South Africa Contact [Sydafrika Kontakt]
- DK MR-AAO-290
- Collection
- 1978 - present
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South Africa Contact [Sydafrika Kontakt]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
Part of Rivonia Trial
South Africa Committee Copenhagen [Sydafrikakomiteen København] (SAKK)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Photographs and Prints Division)
Part of Mandela Materials
Bunting, Sonia
Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College
Part of Mandela Materials
Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO)
Solomon Mahlangu Directors Office
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC)
Shipping Research Bureau : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Shipping Research Bureau : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
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 Mandela Materials
First, Ruth
Rutgers Grass Roots - Progressive Activist Files, Rutgers University
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
Peterson, Roy
Part of Mandela Materials
Roskam, Karel
Part of Mandela Materials
Press, Ronnie
Part of Mandela Materials
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso
Robben Island Reunion of ex political prisoners
Part of Mandela Materials
Robben Island General Recreational Committee
Robben Island General Recreational Committee Archive
Part of Mandela Materials
Documents created by the General Recreational Committee that represented political prisoners on Robben Island. These include a handwritten transcript of a document by Nelson Mandela motivating that the African National Congress (ANC) and the government reach a negotiated political settlement.
-There is also a message from Mandela (during the period of his imprisonment) to Oliver Tambo.
Robben Island General Recreational Committee
Robben Island Campaign: Director's report to President and Information Service
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
UWC- Robben Island Museum Mayibuye 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.
Untitled
Part of Rivonia Trial
Untitled
Part of Rivonia Trial
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
Rivonia Trial: Quartus De Wet/Bram Fischer/Dr Percy Yutar
Part of Rivonia Trial
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
Part of Rivonia Trial
UNISA bought the microfilm from CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project). These were transferred from the Archives and Special Collections.
Reel FI4059:
-Starts on list of evidence and exhibits (incomplete)
-Charge
-First indictment
-Annexure B to Indictment: The defence request for further particulars and State's reply thereto Part I and II
-Notice of application to quash indictment (27 October 1963)
-Heads of argument re application to quash by Bram Fischer and Percy Yutar's reply
-Second indictment
-Annexure A to indictment: Particulars to the counts set out in the indictment
-Annexure C
-Annexure B
-Notice to quash (22 November 1963)
-Heads of argument
-Bail applications of Bernstein and Kantor and judgment on application
-Opening address by Percy Yutar
-Index to state witnesses and exhibits
-Statements by witnesses including, amongst others, Makda, Mtolo, Davids, Mashiloane, Sulliman, Jaantjies, Jelliman. Card
-Notes on state witnesses evidence taken by defence (volumes 1-4 and extra piece in volume 5). Incomplete.
Reel FI4060:
-Continuation of witness statements including Mtolo,
-Notes on state witnesses evidence taken by defence
-Record of state witnesses in regard to James Kantor: Makda, Gibson, Kleynhans, Cox, First, Fenn, van Rensburg
-Analysis of state evidence by defence
-Defence opening address and Nelson Mandela's (sic) Statement from the Dock
-Walter Sisulu's evidence volume 1 (p.1-155), volume 2 (p. 156-296)
Reel FI4061:
-Walter Sisulu's evidence volume 3 (p. 297-356), volume 4 (p. 357-464)
-Ahmed Kathrada's evidence
-Raymond Mhlaba's evidence
-Lionel Bernstein's evidence (with notes)
-Denis Goldberg's evidence and cross examination by Mr Krog
-Govan Mbeki's evidence (includes notes passed between defence (?) team
FI4062:
-Elias Motsoaledi's statement (4 pages)
-Andrew Mlangeni's statement
-Analysis of defence evidence and notes on argument
-Judgement
-Evidence in mitigation of sentence and judgement on sentence
-Photographs of Rivonia
-Index of accused and co-conspirators and photographs
-Plans of Mountain view and Liliesleaf Farm
-List of documents found by police in raids
-Statement prepared by Nelson Mandela in his handwriting
-Evidence prepared by Sisulu in his handwriting
-Handwritten statement prepared by Sisulu in event of receiving the death sentence
It appears that these microfilms are a defence set and, according to the archivist, the originals came from Joel Joffe. However, they are not identical to the defence set of trial records at Wits (AD1844). That set contains some material that these microfilm do not and this set contains some material that Wits' does not (most notably, Sisulu's evidence and Goldberg's evidence are both complete in UNISA's and not at Wits). The reason for the differences are not known.
