Directory of Africa Activist Archives

Africa News Service

Location: Durham, North Carolina

Timespan: 1952 - 1998

Description: Africa News Service (ANS), a non-profit U. S. news agency, was founded in 1973. The LeRoy T. Walker Africa News Service Archive is an extensive resource file assembled by ANS over the course of two decades in support of its news gathering efforts about Africa-related issues and U. S. foreign policy towards Africa. The collection spans the years from approximately 1960 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1978 through 1994. Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, press releases, newsletters, brochures, and reports comprise the collection. Much of the material is gathered from mainstream media sources and government documentation in the United States, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world. In addition, the collection includes significant resources from alternative, minority, and special interest presses world-wide that may be difficult to locate elsewhere. The archive contains scarce and difficult-to-locate materials such as numerous publications produced by non-governmental organizations and grass-roots/community groups that are/were involved in efforts related to independence movements, economic development, and human rights issues in Africa. AllAfrica Global Media is the successor to the non-profit Africa News Service.

Media: 606.6 Linear Feet, 439,500 items

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Restrictions: One accession of the collection has usage restrictions. Contact a reference librarian for more information. In addition, some of the materials in this collection are not immediately accessible, because they require further processing before use. Patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection. Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.

Housed at: Duke University Libraries: Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, 103 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA, (919) 660-5822, Fax: (919) 660-5934, special-collections@duke.edu, http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/index.html

Reference phone number: (919) 660-5822

Reference fax number: (919) 660-5934

Reference e-mail address: special-collections@duke.edu

Current name: AllAfrica Global Media

Current address: 920 M Street SE, Washington, DC 20003

Current phone number: (202) 546-0777

Current fax number: (202) 546-0676

Current Web address: http://allafrica.com/

Africa Today Collection

Summary: Papers, 1954-1998

Description: Africa Today magazine was first published in April 1954 as the bulletin for the newly founded American Committee on Africa (ACOA) in New York. The Committee acted as a clearinghouse for information about African political and economic events and to help the emergence of democratic and self-governing states in Africa. In 1966, publication of Africa Today was transferred to the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) at the University of Denver under the direction of George W. Shepherd, Jr. George W. Shepherd, Jr. was an officer of ACOA and an editor of Africa Today from 1957 to 1961, and from 1967 to 1997. He taught at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver from 1961 until his retirement in 1992. Beginning in 1967, Africa Today was published by Africa Today Associates, a non-profit corporation, in association with GSIS. The journal continued to contain book reviews and scholarly essays covering such diverse topics as African politics, culture, economics and anthropology. Africa Today continued to be published in association with GSIS until the end of 1995. From 1974 until 1993, Edward A. Hawley served as executive editor. Beginning in 1996, Africa Today was published for Africa Today Associates by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado. Publication was moved to the University of Indiana Press at the end of 1998. Although they are no longer editors, Shepherd and Hawley continue to be members of Africa Today Associates. Scope and Content: The collection consists primarily of correspondence with editorial consultants. Also included are issues of the journal, and miscellaneous office materials.

Media: 9.75 linear feet

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Catalog/Finding aid: Detailed list of contents

Housed at: University of Denver, Penrose Library, Special Collections & Archives, 2150 East Evans Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80208, Reference Phone: (303) 871-2905, Special Collections (303) 871-3428, http://library.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/index.cfm

Reference phone number: (303) 871-3428

Reference e-mail address: sfisher@du.edu

Reference Web address: http://library.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/index.cfm

Alexander Defense Committee

Location: United States, Canada, Europe

Timespan: 1964-1968

Summary: Records of an international organization (1964-1968) formed to protest apartheid and to support Dr. Neville Alexander and other South African political prisoners. In the collection are correspondence, newsletters, clippings, promotional material for national speaking tours, and files on ADC chapters in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Also present are speeches and writings of I. B. Tabata and Franz J. T. Lee, who toured the United States to raise funds for the group and for the families of the prisoners; papers documenting ADC's role in the deportation case of W. M. Tsotsi; and scattered records of other organizations supporting the ADC such as the American Committee on Africa and Unity Movement of South Africa. Most papers are written in English, but others are in German, French, Dutch, and an African language, possibly Xhosa.

Media: 3 rolls of microfilm

Catalog/Finding aid: Type "Alexander" in search box

Restrictions: Available only on microfilm

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Alexander Defense Committee: Madison Chapter

Location: Madison, Wisconsin

Summary: Madison, Wisconsin

Description: Records of the Madison chapter of an international organization established to protest apartheid and to assist South African political prisoners. The records include press releases and material distributed by the national organization; correspondence; financial, membership and sponsor lists; background material; and newspaper clippings, all primarily concerning the speaking engagements of I. B. Tabata and Franz J. T. Lee in Madison.

Media: 1 folder

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Alexander” in search box

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund

Location: New York, NY with a national focus

Summary: Papers, records, publications 1949-2001. Includes the archives of Americans for South African Resistance

Description: The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was founded in 1953 to support the liberation struggle in Africa. It was the major U.S. national organization supporting African struggles against colonialism and apartheid. ACOA grew out of the ad hoc Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR) which was formed to support the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws led by the African National Congress. In 1953, following the end of the Defiance Campaign, AFSAR met and decided to form ACOA, an organization supporting the whole anti-colonial struggle in Africa. In 1966 ACOA founded The Africa Fund, a 501(c)3 organization. The two organizations shared office space and staff but had separate boards and budgets. The collection includes the correspondence, project and research files of the two organizations. The collection includes publications, newsletters, photos, posters, videos and films published by ACOA/Africa Fund and other organizations. In 1967 ACOA established a Washington Office (Washington, DC). In 1972 the Washington Office was renamed the Washington Office on Africa and reorganized as being sponsored by five organizations including ACOA. (See entry for Washington Office on Africa.) In 1954 ACOA launched Africa Today, which later became independent under the control of Africa Today Associates and is now published by Indiana University Press. The collection includes papers, articles and correspondence of Adotei Akwei, Michael Fleshman, Jennifer Davis, James Farmer, Donald Harrington, Mary-Louise Hooper, George M. Houser, Paul Irish, Richard Knight, Dumisani Kumalo, Richard Lapchick, Conrad Lynn, Frank Montero, Prexy Nesbitt, Andrew E. Norman, Joshua Nessen, Wyatt Tee Walker, Peter Weiss and many others. It also includes correspondence with numerous African liberation movement leaders. Based in New York, NY, ACOA had a national focus and a broad rage of constituencies including students, labor, civil rights, religious and community leaders and elected officials. ACOA scope to include anti-colonial struggles throughout the continent including Algeria, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Western Sahara, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. ACOA played a key role in campaign for sanctions and the divestment which resulted in churches, universities, states and cities selling their stock holdings in companies that did business in apartheid South Africa.
The Africa Fund provided material assistance to the education and health programs of African liberation movements. It provided funds to the Mozambique Institute, a FRELIMO run school in Tanzania. The Africa Fund distributed the money raised by the Sun City album including sending $220,000 to the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Somafco) run by the ANC in Tanzania; $160,000 to the South African Council of Churches to aid political prisoners and their families; and $119,000 each to TransAfrica and the ACOA for anti-apartheid educational work in the United States. The Fund also provided clothing, medicine and other support to refugee camps run by liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique and Zambia. It provided small emergency assistant grants to African refugees in the U.S. The Africa Fund conducted research into U.S. corporate involvement in southern Africa and the archives includes correspondence with companies, questionnaires sent to companies and company documents. The Africa Fund conducted public education campaigns in the U.S. including the "Unlock Apartheid's Jails" campaign. In the 1990s The Africa Fund had an active program supporting the struggle against the dictatorship in Nigeria.
ACOA and The Africa Fund published newsletters including Africa-UN Bulletin, ACOA Action News, Student Anti-Apartheid News, Public Investment and South Africa, and Africa Fund News. The two organizations also published pamphlets, reports and a series Southern Africa Perspectives (later renamed Africa Fund Perspectives.)Americans for South African Resistance published a bulletin.
For more information on see "No One Can Stop the Rain: Glimpses of Africa's Liberation Struggle" by George M. Houser (New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1989) and "Meeting Africa's Challenge - The Story of ACOA" by George M. Houser, ISSUE: A Quarterly Journal of Africanist Opinion, Volume VI, Numbers 2/3 Summer /Fall 1976
In 2001 ACOA, The Africa Fund and the Washington, DC-based Africa Policy Information Center merged to form Africa Action.
Microfilm: Part 1 (6 roles): ACOA Executive Committee minutes and National Office memoranda, 1952-1975; Part 2 (35 roles): Correspondence and subject files on South Africa, 1952-1985.This represents a limited amount of the ACOA material. Available in many libraries. Purchase from UPA/Lexis/Nexis.

Additional link: Website of Richard Knight

Additional link: UPA/Lexis/Nexis Microfilm of American Committee on Africa

Media: 94+ cubic feet plus 182 boxes; publications, correspondence, research files, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, photos, audio tapes, videos, etc.

Housed at: Amistad Research Center, Tilton Hall, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118, Phone: (504) 865-5535, Fax: (504) 865-5580, arc@tulane.edu, http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org

Reference phone number: (504) 862-3221

Reference fax number: (504)865-5580

Reference e-mail address: square@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

Current name: Africa Action

Current address: 1634 Eye St. NW, #810, Washington, DC 20006 USA

Current phone number: (202) 546-7961

Current fax number: (202) 546-1545

Current Web address: http://www.africaaction.org/

American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society

Location: Various

Summary: Papers, [ca. 1969-ca. 1991]

Description: Founded in 1976 by Richard Lapchick, for more than 15 years the American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS) focused on the international sports boycott of South Africa. In 1978 it led a boycott of the Davis Cup tennis match between South Africa and the U.S. at Vanderbilt University. Lapchick was teaching at the time at Virginia Wesleyan College. As a result only 1,100 people attended the match while several thousand marched outside. In 1981 ACCESS was involved in protests against the U.S. tour of the Springboks, the all white South African rugby team, forcing cancellation of matches in Albany and Chicago. Material deposited by Richard Lapchick.

Media: 2 boxes (124 folders) ; 27 x 40 x 13 cm

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Restrictions: Collection not yet processed; contact archivist in advance

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: 517) 355-3700 or (517) 432-6123 ext. 239 or ext. 237

Reference fax number: (517) 432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

American Society of African Culture (Southern Africa materials)

Timespan: 1957-1969

Description: The American Society of African Culture (AMSAC) was composed of some four hundred Americans of African ancestry who primarily were teachers, scholars, and artists. It came into existence in 1957 as a result of the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists called by the editors of the journal, Presence Africaine, in Paris in 1956. The Records contain documents from conferences, organizations, and individuals. The "Southern Africa in Transition Conference" held at Howard University in Washington D.C. in 1963 generated a large number of documents that form part of this inventory. The following are examples of organizations represented in these records: Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid, South African Freedom Action Committee, and Student Aid for South Africans Abroad Association. One also will find correspondence between AMSAC officers and the officers of other organizations. A few of the student organizations have documents in the records that include organization newsletters, student newspapers, and photographs. Examples of individuals in the records include Horace Mann Bond, John A. Davis, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Lewis N'kosi, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Bloke Modisane, Seretse Khama, John F. Kennedy, Charles C. Diggs, and Ndabiningi Sithole. The organization ceased to operate in 1969.

Media: 42 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Collection description & finding aid

Restrictions: By appointment only, call (202) 806-7480

Housed at: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 500 Howard Place, NW, Washington, DC 20059, (202) 806-7240, (202) 806-6405, http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/

Reference phone number: (202) 806-7480

Amnesty International USA Archives

Location: New York, NY; Washington, DC and regional offices and local and campus chapters across the United States

Timespan: Early 1960s - present

Description: Amnesty International USA (Amnesty International of the USA, Inc., AIUSA) was formed in the early 1960s. It is the U.S. affiliate of Amnesty International (AI), an international human rights non-governmental organization (NGO), was founded in London by Peter Benenson in 1961. AI vision is a world where every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. The AIUSA Archives is a comprehensive collection of materials documenting the founding, activity and growth of AIUSA from the early 1960s through the present. This includes work on a number of African countries. The AIUSA Archives contains materials documenting the start of the U.S. section of AI in New York City in the early 1960’s, as well as materials from the AIUSA New York headquarters and the Washington, DC lobby office; from all the regional offices; and from all the programs and departments of AIUSA. The collection contains posters, banners, T-shirts, photographs, videos, DVDs, and more than 30 years of newspaper clippings mentioning Amnesty International and human rights. The collection includes country reports, mission reports, and oral histories. Many local and campus chapters and individual activists, especially country coordination specialists and members of steering committees and task forces, have deposited records of their activities at the AIUSA Archives or as associated collections.

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Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Columbia University Libraries, Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, Human Rights Organization Archives, 304 International Affairs Bldg, 420 West 118 Street, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 10027, 212-854-8046, Fax: 212-854-3834, chrdr@columbia.edu, http://www.columbia.edu/library/humanrights

Reference phone number: 212-854-8046

Reference fax number: 212-854-3834

Reference e-mail address: chrdr@columbia.edu

Current name: Amnesty International USA

Current address: 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001

Current phone number: (212) 807-8400

Current Web address: http://www.amnestyusa.org/

Anti-Apartheid Support Group

Location: University of North Carolina

Summary: Papers and records, 1980-1987

Description: From 1982 to 1985 various groups, chiefly the Public Interest Research Group, were involved in anti-apartheid activities on campus. The UNC Anti-Apartheid Support Group (AASG) was organized and officially recognized as a student organization in October of 1985. From 1985 to 1987 the AASG was very vocal on campus. Its members led the campus movement against apartheid by insisting on divestiture of all UNC holdings in companies operating in South Africa. Their protests and demonstrations peaked in March and April of 1986, when the group erected shanties in front of South Building. In October of 1987, the UNC Endowment Board voted to divest all of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa, and the AASG dismantled shortly thereafter. Included in the records are clippings, articles, and newsletters collected by the group. There are also membership lists; however, there is only limited correspondence. The archive includes materials about anti-apartheid activities that predated the formation of AASG and non-UNC material.

Media: 1 box

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wilson Library, University Archives and Records Service, CB# 3926, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514-8890, (919) 962-1345, (919) 962-3594, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss

Reference phone number: (919) 962-1345

Reference fax number: (919) 962-3594

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/mailref.html

Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Location: Various, national membership and focus

Summary: Papers, 1977-2001. Future archives will be added to this collection.

