Alternate title: Heywood, Mark
British activist living in South Africa since the 1980s, he initially worked for the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC in London and later in South Africa. From the 1990s onwards he then became instrumental and held various position in the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), the AIDS Law Project (ALP), the Treatment Action Campaign and Section 27.
He also completed a Masters degree in African literature at Wits and lectured and wrote on the influences of Shakespeare on African writing and politics in South Africa.
Mark Heywood has written extensively on HIV, human rights and the law, including co-editing the AIDS and the Law Resource Manual and Health & Democracy: A guide to human rights, health law and policy in post-Apartheid South Africa. He has been part of the legal teams of the AIDS Law Project and the Treatment Action Campaign that have been involved in all the major litigation around HIV and human rights in South Africa.
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The "Marxist Workers Tendency (MWT) of the ANC", was founded in 1979 by Mark Heywood, Paula Ensor, Dave Hemson and Martin Legassick. The MWT was a result of a conflict with the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and the then exiled African National Congress (ANC), trying to persuade them to commit to policies towards a socialist revolution in South Africa.
During that time Mark Heywood was instrumental in setting up the Philemon Mauku Defence Campaign and the Leeukop Political Prisoners Support Committee.
The documents submitted in 2016 relate mainly to his post-1994 activism as part of organisations such as the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS); the AIDS Law Project (ALP), which evolved from CALS and which was later incorporated into 'Section 27', where Mark Heywood served as Executive Director at the time of the additional submissions; and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). The documents also include some personal papers.
The first part of the collection (A-C) deals mainly with the "Marxist Workers Tendency (MWT) of the ANC". In 2016 Mark Heywood deposited additional material, see sections A + C-F.
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Also included 'Life Award' by HE-TIC
The photographs which he described were not included in the submission.
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Including: written from Botswana and from Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre in South Africa to friends in the UK; at Balliol College enquiring about scholarship; one personal letter from Edwin Cameron, Justice of the Constitutional Court.
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Forms and correspondence re. study permit in South Africa , during his studies at Wits University; also included travel permit to the Republic of Transkei.
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Entitled: 'Books made the white man's success, they said, and it shall make ours' - Lovedale, literature and cultural contestation, 1840-1940. The degree was never formally awarded because it was converted into a PhD which MH never had time to finish in the years that followed.
Pages ix, 1-4, 9-10, 15-17, 27-28, 185 missing (not submitted)
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Including a newspaper clip covering the court appearance of Mark Heywood, student at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and Ex-JCR President of Pembroke Doug Taylor. Both were charged with public order offences during the All Soul's demonstrations. Undated; Shakespeare post coloniality, programme, with contribution by Mark Heywood, 1996; St Peter's School Newsletter, with article about Mark Heywood, 1996; Another blanket: Report on an investigation into the migrant situation, June 1976.
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With index, including "Tell" Training in English language literacy, and documents relating to advocacy work in HIV/AIDS .
Stored in Media Room.
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Please contact the Historical Papers Research Archive.
Copyright belongs to the individual Afrapix photographers, including: Cedric Nunn, Paul Grendon, Warren Parker, Anna Zieminski, Benny Gool .
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Including: Eric Miller
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Including: Cedric Nunn, Anna Zieminski.
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Group photo with participants, including Mark Heywood.
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Including: Articles on Inkatha; Report on the problem in Pietermaritzburg from EC (South African Section), July 1991
Correspondence, 1992 ; Reports on meeting between representatives of the ANC Regional Executive Committee of Southern Natal and comrades of the Marxist Workers' Tendency, September 1992 .
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Subjects include 'Platform of the MWT'; present political situation, mass movement in the ANC, living wage campaign, the De Klerk regime, defiance campaign, Natal violence, MK's ceasefire, apartheid and capitalism, strategy and tactics, the state of the `Tendency' etc. Includes stickers `What the MWT stands for' .
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Includes: index to numbers 1 - 17; South African Perspectives: Workers' revolution or racial civil war, May 1985 by Paul Storey; and South Africa's socialist revolution has begun, November 1986. Also included the Supplement to Inqaba Ya Basebenzi. 1981 - 1987.
