Identity area
Reference code
ZA MR-RT-118
Title
Records of the Garment Workers Union
Date(s)
- 1918 - 1976 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
548 boxes. Only paragraph in one item relates to the Rivonia Trial in passing ; Text-based documents
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Minutes, correspondence, memoranda, printed items (including the Garment Worker), press clippings and photographs relating to the Garment Workers Union and its predecessor, the Witwatersrand Tailors Association. One paragraph in one item mentions the Rivonia Trial in Bba2.2.11 General correspondence 1951-1973. It is contained in a letter written by Violet Weinberg to Anna Scheepers re Weinberg's dismissal from the Industrial Council for the Clothing Industry (August 1964). Weinberg voices disagreement with Scheepers on a number of political and union-related points. It is in this context that political developments like the Trial are mentioned.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Inventory available online and published inventory: Historical and Literary Papers: Inventories of Collections No 9 : Records of the Garment Workers Union - http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/inventory.php?iid=8182