Description: Founded in 1977 at a national conference on Southern Africa at Michigan State University, the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS) is a group of scholars and students of Africa dedicated to formulating alternative analyses of Africa and U.S. government policy, developing communication and action networks between the peoples and scholars of Africa and the United States, and mobilizing support in the United States on critical, current issues related to Africa. The papers here include those of Immanuel Wallterstein and Willard Johnson (co-chairs 1977-1991), David Wiley and Jean Sindab (co-chairs 1991-93). and William G. Martin (co-chair 1993-2001). In this latter period, solidarity and apartheid movements came to an end and the transition began to a post-apartheid, post-national liberation movement ­ as evident in holdings on the debt and HIV crises, the National Summit on Africa debates, and ACAS’ own policy workshops. The organization still operates. Publishes ACAS Bulletin.

Catalog/Finding aid: Catalog

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory of collection

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Current name: Association of Concerned Africa Scholars

Current address: ACAS, c/o Kristin Peterson, Anthropology, Michigan State University, 344 Baker Hall, East Lansing MI 48824

Current Web address: http://www.concernedafricascholars.org/

Becker, Beate Klein

Location: New York, New York

Summary: Papers, 1977-1980

Description: Papers and research files collected by Beate Klein Becker reflecting her involvement in and the activities of the New York chapter of the Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa. Materials generally concern the Committee's investigation of corporate investment practices and banking policies and their relationship to apartheid in South Africa, plus the Committee's actions to influence changes in corporate behavior and to increase public awareness of the issues.

Media: 1.4 cubic feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Becker” in search box

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: (608) 264-6460

Reference fax number: (608) 264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Summary: Records of the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BCLSA) and similar organizations, 1970s-1990s

Description: Formed after the Soweto uprising, between 1977 and 1980 BCLSA focused on the ties between the First National Bank of Boston to the Standard Bank of South Africa, as well as its red-lining policies and support for nuclear power in the U.S. In 1980 it helped form MassDivest, which led the campaign to divest the state pension from companies doing business in South Africa. In January 1983 the legislature passed a comprehensive divestment bill that became a model for other sates. The collection includes material of other Massachusetts organization. The anti-apartheid activists who eventually formed BCLSA came from groups such as the Africa Research Group, whose Boston members was active in the early 1970s, and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, which organized on the Harvard-Radcliffe campus in the mid-1970s. The collection includes material from other Boston area organizations including the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers’ Movement which drew attention to the Polaroid camera systems being used in the pass system in South Africa, the Gulf Boycott Coalition which between 1972-1975 was active in promoting the boycott of Gulf gasoline because of the company’s support for the Portuguese colonial regime in Angola, the Southern Africa Solidarity Coalition and MassDivest which led the successful campaign for state divestment. BCLSA stopped meeting as a separate organization in the mid-1980s and various members joined with other activities by other groups in the Boston area, primarily FreeSA and TransAfrica. FreeSA continued to do fund-raising events and supported non-governmental organizations active in South Africa in the late 1980s. Other activities that followed the institution of U.S. sanctions in the 1980s included meetings of health care professionals and formation of a Boston chapter of the Committee for Health in South Africa (CHISA), the mobilization of support for Nelson Mandela’s visit to Boston in 1990, and the development of a “sister state” agreement between Massachusetts and the Eastern Cape in the mid-1990s.
Papers collected by Richard Clapp and Barbara Brown.

Suggested reading: A Brief History of the Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa, Richard Clapp: http://africa.msu.edu/activists/remembrances/clapp.php

Media: 1 box

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Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: 517-355-3700 or 517-432-6123 x239

Reference fax number: 517-432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

Brutus, Dennis

Summary: Papers, 1970-1990

Description: The collection consists of personal and professional papers, correspondence, writings, files of South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) and the Dennis Brutus Defence Committee, anti-apartheid posters, photographs, recordings, and subject files on Nelson Mandela, human rights, South African politics, divestment, apartheid and sports, African literature, and the struggle against apartheid in general. Born in 1924, Dennis Brutus is a South African-born poet and human rights activist who spearheaded a successful campaign to ban apartheid South Africa from international sport competitions. He founded the South African Sports Association in 1961 and SAN-ROC in 1963, and was subsequently arrested and jailed, placed under house arrest, and banned from all literary, academic and political activities. He went into exile in 1966 and has lived in the United States since 1970, emerging over the years as a prominent lecturer and author, a professor of African literature and a major spokesperson in the international movement to end apartheid in South Africa. Photographs, anti-apartheid posters and audio-visual recordings transferred respectively to the Photographs and Prints, the Art and Artifacts and the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Divisions.

Media: 19.5 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: For manuscripts and archives Click here

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (212) 491-2224. Photographs and Prints Division (212) 491-2057. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division (212) 491-2236

Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism

Location: Albany, New York

Summary: Records: 1981–1995, 6 reels of microfilm (APAP–011)

Media: 8 boxes, 3.5 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Includes an overview and brief history of the organization

Housed at: University at Albany, University Library, SM.E Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222 USA, (518) 442-3600, http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/africanamerican.htm

Reference phone number: (518) 437–3934

Reference Web address: http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/findaids/speapap.htm

Center for the Study of Sport in Society records

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Summary: Records, 1978-2003 (1985-1998 bulk)

Description: Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society (CSSS) was founded by Richard Lapchick in 1984 to increase awareness of sports and their relation to society, and to explore the use of sports in bringing about positive social change. It was the first academic center in the United States dedicated to sports and their role in society. Richard Lapchick served as director of the Center from 1985-1998. The archive includes material on the sports boycott of apartheid South Africa including on American Coordination Committee for Sport and Society (ACCESS), which was founded by Lapchick. It also includes material on numerous anti-apartheid organizations around the world including Africa Today Associates, the American Committee on Africa, the Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Bishop Desmond Tutu Scholarship Fund, the Boycott Shell Committee, FREESA, HART: The New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement, the International Defense and Aid Fund, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Faculty and Staff Against Apartheid (Northeastern University), the South African Congress on Sport (SACOS), the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC) and the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid. There is also material on anti-apartheid conferences and Teamwork-South Africa (1991-1996).

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Catalog/Finding aid: List of Contents

Restrictions: Some restrictions apply; contact Archives and Special Collections Department in advance.

Housed at: Northeastern University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, 92 Snell Library, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115 USA, Phone: (617) 373-2351, archives@neu.edu, http://www.lib.neu.edu/archives/

Reference phone number: (617) 373-2351

Reference e-mail address: archives@neu.edu

Champaign-Urbana Coalition Against Apartheid

Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

Summary: Papers, 1964-1991

Description: Records of the Champaign-Urbana Coalition Against Apartheid, a campus organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Includes articles, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, posters, publications, and reports of American Committee on Africa (1983-89), Divest Now Coalition (1979-86), U.N. Center Against Apartheid (1977-84) and regarding apartheid, anti-apartheid organizations, boycotts, corporate and university divestment, human rights (1978-94), labor unions, Mozambique (1987-91), Namibia (1974-88), and women (1980-81). Deposited by Al Kagan.

Media: 10 boxes, 8.6 cubic feet

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Catalog/Finding aid: Folder/box list (PDF file)

Housed at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, 1608 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801 USA, (217) 333-0790, http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/index.html

Reference phone number: University Archives (217) 333-0798

Reference e-mail address: illiarch@uiuc.edu

Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa

Location: Charlotte, North Carolina

Summary: Papers and records, 1988 - 1993

Description: Records of a local anti-apartheid organization formed in 1985 by residents of Charlotte N.C., who were "concerned about the ongoing crisis in South Africa and neighboring countries." The organization sponsored a number of events, protested loans by local businesses to the South African government, and invited visits by speakers who would "share insights and information with citizens of our community." Contains correspondence, flyers, programs, meeting and event notices, memoranda, minutes, news clippings, photographs, schedules, statements, and miscellaneous publications.

Media: 0.1 linear feet (one file folder)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: None

Housed at: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library, Special Collections Department, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001

Reference phone number: (704) 687-2449

Reference fax number: (704) 687-2232

Reference e-mail address: speccoll@email.uncc.edu

Church Council of Greater Seattle, Records (Southern Africa Task Force)

Location: Seattle, Washington

Description: The Church Council of Greater Seattle established a Southern Africa Task Force that operated from 1979 thought 1995.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, Box 352900, Seattle, WA 98195-2900, Phone: (206) 543-1929, Fax: (206) 543-1931, http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/

Reference phone number: (206) 543-1929

Reference fax number: (206) 543-1931

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/general/questionform.html

Committee for Health in Southern Africa

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Papers, 1984-1995 Archive

Description: Founded in July 1984, the Committee for Health in Southern Africa (CHISA) was a non-profit organization which consisted of persons in North America who volunteered their concern with health in Southern Africa, and in particular with the health issues raised by apartheid. Health and health issues are broadly defined, in keeping with the definition of the World Health Organization that health is a state of complete physical, psychological and social well-being. Prime concerns of CHISA were health and related human rights in South Africa; and the role of health professionals and professional organizations in that country. CHISA maintained a liaison in South Africa with the National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA), a multi-racial organization with broader functions, but a similar set of prime concerns. In North America, CHISA maintained liaison with local chapters across the continent. The uncataloged archive includes correspondence of the steering committee regarding CHISA meetings, finances, membership, and the organization of or participation in conferences in the USA and in southern Africa; selected occasional newsletters of CHISA and related organizations; selected newspaper clippings and excerpts from publications on apartheid and health issues in South Africa; unpublished and published conference proceedings; and other selected publications relating to health issues in southern Africa – especially South Africa. There are no finding aids. This archive is currently in storage at Columbia University Libraries in New York City.

Restrictions: The CHISA archive is not open to the general public. Access to the archive by researchers is extremely limited and only with the permission of the African Studies Librarian. For more information, please contact: Dr. Joseph S. Caruso, African Studies Librarian, Columbia University, 308 Lehman Library, 420 West 118th Street, New York, New York 10027 USA Phone: 212-854-8045 Fax: 212-854-3834 E-mail: caruso@columbia.edu

Housed at: Columbia University Libraries African Studies, 308 International Affairs, 420 W. 118th Street, New York, NY 10027. The African studies materials are located throughout Columbia's 22 departmental libraries., Phone: (212) 854-8045, africa@libraries.cul.columbia.edu, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/about.html

Reference phone number: (212) 854-8045

Reference fax number: (212) 854-3834

Reference e-mail address: caruso@columbia.edu

Committee for a Free Mozambique

Location: New York, NY

Timespan: 1970s

Description: The Committee for a Free Mozambique (CFM) was established to support the struggle of Frelimo for independence from Portugal. No proper archives remain for the Committee. Some editions of its newsletter CFM News & Notes are available at Yale University Library and possibly other institutions.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here – type “cfm news” and use journal/newspaper/magazine search

Restrictions: Restrictions apply to the use of Yale University Library. Scholars not affiliated with Yale should visit the library website or contact the library by telephone (203) 432-1853 or fax (203) 432-9486.

Housed at: Yale University, Sterling Memorial Library, 130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240, (203) 432-1810, http://www.library.yale.edu/

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1775

Cornell University: David Lyons and Matthew Lyons Cornell divestment movement collection, 1976-1987

Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Summary: Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, and other publications, 1976-1987

Description: Reports, legal documents, memos, articles, leaflets, posters, and other publications, 1976-1987
Matthew Lyons (Cornell University Class of 1986) helped to organize and participated in the first divestment sit-ins at Cornell's Day Hall in April-May 1985, as well as the May 8, 1985 action, "Take It To the Straight." In the fall of 1985, he helped to coordinate the divestment movement's daily sit-ins and civil disobedience at Day Hall. David Lyons, Matthew's father, is professor of law and philosophy at Cornell University. He was part of the first group of Cornell faculty and staff to be arrested in the divestment sit-ins in April 1985. He helped to draft the principal Faculty and Staff Against Apartheid (FSAA) documents including "Why Cornell Should Divest" and the FSAA's reply to the Proxy Review Committee Report on divestment. He represented Shantytown residents within the Cornell judicial system with regard to their complaints against the central administration.

Media: 1 cubic foot

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, 2B Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, (607) 255-3530, (607) 255-9524, http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/

Reference phone number: (607) 255-3530

Reference fax number: (607) 255-9524

Reference e-mail address: rareref@cornell.edu

Reference Web address: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/services/reference.html

Crowe, Francis papers

Location: Western Massachusetts

Summary: Papers of social activism in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1960 - 2003

Description: Pacifist; Political activist. Born Carthage, Missouri, 1919. Married Thomas Crowe, 1945, and moved to Northampton, MA; three children. Crowe founded and was active in many causes and peace groups, including the anti-apartheid movement, from the mid-20th century. The archive includes extensive records from Crowe’s work as the western Massachusetts representative for American Friends' Service Committee (1970s-90s), including anti-apartheid activity. She was active in the Committee to End Apartheid, Springfield, MA. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, newsletters, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, posters, videotapes, memorabilia, calendars, notebooks, manuscripts, notes, speeches, petitions, itineraries, and financial records. As of July 2005, the collection was unprocessed.

Media: 61 linear feet (49 boxes)

Restrictions: Partially restricted access - contact the Sophia Smith Collection for more information

Housed at: Smith College, Sophia Smith Collection, Alumnae Gym (Neilson Library), Northampton, MA 01063, Phone: 413 585-2970, Fax: 413 585-2886, ssc-wmhist@smith.edu, http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/

Reference phone number: 413-585-2970

Reference fax number: 413-585-2886

Reference e-mail address: ssc-wmhist@smith.edu

Davis, Peter Collection

Summary: The Peter Davis Collection constitutes over thirty years of activities by Peter Davis as a producer, director, scriptwriter, cameraman and editor of documentary films on social and political issues.

Description: Peter Davis is the founder of Villon Films, and has been independently producing and distributing award-winning films since the 'sixties, mostly on social and political issues. For thirty years be was based in the U.S., where many of his productions were broadcast on PBS. He has written, produced, and directed more than sixty documentaries, including several on apartheid. Davis began making films in South Africa in the 1970s and became deeply involved in the anti-apartheid movement. His films were widely used by the international anti-apartheid movement. His current focus is on the history of cinema relating to South Africa. The Peter Davis Collection at Indiana University represents thirty years of work. The South African material in the Peter Davis Collection not only spans the period of the most intensive struggle for human rights in that country, but also includes historical work dating from the beginning of the century. Davis' films include interviews with many South African activists. The collection includes not only films, but also corresponding outtakes, photographs, stills, audiocassettes, and manuscripts, all available for research and study. His credits include: South Africa: the White Laager (United Nations, Swedish TV, PBS, 1977), a history of Afrikaner nationalism; Generations of Resistance (United Nations, Swedish TV, National Black Programming Consortium, PBS, 1980), documenting the long history of African rebellion against white rule in South Africa up to the student uprising of 1976; Amandla! (Washington Office on Africa, 1980) 2-part educational slide-show; South Africa: The Nuclear File (Swedish TV, 1980) development of South Africa’s nuclear industry to weapons’ capacity; Winnie Mandela (United Nations, Swedish TV, National Black Programming Consortium, 1986); Remember Mandela! (Villon Films, 1988) biography of Nelson Mandela; and In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid (1993), a two-part social and political history of the representation of South Africa in cinema fiction films during the apartheid period. The Peter Davis Collection at Indiana University represents thirty years of work. The collection includes not only films, but also corresponding outtakes, photographs, stills, audiocassettes, and manuscripts, all available for research and study. Contributed by Peter Davis.

Additional link: Villon Films

Additional link: Peter Davis discusses South Africa

Media: Films, photos, manuscripts

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown

Housed at: Indiana University, Black Film Center/Archive, Smith Research Center, Suite 180, 2805 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408, Phone: (812) 855-6041, Fax: (812) 856-5832, http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/

Reference phone number: (812) 855-6041

Reference fax number: (812) 856-5832

Educators Against Racism and Apartheid

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Papers, 1985-1994

Description: Educators Against Racism and Apartheid was founded by educators in 1985 as Educators Against Apartheid. The name was changed because members of the group thought it important that educators deal with issues of racism in the United States at the same time that they dealt with apartheid in South Africa. The organization met monthly (except in summer), usually in the Riverside Church. The organization developed educational materials including a monthly newsletter which went to teachers all over the United States. The organization published two editions of Apartheid Is Wrong: A Curriculum for Young People which was funded in part by the United Nations Special Commission on Apartheid. The curriculum had lessons for teachers in all curriculum areas. It was used by teachers from early childhood classrooms all the way through universities. The group produced a filmstrip about many aspects of apartheid, particularly issues that impacted young people, with a cassette narrated by the Ruby Dee, who contributed her labor for the project. One of the organization’s projects was a boycott of Kellogg’s cereals because children could relate to Kellogg’s as opposed to other corporations that were involved in South Africa. Many young people participated in that boycott. The organization worked to get the Teacher’s Retirement System to divest itself from corporations doing business in South Africa. Members organized and participated in many demonstrations. The archive includes copies of the curriculum guide and the newsletter, some original and copied correspondence (for example with Oliver Tambo and young American children from the 1980s), both editions of the curriculum, anti-apartheid flyers, buttons, and photographs and videocassettes of group-sponsored events and performances (including a children’s play and a school class) from 1990 to 1993. Archives deposited by Paula Rogovin, one of the founding members and a former President of the Board of Directors.

Catalog/Finding aid: Catalog

Restrictions: Not currently available. The archives have not yet been processed or fully accessed.

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3770

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana

Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa (Yale University)

Location: New York, New York

Summary: Papers: 1956-1996 Yale Divinty School collection: Publications (1963-1994), files relating to Namibia (1971-1990).

Description: Based in New York, NY with a national constituency. Founded as Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa (ECSA). Renamed Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa. The records in this collection primarily document the ECSA's work in relation to Namibia. The ECSA has served as a link between Anglicans in Southern Africa and people in the United States by publishing a newsletter, issuing news releases, sponsoring public meetings, preparing and publishing special reports, sponsoring speaking and study tours for Southern Africans, raising funds to support education and provide relief in Southern Africa, and providing aid and counsel to visiting Southern Africans. The organization has encouraged its supporters to contact U.S. political leaders regarding crucial issues. Key names include William “Bill” Johnston (founder), Elizabeth Landis.

Other name(s): Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa

Suggested reading: One of God's Irregulars: William Overton Johnston and the Challenge to the Church to Divest from Apartheid South Africa, 1954-1971, Edgar Lockwood: http://www.africanactivist.msu.edu/remembrance.php?id=15

Media: Yale archive: 8 boxes; 4 linear feet National Archive of Namibia: Not processed

Catalog/Finding aid: Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut USA, Divinity.Library@yale.edu, http://www.library.yale.edu/div/speccoll.html

Reference e-mail address: divinity.library@yale.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/request.htm

Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa / Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa

Location: New York, NY

Description: Founded as Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa (ECSA) in 1954, the organization was renamed Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa (ECSA) in the 1980s. Based in New York, the organization had a national constituency. ECSA’s founder, president and dole paid staff person was William O. Johnston, known as Bill. The organization published a newsletter ECSA Bulletin on an irregular basis. In addition to South Africa, a significant emphasis was placed on Namibia. Others involved in the organization included William H. Booth, Oscar Calendar, Jim Cason, Michael Fleshman, and Elizabeth S. Landis. On the death of Bill Johnston in 1998, ECSA was closed down and the remaining archives sent to the National Archives of Namibia.

Suggested reading: One of God's Irregulars: William Overton Johnston and the Challenge to the Church to Divest from Apartheid South Africa, 1954-1971, Edgar Lockwood: http://www.africanactivist.msu.edu/remembrance.php?id=15

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: National Archives of Namibia, Private Bag 13250, Windhoek, Namibia, 264-61-2935211, 264-61-2935217, natarch@mec.gov.na

Reference phone number: +264-61-2935211

Reference fax number: +264-61-2935217

Reference e-mail address: natarch@mec.gov.na

Harrington, John

Location: California

Timespan: Papers, 1972-1995

Description: In June 1972, John Harrington authored a legislative report for the Assembly Office of Research entitled "California's Economic Involvement with Firms Operating in Southern Africa." He also assisted the State Legislature's Black Caucus draft divestment legislation. He subsequently authored additional legislative reports though the 1970s and early 1980s. He served as Chair of the Governor's Public Investment Task Force under Governor Edmund Brown and submitted its final report in October 1981. As a publicly appointed trustee of the Sacramento City Employees, he presented documentation of U.S. corporate complicity in the deaths of hundreds of individuals in Southern Africa to the Sacramento Board of Administration, Investment and Fiscal Management. He testified before several state legislative bodies and provided expert testimony in an Oregon legal case. Authored "The Economics of Divestment" [sound recording, Pacifica Radio Archive, 1985] with Gay Seidman and Walter Turner.

Catalog/Finding aid: Catalog

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory of collection

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3770

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana

Hooper, Mary-Louise – papers

Summary: Papers of Mary-Louise Hooper

Description: Mary-Louise Hooper was an American, a Quaker and a graduate of Stanford University. In 1956 Mary-Louise Hooper went to South Africa on a group tour and met Chief Albert Lutuli and other leaders of the ANC. She became deeply committed to the anti-apartheid cause and she immigrated to South Africa later that year and bought a home in Durban. She worked for two years as an assistant to Lutuli. She was arrested and given a deportation order in March 1957 with thirty days to clear up her affairs. The ANC gave Hooper a letter on commendation signed by Lutuli and Tambo. After being forced to leave South Africa, Hooper returned to the United States and worked at the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) both in its office in New York and as the organization’s West Cost representative. She was a member of the ANC’s delegation to the All Africa People’s Conference in Accra in December 1958 - no members of the ANC based inside South Africa were able to attend, as the government refused to let them travel outside the country. She also attended the All-African Peoples Conferences held in Tunis (1960) and Cairo (1961). Her work at ACOA included raising money for political prisoners for the Africa Defense and Aid Fund, arranging public meetings for African leaders, public speaking, helping African students in the U.S. and other countries, organizing the Declaration of American Artists Against Apartheid statement “We Say ‘No’ to Apartheid” opposing cultural contacts, signed by 65 well known performers, and editing a newsletter, South African Bulletin (later renamed Southern Africa Bulletin). She co-coordinated the Committee of Conscience Against Apartheid, initiated by the ACOA and the University Christian Movement, which campaigned against the financial support to apartheid given by two of the largest New York banks - Chase Manhattan and First National City. She traveled in 24 African countries and was acquainted. Included in the archives are original letters from Moses Kotane in Dar-Es-Salaam, Oliver Tambo, Alfred Hutchison, Zeke Mphahlele, “M.P.” Naicker, and many from Albert Lutuli in Groutville. The archive also includes letters from Joshua Nkomo of Zimbabwe and Tom Mboya of Kenya. Additional archival material related to Mary-Louise Hooper is in the archives of the ACOA at the Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.

Additional link: Letter from Wendell Foster and Mary-Louise Hooper, Co-Coordinators of the Committee Of Conscience Against Apartheid, 7 October 1966

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Restrictions: Library use only - contact MSU Library in advance

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Human Rights Watch Archives

Location: 1978 - present

Description: In 1978, under the direction of founder and former chair Robert L. Bernstein, Human Rights Watch (HRW) was established as Helsinki Watch (HW). HW’s mission was to monitor the compliance of the former Soviet Union and the other communist bloc countries with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act. As the organization has grown, it has formed other watch committees to cover other regions of the world including Africa. In 1988, all of the committees were united under one organization to form Human Rights Watch. These watch committees produce research reports on violations of international human rights norms as set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally-accepted human rights norms. These reports are intended to draw international attention to human rights abuses and to put pressure on governments and international organizations to reform. In the ensuing years, besides issuing reports, HRW has also expanded its collaborative lobbying efforts to expose human rights abuses throughout the world. Human Rights Watch, for example, was one of six international NGOs that established the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers in 1998. In turn, it is also the co-chair of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, a global coalition of civil society groups that have successfully lobbied to introduce the Ottawa Convention, a treaty that prohibits the use of anti-personnel landmines. Finally, HRW is an original member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of nongovernmental organizations that monitor censorship worldwide.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Columbia University Libraries, Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, Human Rights Organization Archives, 304 International Affairs Bldg, 420 West 118 Street, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY 10027, 212-854-8046, Fax: 212-854-3834, chrdr@columbia.edu, http://www.columbia.edu/library/humanrights

Reference phone number: (212) 854-8046

Reference fax number: (212) 854-3834

Reference e-mail address: chrdr@columbia.edu

Current name: Human Rights Watch

Current address: 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor, New York, NY 10118-3299 USA. Also has offices in a number of other U.S. cities and abroad.

Current phone number: (212) 290-4700

Current fax number: (212) 736-1300

Current e-mail address: hrwnyc@hrw.org

Current Web address: http://www.hrw.org

Hunton, William Alphaeus

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Personal, professional, organizational and literary papers, 1926 - 1970

Description: William Alphaeus Hunton was an African American scholar and activist. He became the Educational Director of the Council on African Affairs (CAA) in 1943, during a one year leave of absence from Howard University. The following year, he resigned from his job as a professor and moved to New York. After the withdrawal of Max Yergan from the post of Executive Director of the CAA, Hunton additionally assumed the role of executive secretary - assuring, often alone, the functioning of the entire organization until its dissolution in 1955. Other prominent members included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Mary McLeod Bethune. The CAA sought to educate the general public about the history of Africa and its struggle against colonialism and imperialism. CAA published a monthly bulletin New Africa and a regular newsletter, Spotlight on Africa, which featured in-depth stories on Africa by renown scholars including Du Bois and Hunton . The Council mounted effective public campaigns and raised funds around specific issues such as the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws in South Africa, the partition of the former Italian colonies in East Africa by the NATO powers in 1949 and the jailing of black leaders in Kenya and South Africa in 1953. But the emergence of the Cold War and activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee crippled the work of the Council. The CAA and its officers were repeatedly investigated and accused of subversion, unpatriotism and disloyalty and in 1955 the CAA dissolved. Hunton's book, Decision on Africa was published in 1957. At the invitation of President Sekou Toure he immigrated to Guinea. In 1962 he accepted an invitation from W.E.B. DuBois to work in Ghana. In February 1966 President Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown and Hunton was later expelled from Ghana. Hunton returned to New York but a year later moved to Zambia at the invitation from President Kenneth Kaunda. He died of cancer in Lusaka on January 13, 1970 at the age of 63.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: (212) 491-2224

Reference fax number: (212) 491-2037

Reference e-mail address: scmarbref@nypl.org

Impact Visuals Photograph Collection

Location: New York, NY

Timespan: n.d., 1964-2000 [bulk 1983-1999]

Summary: Photographs, slides and negatives primarily of South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement. Some supporting material on photo cooperatives and the shooting death of Abdul Shariff, one of the photographers represented in the collection.

Description: Impact Visuals was a New York City-based cooperative photo agency dedicated to social documentary photography. Founded by Michael Kaufman, Impact Visuals operated for 15 years until shutting down in 2001. Most of the images in this collection were obtained when Impact Visuals acquired defunct South African cooperative Afrapix's material. Afrapix was a collective, self-funded group of freelance photographers in South Africa operating between 1982-1992. A few additional images came from Southlight Photographic Agency. The collection consists of photographs, slides, and negatives, as well as a limited amount of supporting materials and publications. The vast majority of the material relates to South Africa. Other African nations, Holland, Palestine, Yugoslovia, and even New Jersey in the USA are also pictured. South Africa's first interracial elections in April 1994 are particularly well represented in the collection, as are the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela, and National Party President F.W. De Klerk. Subjects other than politics include the environment, labor, economics, health, poverty, and cultural life. Abdul Shariff, one of the photographers who worked for Afrapix and later Impact Visuals, was killed while documenting an ANC event in January 1994. Shariff's curriculum vitae, contract with Impact Visuals, and correspondence with fellow photographer Ansell Horn document the working relationships of a South African photographer.

Media: 6.5 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Restrictions: There are no access restrictions on this collection. Contact in reference advance. Permission to publish from these Papers must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.

Housed at: University of Connecticut Libraries, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Archives & Special Collections, 405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205, Storrs, CT 06269-1205 USA, Phone: (860) 486-4500, Fax: (860) 486- 5421, http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/index.html

Reference phone number: (860) 486-2524

Reference fax number: (860) 486-5421

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/about/staff.htm

International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa United States Committee

Summary: Papers and records, 1956-1989. The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the work of the International Defense and Aid Fund in North America.

