Correspondence (some fragmentary) - mainly to Mrs Fatima Nagdee from her children, but also letters exchanged by various other family members; items received from various friends and acquaintances by Khadija, Amina, Ayesha and Ahmed Nagdee (Note: Halima’s correspondence with family members is placed at B.b.iv. and B.c.i. above.) Signatories in this section include:
A Dollie, Fatima’s mother (two letters, 1923 and 1941).
dated March 1943, one a draft in pencil and the other a typed version of the draft, somewhat altered).
A Nagdee, Fatima’s nephew by marriage (one letter, dated 29 June 1941, reporting negatively on his cousin Mahmood’s progress at Aligarh Muslim University).
Ayesha (one letter, dated 30 April 1943, re possible settlement between Fatima and Ahmed Nagdee, signed also by Amina and Khadija).
Amina (eight letters, 1941 and 1943 and undated).
Khadija / Dia (four letters, dated c. 1928 – 1935, and one fragment possibly written by Khadija).
Jane/Zane (one undated letter to Fatima, and a letter to Ayesha dd December 1948, with unrelated comments written on the reverse, possibly by Halima).
Solly (one letter, May 1937 including a reference to the coronation celebrations).
Rookhia (one letter, dated March 1943).
Mahmood / Bhaai (eleven items, dated 1937, 1944 and undated).
Various correspondents, including Goolam Gool, writing to Khadija, Edna [?Daitz] writing to Amina, Moosa? to Ayesha and sender of a postcard (in Arabic? script) from the Muslim University, India, to Ahmed Nagdee (items dated 1935 – 1949 and undated).
Formal business and official correspondence/ documents, and relevant notes, including references to
The admission of Khadija Nagdee to Wits Medical School, students’ handbook, etc. (1937 – 1942).
Correspondence from Indian Views to Ayesha Nagdee (1938).
Properties registered in the names of members of the Nagdee family: management, dispute re ownership etc., and plans for alterations to 42 Bree Street for Messrs A and F (1938 – 1954 and undated). Includes a letter dated 1938 regarding a property registered in the name of Mahmood, for whose upkeep any profits from the property were to be used. Although one of the Nagdee daughters required hospitalization, money derived from Mahmood’s property could not be used to pay her medical bills.
The illness of Mahmood Nagdee in India and his return to South Africa with his wife (1943 – 1945).
Diaries created by Mrs Fatima Nagdee
May 1938: Halima’s wedding - narrative account written in a Transvaal Education Department school exercise book that had belonged to Suliman Nagdee (fragile).
Diary for 1941.
Diary for 1942.
Diary for 1943, enclosing
Small diary for 4th Quarter 1942, but in fact containing some random notes and several rough diary notes for May 1943, later entered in the 1943 diary.
Diary for 1944 (contains a sheet of paper with some rough notes for entries for January 1944).
Diary for 1945.
Ephemera, including receipts, used cheques, shopping lists etc.
Appendix 1
Items published in South Africa
The Citizen (published by the Western Province Press Association) April to July 1956. Volume 1, Nos 2, 7, 8 and 9
(Natal Indian Congress, Dundee branch)
Bulletin 1953
Flyer: Boycott the coronation celebrations
(Progressive Forum, Dundee) Bulletin No. 8. May 1953
Communist Student: a news letter of the University Branch of the Communist Party of SA. Volume 2 No. 3. May 1949. Johannesburg
To all the Coloured People. (Issued by the Natal Coloured People’s Convention). c. 1944. Durban
All African Convention
The voice of the All African Convention. October-November 1945. Cape Town
Presidential address delivered at the conference of the All African Convention meeting at Bloemfontein on the 17th – 18th December 1951
Recommendation of the Joint Committee of the AAC and ANC (undated)
Teachers’ League of South Africa
Constitution (June 1950)
The Educational Journal, TLSA: Annual report of the Editorial Board presented at the 40th Annual Conference, Cape Town, June 23 – 27, 1952
Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
Resolutions passed at Unity Conference, January 1945 (Cape Town)
Proceedings of the 6th Unity Conference, Cape Town, March 1948
Kubantu Base Natali Eli Pheshana Livele Kwinkundla Yesima-Mhlaba (Non-European Unity Movement) August 1952
The Militant Worker: Organ of the Committee of Militant Trade Unionists Vol 1, No 1. June 1945 (Cape Town)
New Age (Northern edition). 17 November 1955. (Cape Town)
Bulletin No 133: Conference issue. (Anti-CAD and Non-European Unity Movement) 7 April 1948
War on the traitors! Anti-CAD Committee, Cape Town, c. 1943
