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Reference code
ZA MR-RT-097
Title
Helen Suzman Papers
Date(s)
- 1946 - 1997 (Accumulation)
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Extent and medium
150 boxes. A few files relate indirectly to the conditions in prison of the Rivonia Trialists ; Text-based documents
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Correspondence, diaries, articles, speeches, photographs, notes, press clippings and printed items relating to her years in parliament as an opposition MP. Subjects are detentions, bannings, restrictions, political prisoners, removals, homelands, urbanisation, labour, women, education, health and social welfare, politics, economics and Namibia. There is no direct reference to the Rivonia Trial but there are records related to prison conditions at Robben Island and Pretoria Central (where the trialists were incarcerated) in 1960s, 70s and 80s (Aa1.2.1, Aa4.1, Ab5). Records include correspondence with relevant authorities and Suzman's own personal notes from visits. Also newspaper report ten years since Rivonia Trial (Aa4.1), and other press cuttings re prison conditions (Aa9). Also correspondence with indirect references to Denis Goldberg (Ab1.1, Ab1.2).
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Restricted
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Finding aids
Inventory available online - http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/inventory.php?iid=8986