Untitled
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Rivonia Trial
Department of Justice
Part of Rivonia Trial
Department of Justice
Part of Rivonia Trial
Department of Justice
Part of Rivonia Trial
Department of Justice
Part of Mandela Materials
Department of Justice
Part of Rivonia Trial
Untitled
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Rev Douglas Chadwick Thompson Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
Chadwick Thompson, Douglas
Reminiscences of Helen Suzman: Oral History, 1984
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Reminiscences of Helen Suzman: Oral History, 1984
Part of Mandela Materials
Columbia University Oral History Research Office
Part of Mandela Materials
September, Reg
Reference Audiovisual Material
Part of Rivonia Trial
Reddy, Enuga S.
Part of Mandela Materials
Reddy, Enuga S.
Records of the United Democratic Front (UDF)
Part of Rivonia Trial
United Democratic Front (UDF)
Records of the Students' Resource Centre, University of Witwatersrand
Part of Rivonia Trial
Students' Resource Centre, University of the Witwaterand
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Rivonia Trial
Incomplete set of records of the State vs. Nelson Mandela and nine others. The collection includes charge sheets, the indictment, opening address, statements, evidence, evaluation of evidence and exhibits, including photographs, bail applications, sentencing. An important section of the collection relates to preparation of the defence. Also includes a VHS video (no soundtrack) of the cells and court room where the Rivonia Trial was held. This was filmed a long time after the trial. Its reference code is AD1844, D.
Missing volumes are: Volume 21: Walter Sisulu's Evidence (vol. 2); Volume 22: Walter Sisulu's Evidence (vol. 3); Volume 23: Walter Sisulu's Evidence (vol. 4); Volume 27: Denis Goldberg's Evidence; Volume 35: Exhibit: Plan of Liliesleaf and Rivonia. Incomplete: Volume 29: Elias Motsoaledi's Statement. It is not clear why these volumes are missing.
The records in this collection are the Defence set donated originally by Joel Joffe. They are part of the archives of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR).
Joffe, Joel
Part of Mandela Materials
Supreme Court of South Africa
Records of the Publications Control Board
Part of Rivonia Trial
Publications Control Board
Records of the Garment Workers Union
Part of Rivonia Trial
Garment Workers Union (GWU)
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial of African National Congress Members
Part of Rivonia Trial
Papers.
These form part of the records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial of African National Congress Members
Part of Rivonia Trial
Papers.
These form part of the records of Embassies, Legations, Consulates, etc: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, South Africa: Registered Files
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial
Part of Rivonia Trial
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Contains:
Correspondence from the Nigerian diplomats on various British expatriates working at universities and hospitals who will resign from their positions if Nelson Mandela is sentenced to death (29 May 1963).
It was not possible to verify the existence of these records at the time of this audit.
