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Achmat Dangor Papers

  • ZA HPRA A3462
  • Archief
  • 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.

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James Lycett, Journal

  • ZA HPRA A72
  • Archief
  • 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.

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Guide to Historical Papers Photographs

The descriptions include albums, scrapbooks, loose prints, negatives, slides, postcards, some posters, sketches and paintings, and images on glass or metal plates.

Goldstone Commission 1991-1994, Compilation of documents

  • ZA HPRA AK3342
  • Archief
  • 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.

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Wits protests

Three plain-clothes cops capturing a student. One is looking back at Raymond Tucker who is taking the photo. The baton in the hand of a cop to the left is not being used, perhaps because they knew Raymond was there with his camera. Many photos that were published in the newspapers showed the batons being used to bash students.

Wits protests

A cop carrying the banner and some placards away from the uni. The legs in the top left corner of the photo are of police standing on the grass on university property. The main reason why the students were acquitted after four and a half months was that the police had been trespassing when they arrested the students.

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