Reference code
ZA UCT BC1141_C
Title
Political background and participation
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Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
Informal studies / adult education
thought, world history, South African history, position of women in society etc., possibly used in the preparation of lectures
information presumably connected with a speech-training course
“Stenographers notebook” containing notes on the Chinese Communists and, on the back page, a draft letter re the distribution of the journal Torch
Mixed records of political associations (Anti-CAD and other organizations, some not clearly identified), including routine correspondence; notices of meetings; undated fragmentary aides memoire about proceedings and debates at meetings etc.; attendance list for second national [?Anti-CAD] conference 1944, etc.; and references to administrative matters, for example provision of office equipment, finance, fund-raising etc. (c. 1940 – 1954 and undated)
Laundry-workers’ Union (1939 – 1940), including list of shop stewards, rough notes about trade union legislation, communication from National Liberation League of South Africa, pencilled notes made by Halima about her relationship with the union, etc. Also includes a copy of a letter from M Gordon to the Joint Committee of African Trade Unions, dd May 1940
Circular letter addressed to “Dear Friend”, dd Johannesburg, 24 December 1939, from “Gushum ‘nqayi”, who argues that participation by Black people in the Second World War would lead only to their betrayal by the government. (“Gushum ‘nqayi” – literally “he who is hiding his stick under his arm” - is presumably a pseudonym. Information provided by Isaac Ntabankulu.)
thought, world history, South African history, position of women in society etc., possibly used in the preparation of lectures
information presumably connected with a speech-training course
“Stenographers notebook” containing notes on the Chinese Communists and, on the back page, a draft letter re the distribution of the journal Torch
Mixed records of political associations (Anti-CAD and other organizations, some not clearly identified), including routine correspondence; notices of meetings; undated fragmentary aides memoire about proceedings and debates at meetings etc.; attendance list for second national [?Anti-CAD] conference 1944, etc.; and references to administrative matters, for example provision of office equipment, finance, fund-raising etc. (c. 1940 – 1954 and undated)
Laundry-workers’ Union (1939 – 1940), including list of shop stewards, rough notes about trade union legislation, communication from National Liberation League of South Africa, pencilled notes made by Halima about her relationship with the union, etc. Also includes a copy of a letter from M Gordon to the Joint Committee of African Trade Unions, dd May 1940
Circular letter addressed to “Dear Friend”, dd Johannesburg, 24 December 1939, from “Gushum ‘nqayi”, who argues that participation by Black people in the Second World War would lead only to their betrayal by the government. (“Gushum ‘nqayi” – literally “he who is hiding his stick under his arm” - is presumably a pseudonym. Information provided by Isaac Ntabankulu.)