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South Africa
South Africa
- NT Amazimtoti
- NT Beaufort West
- NT Bela Bela
- NT Bophuthatswana
- NT Broederstroom
- NT Carletonville
- NT Ciskei
- NT Crossroads
- NT Durban
- NT Eastern Cape
- NT Ermelo
- NT Free State
- NT Gauteng
- NT Hartbeesjeugterrein
- NT Isithebe
- NT Jeffreys Bay
- NT kaNyamazane
- NT Kleinmond
- NT Kroonstad
- NT Kruger National Park
- NT KwaMakhutha
- NT KwaNdebele
- NT KwaZulu-Natal
- NT Leondale
- NT Limpopo
- NT Mbumbulu
- NT Middleburg
- NT Mpumalanga
- NT National Assembly
- NT North West Province
- NT North West Stadium
- NT Northern Cape
- NT Northern Province
- NT Parliament
- NT Phalaborwa
- NT Port Shepstone
- NT Pretoria–Witwatersrand–Vereeniging (PWV)
- NT Richards Bay
- NT Sun City
- NT Transvaal
- NT Vryburg
- NT Western Cape
Equivalent terms
South Africa
- UF Republic of South Africa
- UF RSA
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South Africa
7 Archival description results for South Africa
3 results directly related Exclude narrower terms
30 years of the Freedom Charter [Thirty years of the Freedom Charter]
- ZA COM RCB-0679
- Item
Part of Reference Books
Cronin, Jeremy
- ZA COM MR-S-1528
- Item
- 2001-12-16
Part of Speeches
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- ZA MR-MM-454
- Collection
- 1977-1990
Part of Mandela Materials
Auden House
Bernstein Hilda and Rusty Papers 1931-2006
- ZA MR-MM-466
- Collection
- 1931-2006
Part of Mandela Materials
Rusty Bernstein's Papers includes personal correspondence to family and comrades, professional documentation relating to his career as an architect and inventor, and a large collection of writing, including drafts and material for his political biography Memory Against Forgetting as well as articles, essays and literature relating to prominent events in the liberation struggle (The 1946 Mine Workers Strike, The Freedom Charter and the Rivonia Trial). The collection also includes written material relating to his political career in the Communist Party and involvement with the ANC and as editor/contributor to journals like Fighting Talk and The African Communist and a lecture series given in Moscow to young militants of the ANC.
Hilda Bernstein's papers include a series of journals dating from 1967 to 2001 and personal diaries written whilst in prison, and on travels throughout South Africa and Europe. A large part of the collection marks her involvement with women's rights and work for the ANC Women's League. There is also a considerable collection of art records documenting her career in London and Europe. The bulk of the collection is comprised of records relating to Hilda's extensive writings - books, articles and political literature. Of particular prominence is material collected for her most recent book The Rift, which captures the experiences of South African exiles. There is also a large collection of correspondence both personal and professional and political brochures relating to her position as City Councillor for the Communist Party in Johannesburg from 1943 to 1946.
The records kept by Hilda (viewed as 'evidence' of Hilda's activities) far outnumber those kept by Rusty. It would be misleading to presume that this is in any way a complete archive of the Bernstein's activities.
On the contrary, there are large gaps. For example, there is very little in the collection relating directly to the Freedom Charter, in which Rusty played a major part in the organizing committee and was responsible for drafting the country-wide submissions that would become the Charter. Consideration should also be made for the possibility that Hilda is a more conscientious record keeper than Rusty was, or that due to persistent banning and arrest Rusty was forced to destroy evidence of his activities or resist the documentation of these activities. In truth, the reasons for the shape of this collection are too numerous and extensive to state. As it stands, the researcher can at best make this deduction - that Hilda's work and influence in the liberation struggle, particularly in the role assigned to woman, is vast and unique, and deserves attention beyond the shadow cast by Rusty's political career. In Hilda's case it is a matter of the biography that has yet to be written.
Hilda and Rusty Bernstein Papers
Moosa, Valli : Interviewed by Tony Trew, 2014, Cape Town : [Transcript]
- ZA COM 2018/89-4
- Item
- 2014/09/08
Part of The Presidential Years
Trew, Tony