- GB ULSOAS MR-AAO-102
- Collection
- 1964 - present
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Joffe, Joel
Part of Rivonia Trial
Mainly correspondence between Benson and fellow South African activists and large amounts of newspaper cuttings collected by Benson relating to South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.
Records related to the Rivonia Trial:
-Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the Rivonia Trial (ICS6/5/3)
-Elias Motsoaledi's statement (ICS6/5/7)
- Correspondence, reports and statements about the treatment of political prisoners in South Africa, including reports by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and Amnesty International
- Papers related to Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment, collected by Benson when writing her biography of Mandela, "Nelson Mandela: the Man and the Movement."
- Correspondence between Mandela and Mary Benson. There is also correspondence between Benson and others, mainly related to Mandela and campaigns for his release from prison. Correspondents include Helen Suzman, Elinor Birley, Hilda Bernstein, Oliver Tambo, Winnie Mandela, Denis Healey and Ismail Ayob.
- Typed notes on Mandela and other prisoner
-News clippings concerning Mandela, mainly from British newspapers. Subjects covered in particular detail include the Rivonia Trial and campaigns for Mandela's release (ICS6/8)
Benson, Mary
Part of Rivonia Trial
The collection includes personal material of First and her immediate family such as correspondence and financial records, papers relating to First's 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.
Material related to the Rivonia Trial:
-Background material, correspondence and reviews concerning "No Easy Walk to Freedom," edited by Ruth First. Includes printed copies of Nelson Mandela’s speech at the Rivonia Trial, drafts of sections of the book, and a typescript of Mary Benson’s statement before the UN Special Committee on Apartheid in 1964, with handwritten alterations. Also includes correspondence, mainly between Ruth First and Heinemann Publishers, as well as clippings of newspaper reviews (RF/1/6/2)
-ANC publications includes introductory pamphlets on the ANC and the Rivonia trial, copies of magazines: Sechaba and Mayibuye.(RF/1/17/2/3)
-Materials on political detentions between 1963 and 1970, including a copy of the 1963 Detention Act, a radio script by Mary Benson entitled "Nelson Mandela and the Rivonia Trial," and notes produced by First (RF/1/18/2)
- Transcripts of interviews with Robben Island political prisoners (RF/1/18/1).
-Newspaper cuttings from both British and South African newspapers, mainly covering issues relating to politics in South Africa including the Rivonia Trial (RF/1/19)
-Correspondence (Feb 1964-Aug 1965) covering subjects such as the Rivonia Trial and First's exile to Britain. Correspondents include Govan Mbeki, Molly Bernstein and Julius Lewin (RF/2/1/2).
The collection is on indefinite loan to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and remains the property of the Ruth First Memorial Trust.
First, Ruth
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Transport Workers’ Federation : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Commonwealth Pressure Groups, Trade Unions and Political Parties Materials
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Rand Daily Mail
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
SASO
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Rand Daily Mail
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Press Articles
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives (United Kingdom)
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
British Embassy, Pretoria
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Astor, David
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
British Embassy, Pretoria
Foreign Office: Cultural Relations Department
Part of Mandela Materials
Merseyside Communist Party : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Papers of Stephen Clingman Relating to Bram Fischer
Part of Rivonia Trial
The papers were collected by Stephen Clingman while researching his biography entitled "Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary" (1998). They are mainly photocopies of correspondence and newspaper cuttings.
The Rivonia Trial material appears in section relating to legal and political cases in which Bram Fischer was involved (boxes 20-21), Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. S. 2444 / 21, 1 box (285 folios):
fols. 1-157) the Rivonia Trial (1963-6). Includes newspaper cuttings and typescripts entitled:
-Operation Mayibuye'
-'The Voice of the African National Congress'
-'A Call To The Youth' (issued by the Johannesburg District of the South African Communist Party)
Clingman, Stephen
Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) and predecessor material including the Boycott Movement. Material directly related to the Rivonia Trial includes:
O.7 Political Prisoners Campaigns, 1956-95:
-O.7.1.b Correspondence, 1962-70: Correspondence concerning the Rivonia trialists and other condemned South African leaders, 1964 (MSS AAM 1791)
-O.7.5.e General files, 1961-95: Information on the Rivonia trial and trialists, 1963-90 (MSS AAM 1953)
W.2 African National Congress (ANC) posters, 1978-95:
'We salute our leaders. Sentenced to life imprisonment. Rivonia 1963. Mandela, Sisulu, Mbeki, Mhlaba, Motsoaledi, Mlangeni, Kathrada, Goldberg.' 1980s? Mainly black and white; photographs (MSS AAM 2512/2/4), 1 poster
Rivonia Trial references might also appear in other parts of this collection for example, the campaigns the AAM took relating to the Trial might appear in the minutes of the Executive Committee and in annual reports.