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Including:
Discussion Article: Left-wing Deviation, 1988
Circular: What could have been done with the national minimum living wage campaign
Finance is the key to building, 3/90
Mandela's demand that the government ban the AWB, 15 August 1991
Submission from Paul (South Africa) to the International Commission, 14 September 1991
Criticism of Slovo's and the ANC's negotiations
Notes from an EC discussion on negotiations, 3 December 1992
Circular on breakdown of negotiations an plans for mass action, 12 June 1992
Circular on International Dispute (contains various attached documents
Report on discussions with IS comrades, June/July 1992
Report and recommendations on Cape Town, November 1992
Paper re Capitalism, socialism and the freedom charter
What is the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the ANC? by David Hemson
The start of negotiations - our slogans and tasks, 1 December 1991
Notes on the ANC and the Constitutional Assembly
South Africa in Crisis: What route to democracy? by Martin Legassick
The past and present role of the Marxist Tendency of the ANC by Martin Legassick
South Africa - slogans and tactics, September 1993
Proposals on Socialist Conference, 1 April 1994
Discussion on the South African Platform, 20 January 1993
Document on Nationalism by PT
Analysis of the elections, and perspectives for the post-election period, 23 May 1994
Notes on discussion on SA and the world economy, 12 February 1994
Building a new PWV province, 2 May 1994
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Including: "Looking Forward", SACTU Publication, 1978 Correspondence between COSATU and MWT, 1991-1992 "Asinamali! The Workers 'case", SALEP publication, March 1981. The Sarmcol strike.
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Subjects include South Africa politics and Marxist Workers' Tendency.
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Includes: press cuttings and pamphlets and videos. Amongst the videos are: "Philemon Mauku on trail for self defence" and "Lost generation", both of which have been digitised.
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Includes: ANC and Leeuwkop Political Prisoners Support Committee material; list of names of Leeuwkop prisoners, profiles of political prisoners, correspondence and `Nkululeko' campaign bulleting.
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Appeals for their release, and other material.
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Additional material submitted in 2016, relating to the political prisoners campaign; amnesty and indemnity; workers issues.
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Package of typed up letters to and from Philemon, for an edited selection of letters for publication.
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Including campaign flyers, press releases, correspondence, names of political prisoners at Leeuwkop Maximum Security prison, requests to visit political prisoners.
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Including a critique of the indemnity & amnesty process.
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Relating to national minimum wage, with Government Gazette No. 17002 re. employment standards.
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Including: Work in Progress, issue no.2, November 1977 (publisher Glenn Moss); letter to Noor, 1994; notes; Analysis of the elections, draft for NC members, May 1994; photographs from a sabotage scene, presented as exhibits, no details; interview with Rob Petersen, Martin Legassick and Thozama April re. the history of the MWT, 5 September 2003.
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Includes: International Executive committee meetings 1991-1992, IEC circulars and correspondence, Report dated 1/7/91 by `Sam' to the UC (on IEC conference) and resolutions .
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Including Marxist Studies brochures re. Spanish civil war, Bolshevism, Divide and rule.
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Documents mainly relating to the Political Prisoners Campaign, see item no. B9, as part of latter additions to the collection, and where Mark Heywood acted as a member of CALS. Including correspondence; issues relating to indemnity and amnesty; minutes of a meeting with Ahmed Kathrada and Carl Niehaus.
Also included an article entitled 'COSATU House murders - facing up to the violence', by David Dison, practicing attorney, where he relates the case of The State vs Bongani Sibisi and 17 Others, a trial taking place from 1987-1991.
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Document pack for the meeting, providing an overview of the work of the ALP and the role of the Board.
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The reports are incomplete.
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Including reports by CALS and ALP.
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Including Seminar documents and Seminar report.
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Including 10th and 11th meeting documentation pack.
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Published by the ALP and Lawyers for Human Rights. Included the manual in file format and as bound publication.
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Included: pocket guides for domestic workers; brochure guides and guidelines on various issues such as Current law and policy relating to Rights in prison, Privacy, Rights in the workplace, Women and HIV/AIDS, Testing, Living & Dying.