Description: The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa was founded in 1964 to seek peaceful and constructive solutions to the problems created by racial oppression in Southern Africa. It grew out of the ad hoc committees that were formed in Britain and South Africa in 1952 for the purpose of raising funds for legal defense and humanitarian aid for victims of injustice, including political prisoners, banned persons, and their families. A United States committee was established in 1972. The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the work of the International Defense and Aid Fund in North America. An unpublished finding aid is available in the repository. Cite as: International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa Records. Call Number: MS 1600

Media: 9.75 linear feet (9 boxes)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here for Yale University Library catalog listing

Restrictions: Unknown, contact library in advance.

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1735

Reference fax number: (203) 432-7441

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

International Oil Working Group

Location: USA

Summary: Records, 1979-1987

Description: The International Oil Working Group (IOWG) is one of a number of organizations that worked to implement an oil embargo initiated by the United Nations General Assembly against South Africa to protest the country's policies of apartheid. The IOWG grew out of the Sanctions Working Group established in 1979. Although the nature and timing of the change in names is unclear, Dr. Teresa Turner was instrumental in the formation of both groups and was primarily responsible for their organization and administration. Other directors included Luis Prado, Arnold Baker and Kassahun Checole. While the group was loosely organized, it maintained the basic structure of a special advisory board with a pool of research associates. Primary activities involved researching topics related to the oil embargo; writing papers for regional, national, and international conferences; giving testimony at UN meetings; providing information to governments, unions and other groups committed to aiding in the implementation of the oil embargo; lecturing to students and members of the community on the subject of sanctions against South Africa; and collaborating with the UN Center Against Apartheid. Research topics included tanker monitoring to detect and expose those shipping companies that broke the embargo; the energy needs in those countries in southern Africa which depend upon South Africa to meet some of their energy demands; ways to effectively implement and enforce the oil embargo; trade union action by oil transport workers; Namibian independence and decolonization; and underground oil storage in South Africa. Collection consists of administrative papers including financial records, minutes and association history materials; correspondence; printed materials produced by the IOWG; conference files; UN documents relating to South Africa and sanctions; and reference materials, including published reports, newsclippings, newsletters and journals, related to oil shipping, tanker information and South African economic and political activity generally. Acquired from Teresa Turner.

Media: 15 linear ft., 29 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Finding Aid

Housed at: University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, Special Collections and Archives, Amherst, MA 01003, Phone: (413) 545-2780, Fax: (413) 577-1399, http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/spec.html

Reference phone number: (413) 545-2780

Reference fax number: (413) 577-1399

Reference Web address: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/askarch.html

Landis, Elizabeth

Summary: Papers

Description: Elizabeth Landis, an international lawyer, worked at United Nations Council for Namibia from 1974 until the end of 1981. She was a key aid to Sean McBride, who was UN Commissioner for Namibia from 1974 -1977. She remained active in supporting Namibia until its independence. This collection includes mostly her writings on Namibia. Not included in this collection is her work with the American Committee on Africa starting in the early 1950s and with the Episcopal Churchpeople for a Free Southern Africa.

Media: 0.4 meters

Housed at: National Archives of Namibia, Private Bag 13250, Windhoek, Namibia, 264-61-2935211, 264-61-2935217, natarch@mec.gov.na

Reference phone number: 264-61-2935211

Reference fax number: 264-61-2935217

Reference e-mail address: natarch@mec.gov.na

Lutheran World Ministries, Office on World Community – Namibia Files

Summary: Files of the Office on World Community and Lutheran World Ministries (LWM), (1964-1965, 1971-1988)

Description: The Office on World Community subject files (1964-1965, 1971-1988) contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, statements, resolutions, publications, news releases, and news clippings regarding the Office's involvement in working for Namibian independence and against the apartheid system in South Africa. Topics of interest relate to human rights violations in South Africa and specifically Namibia; staff and other organizations' visitations to South Africa; consultations and conferences regarding South African apartheid; assistance to the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO); U.S. divestment from South Africa; United Nations' (U.N.) actions and involvement in Namibia; and work with and assistance to other U.S. and international organizations against apartheid. Files were maintained by Office on World Community Directors Edward C. May (1973-1984) and Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, Jr. (1985-1987). Established in 1977 as the successor body of the U.S.A. National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (USANC), LWM was a joint agency of the Lutheran Church in America, The American Lutheran Church, and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. Its programs focused on world mission, theological and social study, volunteer service, publicity and communication, and international scholarship exchange. The Office on World Community, was established in 1973 as a joint project of the USANC and the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., to inform USANC members of world community needs, events, and issues and U.N. activities. The Office was transferred to LWM in 1977. In 1987, LWM was terminated with the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Media: 31 Boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here (Full aid not online.)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here, search for Namibia

Housed at: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives, 321 Bonnie Lane, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 USA, (847) 690-9410, (847) 690-9502, archives@elca.org, http://www.elca.org/library/index.html

Reference phone number: (847) 690-9410

Reference fax number: (847) 690-9502

Reference e-mail address: archives@elca.org

Madison Anti-Apartheid Coalition

Location: Madison, Wisconsin

Summary: Records: 1968-1992

Description: Records, mainly 1970-1973 and 1987-1991, of a student organization at the University of Wisconsin formed in 1969 as the Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa (MACSA) to lobby, educate the community about events in South Africa, and provide assistance to liberation movements. In 1985 the committee reorganized as the Madison Anti-Apartheid Coalition. Includes material of the Free Namibia Committee (Madison, WS).

Other name(s): Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa

Media: 1.6 cubic feet. (3 archives boxes, 3 card boxes, and 1 flat box), 10 photos, 10 transparencies

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Madison” in search box.

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Previous name: Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa (MACSA)

McHenry Jr., Dean E.

Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

Description: Papers of Dean E. McHenry Jr., professor of political science (1971- ) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including a loose-leaf binder containing copies of letters, memoranda and newspaper clippings relating to university policy with respect to majority rule in South Africa and the apartheid system; South African investment policy challenges (1977-79); Board of Trustees investment policies, the Champaign-Urbana Coalition Against Apartheid (1978-79), public meetings, drives, rallies, elections and publicity.

Media: 0.3 cubic feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, 1608 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, IL 61801 USA, (217) 333-0790, http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/index.html

Reference phone number: University Archives (217) 333-0798

Reference e-mail address: illiarch@uiuc.edu

Muste, A. J.

Description: A. J. Muste (1885-1967) was a pacifist leader and head of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He was a founder of the American Committee on Africa. This collection contains a small amount of material related to Africa.

Catalog/Finding aid: A. J. Muste

Housed at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081 U.S.A, (610) 328-8557, Fax: (610) 690-5728, http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/

Reference phone number: (610) 328-8557

Reference fax number: (610) 690-5728

Nesbitt, Prexy

Location: Chicago, Illinois and other locations

Summary: Papers: 1962-1993. Includes photos and negatives.

Description: Papers of Nesbitt, a Chicago-area activist, relating to his work as consultant for the Mozambique government and with United States organizations and projects concerning Southern Africa, and their links to related movements in Africa. Included are files relating to the Mozambique Support Network, the Mozambique Solidarity Office (Chicago, IL), the Coalition for Illinois' Divestment from South Africa, the Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau (CCLAMG), the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, and the World Council of Churches Program to Combat Racism and the Working Conference on Southern Africa (Madison, WI: 1975). There is also come material concerning Nesbitt's work in the Midwest as a union organizer and representative, teacher, and in community relations in the Chicago Mayor's Office. The papers include correspondence, tour and travel reports, conference and seminar papers, memoranda, and clippings. The photographs document people and events of projects in southern Africa, and also include images used in various organizations' newsletters.

Media: 7.4 cubic feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Nesbitt” in search box.

Restrictions: This collection may be used only with the written permission of Prexy Nesbitt until September 2, 2012, at which time the restriction may be extended for one additional period. Contact librarian.

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Nessen, William

Location: Berkeley, California and various

Summary: Papers: 1978-1995

Description: Papers of social activist/organizer William ("Billy") Nessen primarily documenting the anti-apartheid movement at the University of California-Berkeley during the 1980s, especially the sit-in at Sproul Hall. There is also information about the anti-apartheid movement in the community of Berkeley and on other campuses (mainly Cornell, Columbia, and City University of New York). Organizations included: American Committee on Africa, United People of Color, Campuses United Against Apartheid, the University of California Divestment Coalition, Campaign Against Apartheid, and the Steve Biko Coalition for Full Divestment.

Media: 1.4 cubic feet; 1 tape recording, and 10 photographs

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Type “Nessen” in search box.

Housed at: Wisconsin State Historical Society, 816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706, 608-264-6400, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/

Reference phone number: 608-264-6460

Reference fax number: 608-264-6486

Reference e-mail address: archref@whs.wisc.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archives/forms/ref.html

Oberlin College Archive

Location: Oberlin, OH

Description: The Oberlin College Archives holds significant bodies of documentation relating to the apartheid and divestment questions. Oberlin College had a number of committees at the General Faculty and Board of Trustees level(s) that addressed these questions in particular and the African struggle for freedom in general. The bulk of our files date from 1977 to the early 1990s. This includes the Oberlin Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (OCLSA), c. 1979. The Oberlin Committee on Southern Africa (OCSA) was founded by Paul Irish in 1971, although the university archives may not have any material on this organization. OCSA gathered petitions in support of shareholder resolutions seeking the withdrawal of General Motors and Gulf Oil from South Africa and Angola. Numerous articles were published in the student newspaper, the Oberlin Review. The Oberlin Review is available on microfilm in the university library but it is not indexed.

Housed at: Oberlin College Archives, 420 Mudd Center, 148 West College Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074-1532 USA, (440) 775-8014, (440) 775-8016, http://www.oberlin.edu/archive

Reference phone number: (440) 775-8014

Reference fax number: (440) 775-8016

Randolph, A. Philip: A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress

Timespan: 1949-1969 (Africa material)

Description: A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), was an African-American labor and civil right leader. He organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, most of whose members were African-America. He was a member of the Executive Committee of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR) which was founded in 1952 to support the Defiance Campaign Against Unjust Laws in South Africa. He was active in and served on the National Committee of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), which grew out of AFSAR. The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) was formed in 1962 with Randolph and Martin Luther King, Jr., as cochairmen; ANLCA went out of business in 1968. In 1966 Randolph headed the Committee on Conscience Against Apartheid formed by ACOA and the University Christian Movement to protest loans to South Africa by Chase Manhattan Bank and First National City Bank. Subject files related to Africa include:
American Committee on Africa, 1954-1969
American Negro Leadership Conference, 1962-1967
Americans for South African Resistance, 1952-1953
Correspondence, 1949-1968, n.d.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington, D.C. 20540-4680, (202) 707-5387, (202) 707-7791

Reference phone number: (202) 707-5387

Reference fax number: (202) 707-7791

Reference Web address: http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-mss2.html

Reddy, E.S.

Summary: Papers and correspondence, 1939 - 2001

Description: The papers consist of correspondence and printed material relating to South Africa and Namibia and document E. S. Reddy's work with anti-apartheid organizations around the world. Includes materials related to numerous organizations including the American Committee on Africa, The Africa Fund, Connecticut Anti-Apartheid Committee, Episcopal Church People for a Free Southern Africa, Houstonians Against Apartheid, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Madison Area Committee on Southern Africa, New York Labor Committee Against Apartheid, Southern Africa Solidarity Coalition, Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network, Oregonians for Responsible State Investments, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, People of Southern African Freedom, People's Front for the Liberation of South Africa (Princeton), Sisters Against South African Apartheid, Southern Africa Committee, University Christian Movement, Washington Office of Africa, East Tennessee Committee Against Racism and Apartheid, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. Also included is material on Mahatma Gandhi and Indians in South Africa. Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy was born on July 1, 1924, in Pallaprolu, India. He received his B.A. from the University of Madras in 1943 and a M.A. from New York University in 1948. Reddy joined the United Nations Secretariat as a political affairs officer in 1949. From 1963-1965, Reddy was the principal secretary for the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid. He served as chief of the Section for African Questions from 1965-1976. In 1976 Reddy was appointed the director of the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, a position he held until 1983. During this time he also served as director of the U.N. Trust Fund for South Africa and the U.N. Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa. Reddy was the assistant secretary-general of the United Nations from 1983 until his retirement in 1985. Cite as E. S. Reddy Papers; call number MS 1499.

Additional link: E.S. Reddy page on ANC web site

Media: 55 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1744

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/refform.html

Robeson, Paul

Summary: Collection includes material relating to the Council on African Affairs, 1944 - 1955

Description: Paul Robeson, one of the preeminent figures in 20th century U.S. history, was an athlete, actor, singer and linguist as well as a Pan-African and progressive activist on many fronts. He was one of the founders and served as chairman of the Council on African Affairs. In the 1930s and 1940s he was probably one of the most widely known and respected Americans of any race around the world. After he was targeted for government repression in the McCarthy period, his name recognition was reduced and his influence marginalized. But his legacy is now being rediscovered by scholars and public interest is again rising, as reflected by the recent postage stamp in his honor.

The collection of material referenced here, related to the Council on African Affairs, is part of a large collection of Paul Robeson material. The material on the Council on African Affairs consists of correspondence, reports, resolutions, press releases and clippings. Correspondents in this sub-series include: Lord Halifax, British ambassador to Washington (1944); Edward Stettinius, chairman of the United States delegation to the United Nations on the subject of colonial trusteeship, then under consideration in regard to the United Nations charter; the Natal Indian Congress in South Africa, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1894; Oliver Tambo, General Secretary of the African National Congress in South Africa (1954), and Mrs. Funmi Ransome Kuti, a Nigerian political activist and mother of the Afro-beat band leader Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Also included are two different drafts of Robeson's message to the Asian-African Conference in Bandung (Indonesia) in 1955 and related correspondence.

Additional link: Microfilm of this collection is available from LexisNexis, available in many libraries

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: (212) 491-2224

Reference fax number: (212) 491-2037

Reference e-mail address: scmarbref@nypl.org

Robinson, Cleveland (Papers)

Location: New York, NY

Summary: Papers, 1960-1992

Description: Cleveland Robinson (1914-1995) was an African American trade union leader and civil rights activist who served as Secretary-Treasurer of the United Auto Workers of America, District 65, from 1952-1992. The collection contains correspondence, miscellaneous documents, ephemera and clippings. General and Political Files, 1960-1992, provides a detailed picture of Robinson’s political interests and affiliations. Included are records of his involvement in anti-apartheid campaigns and organizations including the African National Congress, the American Committee on Africa, TransAfrica, the South Africa: Solidarity Conference (1981), Labor Committee against Apartheid, NY Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council, NY Anti-Apartheid Welcome Committee (Nelson Mandela visit to New York), and the Mandela Freedom Fund (1990-1993).

Catalog/Finding aid: Guide to the Cleveland Robinson Papers

Restrictions: Open for research without restrictions

Housed at: Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA, Phone: (212) 998-2630, Fax: (212) 995-4225, http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

Reference phone number: (212) 998-2630

Reference fax number: (212) 995-4225

Reference e-mail address: gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/access.html

Rutgers Grass Roots - Progressive Activists Files

Location: Rutgers University, New Jersey

Summary: Includes material related to anti-apartheid and divestment activity (1969-1989, 1.2 cubic feet) including the Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation and the Rutgers Coalition for Total Divestment (RCTD)/Coalition for Total Divestment, (also referred to as the Coalition for Total Divestment).

Description: The Rutgers Grass Roots - Progressive Activist Files span the period 1921 to 1993, inclusive, while the bulk of the collection covers the years 1979-1993 and comprise the records of two student activists, Sue Kozel and Chris Berzinski, who continued their activist involvement after graduating from the University. Most of the files in the collection were created by Kozel and Berzinski as they became involved in numerous protest issues at Rutgers University. The divestment series (1969-1989, 1.2 cubic feet)
documents student and faculty activities in the fight against apartheid in South Africa and for divestiture of University funds from companies doing business in South Africa. The collection includes material related to the Rutgers student organization Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberation (CISSAL), 1977-1978 (of which Chris Berzinski was a member) which opposed to apartheid and concerned with the divestiture of University funds from corporations doing business in South Africa. Material on CISSAL includes biographies, broadsides, legislation from New Jersey and Wisconsin, opinion pieces by Chris Berzinski, an outline by Chris Berzinski showing his CISSAL activities and asking to have them be made part of his field work, a petition, press releases and publications. This collection documents the origins of CISSAL and how it evolved from the Phil Shinnick Defense Committee, focusing on one faculty member's cause, into its pro-divestiture identity. The Rutgers Coalition for Total Divestment (RCTD)/Coalition for Total Divestment, (also referred to as the Coalition for Total Divestment), 1985 subseries documents the student, faculty, and alumni organization committed to the divestiture of University funds from corporations doing business in South Africa and the fight against apartheid. This subseries includes broadsides, correspondence, an informational packet concerning the group and a hunger strike, press releases and resolutions. The collection includes material generated by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the Joint Investment Committee, Rutgers University Board of Governors (BOG), and the University Senate. Includes accounts of University common stock invested in corporations doing business in South Africa, clippings chronicling events in South Africa and the concerns and activities of Rutgers students and faculty fighting against apartheid and for divestment, correspondence, informational material, company investment records, legislation, opinion pieces, press releases, reports, including the student and faculty compilation, General Report to the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees, resolutions, and testimonies given by student activists Chris Berzinski and Sue Kozel before various University committees.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown, contact library in advance.

Housed at: Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163 USA, Phone: (732) 932-7006, Fax: (732) 932-7012, http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/scua.shtml

Reference phone number: (732) 932-7006

Reference fax number: (732) 932-7012

Reference e-mail address: fruscian@rci.rutgers.edu

Reference Web address: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/lib_servs/reference.shtml

Santana, Aracelly – Poster and T-shirt Collection

Description: Ms. Aracelly Santana was senior political advisor at the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid from 1981 to 1992. This is her personal collection of posters and T-shirts produced mostly by South African organizations such as the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and its affiliated unions and by the United Democratic Front (UDF) and its affiliates.

Restrictions: Not currently available. The archives have not yet been processed or fully accessed

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3770

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana

Selma Waldman, Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid (SCCA)

Description: Selma Waldman is a Seattle based graphic artist and activist. She was involved in the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid in the 1980s. Waldman was also involved iwith the Liberation Support Movement (LSM). Includes other material collected by Waldman when living in various locations. Material deposited by Selma Waldman.

Catalog/Finding aid: Find aid: Click here

Restrictions: Library use only - contact MSU Library in advance

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, African Activist Archive, Special Collections, Michigan State University Library, East Lansing, MI 48824, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/

Reference phone number: (517) 355-3700 or (517) 432-6123 ext. 237 or ext. 239

Reference fax number: (517) 432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

Shore, Herbert: Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane

Summary: Herbert Shore Collection in Honor of Eduardo C. Mondlane

Description: During the 1960s, Herbert Shore (1922-2004) was invited to develop theater programs at several African universities. His work led to close associations with prominent writers and revolutionary leaders. His most enduring connection was with Eduardo Mondlane (Oberlin Class of 1953), founding president of Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique (FRELIMO). With the help of Mrs. Janet Mondlane and others, Shore collected material relating to Mondlane’s life. Eventually Shore donated these materials to the Oberlin College Archives. For his work on behalf of Mozambique, Shore was honored with the Bagamoyo Medal in 1989. He was an honorary member of the African National Congress. Subgroup II consists of the material collected by Herbert Shore relating to Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, and Africa. The most significant resource on Eduardo Mondlane in this subgroup is the microfilm in Series 6. This set of microfilm, done in 1996, contains correspondence (primarily post 1962) and writings of Janet and Eduardo Mondlane. Also included is material (1950-1989) including correspondence, publications, and interviews concerning the Mondlanes, FRELIMO, and the Mozambique Institute. Correspondents include George Houser, Herbert Shore, Africa Today editor Edward A. Hawley (who studied at the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology), Oberlin Professor George Simpson, and FRELIMO leaders Uria Simango and Marcellino Dos Santos. Each of the seven microfilm reels includes an inventory of its contents, and paper copies of the inventory are also in this series.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Guide

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory - Subgroup I. Historical Files relating to Herbert Shore’s interests in the Arts and Culture

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory - Subgroup II. Historical Files collected by Shore on Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique, and Africa

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: Oberlin College Archives, 420 Mudd Center, 148 West College Street, Oberlin, Ohio 44074-1532 USA, (440) 775-8014, (440) 775-8016, http://www.oberlin.edu/archive

Reference phone number: (440) 775-8014

Reference fax number: (440) 775-8016

Reference Web address: http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/contact/form/index.html

South Africa Now, Globalvision

Location: New York, NY

Summary: South Africa Now Collection, 1978-1994 (inclusive), 1988-1991 (bulk). The collection consists of ca. 2600 videotapes and selected paper files relating to the production of the television program, South Africa Now.

Description: The collection consists of videotapes and a small number of transcripts, log books, and publicity files relating to the television program South Africa Now, produced by Globalvision from 1988 to 1991. South Africa Now was produced in cooperation with The Africa Fund, which served as fiscal sponsor and provided guidance on African political issues. The collection includes a nearly complete run of tapes of the ca. 150 newscasts produced during the three year run of the program as well as ca. 2000 tapes of interviews, short reports, documentaries, stock footage, and other footage used in the program's production. The collection includes visual documentation of the final years of apartheid in South Africa and includes interviews with and other significant footage of anti-apartheid leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Walter Sisulu, Albertina Sisulu, Albie Sachs, Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki, Allan Boesak, Oliver Tambo, Beyers Naude, and many others. It also documents the activities of the South African government and its leaders, particularly P.W. Botha and F. W. DeKlerk. Many organizations also receive extensive coverage, such as the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and the South-West African Peoples Organization (SWAPO). Many editions of the program included the segment "Frontline Focus," which reported the news in the southern African states of Angola, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. South Africa Now produced at least one cultural segment per show. The collection, therefore, contains footage of South African artists, playwrights, musicians, authors, and filmmakers, including Athol Fugard, Hugh Masakela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Mzwakhe Mbuli, Johnny Klegg, Gcina Mhlopher, Peter Magubane, and Nadine Gordimer. Finally, the collection documents the activities of the international anti-apartheid movement that put political and economic pressure on South Africa to end the system of apartheid. Globalvision was co-founded by award-winning journalists Rory O'Connor and Danny Schechter.

Media: videotapes and papers, 182 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Preliminary Guide to the South Africa Now Collection

Restrictions: Copyright has been transferred to Yale University for Series I and Series XVIII. Researchers should consult the reference archivist for copyright information regarding the rest of the collection. Original videotapes, as well as preservation masters and duplicating masters, may not be played. Researchers needing to consult the original materials should refer to the finding aid for policies governing reproduction for access.

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1744

Reference fax number: (203) 432-7441

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

Current name: Globalvision

Current address: 575 Eighth Avenue, Suite 2200, New York, NY 10018

Current phone number: (212) 246-0202

Current fax number: (212) 246-2677

Current e-mail address: roc@globalvision.org

Current Web address: http://www.globalvision.org/

Southern Africa Liberation Committee, Patricia L. Beeman collection

Location: East Lansing, Michigan

Summary: Papers, documents, videos, book, 1973-1997

Description: The Patricia L. Beeman Southern Africa Liberation Committee collection documents the work of the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC), a highly successful community organization working at Michigan State University and in the Lansing, Michigan area from 1973 through 1997. The collection details SALC's educational and social action campaigns, including the East Lansing Selective Buying Resolution (1977), the campaigns for the divestiture of Michigan State University (1978) and the MSU Foundation (1986), the three sanctions bills by the State of Michigan Legislature (on banking loans to South Africa and divestiture by the higher education institutions of Michigan and by the State of Michigan Pension Fund, 1982-86), and the "McGoff Off" campaign to remove the McGoff name from the MSU Wharton Center (1979-84). Particularly extensive newspaper clippings collected by Frank and Patricia Beeman from the national and local press describe conditions in Southern Africa and the SALC activities in response to those conditions. The books in this collection address the issues surrounding apartheid and resistance to it. The use of graphic arts to support these political and liberation activities is well illustrated by the numerous posters, protest buttons, and T-shirts produced both by SALC and by international organizations supporting the liberation of Southern Africa.

Media: 36 boxes (529 folders + 198 artifacts + 3 videotapes + 104 books)

Catalog/Finding aid: Description on collection

Catalog/Finding aid: Inventory of collection

Restrictions: Library use only

Housed at: Michigan State University Library, Special Collections, 100 Library, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA, 517-353-8700, http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/

Reference phone number: Africana: 517-353-8700 or 517-432-6123 ext 239 or ext. 237

Reference fax number: 517-432-3532

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/africana/

Southern Africa Support Project

Location: Washington, DC

Summary: Papers, 1978-1985

Description: The Southern Africa Support Project (SASP) was organized in June 1978 in Washington D.C. as a community organization to do political, educational and fund-raising work for the liberation struggles in Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa. It provided political and material assistance when possible to the people of the "Frontline States" (Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, Botswana, and Tanzania), each of which was hard-hit by military raids, economic and political sabotage by the white minority regime in South Africa. Most of the documents illustrate SASP activities in the United States to support and raise the awareness of the liberation struggles in southern Africa. The documents consist of correspondence, meeting minutes and agendas, photographs, newsletters, flyers, brochures, financial records, reports, memoranda, pamphlets, planning materials, and press releases. In 1985, Sylvia Hill, former chair and co-founder of SASP donated four boxes of its records. In 2003, Adwoa Dunn-Mouton donated a fifth box.

Media: 5 boxes

Restrictions: By appointment. Monday through Friday, 9 am to 1 pm and 2 to 4:30 pm

Housed at: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 500 Howard Place, NW, Washington, DC 20059, (202) 806-7240, (202) 806-6405, http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/

Reference phone number: (202) 806-7480

TransAfrica

Timespan: 1977 – 1987

Description: TransAfrica was founded in July 1977 as an African American lobby on Africa and the Caribbean. For many years Randall Robinson, a dynamic public speaker, was the executive director. On November 21, 1984 Robinson, Congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy, and Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Frances Berry were arrested at a sit-in the office of South African Ambassador Fourie in Washington, D.C. Similar efforts followed at demonstrations outside South African embassies and consulates organized by what became the Free South Africa Movement. By the end of 1985 more than 3,000 had been arrested in these protests. TransAfrica worked closely with the Congressional Black Caucus, which had been involved in its founding, in devising legislative strategy for the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. Topics covered by the archives include a wide range of issues including Southern Africa and anti-apartheid movements, oil, foreign intelligence, SALT II, Grenada and black Israelites. Also documented are organizations, projects and individuals who played a role in African affairs. The archives include correspondence (1979 – 1985), speeches, Congressional testimonies, articles and other writings, subject files, fundraising information, printed materials and various petitions. There is a box listing which can be made available to researchers on site.

Media: 74 record center storage boxes

Housed at: Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 500 Howard Place, NW, Washington, DC 20059, (202) 806-7240, (202) 806-6405, http://www.founders.howard.edu/moorland-spingarn/

Reference phone number: Manuscript Division (202) 806-7480

Reference fax number: (202) 806-6405

Current name: TransAfrica Forum

Current address: 1629 K Street, NW, Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20006

Current phone number: (202) 223-1960

Current fax number: (202) 223-1966

Current Web address: http://www.transafricaforum.org/

UAW President's Office: Walter P. Reuther Collection

Timespan: 1959-1970 (approximately) Africa material

Description: Walter P. Reuther was a leader of the United Automobile Workers Union of which he was elected President in March 1946. Files related to Africa include:
American Committee for Assistance to Tunisia, 1969-70
American Committee on Africa, 1959-70
American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, 1962-68

Catalog/Finding aid: Overview finding aid

Catalog/Finding aid: Series XV, Organizations, 1946‑1970, Boxes 467‑539

Restrictions: Unknown, contact depository institution in advance

Housed at: Wayne State University, Walter P. Reuther Library, 5401 Cass Ave
Detroit MI 48202, 313-577-4024, reutherreference@wayne.edu, http://www.reuther.wayne.edu

Reference phone number: 313-577-4024

Reference e-mail address: reutherreference@wayne.edu

Van Lierop, Robert

Summary: Papers of Robert Van Lierop

Description: Personal papers documenting Robert Van Lierop's activities as a political activist on behalf of liberation movements in Southern Africa and East Timor, as an independent filmmaker and television producer, and as the Permanent Representative of Vanuatu at the United Nations. He traveled to Africa in 1971 and produced his first film on the struggle for independence in Mozambique, "A Luta Continua." A second film, "O Povo Organizado," was completed in 1976. The collection consists, for the most part, of correspondence, reports, memoranda, draft articles and speeches, research materials and printed matter. Organizations represented in the collection include: the American Committee on Africa, the Pan-African Solidarity Committee, and the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, a group that opposed Polaroid's and other American corporate investments in South Africa. More recent files relate to East Timor and its struggle against Indonesian aggression, to Zimbabwe and Vanuatu, and to the tenth Pan-African Festival of Cinema, held in Burkina Faso in 1987. -American filmmaker, political activist and Permanent Representative of the Republic on Vanuatu at the United Nations. Robert Van Lierop began his professional career in 1967 as an Assistant Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the areas of civil rights and school desegregation. He traveled to Africa in 1971 and produced his first film on the struggle for independence in Mozambique, "A Luta Continua." A second film, "O Povo Organizado," was completed in 1976. As co-producer of "Like It Is," a weekly black television new and documentary program, he produced several documentaries, including an analysis of the United Nations and a conference on Southern Africa. He also conducted two delegations of African-American activists and professionals to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Cuba in 1978 and 1979. Photographs separated to Photographs and Prints Division. Films “A Luta Continua” and “O Povo Organizado” separated to Photographs and Prints Division.

Additional link: Catalog/Finding Aid for the film "A Luta Continua"

Media: 4.2 linear feet; papers, photographs, films

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here for manuscripts and archives

Housed at: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801, Phone: (212) 491-2200, http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

Reference phone number: Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (212) 491-2224. Photographs and Prints Division (212) 491-2057. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division (212) 491-2236.

Washington Office on Africa

Location: Washington, DC

Summary: Papers, 1971-1997

Description: Publications, correspondence, reports, statements, and collected material document the work of the Washington Office on Africa and the issues addressed by its work. The Washington Office on Africa was founded in 1972 to support the movement for freedom from white-minority rule in southern Africa. Its activities have included the monitoring of Congressional legislation and executive policies and actions, as well as the publication of action alerts and other documentation designed to advance progressive legislation and policy on southern Africa. Supported by church bodies and unions, the WOA has worked in partnership with colleagues in Africa, the Africa advocacy community in the United States, and grassroots organizations concerned with various aspects of African affairs. Includes material related to numerous other organizations. See also: American Committee on Africa

Media: 63 boxes; 30 linear feet

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Housed at: Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut USA, Divinity.Library@yale.edu, http://www.library.yale.edu/div/speccoll.html

Reference phone number: (203) 432-6374

Reference Web address: http://www.library.yale.edu/div/refform.html

Current name: Washington Office on Africa

Current address: 212 East Capital Street, Washington, DC 20003 USA

Current phone number: (202) 547-7503

Current fax number: (202) 547-7505

Current e-mail address: woa@igc.org

Current Web address: http://www.woaafrica.org/

Weitzel, Carla – papers

Location: University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

Summary: Papers related to the divestment/anti-apartheid movement at the University of Missouri. The collection also includes material of civil rights, equal rights and world peace.

Description: The papers of Carla Weitzel (1953-2000), a sociology graduate student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, consist of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, correspondence, posters, pamphlets, photographs, and miscellaneous materials. The materials document civil rights issues, particularly the anti-apartheid and divestment movement that occurred on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus during the mid-1980s. While a graduate student, Weitzel became one of the primary leaders in the divestment movement on campus. The divestment movement at the University of Missouri began in April 1978, when Doug Liljegren, Missouri Student Association president, wrote a letter to the board of curators notifying them that the University had investments in 54 companies which were doing business in South Africa. A month later a rally was held to persuade the curators to pull their investments out of South Africa. The University of Missouri Divestment Movement series is arranged by type of material and chronologically therein. The series consists of papers from various student groups, faculty groups, and University administrators and focus primarily on the University's financial investments, the issue of divestment, and the shantytown. Several student groups, including the Shantytown Activists and the Missouri Students Association, joined together in the divestment cause and succeeded in forcing the University to withdraw its investments from companies associated with apartheid in South Africa. Included in the series is a list of the articles written about the shantytown that were published in The Maneater. Also included are notes from organizational meetings regarding the construction of the shantytown. The posters and fliers included in this series primarily advertise shantytown and anti-apartheid demonstrations held on the campus during 1986 and 1987. In 1987, Weitzel was invited to speak about the shantytown and divestment movement before a special committee on apartheid at the United Nations. Her speech and general information about the hearing are included in this series.

Catalog/Finding aid: Collection description

Restrictions: Unknown, contact library in advance.

Housed at: University of Missouri, Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia , 23 Ellis Library, Columbia, Missouri 65201-5149 USA, Phone: (573) 882-6028, Fax: (573) 884-0345, whmc@umsystem.edu, http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/

Reference phone number: (573) 882-6028

Reference fax number: (573) 884-0345

Reference e-mail address: whmc@umsystem.edu

Yale University Library South African Apartheid Collection

Summary: South African apartheid collection, 1961-1991 (inclusive), 1985-1988 (bulk). Includes information on South African non-Parliamentry opposition groups and U.S. and other anti-apartheid organizations

Description: The collection documents the apartheid system in South Africa and the different stages of the liberation struggle which was instrumental in bringing about the decline of the system. The collection consists of printed materials such as newsclippings, publications, reports, press releases, newsletters, pamphlets and newspapers of the South African government, parliamentary parties, non-parliamentary groups such as the African National Congress, and American and other foreign groups. Arranged in nine series and additions: I. South African Government, 1961-1991. II. South African Parliamentary Parties, 1961-1991. III. Non-Parliamentary/Opposition/ Resistance Groups, 1961-1991. IV. South African Institutes and Foundations, 1966-1991. V American Government Policy Towards South Africa, 1974-1988. VI. Disinvestment/ Divestment, 1978-1987. VII. American Anti-Apartheid Pressure Groups, 1972-1991. VIII. International Pressure Groups, 1963-1991. IX. Posters and Printed Materials, 1970-1990. Series VI, DISINVESTMENT/DIVESTMENT, includes newsletters and reports of American organizations and institutions which have not only publicly opposed apartheid, but have also developed schemes to improve the welfare of black South Africans. One of the most effective strategies was to withdraw investments from South Africa. Hence, this series is a source for the divestment/disinvestment issue and its effectiveness as a strategy for change in the country. Many universities, especially Yale and Stanford, were at the forefront of this campaign. Additional material on this strategy can be found in Series IX. Series VII, AMERICAN ANTI-APARTHEID ORGANIZATIONS, is a fairly large series which focuses on the role of numerous American groups in removing racial oppression in South Africa. Through their newsletters, publications and campaigns, these organizations aimed not only to bring to the attention of the American people the plight of the oppressed, but also to design strategies to build the momentum for legislative action against South Africa. Of particular importance are the files of the Africa Fund, American Committee on Africa, Episcopal Church People for a Free Southern Africa, and the Washington Office on Africa. Through their work these groups were successful in providing medical, financial, and moral assistance to black South Africans and in ultimately influencing American corporate and government policy towards South Africa. Their publications, reports, and newsletters are a good source for information on the violence that was perpetrated in South Africa, especially in Natal. Series VIII, INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE GROUPS, contains material which focuses on the pressure exerted by non-American groups and their respective government on South Africa to bring an end to apartheid. Although most of these groups are based in Europe, the work of the British anti-apartheid organizations dominates these series.

Media: 30 linear feet

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, PO Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520, http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa

Reference phone number: (203) 432-1744

Reference fax number: (203) 432-7441

Reference e-mail address: mssa.assist@yale.edu

Africa Bureau and related organizations

Location: London, England

Summary: Records of the Africa Bureau and related organizations, 1952-1978

Description: The Africa Bureau was formally launched on July 1, 1952. Earlier that year Reverend Guthrie Michael Scott and several of his friends decided that there was a need for an organization to advise and support Africans who wished to oppose by constitutional means political decisions affecting their lives and futures imposed by alien governments. An initial scheme comprised one body to raise and disburse funds and another to educate public opinion and give guidance, etc. to Africans; however, the ultimate outcome was a single institution known as the Africa Bureau, directed by an executive committee and honorary director (Michael Scott), with a financial sub-committee and paid secretary. Two separate trust funds were established, one to handle money for the St. Faith's Mission, Rhodesia (this was later called the African Development Trust), the other mainly to provide educational bursaries for Africans (the Protectorates Trust). Neither was administered by the Bureau, but members of its Executive Committee became trustees. For a while, the Bureau's activities were dominated by the proposed federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland. Gradually, however, problems in other parts of Africa attracted its interest. It assisted Tshekedi Khama (the uncle of Seretse Khama) in his appeal against exile from Bechuanaland; from this single opening it was led into investigating land-holding, livestock difficulties and mineral concession problems in all three High Commission territories and the threat of the territories' transfer to the Union of South Africa. In South Africa the Bureau gave monetary support to African schools and organized a campaign to boycott sports and cultural events where racial discrimination was practiced. Regarding problems in East Africa, its chief link was Colin Legun, a member of its Executive Committee, whose observations included the Mau Mau emergency, the constitutional controversy in Buganda and the granting of independence to the four British territories. The Bureau's mode of operation changed as new demands were made upon it. Originally it had aimed at advising Africans on their problems, obtaining the advice of experts, representing them on international bodies and encouraging them to exert pressure on governments. The changes wrought by the achievement of independence by many African states, however, led to the emergence of a section of the Bureau as a research group supported by foreign donations for specific projects or publications. This research included investigations into the efficacy of sanctions against Rhodesia and the effect of external investment in South Africa and Namibia. A change also took place in the means by which the Bureau was financed, as it moved from an initial dependence on individual benefactions to a more professional approach to fund-raising. During the 1970s the Executive Committee came to the decision that the Bureau had outlived its original purpose and that further aid to developing countries should be the responsibility of other, differently conceived organizations. The Bureau was therefore closed down in 1978.

Media: 327 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here - Available though Archives Hub, type Africa Bureau in search box

Restrictions: Some restrictions apply. For details, contact reference librarian.

Housed at: University of Oxford, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG, United Kingdom, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: +44 (0) 1865 270908

Reference fax number: +44 (0) 1865 270912

Reference e-mail address: rhodes.house.library@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Africa Groups of Sweden

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Summary: Papers, correspondence, minutes, publications 1974–1992 (some later material as well)

Description: The Africa Groups of Sweden (AGS) was constituted as a national organization in April 1974 in Uppsala. The initiators were local Africa Groups in Uppsala, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Lund and Jönköping. A number of these groups were originally organized in the early 1960s as South Africa Committees, i.a. in Lund and Uppsala. The object was to support the liberation fronts in Southern Africa against colonialism, imperialism and racism on the liberation movements’ own conditions. (In 1970 there were four local Africa Groups in Sweden. Five years later there were seven and in 1982 they had increased to 17 together with 18 contact persons all over the country. The four local groups together had about 100 members in 1970. In 1982 AGS had roughly 1,000 members and in 1992 almost 1,500.) Prior to the formation of AGS, autonomous local groups had already cooperated earlier to a certain degree in studies, production of material and common actions, i.a. the publishing of the periodical “Africa Bulletin”, which was issued from 1963 on under the name of “South and South West Africa Information Bulletin” and further on “Southern Africa Information Bulletin”. Twice a year the local groups met at conferences, but there was no common platform. The most important joint production during these years was the study book “Imperialism and Liberation Struggle in Africa”, which was published in 1972. Fundraising for MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique and PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau were launched. A main activity of AGS was lobbying the decision-makers of authorities dealing with issues on Southern Africa through campaigns, fundraising and information activities. As early as in 1973 the first “Southern Africa Week” was arranged all over the country, which for many years became an annual event. Tours with African guests were also arranged annually, often to schools. Various courses, sometimes in the form of summer camps, were another activity. Conferences and seminars on different subjects were arranged, i.a. seminars for choirs teaching liberation songs. Furthermore AGS published books, booklets and other information material. Eventually the international cooperation with other anti-apartheid organizations became intensive, especially with the other Nordic countries. When the Portuguese colonial empire broke down in 1975 and Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau became independent states AGS started project and volunteer activities in these countries. From then on the campaign activities were concentrated more on South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe with support for ANC, SWAPO and the Patriotic Front. The volunteer activities in Southern Africa eventually became extensive and in 1978 AGS formed a special organization for this work, The Africa Groups’ Recruitment Organisation (ARO). This volunteer work started in Mozambique but as the other countries became independent ARO started activities in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. The support of projects in the latter two countries was clandestine up to the elections of 1989 and 1994 and was handled by AGS from 1986. Six years earlier AGS started the project “Health Care for SWAPO” in cooperation with the organization “Bread and Fishes” in the SWAPO refugee camps in Angola. In 1978 AGS initiated the establishment of the “Isolate South Africa Committee” (ISAC). It was an umbrella organization consisting of all types of organizations and institutions that in some way were engaged in support for the struggle against apartheid. ISAC eventually represented 1.5 million people altogether and became a very influential lobby organization. AGS and ISAC cooperated closely. With the liberation of Namibia in 1990 and the fall of apartheid in 1994 the anti-apartheid work ceased and AGS eventually concentrated on aid activities for the liberated countries in Southern Africa. Consequently AGS and ARO merged in 1992 and formed one organization, “Afrikagrupperna” (Africa Groups of Sweden).

Media: 176 vol. + 12 boxes (1974-1992) plus 1992 and later material

Catalog/Finding aid: About the collection 1974-1992

Catalog/Finding aid: Browse collection 1974-1992

Catalog/Finding aid: About the collection 1992 and later

Catalog/Finding aid: Browse collection 1992 and later

Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Reference e-mail address: arab@arbarkiv.a.se

Current name: The Africa Groups of Sweden [Afrikagrupperna]

Current address: Tegelviksgatan 40, SE-116 41 Stockholm, Sweden

Current phone number: +47 8-442 70 60

Current e-mail address: post@afrikagrupperna.se

Current Web address: http://www.afrikagrupperna.se/

Africa Groups' Recruitment Organisation

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers, correspondence, 1978 – 1997

Description: The Africa Groups' Recruitment Organisation ARO was formed in 1978 to recruit volunteer to work as health care personnel, teachers and administrators in newly independent Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The Africa Groups of Sweden (AGS) already started in 1976 to recruit volunteers, or cooperants as they were called at the time, for mainly Mozambique. These activities eventually became extensive and in 1978 it was decided to found a special organization to take care of the volunteer activities and aid for Southern Africa, Africa Groups Recruitment Organisation (Afrikagruppernas Rekryteringsorganisation), ARO. ARO sent most volunteers to Mozambique but also to Namibia, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Zimbabwe and to ANC’s freedom college, SOMAFCO, in Tanzania and SWAPO’s refugee camp, Kwanza Sul, in Angola. The volunteers were mainly involved in health care and education. ARO was also engaged in emergency aid mainly concerning health care in Mozambique. From 1982 ARO also dealt with support for different projects. These activities were financed mainly by contributions from Sida and ARO’s own fundraising. When apartheid at last collapsed and Namibia became independent the main task for AGS tended to become more to support the reconstruction of South Africa and Namibia. As a consequence the activities of ARO and the Africa Groups of Sweden became very similar. Therefore the organizations merged in 1992 under the name the Africa Groups of Sweden (Afrikagrupperna).

Media: 74 volumes with an inventory list and 19 shelf meters of unarranged material

Catalog/Finding aid: About the collection

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Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Reference e-mail address: arab@arbarkiv.a.se

Current name: The Africa Groups of Sweden [Afrikagrupperna]

Current address: Tegelviksgatan 40, SE-116 41 Stockholm, Sweden

Current phone number: +47 8-442 70 60

Current e-mail address: post@afrikagrupperna.se

Current Web address: http://www.afrikagrupperna.se/

Aktiekomitee Zuidelijk Afrika (AKZA) (Action Committee on Southern Africa)

Location: Belgium

Summary: Papers, 1972-1991

Description: Aktiekomitee Zuidelijk Afrika (AKZA) (Action Committee on Southern Africa) developed out of left wing student organizations. A short inventory is available. Many of the publications on South Africa from the collection of AKZA has been stored separately in the University Library.

Media: 140 small boxes (18 meters)

Restrictions: Contact library in advance.

Housed at: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Bibliotheek (Cathlolic University of Leuven Library), Tabularium - University Archives, Mgr. Ladeuzeplein 21, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium, Phone: +32 (0)16 3 24624, Fax +32 (0)16 324691, Tabularium@bib.kuleuven.be, http://bib.kuleuven.be/bibc/btab/_eng/index.htm

Reference phone number: +32 (0)16 3 24624

Reference fax number: +32 (0)16 324691

Reference e-mail address: Tabularium@bib.kuleuven.be

Reference Web address: http://bib.kuleuven.be/bibc/btab/_eng/contact.htm

Angola Comité

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1962–1979

Description: The Angola Comité (Angola Committee) was established in 1961 to support the freedom struggle in Angola. Leaders of the organization included Sietse Bosgra and Trineke Weijdema. The Angola Comite supported the struggle against Portuguese colonialism by the liberation movements MPLA (Angola), FRELIMO (Mozambique) and PAIGC (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde). It provided material support to those movements, had a boycott campaign against Angolan coffee and support Portuguese war resisters. The whole of Southern Africa became the organization’s focus. In 1976 it changed its name to Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (known in English as the Holland Committee on Southern Africa) following the coup in Portugal that led to the independence of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

Media: 5.2 meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31-20-6685866, +31-20-6654181, info@iisg.nl, http://www.iisg.nl/

Reference phone number: +31 20 6685866

Reference fax number: +31 20 6654181

Reference e-mail address: info@iisg.nl

Anti-Apartheid Movement

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Summary: Archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1956-1998

Description: The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) was founded in 1960 to campaign for the eradication of apartheid. It resolved to work for the total isolation of the apartheid system in South Africa and to support those struggling against the apartheid system. AAM grew out of the Boycott Movement when members saw the need for a more permanent organization. The AAM drew its support from a country-wide network of local anti-apartheid groups, some of which had previously been local boycott committees, from individual members and from affiliated organisations such as trades union councils and constituency political parties. Professional and special interest groups arose which worked with the AAM as did Local Authorities Against Apartheid to co-ordinate local authority action. The AAM co-operated with similar anti-apartheid groups which existed in many countries around the world, exchanging information and meeting at international conferences. During the 1980s groups in Europe formed the Liaison Group of National AAMs in the European Community in order to lobby the European Parliament and Council of Ministers. The AAM's campaigning work covered a wide range of areas. The consumer boycott remained a constant element but other economic campaigns became equally prominent, particularly ones concerning investment in South Africa by British and international companies and banks. In the area of economic campaigns the AAM collaborated closely with End Loans to Southern Africa (ELTSA) for which see the ELTSA archive at the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House (MSS Afr. s. 2350). The efforts to isolate apartheid South Africa were pursued through lobbying for boycotts of sporting, cultural and academic contacts and for the cessation of military and nuclear links. Campaigning on behalf of political prisoners was an important area of work, organized during the 1960s through the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners and later through SATIS (Southern Africa: the Imprisoned Society). Campaigning on behalf of Nelson Mandela began at the Rivonia trial and was reinvigorated from the time of his 60th birthday in 1978 until his release in February 1990. The AAM's work did not focus solely on South Africa but also on the Southern African region in which South Africa had so much influence. It supported the struggles for freedom in Namibia, Zimbabwe and the former Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique and, in West Africa, Guinea-Bissau. In this the AAM co-operated with African liberation movements, particularly the ANC and the South West African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO of Namibia). A significant number of the Ministers and senior officials in South Africa's first non-racial government, including figures such as Kadar Asmal, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Mac Maharaj, Pallo Jordan, Aziz Pahad and Abdul Minty participated in AAM activities and several held senior positions in the organization. Likewise many prominent figures in British political life were active in the AAM. For example, amongst those who held the office of AAM President were Barbara Castle, David Steel and Trevor Huddleston, whereas Neil Kinnock, Joan Lestor and Frank Dobson are amongst those who served on its Executive Committee. Also contained within the overall archive is material relating to organizations which worked closely with the AAM, some of which the AAM serviced. These include the Liaison Group of AAMs in the EU, Southern Africa the Imprisoned Society, the Bishop Ambrose Reeves Trust, and the Namibia Support Committee. Following the first democratic elections in South Africa in April 1994 an extraordinary general meeting of the AAM decided to dissolve the Movement and create a successor organization to promote peace and development in the Southern African region. Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA) was launched in October 1994. The final meeting of the AAM Executive Committee decided to establish an AAM Archives Committee to support the cataloguing of the Movement's archives.

Additional link: The Anti-Apartheid Movement: A 40 Year Perspective

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Includes an overview of the organization.

Housed at: University of Oxford, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG, United Kingdom, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: +44 (0) 1865 270908

Reference fax number: +44 (0) 1865 270912

Reference e-mail address: rhodes.house.library@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Current name: Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA), succsor organization

Current address: 28 Penton Street, London, N1 9SA, UK

Current phone number: 020 7833 3133

Current e-mail address: actsa@actsa.org

Current Web address: http://www.actsa.org/

Anti-Apartheid Movement in Scotland

Location: Scotland, United Kingdom

Summary: Papers, 1965-1994 (predominant 1976-1994)

Description: Papers, 1965-1994 (predominant 1976-1994)
The Anti-Apartheid Movement: Scotland Committee. The collection holds the minutes, papers and correspondence of the Anti Apartheid Movement in Scotland from 1975 to 1994. It also holds some Glasgow and Edinburgh branch meeting material and other documentation that predates the establishment of the Scottish Committee. Further to this there is a large collection of national and international material which helps create a full picture of the Movement’s activities and gives an indication of other organizations that gave their support. The Archive is also rich in ephemera including, posters, stickers, and postcards. In 1959 a predecessor organization, the Boycott Movement Committee was formed to boycott fruit, cigarettes and other goods imported from South Africa. In 1960 this became the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

Media: 24 Meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here Includes an overview of the organization.

Housed at: Glasgow Caledonian University Library, Learning Services Office, Glasgow Caledonian University, City Campus, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BA, +44-141-331-3879, +44-141-331-3968, learning.services@gcal.ac.uk, http://www.learningservices.gcal.ac.uk/library/index.html

Reference phone number: (0)141-331-3867

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/enquiries/index.htm

Current name: Action for Southern Africa Scotland

Current address: 52 St. Enoch Square, Glasgow G1 4AA, Scotland, UK

Current phone number: +44 (0) 141 221 1276

Current fax number: +44 (0) 141 221 1293

Current e-mail address: actsa@actsascotland.org.uk

Current Web address: http://www.actsascotland.org.uk/

Anti-Apartheid Movement, Wales

Location: Wales, UK

Description: Correspondence, newsletter and conference papers 1975-98 (2003/5)

Restrictions: Access to the Archives is by appointment only

Housed at: University of Wales Swansea, Archives, Library and Information Services, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK, 01792 295021, Fax: 01792 295851, archives@swansea.ac.uk, http://www.swan.ac.uk/lis/historical_collections/archives.asp

Reference phone number: 01792 295021

Reference e-mail address: archives@swan.ac.uk

Anti-Apartheid, Melbourne

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Summary: This group was formed in 1977 by Jeanne Daly to publicize the plight of, and collect money for, political prisoners in South Africa. In 1979 the group formally became a constituent of Community Aid Abroad, under the name "Community Aid Abroad (Southern Africa)" The core members of CAASA came together in 1983 to form the "African National Congress Support Group". The group proclaimed their support for the ANC in the liberation struggle in South Africa. In 1984, as a result of Eddie Funde's request, the group became "Anti-Apartheid, Melbourne". It grew rapidly in support and numbers until internal politics and outside pressures caused the group's dissolution in September 1985. The collection includes correspondence, minutes of meetings and the campaign file. Among the persons represented in the collection are Jeanne Daly, John Brink, Mavis Nhlapo, Eddie Funde (ANC), Hadino Hishongwa (SWAPO), David Phillips.

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Housed at: University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library, Archives and Special Collections, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Phone: +61 (0) 3 8 344 6848 Phone: Reference Phone: +61 (0) 3 8 344 9893, Fax: +61 (0)3 9 347 8627, archives@archives.unimelb.edu.au , http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/archives/

Reference phone number: +61 (0) 3 8 344 9893

Reference fax number: +61 (0) 3 9 347 8627

Reference e-mail address: archives@archives.unimelb.edu.au

Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung (Anti-Apartheid Movement)

Location: Bonn, Germany

Summary: Papers and publications, 1974-1994

Description: The Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung (AAB) (Anti-Apartheid Movement) was a major German anti-apartheid organization. This collection of documents represents 20 years work in Bonn resident German offices of the AAB. The collection covers the period 1974 - 1994. Among them are e.g. the materials, which to the different campaigns (against weapon supplies, for the release Nelson Mandelas or banks -, fruits -, sport -, Shell -, culture boycott) were provided, as well as the appropriate background information. Other files document the work of the AAB Lokalgruppen and the work of initiatives against the apartheid outside of the AAB. The collection includes correspondences with Members of the Bundestag, church dignitaries and members of the South African liberations movement including the African National Congress [South Africa] and SWAPO (South West African Peoples Organization) [Namibia]. The collection contains many Periodicals and brochures from the German-speaking countries, in addition, some from the Netherlands and British anti-apartheid movement and from South Africa. The collection includes posters, transparencies, photos, an exhibition and a small library. After the end of the apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela to the South African president in May 1994 the anti-apartheid movement redefined its work and changed their name to Das Afrika Süd Aktionsbündnis (Africa South Action) which continues to carry out solidarity work with the southern Africa.

Media: 750 files; correspondence, posters, publications, campaign materials

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here for collection description

Restrictions: Contact librarian in advance

Housed at: University of Duisburg, Das Archiv für Alternatives Schrifttum, Schwarzenberger Str. 147, 47226 Duisburg, Germany, Phone: +49 (0) 20 65 / 747 15, Fax: +49 (0) 20 65 / 747 37, afas-archiv@t-online.de, http://www.ub.uni-duisburg.de/afas/index.html

Reference phone number: +49 (0) 20 65 / 747 15

Reference fax number: +49 (0) 20 65 / 747 37

Reference e-mail address: afas-archiv@t-online.de

Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland (Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers and other materials, 1971-1994

Description: Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland (AABN) (Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement) was formed in 1971. Among those involved in the founding was a South African, the Afrikaner Berend Schuitema. The organization focused on the liberation struggle in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Africa. Publications include annual reports (1975-1986), research reports, books, brochures, campaigning materials plus all issues of its bi-monthly magazine Anti-Apartheids Niews/Zuidelijk Afrika Nieuws/Anti-apartheidskrant (1972-1994). The collection includes correspondence and material relating to various campaigns including campaign fliers. In 1997 it was one of three organizations which had been active as supporters of the anti-apartheid that merged to form the Netherlands Institute on Southern Africa (NiZA).

Media: 230 boxes

Housed at: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Visitor’s address: Prins Hendrikkade 33 Visitors Address: Prins Hendrikkade 33, Amsterdam, Phone: +31 (0)20 520 62 10, Fax: +31 (0)20 520 62 49, niza@niza.nl, http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

Reference phone number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Reference fax number: +31 (0)20 520 62 49

Reference e-mail address: niza@niza.nl

Current name: Institution: Netherlands Institute on Southern Africa (NiZA)

Current address: P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Current phone number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Current e-mail address: niza@niza.nl

Current Web address: http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

Artists Against Apartheid

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers, 1981

Description: Essay by Wells on the group's actions during the 1981 Springbok tour; notice about a seminar following the tour; notes for essay; summaries of interviews (most entered under Name) and including David Parkyn, Richard McWhannel and Wallace Sutherland. Further notes re the essay and possibly a production by Peter Wells on the group's actions during the 1981 Springbok tour; list of members; map with annotations showing location of Eden Park; program of tour protest activity in Auckland; draft of comic strip relating to the tour and protest by AAA for ‘Art litter’; photocopies of clippings re protest; newsletters and flyers relating to protest; ‘Red Squad song’; ‘Get knotted - a wedding ballad’; letter, Huia Art Society, asking to be affiliated to MOST, and circular letter; outline of AAA section; list of contacts still to be made; internal memo, Demonstration Committee; notes of Hiwi Tauroa and Colin Kay from Gordon Dryden; early AAA newsletter; Shadbolt on treating with the media; flyer, Support the tour, help defend apartheid. Transferred to Oral History Collection - One 60" tape, 6 90" tapes of interviews towards ‘Artists Against Apartheid’.