British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Untitled
South African Political Papers of His Honour Judge Kellock
Part of Rivonia Trial
The material includes fragments of the Rivonia Trial Transcript concerning the details of the charges; news sheets and press releases about the Rivonia Trial; a statement by Kellock on the Trial; information sheets on South African legislation; minutes and circulars from the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners. Other material includes Anti-Apartheid Movement correspondence, and national and executive committee meeting minutes for 1965 - 1966; correspondence relating to the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee and its officials; and papers relating to the Nyasaland emergency of 1959.
Judge Kellock, (formerly Mr. Thomas Oslaf Kellock, Q.C.) was Chairman of the National Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain from 1963-65. This group of papers is mostly concerned with the period when Mr. Kellock was sent to South Africa by Christian Action to act as an observer for the Defence and Aid Fund at the Rivonia Trial in 1964.
Kellock, Thomas Oslaf
Part of Rivonia Trial
Mendelson, John
Part of Mandela Materials
Mendelson, John
Part of Mandela Materials
Sampson, Anthony
Part of Mandela Materials
Huddleston, Trevor
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Women against Apartheid - Frankfurt [Frauen gegen Apartheid - Frankfurt] : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Southampton Anti-Apartheid Group
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Oldham Anti-Apartheid Group : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Health and Refugee Trust of South Africa
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Edinburgh Anti-Apartheid Group
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Coventry Borough Labour Party : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
City of London Anti-Apartheid Group (City Group) : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
British Defence and Aid Fund Southern Africa : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, University of Oxford (Rhodes House Library)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Birmingham Anti-Apartheid Movement
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement, Wolverhampton and District
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement, London (London Anti-Apartheid Committee) branch : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement : Scottish Committee : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Trades Union Congress : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
British Defence and Aid Fund Southern Africa : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement, London (London Anti-Apartheid Committee) branch : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Coventry Borough Labour Party : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Rivonia Trial, South Africa, 1963-4: Nelson Mandela Dictabelt Dubbings
Part of Rivonia Trial
Dubbings of seven dictabelts loaned by the National Archives of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, of court recordings made at the Court of Justice in Pretoria on 20 April 1964. The blue 'dictabelts' are a type of audio recording, developed by the Dictaphone company, which was mainly used in offices between the 1940s and the 1960s. The short broad plastic belts were capable of being flattened and posted but could not be wiped and reused. It appears that the whole Rivonia Trial was recorded on dictabelts in line with normal court procedure at the time. These dubbings comprise only the opening of the defence case by Defence Counsel Bram Fischer, followed by interjections from Justice Quartus de Wet and Prosecutor Percy Yutar, then a three-hour speech by Accused Number One (Nelson Mandela). Extracts from the recordings have been published by SABC entitled 'The voice of Nelson Mandela: extracts from famous speeches', SABC/EMI, 2002 (EMI 724353736521; NSA shelfmark 1CD0189137).
Transcripts available.
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African Writers' Club: BBC Africa Services Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British Library Newspaper Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
Collections includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1801 to the present, most UK and Irish regional and local newspapers, selected newspapers from around the world in European languages, a range of UK and Irish popular periodicals, mostly published weekly and fortnightly.
These would include coverage of the Rivonia Trial.
British Library
Part of Rivonia Trial
Untitled
Part of Mandela Materials
BBC Press Office
Criminal Court Case No. 253/1963 (State Versus N Mandela and Others)
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives and Record Service of South Africa (NARSSA)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
National Gathering against Apartheid [Rencontre National contre l’Apartheid] : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
National Gathering against Apartheid [Rencontre National contre l’Apartheid] : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Finnish Country Committee on Archives on Anti-Colonial Resistance and Liberation Struggle in Namibia
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Solidarity Foundation, Finland [Kansainvälinen Solidaarisuussäätiö] : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Solidarity Foundation, Finland [Kansainvälinen Solidaarisuussäätiö] : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions [Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjärjestö]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South Africa Contact [Sydafrika Kontakt]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South Africa Committee Copenhagen [Sydafrikakomiteen København] (SAKK)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
World University Service - Denmark [Solidaritet og Bistand]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South Africa Initiative of Aachen [Aachener Südafrika Initiative] : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement Germany [Anti-Apartheid Bewegung] : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Swiss Anti-Apartheid Movement : French-speaking branch [Mouvement Anti-Apartheid Suisse] : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Swiss Anti-Apartheid Movement : French-speaking branch [Mouvement Anti-Apartheid Suisse] : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Programme to Combat Racism : World Council of Churches : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives