents, presentations, other documentation, and working copies of the publication NSP Review.

Anglican Canon Law Council Southern Africa

  • ZA HPRA AB3425
  • Fonds
  • 2010-2016

The collection contains records relating to the activities of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa's Canon Law Council. There are legal documents, diocesan reports, minutes of the meetings and correspondence.

Canon Law regulates the internal ordering of the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and the Anglican Communion. Canon Law is amended and adopted by the legislative authority of the church, such as councils of bishops, individual bishops, the Pope for the Catholic Church, and the British Parliament for the Church of England. In South Africa Canon Law is an Amalgam of Roman-Dutch Civil Law and English Common Law, as well as the Customary Law. Bishops and church leaders should know how to respect and uphold Canon Law and the regulations of the church in all forms. Canon Law should be included in training of the clergy.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

Jacob Dlamini, Interviews

  • ZA HPRA A3453
  • Fonds
  • 2015-2016

The interviewees included:
Fourie, Eugene, 27 August 2015 & 21 July 2016
Gilder, Barry, 13 July 2016
Heymans, Hendrik, 26 July 2016

Dlamini, Jacob

Correspondence

Correspondence between the Office of the State Attorney, The Registrar of the Constitutional Court and Adams&Adams relating to both cases. Also included is the Draft Order, suggested by the State Attorney, to be made at the hearing on the 9 February 2016. The Constitutional Court reserved judgement on the 9 February 2016.

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