Reference code
ZA UCT BC1568
Title
SACS / Open Schools Association Archive
Date(s)
- 1976 - 2006 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
2 archive boxes in which an oversize scrapbook (File 1) is included.
Name of creator
(Died c. 2013)
Biographical history
Douglas Brown was deputy headmaster of the South African College School (SACS), Newlands, Cape Town, and was the prime mover of an initiative starting in 1985 to open the school to all South Africans regardless of colour, race or creed. Flowing from this initiative an Open Schools Association was established.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Maeder Osler in 2015, to whom the material had been bequeathed in the estate of Douglas Brown.
Scope and content
The collection documents an initiative commencing in 1985 led by Douglas Brown, deputy headmaster of the South African College School (SACS) to open the school to all South Africans regardless of colour, race or creed. The collection tracks the initiative internally from within SACS teaching staff, to the headmaster, school council and parents, and then outwards to endeavours at contact with schools in Coloured and African townships leading to the establishment of an Open Schools Association.
Accruals
System of arrangement
This fonds has been arranged in terms of a local adaptation of MPLP.
Conditions governing access
The collection is open for research. However access to File 5 'Disadvantaged pupils' will only be given in terms of the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Alternative identifier(s)
Place access points
Name access points
- Osler, Maeder (Subject)
- Jack, Mziwonke ('Pro'), 1958-1991 (Subject)
- Law, Gordon (Subject)
- Whitaker, E. J. (Subject)
- Folb, Peter Ian (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
This fonds has been arranged in terms of a local adaptation of MPLP.