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Regional guide to holdings
Africa
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ICwS also has a large collection of microforms relating to Southern Africa - these are now listed on the Library Catalogue and can be browsed by searching under the classmark, from M286 onwards.
Search the ULRLS Archives and Manuscripts database for more information about the collections below.
African National Congress (ANC)
ICS 1
South Africa
Records, including reports, conference proceedings, speeches and agenda books from the South African Indian Congress (1939-1963), Transvaal Indian Congress (1946-1956), and Natal Indian Congress (1940-1961); papers on the Treason Trials (1954-1961); Nelson Mandela, No Easy Walk to Freedom (1953); miscellaneous documents relating to ANC activities (1953-1976); /2 (M856) Files from Departments of Education, Health and Lands, India relating to South Africa (1934-1942) and other papers, incl correspondence between M. Gandhi and Y.M. Dadoo and others, relating to Indians in South Africa (1920-1953) (microfilm copies)
1920-1976
Alcock , Neil L. (1919-1983)
ICS 3
Founder of national welfare organisation, Kapugani, South Africa Papers mainly concerning ‘Mdukutshani’ farm, where Al trained Bantu farmers (1975-1985); also include press reports on Al ’s death.
1974-1985
Ashmead Bartlett, F. Ellis (1881-1931)
ICS 84
War correspondent (Graeco-Turkish war, 1898; Russo-Japanese war, 1904; Morocco, 1907; Tripoli, 1907; Balkan wars, 1912-1913; Great War, incl Dardanelles Campaign, 1915-1916; Hungarian revolution, 1919; etc.), author, soldier (South African war), MP (Con) North Hammersmith (1924-1926) Diaries, correspondence, articles, photographs, press cuttings, drafts of publications
1892-1930
Basner, Hyman M. (1905-1976)
ICS 88
Lawyer, Natives’ representative in South African Senate (1942-1948), Co-founder of African Democratic Party (1943), Africa Bureau (early 1960s) Papers, incl autobiographical typescript, published articles (1962), transcript of interview with Basner concerning South African politics, 1930-1950 (1974)
c1930-1975
Benson, Mary (b.1919)
ICS 6
South African writer; secretary of The Africa Bureau, London (1952-1956) and Treason Trials Defence Fund, Johannesburg (1957); lecturer on South African issues; biographer of Nelson Mandela Research material and press cuttings, especially concerning political prisoners and prisons in South Africa, and particularly Robben Island; additional uncatalogued material
c1960-1982
Buganda Mission to Uganda, 1955-1956
See Hancock
Capricorn Africa Society Organisation
ICS 8
Est1949 with objective of democratic and multi-racial development in East and Central Africa Papers, including leaflets, newsletters, press cuttings and correspondence
1955-1956
Central African Examiner, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe)
ICS 11
Letter, with writer’s name removed - to the editor of the Central African Examiner about trade unionism in Nyasaland
nd [c1961]
Chigwendere, Ignatius (b1939)
ICS 12
Trade unionist and activist in Zimbabwe Notes and transcript of interview by Brian P. Willan dealing with Rhodesia trade union movement and nationalist politics (1959-1966)
1974
Ciskei general election Manifestos,
ICS 13
Election posters and other papers relating to election on 21 Feb 1973
1972-1973
Committee on Training in Public Administration for Overseas Countries, GB Department of Technical Co-operation
ICS 85
Reports, minutes and other papers, including memoranda from officials in African countries
1961-1962
Conference on Nigerian Government, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1976
ICS 59
Administrative records and conference papers
1976
Confidential Print - see Foreign Office (GB)
Further information
Cope, John P. (b.1906)
ICS 14
South African politician Papers, correspondence and press cuttings concerning South African politics; biographical notes on Cope; press cuttings and notes on China; letters from Jan Hofmeyer concerning The Forum
c1927-1961
Crowder, Michael (1934-1988)
ICS 123 (CROW)
Africanist academic, editor of History Today and Journal of African History, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Research papers, mainly relating to unpublished biography of Tshekedi Khama and Botswanan history; some West African research material; papers related to work as editor of JAH; colour slides
1958-1988
First, Ruth (1925-1982)
ICS 117 (FIRST)
Southern African journalist, academic and political activist. Personal material of First and her immediate family such as correspondence and financial records, papers relating to her work as a journalist in South Africa, as a university lecturer, an anti-apartheid activist, and as an author and editor of numerous books and articles on Africa and other political topics. Also included are research papers and printed material relating to First and her family, collected both during her lifetime and after her death. Access to personal correspondence files requires the permission of the head of the library in conjunction with the Chair of the Ruth First Trust.
1889-1991 [predominantly 1946-1982]
Further information
Foreign Office (GB) Confidential Print
Diplomatic reports, despatches and correspondence on international negotiations with other colonial powers and African protectorates, treatie , s and exploration, commerce, slave trade, etc. Arranged in following relevant classes: West Africa, East and Central Africa, Southern Africa, North Africa and Sudan, Slave Trade
1839-1904
Further information
Friedmann, Marion Valerie (1918-197?)
ICS 20
Founder member of the South African Liberal Party and candidate in elections Papers, incl press cuttings on South African politics (1958-1962); political periodicals (1960-1963); draft material for Friedmann’s book on police intimidation of Africans; correspondence (1961-1963); black and white photographs of Walter Sisulu (b.1921) and others; miscellaneous material relating to South African politics (1957-1962)
1957-1962
Granada Television: Apartheid
ICS 119
Tapes and transcripts of research and filmed intervieaws for programmes 1 and 4 of 4-part serieson the history of apartheid; also other printed research material
1985-1986
Granada Television: World in Action
ICS 22
Transcript of programme concerning Rhodesia
1963
Gready, Canon Leslie
ICS 25
Notes of Canon Gready’s talks with police in South Rhodesia and copies of related correspondence
1966
Hall, Richard
ICS 26
Letters concerning Mwenzo Welfare Associations (1964); photocopy of ‘The First African Politicians’ by Hall with comments from Godwin A. Mbikusita Lweanika (1965)
1964-1965
Halpern, Jack [used James Fairbairn as pseudonym] (1927-1973)
ICS 28
Journalist, editor of the Central African Examiner (Salisbury, Northern Rhodesia), Secretary-General of Amnesty International Papers relating to Southern Africa and race relations issues, incl press cuttings, press releases, publications, correspondence and radio and television transcripts; notebooks and diaries; draft notes and chapters for his book South Africa’s Hostages (Penguin Books, 1965); family correspondence
c1958-1970
Hancock , Professor Sir (William) Keith (1898-1988)
ICS 29
First Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (1949); Director of Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (1957); First University Fellow of ANU on his retirement (1961); headed inquiry into Buganda constitutional problems (1954) /1 Papers collected and generated during Han ’s work on the biography and selected papers of Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950, Field Marshall and Premier of Union of South Africa) (1896-1958) and British War Economy (1949-1950) /2 Press cuttings relating to the Liberal Summer School, Oxford (1955) and British War Economy (1949-1950) /3 Papers and official and general correspondence relating to the Buganda investigation in Uganda (1947-1956) /4 Correspondence regarding, and black and white photograph of, bust of Han by Alan Jervis (1952) /5 Radio broadcast tapes with autobiographical content (c1978)
1896-1978
Hirson, Baruch (b1921)
ICS 32
Political activist, Marxist and revolutionary, historian Memoranda written by Dennis Goldberg to the South African Commission of Inquiry into the Penal System from political prisoners in Pretoria Local prison on Bram Fischer’s health (1974); letters concerning Hirson’s appointment at the University of Witwatersrand (1960); material collected in South Africa for Year of fire, year of ash: the Soweto revolt: roots of a revolution (c1976-1979); papers (copies) relating to housing crisis in Orlando, Johannesburg (1946); ts history (copy) of No.1 Company Indian and Malay Corps (No.01 SA Res. M T Company) (1940-1941)
1940-1979
Hjul, Peter
ICS 33
Papers on the Civil Rights Defence Committee (1962); Defence and Aid Fund (1961-1965); and the Liberal Party of South Africa (1954-1965)
1954-1965
Horovitch, I.
ICS 34
Papers concerning the South African Communist Party, chaired by Horovitch and Treason Trial in which Horovitch was prosecuted (1959-1964)
c1949-1961
ICwS SEMINAR PAPERS
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Seminar Papers Seminar papers delivered at ICwS; directly related series include: African History, British Africa before 1914, Nigeria: politics of disintegration, African Politics, Pan Africanism, Societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Western Africa, Women in Africa
1949-present
Further information
Jacobs, B.L.
ICS 38
Research and draft material for East African Administrators (Entebbe, Uganda, 1965)
1957-1962
Jebb, Richard (1874-1953)
ICS 116 (JEBB)
Writer on Empire and Commonwealth; Independent Tariff Reform candidate for East Marylebone, 1910; Studies in Colonial Nationalism (1905); The Imperial Conference (1911), The Britannic Question (1913), The Empire in Eclipse (1926) Papers, incl publications and speeches, notebooks and journals, correspondence relating to activities and travels, incl visit to South Africa in 1906
1897-1953
Jennings, Sir (William) Ivor (1903-1965)
ICS 125 (JENN)
Educationalist and writer on constitutional and legal affairs; acted as consultant on educational and constitutional matters to many countries, incl colonies approaching independence and new Commonwealth members; Vice Chancellor of Ceylon University (1942-1955), Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1954-1965), Downing Professor of Laws of England (1962-1965) Papers incl reports, articles and other publications, draft constitutions, memoranda, correspondence, press cuttings; includes papers relating to education in Uganda (1961), and to constitutional issues in Eritrea (c1951), The Gambia (1952, 1958), Ghana (1958), Maldives (1947, 1952-1953), Nigeria (1953-1960), Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1952-1962), South Africa (1956-1957), Sudan (1953-1958)
1928-1965
Kennedy, Joe
ICS 42
Bulletin, nos 39-69 [incomplete], issued by Kennedy to Rhodesian government
1966-1969
Kenya election, 1957
ICS 43
Press cuttings, lists of candidates and parties
1957
Langlands, Professor Bryan W.
ICS 44
Some Makerere/ Uganda Reminiscences Memorandum covering period May 1974 to July, 1975 , when author in Uganda; includes account of the ‘Hills Affair’, the arrest and trial of Denis Cecil Hills
1974-1975
Lewin, Julius
ICS 48
Publications on native law in South Africa (1941), Africans and police (1941), ‘Race versus Reason’ (1950), the legal status of African women (1959) etc.; also papers by his wife, Eleanor Hawarden, on South African history and western civilisation (1965) and prejudice in the classroom (1966)
1941-1965
McAdam, Anthony L.
ICS 50
Lecturer, Department of Political Sciences, University College Rhodesia Papers relating to Rhodesian politics collected by McAdam incl papers relating to activities and "crisis" at the multiracial University College Rhodesia (1964-1971)
1965-1972
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (b1918)
ICS 52
Lawyer, politician and President of South Africa Papers collected by Joel Joffe, lawyer acting for Mandela, relating to Mandela’s trial in Pretoria (1962) and the Rivonia Trial (1963-1964)(copies of originals once held at ICS and now at the Bram Fischer Library at the Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg)
1962-1964
Matthews, Tim I.
ICS 54
Papers concerning activities at University College Rhodesia and conditions in Rhodesia, incl charter of University College Rhodesia, student news releases, press cuttings, etc
1968-1975
Matthews, Zachariah Keodirelang "Z.K." (1901-1968)
ICS 55
Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Native Law, then Professor of African Studies at Fort Hare University (1936-1959), active in South African Institute of Race Relations, the Natives’ Representative Council and the African National Congress, tried and acquitted in Treason Trial (19561958); joined World Council of Churches staff in Geneva (1962) Material used in Matthews’ autobiography Freedom for my people: the autobiography of Z.K. Matthews: Southern Africa, 1901 to 1968 (R. Collings Capetown: D. Philip, 1981) with a memoir by Monica Wilson
[nd] See microforms guide for other holdings
Palmer, Josie (b1903)
ICS 57
First black woman to play a significant role in the South African Communist Party; wrote for Umsebenzi, 1920-1930; founder member of the Federation of South African Women and President of Transvaal Branch; married Edwin Mofutsanyane, a leading member of the Communist Party and the African National Congress Notes of interviews of Palmer conducted by Julie Wells, 19 and 26 October 1977
1977
Pedder, Miles Anthony
ICS 58
Transcript of interview by Ian Han , Salisbury, Rhodesia (8 May 1974) relating to the United Rhodesia Party and the Central Africa Party
1974
Reynardson, Lt-Col. Henry T. Birch (1872-1972)
ICS 63
Secretary to Governor General of Union of South Africa (1927-1933); High Sheriff of Oxfordshire (1958) Typescript diaries with press cuttings of period when Reynardson was Secretary to Governor General of Union of South Africa
1927-1933
Rhodesia Constitutional Conference
ICS 64
Unpublished papers delivered to the Conference in London (1979), including statement by Lord Carrington (copies) 1979 /2 Issues of The Herald and The Sunday Mail, Salisbury, Rhodesia relating to signing of agreement
1979
Rhodesia: UDI
ICS 83
Documents and press cuttings relating to UDI
c1964-1967
Roux, Edward Rudolph (1903-1966)
ICS 67
Botanist, leader of early Communist Party of South Africa, and author of Time Longer than Rope (1948) Papers and correspondence relating to Communist Party matters
1922-1964
Sachs, Dr Albert Louis (b1935)
MF426
Lawyer, political activist and political activist; Professor, South African Constitution Studies Centre, University of the Western Cape; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Papers concerning legal cases and political trials (microfilm of papers formerly held at ICS and now at the Mayibuye Centre, University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
1956-1967
Scott, D.N.
ICS 72
Letters written by Scott concerning his booklet RHO-PLAN 60
1979-1980
South Africa,
ICS 74
Federation Posters and leaflets concerning the Referendum Act 1909 and the Constitution Bill in Natal
1909
South African Parliament debates
ICS 75
Volume of press cuttings
1914
Southall, Roger
ICS 77
Author of South Africa’s Transkei; the political economy of an independent Bantustan (1983) Interview transcripts by Southall with South African trade union and political leaders
1984
Native Affairs Committee, Southern Rhodesia
ICS 78
Typed memorandum to Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia from ex-detainees and restrictees concerning their financial loss while being detained and requesting recompense, contains individual complaints (7 Feb 1961)
1961
Turok, Benjamin (b1927)
South African educationalist; leading member of South African Congress of Democrats (1958-1962); author of ‘South Africa: The Search for a Strategy’ in The Socialist Register (1973); Strategic Problems of the South African Liberation Struggle (1974); Revolutionary Thought in the Twentieth Century (1979) Papers relating to Turok’s political involvements in South Africa (1961-1981); biographical tapes and transcripts (1983-1984)(microfilm of originals formerly held at ICS and now returned to Mr Turok) Closed until 2014
1961-1984
University of Cape Town
ICS 82
Papers concerning opposition of University of Cape Town to Universities Amendment Bill, incl addresses by Vice Chancellor and Principal, Dr S.J. Saunders
1982-1983
Vundla, Phillip Qipu (1901-1969)
ICS 105
Businessman and civic leader active in African National Congress in early 1950s Typescript of interview with Vundla in Johannesburg 1958, incl biographical information and detail on South African politics, trade unions and moral rearmament
1935-1958
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