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Including a South Korean publication with Mark Heywood and Edwin Cameron on front page, 2010; poster and flyers for an event at Concordia University, Community Lecture Series on HIV/AIDS, which was presented by Mark Heywood.
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Including: 'The price of life' Hazel Tau and Others vs GlaxoSmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim: A report on the excessive pricing complaint to South Africa's Competition Commission, joint publication of the Law and Treatment Access Unit of the ALP and the Treatment Action Campaign, July 2003; AIDS Consortium newsletter, May 2004 .
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Brochure explaining the incorporation of the AIDS Law Project into the newly formed organisation Section 27 in 2010. Also included the Section 27 Review, 2012-2013.
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The meeting took place after a Settlement meeting between Government and the Tack on provision of comprehensive health care services to offenders.
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Also included Mark Heywood's notes to contribute to the discussion on re-organising the TAC; Minutes of the NEC meeting .
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Including amongst others: 'Rewarding engagement?: The Treatment Action Campaign and the politics of HIV/AIDS', by Steven Friedman and Shauna Mottiar, 2004; 'Social Movements: Challenging the state', Paper by Mark Heywood for Harold Wolpe Memorial, 4 May 2005; Grant proposal for 3 years, 2007-2010; Billboards 2006: An open letter to Love Life; 'A clash of fundamentalisms', 2 chapters, author and book unknown, relating to Thabo Mbeki's handling of HIV/AIDS; document re. to the restructuring of the South African National AIDS Council; memos relating to traditional medicine.
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Terms of reference, evaluations, proposals, reports, notes.
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Including Report 2004-2005; 2005-2006.
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Including: Steering the storm: TB and HIV in South Africa: A polity paper of the TAC, by Zackie Achmat and Reid Roberts; Securing access to health care in South Africa: A discussion paper prepared for the TAC.
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Print out from a law publication.
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Affidavits. The case covered the aspect of affordable medicine for people affected by HIV/AIDS.
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The case related to the activities of Rath and others, who distributed medicines for the treatment of HIV/AIDS, which were not registered with the Medicines Control Council.
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Judgement in the case for the provision of anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment to prisoners.
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Judgement relating to the disruption o health services in Khayelitsha.
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Relating to provision of services in accordance with the minimum humanitarian assistance standards in Cape Town.
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Judgement and Notice of Appeal relating to the right of access to information.
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Including amongst others: Agenda, resolutions, guidelines, messages of support, financial report, TAC constitution.
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Relating to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART).
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Entitled: Women and PLWA (People Living with HIV/AIDS) leadership for a people's health service.
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National Civil Society HIV and AIDS Prevention and Treatment Congress "Building solidarity and action plan to save lives", organised by COSATU, Oxfam, TAC, SACC, SANGOCO.
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Including: 3rd South African AIDS Conference, Declaration on HIV and AIDS, June 2007; National Consultation for PLHIV sector on the NSP (National Strategic Plan).
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Publications by the TAC relating to aspects of nutrition, TB, antiretroviral treatment, and pregnancy.
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Flyers, postcards, brochures .
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Publications produced by various NGOs and Government departments.
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Including HIV/AIDS National Strategic Plan, 2007-2011; SANAC Annual Report, 2008; National Strategic Plan, mid term review, November 2009.
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Including amongst others: Review of Health Care Sector response to HIV/AIDS.
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Causes of death in South Africa.
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Relating to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission .
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Relating to a collaborative effort of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Medical Research Council, the Centre for AIDS Development Research and Evaluation, and Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida (ANRS); funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and others.
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Report and Executive Summary of a household survey of South African National HIV prevalence, behavioural risks and mass media.
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Review draft and publication, funded by the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
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Including amongst others: The extraordinary 'ordinary': The campaign for comprehensive AIDS treatment in South Africa, by Steven Friedman, 2006; Traditional medicines and traditional healers in South Africa, prepared by Marlise Richter, September 2003.
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Including "Beat it! Your guide to better living with HIV/AIDS", weekly TV programme for SABC1, directed by Zackie Achmat .