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Rivonia Trial
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Includes:
Kantor has said the Nelson Mandela will be convicted and sentenced (internal note, 29 May 1964)
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; Africa, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Contains:
-The escape of Bob Hepple (telegram, 28 November 1963)
-Prison conditions with affidavits from Bernstein, Goldberg, Motsoaledi, Mbeki, Kathrada and Sisulu (report, 21 November 1963)
-Newspaper articles on the Rivonia trial (November and December 1963)
-Note from Mitford to the British Consulate General requesting that political trials that might seriously impact the Rivonia Trial to be closely monitored (5 December 1963)
-Visit by John Arnold Q.C. a leading conservative barrister in London (includes a summary of proceedings, 13 December 1963)
-Arrest, assault and torture of Isaac Tlale of the ANC at the hands of security police who wanted him to testify against the Rivonia accused. Police claimed to him that Joe Slovo bought Mandela and Sisulu with money from the communists (report/affidavit, no date)
-Report of John Arnold Q.C. at the International Commission of Jurists on his visit to South Africa and includes a comment that he believed the Rivonia trial judge was fair and partial (16 December 1963)
-Nelson Mandela's life sentence: reactions (1963)
-Foreign reaction to the Rivonia trial judgment and sentences
-Statement in parliament by H.F. Verwoerd (16 June 1964)
-Rivonia trial judgment (correspondence and press cuttings)
-Rivonia trial sentence (summary from press articles 1964)
-Question whether the British government should ask the South African government to reduce the life sentences handed down in the Rivonia trial (Correspondence, 26 June 1964)
-Libyan embassy in London will ask the UK secretary of state to intervene and have the Rivonia trial life sentences reduced (report, 15 June 1964)
-The U.S. state department will not ask for a reduction in the Rivonia trial (correspondence Internal British foreign office, (27 June 1964)
-Secretary of the state talking about the Rivonia (speech house of Commons, July 1964)
-The Canadian Ambassador asks that the Rivonia trial sentences be reduced (report, 22 July 1964)
-Rivonia trial accused decide not to appeal (report, 27 July 1964)
-The German government approaches South Africa about the Rivonia trial sentences (report, 2 September 1964)
-Book on Rivonia trial by Judge De Villiers (Report 24 September 1964)
-Death sentence in Rivonia trial "unlikely" (note, 4 June 1964)
-Upcoming judgement and sentence in the Rivonia trial (note , 2 June 1964)
-The Australian representative to South Africa has been instructed to register his government's concern over the Rivonia trial (note, 9 June 1964)
-U.K. should abstain in the vote on the Rivonia resolution by Ivory Coast and Morocco unless is amended (America will also abstain) (note, 10 June 1964)
-Verdicts in Rivonia Trial (telegram, 11 June 1964)
-Analysis of evidence at the Rivonia Trial (report, 10 June 1964)
-Decision to defer any attempt by the U.S. to get a reduction in Rivonia Trial sentences until the defence has lodged an appeal (note, 14 June 1964)
-Unsigned copy of the Rivonia trial judgement (15 June 1964)
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; Africa, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Contains records on Rivonia Sabotage Trial of ANC leaders, including:
-The trial and sentencing of Constable Johannes Arnoldus Greef for his role on helping Arthur Goldreich to escape (newspaper article)
-Report on the substance of O.R. Tambo to the U.N. special committee about people accused of sabotage (9 October 1963)
-Report on the proceedings of the Rivonia trial (press reports)
-222 Acts of sabotage between 10 August 1961 and 1963 (article from the Star newspaper 9 October 1963)
-Moves to raise Pretoria trial issue at U.N. (article from the Star, 10 October 1963)
-Conversation with Bram Fischer about the Rivonia trial
-Letter from Durossil to the Foreign Office, London (19 October 1963)
-De Wet quashed indictment "The Rivonia trial collapses" (articles from the Rand Daily Mail, 30 October 1963)
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Rivonia Trial judgement and sentences: Correspondence and telegrams and letter from various British citizens and organisations.
UK Foreign Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
Director of Publications
Records of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)
Records of the Archibishops of Cape Town Part II
Part of Rivonia Trial
Anglican Church
Records of the ANC French Mission
Part of Rivonia Trial
African National Congress (ANC) French Mission
Records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA)
Part of Rivonia Trial
American Committee on Africa
Records of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA)
Part of Rivonia Trial
Documents the pioneering anti-apartheid group in the US from its establishment in the 1950s. Documents related to Rivonia Trial are:
-Campaign against South African Apartheid: Memos, draft letters to and lists of sponsors, resolutions and declarations, flyers, clippings and notes 1963 (1960-1964). Major topics: Appeal for action against Apartheid, Rivonia arrests and trials, international boycott of South African goods etc.
