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Laura Pollecutt's political activism started with her involvement in the Progressive Party. She later became a prominent member of the Southern Transvaal branch of the Black Sash, participating in numerous alliances and campaigns. She worked for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1997, first as Communication Officer, and later as special researcher for the hearing into the Media Under Apartheid. This led to her role in research and co-ordination for the TRC hearing on the Media and Apartheid in September 1997. Pollecutt wrote the final report with the assistance of Hugh Lewin. The great majority of the items in this collection date from the 1980s to the late 1990s, and include t-shirts, stickers, badges, banners, calendars videos and miscellaneous items. These items were collected from political parties, labour movements and social forums who used these items during protests, celebrations, commemorations and campaigning. This collection consists of papers and publications collected by Noel Stott during his student years at UCT (1978-1981), his career as librarian, administrator, and researcher at several ecumenical institutions such as The Southern African Bishops' Conference (SACBC) and the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT), and his extensive involvement in the democratic movement and various non-governmental organisations. Books on a variety of topics relating to South and Southern Africa donated to the South African History Archive (SAHA) by the Netherlands Institute of Southern Africa to allow researchers to consult while vising at SAHA. Also includes posters. Formed in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), together with the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Cape Indian Congress went on to form the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Although never banned, harassment of its leadership and repressive conditions brought an end to its activities, which were only revived again in 1971. This collection mainly reflects the activities of the organisation since its revival in 1971. The Department of Education has been hosting an annual oral history competition, known as the Nkosi Albert Luthuli Young Historians’ Competition, since 2006 as part of their commitment to participate in and co-ordinate the national commemoration of the anniversaries of events of historical significance in schools. Each year all schools are encouraged to participate and the competition is open to all learners in Grades 8 to 11 and all history educators in secondary schools. The aim of this oral history competition is to encourage all learners to develop an understanding, not only of the ... The Sunday Times Heritage Project (STHP) collection includes a wide range of material collected toward the Sunday Times newspaper’s Heritage Project. The STHP was completed in collaboration with the South African History Archives, and released during the newspaper’s centenary celebrations. It set out to commemorate remarkable people and events selected from different arenas of South Africa’s past; subjects include Enoch Mgijima and the Bulhoek massacre, Athol Fugard, Nontetha Nonkwenkwe, Raymond Mhlaba, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the TRC, Happyboy Mgxaji, George Pemba, the Eastern Cape ... Janet Cherry generated these TRC-related records when she was in the employ of the Research Department of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) from 1996 to 1998 in the Port Elizabeth Office. Her research focused on human rights violations in the western part of the Eastern Cape Province. The Julie Frederikse collection consists of audiotapes, CDs and transcripts of the oral interviews she and other people conducted over the period 1979-1990. The interviews resulted from the research done for the books Frederikse wrote, "South Africa: A Different kind of War: from Soweto to Pretoria" (1986), and 'The unbreakable thread: non-racialism in South Africa" (1990). The most notable interviews in the collection are those from Jacob Zuma, David Webster, Albie Sachs, Terror Lakota, Jay Naidoo etc. The major theme for these interviews is non-racialism. Almost all the items in this collection are copies of posters utilised in the book "Images of Defiance". The majority of slides in this collection correspond to actual posters included in the SAHA Poster Collection (AL2446). |
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