The bulk of the material in this collection concerns the history of the University College of Fort Hare during the troubled period of the late 1950s, when the university was absorbed into the apartheid regime’s increasingly polarised and prejudici...
The papers in this collection consist of a significant number of transcripts of musical radio programmes presented or arranged by Gunter Pulvermacher for the SABC. It also contains a sizeable selection of his writings – mostly ms notes encompassin...
Papers re discussion of alternative policies for medium of instruction, prepared by the Language Policy Research Group of the National Education Policy Investigation (NEPI), May 1992. Language planning policy in South Africa: Language Plan Task Gr...
18th and 19th century letters and documents connected with the Brand family, incl. two letters d.d. 1805, 1806 by General Janssens to Christoffel Brand.
The collection comprises materials relating to Eleanor Nash’s career as a physician, and her role as an educator. It includes her writings, research projects, lecture notes, and presentations at various professional forums. A large quantity of pho...
The Terence Timoney Papers are not about Terence Timoney, but are instead an important resource documenting an early and romantic phase in the history of Cape Town’s water supply. The collection evolved out of Timoney’s efforts to establish the mu...
The collection contains research material and drafts for a book by Joanna Marx on the history of District Six told through its buildings. There are drafts for three stages of the book in the form of draft chapters and illustrations. “District Six ...