-African National Congress Pamphlets. Includes: South African on Trial: Behind the Rivonia Case (no date).
-Mandela, Nelson (ca. 1964). Major topic: Rivonia trial.
-World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners: Rivonia Trial: Newsletters, statements, press releases, brochure (1963-1964).
-Writings: Chief Albert Luthuli (1957 and 1964). Major topics: Racial situation, Rivonia trial, ANC.
-Writings: Nelson Mandela (1961 and 1964). Major topics: 1961 Stay-at-home demonstration, Rivonia trial.
Microfilm versions available at Manuscripts and Archives, University of Cape Town.
American Committee on Africa
Records of the African National Congress (ANC)
Part of Rivonia Trial
African National Congress (ANC)
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of ANC Morogoro Office
Part of Rivonia Trial
African National Congress (ANC) Morogoro Office
Records of ANC Australia Mission
Part of Rivonia Trial
Audiocassettes of Govan Mbeki, Paul Murphy and Nelson Mandela (date unclear).
Also videos that make reference to Rivonia Trial:
-Generations of Resistance
-I Shall Never Lose Hope - interview with Winnie Mandela
-Spear of the Nation - a history of the ANC
African National Congress (ANC) Australia Mission
Part of Mandela Materials
Tucker, Raymond Jack
Part of Mandela Materials
Tucker, Raymond Jack
Part of Mandela Materials
PC 86/1/1/2/1-34
Peter Brown Correspondence
PC 86/7/1/2/6
Mandela's arrest- Letter to Randolph Vigne from Stephen Ellis ( 24th September 1992) who sent a photocopy of a newspaper cutting from the Atlanta Journal (10 June 1990) claiming that a CIA tip led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela.
PC 86/9/1/8/1
Lists of names of former activists to invite to Veteran party, London, 1994- List sent by Randolph to Manny -5 July 1995
PC86/9/1/8/3
Programme for President's birthday party- Durban City Hall 15/06/1996
PC86/9/1/11/1
The men on Robben Island an article by Mary Benson in the Guardian,10 August 1964
PC86/9/1/11/2
"I speak of Freedom" review of No easy way to Freedom on The Times Literary Supplement -29 July 1965
PC86/19/2/19
" Once it witnessed Apartheid slaughter: Yesterday Sharpeville saw a spirit if peace". The independent,11 December 1996. Report on the speech by President Mandela at the signing of the constitution in Sharpeville.
PC 86/9/1/8/3
Progammme for the President's birthday party, Durban City Hall 15/06/1996.
PC86/9/1/11/1
The men on Robben Island by Mary Benson, Guardian 10 August 1964
Vigne, Randolph
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC)
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Broadcasting Corporation [DO NOT USE]
Queen attends Parliament : Meets Mandela
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Rivonia Trial
These records were donated by the Oppenheimer Family to the National Archives in 2008 from the Brenthurst Library in Johannesburg. The Oppenheimers acquired them from Dr Percy Yutar, the prosecutor in the trial.
They are not a complete record. Some witness testimony, and cross-examination are missing. See linked list for more details.
Included in the records are the indictment, opening address, statements, evidence by witnesses for the State and for the accused, evaluation of evidence of the trial, judgment and sentence, photographs, the diary Mandela kept when he left South Africa secretly at the beginning of 1962 to undergo military training and to garner support for the banned ANC. Also included is Mandela's statement from the dock. A significant component of the material is the working papers of the prosecution that were used to build up the State's case against the Rivonia Trialists. There are also photocopies and microfilm copies.
There are also prosecution records from the Yutars in the personal collection of Douw Steyn and at Liliesleaf Farm.
Yutar, Percy
Programme to Combat Racism : World Council of Churches : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Programme to Combat Racism : World Council of Churches : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives