Hofmeyr, Jan Hendrik, 1894-1948 Professor of Classics, Principal and Vice
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Describes hunting experiences in Central Africa, mainly the Belgian Congo and North Eastern Rhodesia,with some comments on tribal chiefs and customs.
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OPPENHEIMER, Frederick (Coin and manuscript collector).
Papers, 1847-1902. 5 items. Photocopies.
Ms minutes of meetings of the Union Bank, Cape Town, 1847-1857; Ms instructions from General P.J. Joubert to General J.D. de la Rey, Commandant at Lichtenburg, re., the marking out of locations, 18 Dec. 1885; constitution of De Eendrachtelijke Burgermacht der Z.A. Republiek 29 Mar. 1898 and address of welcome from the Burgermacht to President S.J.P. Kruger, 17 Mar. 1899; Ms order from British Army H.Q., Pretoria, signed by Major W.F. Kelly, 25 Mar. 1902.
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MULLER, Ignatius J.
Deed of registration of the farm 'Eerstegeluk', lying at the junction of two rivers, 1859 Aug. 18. 1p. D.S.
Signed by the landdrost, whose signature is illegible.
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POSTHUMUS, Connie F. (Education Officer)
Papers, 1947-1952. 17 items.
Letters from H. Jowitt, Director of Education, Mafeking, and photographs relating to education in Bechuanaland and Roma University College, Basutoland.
SOUTH AFRICAN CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS.
Records, 1946-1961. 1 box.
Minutes, memoranda, correspondence and publications relating not only to SACTU but also to the Transvaal Council of Non-European Trade Unions, the African Trade Unions Technical Advisory Committee and the South African Trades and Labour Council. Includes memoranda submitted to the Industrial Legislation Commission of Inquiry, 1949.
Forms part of the archives of the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Unpublished inventory available.
A1198 RANDERSON, W.
'Notes on the history of Union Corporation Limited during the periods when it was known as: The Syndicate 1888-1892, Ad. Goerz & Co. 1893-1897, A.
124 Goerz & Co. 1897-1918', 1965 Dec. 216p. Ts.
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FINDLAY FAMILY.
Papers, 1777-1978. 62 boxes.
Letters, diaries, photographs, documents, press clippings, sketches and printed items relating to 200 years of the Findlay family history, beginning in 1777 in Scotland, transferring to Cape Town in 1821 and ending with the death of Advocate George Findlay in Pretoria in 1978.
The papers are primarily of family interest but contain much of social value and occasional references to politics and events, in so far as they affected the family, such as the so called “Kaffir” and South African Wars and the two World Wars. The Findlays married into the Schreiner Family, missionaries in the Cape, which created a considerable volume of Schreiner letters, including many written by Olive, William Philip and Theophilus Lyndall Schreiner. Other correspondents are L. Botha, E. Hobhouse, J.H. Hofmeyr, C. Kadalie, E. Marais, Sir R. Solomon, V. Stent and E.T. Stubbs. Subjects cover social life in the 19th century, shopkeeping in Cape Town and Fraserburg, missions and law.
The collection is profusely illustrated with photographs, mainly of succeeding generations of Findlays, but also many early views of Boshoff, Bloemfontein, Cape Town and Pretoria, and sketches of Wittebergen and Bethesda Mission Stations.
Other items are an Ms entitled 'Notes and sketches of South African Boer life and living' by John Findlay, 1896, printed items of the South African College, 1879, and a diary of George Dalrymple Clarke 1899-1900 on the Siege of Ladysmith.
A selection from the papers was published in The Findlay letters 1806-1870, edited by Joan Findlay, Pretoria, Van Schaik, 1954.
Inventory available
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SOUTH WEST AFRICA CONCESSIONS COMMISSION.
Records, 1919-1920. 3 boxes.
Commission appointing C. Jeppe as Chairman, diary of events, minutes of proceedings, memoranda from various mining companies, majority and minority reports and maps.
The Commission, consisting of C. Jeppe, M.C. Vos and A.J. Waters, were asked to report on all concessions granted by the German government.
A1201 MARTIAL LAW COMMISSION.
Verbatim record of proceedings, 1922 May 4-Jun 27. 1745p. Ts.
This Commission was set up after the 1922 strike.
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NATIONAL UNION OF DISTRIBUTIVE WORKERS (Natal Branch).
Records, 1937-1978. 45 boxes.
Minutes, correspondence, memoranda, photographs, scrap-books and a set of the
N.U.D.W. publication New Day from 1944. These records are concerned mainly with branch activities in Durban, Pietermaritzburg and Newcastle and with the branch's relationship with the head office in Cape Town. Other subjects are women in employment and the Shop Hours Ordinance. Also material on the National Council of Women and the National Union of Commercial and Allied Workers.
A1203 ROSE, Edward Bushnan (Author of The Truth about the Transvaal, London,
1902 and President of the Witwatersrand Mine Employees and Mechanics
Union).
'In the Transvaal during the War: reminiscences of a British subject under permit', 1900. 157p. Hg.
Recounts his experiences in Johannesburg and Pretoria during Boer rule, beginning with the exodus prior to the outbreak of war on 11 October 1899 and ending with the British capture of Pretoria on 5 June 1900. Comments on the behaviour of the Boers and Uitlanders, casualties, hospitals, prison camps, the great explosion in Johannesburg, the restarting of the mines, and the conduct of the war. Accompanied by 33 photographs (mainly by Barnett & Co.,) and a passport for travelling from Johannesburg to Pretoria.
Sphere.
A1204 SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY OF BANK OFFICIALS.
Verbatim report of proceedings between the Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd., Barclay's Bank D.C. & O. and the South African Society of Bank Officials, held at Johannesburg, 1956. 1417p. Mimeog.
CHASE, John Centlivres, 1795 - 1877 (Civil servant and politician).
Letters to Robert Godlonton, 1852-1855. 2 items. Photocopies of ALS.
The letter of 2 Feb. 1852 refers to the 8th of the so called “Kaffir” Wars and the one of 19 January 1855 to the new governor, Sir George Grey, and his policy of introducing industrial schools for Africans and a system of jurisprudence.
Originals are in the possession of Major C.C. Chase, Vereeniging.
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GLUCKMAN, Dr. Henry, 1893- ? (M.P. 1938-1958, Minister of Health
and Housing 1945-1948).
Papers, 1940-1966. 10 boxes.
Speeches in the House of Assembly, addresses to organisations, notes,
126 correspondence and press clippings relating mainly to health matters including the National Health Services Commission and the National War Memorial Foundation. Other subjects are Jewish affairs, politics, housing, post-war reconstruction and the timber industry.
Unpublished inventory available.
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DAMANT, H.A.
Papers, 1939-1977. 7 boxes and 2 albums.
Drafts and research material for works intended to be published on the Portuguese and Dutch at the Cape, the Hottentots, Zulus and the Day of the Covenant and the 'Evolution of South African History'. Includes items on anthropology and palaeontology.
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RICHARDS, Mervyn Whitmore, 1901-1978 (Director of Companies).
Papers, 1879 (1925-1978) - 1978. 60 boxes.
Material on education, in particular the Council of Education, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Zululand; papers on the English Academy of Southern Africa, Richards Bay and Admiral F.W. Richards, after whom it was named, the South African Institute of International Affairs and Union Corporation Ltd.
Unpublished inventory available.
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SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.
Records, 1934-1978. 15m.
Minutes of Council, Executive Committee and the Annual General Meeting; correspondence, memoranda, publications, including an archival set of the South African Journal of Science, photographs and documentation on USSASA, the University Science Students Association of South Africa.
A1212 FREED, Dr. Louis Franklin, 1903-1979 (Lecturer in Social Medicine).
Papers, 1886-1975. 30 boxes.
Correspondence, personal documents, notes, theses, lectures, articles, scrap-book, photographs, press clippings and an autobiography. The papers relate mainly to his medical work with particular reference to mental disorders, alcoholism, drugs, prostitution and preventive medicine. Other subjects are the theatre, poetry and Jewish affairs.
Includes 'Martin Buber: the humanist emphasis in his philosophy', by L.F. Freed,
127 Ph.D. Thesis, University of Natal, 1971.
Unpublished inventory available.
AF1213 SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (Johannesburg
branch).
Records, 1925-1974. 11 items.
9 minute-books containing minutes of Executive Committee and General Meetings and President's reports 1925-1965; issues of The Bluestocking 1972 and 1974.
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SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (Renamed South African Association of University Teachers).
Records, 1918-1947. 2 boxes.
Minutes, memoranda and correspondence, together with material on the Association of University Teachers (Britain).
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SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES LECTURESHIP COMMITTEE.
Records, 1925-1940. 1 vol.
Minutes 1927-1936; financial statement 1939 and notice of dissolution 1940; extracts from the report of the Inter-University Conference 1925 and minutes of the Inter-University Conference 1926.
AF1216 EDUCATION LEAGUE.
Minute-book, 1948-1960. 1 vol. AF1217
1961 EDUCATION PANEL.
Records, 1961-1968. 5 boxes.
Minutes of meetings and financial statements 1961-1966; correspondence 1961- 1968; drafts and research material for the 1st Report Education for South Africa, 1963, and the 2nd Report Education and the South African Economy, 1966; memoranda on education and statistical analysis of the future educational needs of South Africa.
The panel functioned in Johannesburg from 1961 to 1967, the Chairman being the Hon. O.D. Schreiner.
A1218f BOSAZZA, Vero Luis, 1911-1980 (Geologist).
'The Rev. Robert Moffat's sextant', 1978 Apr. 14. 11p. Photocopy of Ts with Hg corrections.
Accompanied by photographs and plans of the sextant.
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A1220 GRAY BROS (Photographers, Diamond Fields).
Photographs of the Diamond Fields, c.1874-1876. 19 items in portfolio.
Includes photographs of Pniel, Modder River, Bloemfontein, Kimberley and Colesberg.
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CURTIS, Lionel George, 1872-1955 (British official, scholar and author).
Letters, mainly to his mother, written during the second South African War, 1900 Mar. 1-Jul. 2. 10 items. Ts vol.
Enclosed in a hard cover volume with printed title 'News from the front'. These letters were included in his book With Milner in South Africa, Oxford, Blackwell, 1951.
Curtis was a volunteer army cyclist. A1222
LLOYD, John Barclay (Lance-Corporal, Cyclist Section, City of London
Imperial Volunteers).
Diary, 1900 Jan. 25-Sep. 16. 21 parts. Ts vol.
Describes the voyage to South Africa and his experiences in the second South African War. It is enclosed in hard covers with the title 'News from the front'. The diary was published under the title One thousand miles with the C.I.V., London, Methuen, 1901.
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KENT, George, Ltd. (Manufacturers and suppliers of air, steam, oil and water meters. Luton, England).
A printer's proof copy, with Ms emendations, of The George Kent centenary 1838-1938, Derby, Bemrose, 1938. 100p.
Also 7 loose photographs, used as illustrations, including one of the Klip Power Station, South Africa. Page 15 of the text refers to the Rand Mines air supply from the Victoria Falls Power Company, which was measured and paid for according to the records of Kent Venturi Meters. A1238
ACTON, H. Adams (Trooper in the Mashonaland Mounted Police). Mfm
Diary, 1896. 67l. Microfilm.
Refers to the Jameson Raid, the advance of the Matabeleland Relief Force to Bulawayo, the Gwaai Patrol and the attack on Gatzi's Kraal.
Original is in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, AC1/1/1.
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BALFOUR, Alice Blanche, 1850-1936 (Traveller in Rhodesia and author of Mfm
Twelve hundred miles in a wagon, London, Arnold, 1895).
Diaries, 1894. Microfilm.
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Kept during a visit to Matabeleland and Mashonaland, travelling by ox wagon in company with A.H.C. Grey and his wife (later 4th Earl and Countess Grey) and H. Fitzwilliam.
Originals are in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, BA1/2/1-2.
A1241 BAILIE, Alexander Cumming, 1850-1903 (Land-surveyor). Mfm
Papers, 1876-1890. Microfilm.
Correspondence and journal relating to his expedition to Lobengula, 1876-1877, recruiting labour for the diamond mines; notes on the extension of British influence northwards to the Zambesi between 1876 and 1890.
A1242 BOWER, Sir Graham John, 1848-1933 (Colonial administrator). Mfm
Papers, 1896-1933. Microfilm.
Correspondence, mainly with the Colonial Office and J.H. Hofmeyr 'Onze Jan', 1895-1896, on the Jameson Raid; 'rough notes written in illness' 26 Jul. 1933, London, on the same subject.
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CHAPLIN, Sir Francis Percy Drummond, 1866-1933. (Joint Manager of Mfm
Consolidated Goldfields Ltd., and Administrator of Rhodesia).
Correspondence, 1896-1932. Microfilm.
Subjects are South African and Rhodesian politics, with particular reference in South Africa to Chinese labour, mining, labour unrest, the Progressive Party, the first World War and the 1914 rebellion. Correspondents include W.L. Bagot, Viscount Buxton, Sir J. Chancellor, Sir C. Crewe, G.H. Farrar, Sir J.P. Fitzpatrick, Sir W. Hely-Hutchinson, R. Kipling, Sir L. Michell, Viscount Milner, C.D. Rudd, Lord Selborne, Sir T. Smartt, Gen. J.C. Smuts, H.J. Stanley and V. Stent.
Originals are in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, CH8.
A1246 HAMILTON, Sir Frederick Howard, 1865-1956 (Journalist). Mfm
Letter, 1936 Dec. 7, to Howell Wright. Microfilm.
Contains reminiscences of C.J. Rhodes and the Jameson Raid.
Original is in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, HA1.
HARRISON, Christopher Francis, b.1853 (Rhodesian and Witwatersrand pioneer). mfm
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Papers, 1889-c.1897. Microfilm.
Diaries 1889-1895, describing his arrival in Cape Town, journey to Kimberley, preparations for the Mashonaland expedition, Matabele War and mining activities on the Witwatersrand; reminiscences on diamond and gold mining, life in Kimberley and C.J. Rhodes.
Originals are in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, HA2.
A1248 HALFORD, Samuel James (Rhodesian and Witwatersrand pioneer). Mfm
'The long trial' reminiscences of a Rand pioneer's life in South Africa from 1887 to 1896'. Microfilm.
Includes information on Kimberley and Johannesburg, journeys to Salisbury and Beira 1893, Matabele War, C.J. Rhodes and Dr. L.S. Jameson, the Jameson Raid and disturbances in the Transvaal.
Originals are in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, HA12.
A1249 HOLE, Hugh Marshall, 1865-1941 (Rhodesian administrator). Mfm
Correspondence with E.A. Maund, 1926-1927. Microfilm.
Relates to his book The making of Rhodesia, London, Macmillan, 1926, and to certain statements in the book to which E.A. Maund took exception. Contains comments on C.J. Rhodes.
Originals are in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, HO/1/2/1.
A1250 JAMESON, Sir Leander Starr, 1853-1917 (South African and Rhodesian Mfm
statesman).
Correspondence, 1889-1902. Microfilm.
Correspondence with Middleton Jameson (his brother), British South Africa Company, Sir John Willoughby, Colonial officials in London, and Sir James Reid (Queen Victoria's physician) on negotiations with Lobengula, the Charter Company's future, the Pioneer Column and the Jameson Raid. Also Hg poem 'C.J. Rhodes' by Rudyard Kipling.
Originals are in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, Ja1/1/2.
A1251 JARVIS, Sir Alexander Weston, 1855-1939 (Director of Mining Companies in Mfm Rhodesia).
Letters to his mother, Lady Jarvis, 1895-1896. Microfilm.
The subjects are the Jameson Raid and the Mashona and Matabele Rebellions in Rhodesia.
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