Oorlog op die verraaiers! Afrikaans version of the above
To the people of Natal: Race riots and the nation (Issued by the Working Committee Non-European Unity Movement). 1952 (Cape Town)
A declaration to the nations of the world (Issued by the Non-European Unity Committee). ?1945 (Cape Town)
Against the CAD for full democratic rights (Issued by the Anti-CAD Committee) ?1943 (Cape Town)
The Anti-CAD is attacked: that means you are attacked (Issued by the Chairman, Dr G H Gool) Undated (Cape Town)
Boycott C A C men! [Coloured Advisory Council] (Issued by Anti-CAD) flyer ?1943 (Cape Town)
(Anti-CAD) bulletin [not a full run: sparse] Nos 1 – 141: March 1943 – July 1948 (Note: for a nearly complete run of the Anti-CAD Bulletin see UCT’s UMSA/Tabata Collection BC925 E)
Calling the Non-Europeans of Kensington, Windermere and Factreton (Issued by the National Anti-CAD Committee) Undated (Cape Town)
A Ismail (Candidate in Ward 7 bi-election, 1940): campaign flyers
Why India wants independence, issued by India League, Durban. nd (1930 or later) [flyer]
Appendix 2
Socialist Appeal [Great Britain]
April 1944
Mid-April 1944
New Militant
January 1933
May 1933 (one page only)
July 1933
January 1936
Red Flag
March-April 1934
May-June 1934
August 1934
October 1934
November 1934
Socialist Labour Party of Great Britain : L Cotton “The Communist Party and falsification” 1933. (Reprint from New York Weekly People by S L Press, Edinburgh)
The Northwest Organizer
May 5 1938
May 12 1938
Socialist Appeal [United States]
December 17 1938
December 24 1938
December 31 1938
Summary report of the I.S. delegate to the National Conference of the Belgian Section 10 March 1935. [Cyclostyled report]
Bulletin der Internationalen Kommunistischen Liga = (Bolschewiki == Leninisten) [Cyclostyled bulletin: see also no. 9 below]
June 1935
July 1935
Fragments:
Loose page, German text, entitled “Int. Bulletin, …S. 14, Nr 3” [see also no. 8 above]
Several loose dust jackets etc.
Russia today August 1933 [Published journal]
Leon Trotsky “The Russian revolution” 1932 (Foreword by James Maxton, M P). London: Labour Literature Dept
New Statesman
July 1975
September 1975
New Society October 1975
Modern Monthly
July1934
September 1934
October 1934
Title page missing: collection of articles written approximately between 1923 and 1930 by Leon Trotsky, on problems of the French labour movement, with an introduction by J.P. Cannon. c. 1931. New York: The Militant
Shachtman, M. Ten years – history and principles of the left opposition. 1933. New York: Pioneer Publishers (for the Communist League of America)
Workers’ Party (4th International). This is not our war! A declaration by the Workers’ Party. c.1942. New York: Workers’ Party (4th International)
Trotsky, L. (c.1934). The I.L.P. and the Fourth International in the middle of the road 1934. London: Workers’ International Press
Luxemburg, Rosa. (nd). Socialism and the churches. Socialist Review 1. Special supplement. s.l. [Incomplete]
International Press Correspondence, 14 (53) 1934 – 17 (15) 1937. [incomplete run - no issues for 1936. Vol 14 No.53 incomplete] London: William Massey (1934 – 1935); H.R.G. Jefferson (1937) (Includes: The trial of the Trotskyist “Parallel Centre”. International Press Correspondence, 17 (1): Special number February 1937)
The New Leader, XXIII New series (83) 4 August 1933. London: Independent Labour Party
New Militant, 1 (43 and 44) 19 and 26 October 1935. New York: New Militant Publishing Company
Bulletin de la Ligue des Communistes-Internationalistes (Bolcheviks-Leninistes), (No. 2) 1 June 1935. Amsterdam:?La Ligue des Communistes-Internationalistes (Bolcheviks-Leninistes)
The Labour Monthly. c. September 1934 or later. London: the Labour Monthly [incomplete and extremely fragile]
Communist Party of Great Britain. Where is Trotsky going? 1928. London: Communist Party of Great Britain
The death agony of capitalism and the tasks of the Fourth International. 1946. New York: Pioneer Publishers
Eastman, M. The end of Socialism in Russia. 1937. London: Secker and Warburg
Trotsky, L. The Kirov assassination. 1934. New York: Pioneer Publishers
Trotsky, L. The defence of terrorism.. 1935. London: George Allen and Unwin
Trotsky, L. The only road for Germany. 1933. New York: Pioneer Publishers
Lenin, V.I. State and revolution. 1941. London: Lawrence and Wishart
Lenin, V.I. Lenin on religion. c.1941. London: Lawrence and Wishart
The New International
The New International July 1934 – June 1936 (bound into one volume)
The New International February 1938 – December 1939 (bound into one volume) [Missing: June, July and October 1938]