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Papers of Madinda Tshabalala

  • ZA HPRA A3346
  • Fonds

Notebook of Madinda Tshabalala containing his thoughts about African Nationalism, Pass Laws, Black Consciousness and Native Service Contracts. He was an ordinary and probably one of the founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress, arrested, detained, jailed and under house arrest for his political activities between 1960 and 1983.

With brief biographical notes provided by Nonkululeko Tshabalala.

Bavenda

  • ZA HPRA A3350
  • Fonds
  • 1928

The softcover publication was part of the series "The Bantu tribes of South Africa: Reproductions of photographic studies" entitled "The Bavenda", by A.M. Duggan-Cronin, with an introductory article on the Bavenda and descriptive notes on the grayscale plates by G.P. Lestrade, Ethnologist from the Native Affairs Department of the Union of South Africa.

Printed at the Cambridge University Press for Cambridge Deighton, Bell & Co., Ltd. and Kimberley Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, 1928.

Edwin John Harris

  • ZA HPRA A3352
  • Fonds

The booklet was compiled and written by Bill Goldsworthy. In it he relates the story of the New Zealander Edwin John Harris which is closely connected to the history of the "Steinaeckers Horse" Unit, which was formed during the South African War (1899-1902). After the war EJ Harris was involved in several more conflicts in Natal, German West Africa and in German East Africa.

Struggle of The Workers At B and S Furniture Co.

  • ZA HPRA A3354
  • Fonds
  • 1983

Film production by Georgina Jaffee entitled "The struggle of the workers at B&S Furniture Co.", September 1983. The Company was established on the border between South Africa and the Homeland of Bophuthatswana in the mid 1970s.

Papers of Reg Chalmers

  • ZA HPRA AB2534
  • Fonds
  • 1933 - 1998

Records mainly relating to St George's Cathedral.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA)

Alec Crosby

  • ZA HPRA AB206
  • Fonds
  • 1924 - 1931

The collection consists of the scrap book of Alec Crosby, a lay worker at St. Mary's Mission, Ovamboland, from 1924-1931.

It includes manuscript notes, press clippings, photographs and printed reports, describing the early days of St. Mary's Mission in Ovamboland which was started by the Rev. George Tobias (later Bishop of Damaraland). Crosby was the brother-in-law of Tobias and worked as an agricultural and industrial instructor at the Mission.

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