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Catalog/Finding aid: Second Finding Aid

Catalog/Finding aid: 4 Papers relating to Artists Against Apartheid

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library Building, 70 Molesworth St, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone: +64 (04) 474-3030, http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

Reference phone number: +64 (0)4 474-3030

Reference Web address: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/using/7librarianatl.html

Association of Western European Parliamentarians Against Apartheid (AWEPAA)

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Summary: Publications, 1985-1994

Description: Association of Western European Parliamentarians Against Apartheid (AWEPAA) was founded to support the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa and involved parliamentarians from all countries in Western Europe. This archive includes reports on Namibia; publications relating to South African destabilization in neighboring countries, including Angola and Mozambique; media issues relating to South Africa, including censorship; publications relating to children under apartheid; and AWEPAA News Bulletins. After 1993 the name was changed to European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA).

Media: 4 Box files

Catalog/Finding aid: Mayibuye Papers Guide

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 21 959 2939

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 21 959 3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Current name: European Parliamentarians for Africa (AWEPA)

Current address: Prins Hendrikkade 48, 1012 AC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Current phone number: +31 20 524 5678

Current fax number: +31 20 622 0130

Current e-mail address: Amsterdam@awepa.org

Current Web address: http://www.awepa.org/

Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement Victoria: [newsletter]

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Description: Newsletter of the Australian Anti-Apartheid Movement Victoria. Issues held: Nov.1988-Feb.1989; Jan./Mar. 1990-May 1990; Nov.1990-July/Aug. 1991.

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Housed at: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA, Phone: + 61 2 6262 1111 TTY: 1800 026 372, Fax: +61 2 6257 1703 , http://www.nla.gov.au/

Reference phone number: +61 (02) 6262 1450

Reference fax number: +61 (02) 6273 5081

Reference e-mail address: infoserv@nla.gov.au

Austrian Anti-Apartheid Movement

Location: Austria

Summary: Records; 1977-1993

Description: The Austrian Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) began in 1977 after the 1976 Soweto uprisings. It started as a small group of people who lobbied the Austrian public and government into taking an active stand against apartheid. Over the years the group grew and mobilized the Austrian public into, for example, boycotting South African products. The AAM was not aligned to any political party in Austria. The AAM was also in touch with the other anti-apartheid movements in Europe. In 1993, the AAM was dissolved and a successor organization was founded: the Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre (SADOCC). This collection includes an Information Bulletin, publications, stickers, pamphlets, posters, T-shirts and other miscellaneous items. Most of the material is in German and has been added to the respective collections described before 1992. An inventory is available in the library.

Media: 3 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Archive description click here

Housed at: University of the Witwatersrand, William Cullen Library, Historical Papers, Private Bag X1, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa, +27 (0) 11 717 1940, + 27 (0) 11 339 4137, http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/index.htm

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 11 717 1940

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 11 339 4137

Reference Web address: http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/contact.htm

Bennun, Mervyn (papers)

Location: United Kingdom

Description: Mervyn Bennun was originally trained at Cape Town University and subsequently practised as a lawyer in South Africa until his departure for Britain in the 1960s. He became lecturer in law at the University of Exeter from 1969-1970 until his retirement in the 1990s when he returned to South Africa. During his time at Exeter University, he was an African National Congress (ANC) activist in the period when the ANC was in exile in Britain, and was involved with the activities of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group as Chairman and Secretary. The collection consists of papers accumulated by Bennun during his period at the University of Exeter. Included are: news cuttings, correspondence, flyers and leaflets, typescripts of articles and other writings (including on the trial of the 'Sharpeville Six'). Some books, pamphlets, and periodicals are also included. The materials relate to ANC activities in the UK and of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group, to human rights and to the period of apartheid in general. Bennun's publications include Negotiating Justice: A New Constitution for South Africa (ed. with Malyn D.D. Newitt), and Witnesses for the Prosecution in South Africa: Some Comments. Archival materials are currently unlisted. Some print materials have been roughly listed: for further details, please contact the Archivist.

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Restrictions: Contact librarian in advance

Housed at: University of Exeter Library & Information Service, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4PT, United Kingdom, +44 1392 263873, library@exeter.ac.uk, http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: +44 1392 263873

Reference e-mail address: library@exeter.ac.uk

Birmingham Anti-Apartheid Movement

Location: Birmingham, England

Description: It is unclear exactly when Birmingham Anti-Apartheid was formed, but the archive contains records dating back to 1966. Much of the archive dates from the 1980s and early 1990s, when campaigns against apartheid began to reach a wider audience. As one of South Africa's major trading partners, one of the main means of protest in Britain was through economic channels. A 1984 campaign in Birmingham called for consumers to boycott goods from South Africa. Material relating to this campaign survives in the archive, and interestingly contains proofs of the leaflets handed out. As well as being in English, these were translated into Urdu, Gujarati, Hindi, Bengali and Punjabi, in an attempt to appeal to all of the city's diverse communities. Following on from this campaign, Birmingham Anti-Apartheid began to try and push for the wards of Handsworth and Lozells to become an 'apartheid free-zone', with none of the shops selling produce from South Africa. This followed on from a similar successful campaign in Bristol. At a meeting to address this issue, the secretary of Birmingham Anti-Apartheid made a speech in support of the campaign: Another important campaign Birmingham Anti-Apartheid became involved in was that of 'twinning' regional anti-apartheid groups with regional ANC groups in South Africa. Started in 1991 by the British Anti-Apartheid Movement as a way of forging links between the two bodies on a more local level, Birmingham Anti-Apartheid was twinned with the Western Transvaal ANC. The archive contains detailed information on the relationship between the two groups, and some of the fund-raising events organized in Birmingham to support the ANC, such as the yearly Soweto Walks, are highlighted. The Anti-Apartheid Movement continued to operate in Britain until 1994. Following the first truly democratic elections in South Africa, and the dismantling of apartheid, the organization changed its name to Action for South Africa (ACTSA). A Birmingham branch was formed, and continues to operate today.

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Birmingham Anti-Apartheid Movement

Restrictions: Contact librarian in advance

Housed at: Birmingham City Archives, Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3HQ, England, Phone: (0) 121-303-4511 or (0) 121-303-4512 (Customer Services), Fax: (0)121-212-9397, archives@birmingham.gov.uk, http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/archives

Reference phone number: (0) 121-303-4217 or (0) 121-303-4219

Reference e-mail address: archives@birmingham.gov.uk

Boykot Outspan Aktie (Boycott Outspan Action)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1970-1980 (approximate)

Description: Boykot Outspan Aktie (Boycott Outspan Action) was founded by Esau du Plessis, a South African exile, in 1970. Working with other Dutch organizations it led a boycott of Outspan products, the famous brand of South African fruit including oranges. The campaign succeeded in driving Outspan fruit from the shops. Within a decade, no Outspan ‘blood’ oranges were on sale in the Netherlands. There is also an oral history interview with Esau du Plessis conducted by Hilda Bernstein in Leyden (transcript only).

Additional link: Interview with Esau du Plessis finding aid

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 21 959 2939

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 21 959 3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Brödet & Fiskarna (Bread and Fishes)

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers, 1972 and later

Description: The solidarity organization "Bread and Fishes" (Brödet och Fiskarna) was founded in Västerås in 1972 as a Christian group working mainly with social work. Inspiration for the ways of operating came from the French Emmaus movement. The activities were mainly to collect clothes and other items and sell some of them at flee-markets to sustain the activities of the group. From 1979 the group no longer considered itself Christian. The number of people employed has varied between 15 and 25. In the 70’s they were only given an allowance, later a small salary was paid. International solidarity soon became the focus of the group and from 1974 support for SWAPO started with the first shipment of clothes. In 1975 support for ANC and ZANU started. Besides clothes and shoes all kinds of equipment requested for the refugee settlements was shipped. Bicycles, sewing machines, fabric, pots and pans, tents, blankets. In cooperation with the health groups within the Africa Groups considerable amounts of medical supplies and equipment were packed and shipped. Substantial contributions were also given in cash. From 1979 to 1989 Bread and Fishes together with the Africa Groups of Sweden ran a major medical project for SWAPO in Kwaza Sul Angola. In the 80’s various support programs were also started with Polisario, Angola, Mozambique, Eritrea, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Bread and Fishes cooperates with some of the Emmaus groups in Sweden in the organization Practical Solidarity. The scanned pictures will be available for viewing shortly.

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

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Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Reference e-mail address: arab@arbarkiv.a.se

Current name: Brödet & Fiskarna (Bread and Fishes)

Current address: Brandthovdagatan 14, SE-721 35 Västerås, Sweden

Current Web address: http://www.brodetofiskarna.se/

Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE)

Location: Australia

Summary: Papers, 1975-1993

Description: In 1973 the Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE) was formed as the first national anti-apartheid network in Australia. Material in this collection include: CARE Newsletters 1975 – 1991; Viva (CARE anti-racist newsletter) 1991- 1993; UN Centre Against Apartheid: Republic of South Africa Day; Press treatment of events in South Africa, November 1981, prepared by the Convenor of the Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE); Namibia Independence and Beyond, Conference for the Asia-Pacific Region, Melbourne, Australia, May 6 - 7, 1989, organized by CARE and ANSA; Handouts and leaflets. This is a partial collection and more material exists in personal collections in Australia.

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Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 21 959 2939

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 21 959 3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE) [publications & oral history]

Location: Australia

Summary: Publications and oral history

Description: Publications of the anti-apartheid organization Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE). Also included is an interview with Dwayne Peppin who discusses his involvement with CARE. This material is located at the National Library of Australia.

Catalog/Finding aid: Liberate Southern Africa: a monthly survey of news and opinion

Catalog/Finding aid: CARE newsletter, 1967-1990

Catalog/Finding aid: Black ban: Australian and recism in sport by Ian Sccott, 1977

Catalog/Finding aid: Interview with Dwayne Peppin [sound recording]

Housed at: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA, Phone: + 61 2 6262 1111 TTY: 1800 026 372, Fax: +61 2 6257 1703 , http://www.nla.gov.au/

Christian Concern for Southern Africa

Location: London, England UK

Summary: Papers, 1966-1993

Description: Christian Concern for Southern Africa (CCSA) was founded in 1972 as an interdenominational Christian body concerned with raising awareness of the political situation in South Africa and to co-ordinate the response of British Churches. It was based initially at 41 Holland Park, London, then at the premises of the Catholic Institute for International Relations (CIIR) near Regent's Park, then at 2 Eaton Gate, London, the headquarters of the British Council of Churches, and finally in Camberwell Road, South London. Its policy and decision making council was the Executive Committee made up of representatives from various religious and social organizations. In 1981 the Rev. R. Elliott Kendall was appointed first as Secretary and then as Executive Secretary until his retirement, just before his death in 1992. CCSA had links with all the main British Christian churches, relying predominantly on them for financial support although charitable organizations also gave assistance. CCSA's main work concentrated on gathering information about British companies with interests in South Africa. This information was then used both to supply to other affiliated organizations and to pressurize the companies themselves into taking a more ethical stance on their treatment of black and coloured employees in South Africa. In particular, the involvement of oil companies was targeted leading to the establishment of the Oil Working Group in 1979. CCSA's other activities included the publishing of educational literature; the collection of literature from similar groups; correspondence with political groups and a mass lobby of Parliament; organizing conferences and establishing and maintaining links with South African groups. The activities of the CCSA ceased in 1993 when the political situation in South Africa was believed to be improving significantly. Scope and Content: The collection comprises papers on the constitution of the CCSA; its Executive Committee and Annual General Meeting papers; finance papers and examples of many of CCSA's publications and reports. Also included are files of correspondence between CCSA and churches and religious organizations, affiliated support groups and British companies in South Africa. Papers also include those of the Oil Working Group, which contain material on the Royal Dutch/Shell Group; the mass lobby of Parliament (17 June 1986) for 'Sanctions against Apartheid' organized by CCSA, and the Ethical Investment Research Service, founded as an independent offshoot of CCSA. System of Arrangement:
The collection has been arranged into twenty sections: constitution and policy papers; Executive Committee papers; Annual General Meeting papers; finance papers; correspondence with churches and other religious bodies; affiliated support groups (British groups / International groups); South Africa organizations files; papers relating to government and political parties; papers relating to sanctions and investment groups; Oil Working Group papers; companies involved in South Africa; CCSA general reference files; Lobby of Parliament (June 17, 1986); essays, papers, seminars and conferences; published materials; office administration; Ethical Investment Research Service; press cuttings, and CCSA publications. An unpublished hand list finding aid is available.

Media: 32 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Collection description on AIM25

Restrictions: Contact library in advance. Copyright held by Christian Concern for Southern Africa. No publication without written permission. Apply to SOAS archivist in the first instance.

Housed at: University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom, +44 (0)20 7898 4180, +44 (0)20 7898 4189, docenquiry@soas.ac.uk, http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/index.cfm?navid=1399

Reference phone number: +44 (0)20 7898 4180

Reference fax number: +44 (0)20 7898 4189

Reference e-mail address: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk

Citizens Association for Racial Equality

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers and publications, 1966-1986

Description: Founded in 1964, the Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) campaigned to eliminate all sporting contacts with South Africa so long as it practiced apartheid. CARE spearheaded opposition to the 1965 Springbok Rugby team from South Africa tour of New Zealand.

Catalog/Finding aid: Finding Aid

Housed at: Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8020, New Zealand, +64 3 366 7001, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/

Reference phone number: (+64) (3) 364 2753

Reference fax number: (+64) (3) 364 2816

Reference e-mail address: macbrown@libr.canterbury.ac.nz

Coalition Against the Tour (Christchurch)

Location: Christchurch, New Zealand

Summary: Papers, 1985

Description: Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
This 1985 campaign was organized to oppose the tour of South Africa by the New Zealand’s national rugby team the All Blacks. The tour was eventually halted by a High Court injunction. The collection comprises correspondence, campaign strategy, media releases, advertising material, miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, etc.

Media: 0.2 meters

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Housed at: University of Canterbury, Macmillan Brown Library, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/mb/mb.shtml

Reference phone number: +64 3 364 2753

Reference fax number: +64 3 364 2816

Reference e-mail address: macbrown@libr.canterbury.ac.nz

Reference Web address: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/theuni/contacts/

Comité Zuid-Afrika (Committee South Africa)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1959-1971

Description: Comité Zuid-Afrika (CZA) was founded in 1959 and dissolved in 1971. The archives include correspondence in The Netherlands and internationally, press cuttings), various cases (1962-1963), boycott campaign (1964), World Campaign Political Prisoners (1964), various political activities in The Netherlands (1962-1971), Issues of Information-bulletin CZA (1966-1971), and minutes, financial data, etc. 1(960-1971)

Media: 6 boxes

Housed at: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Visitor’s address: Prins Hendrikkade 33 Visitors Address: Prins Hendrikkade 33, Amsterdam, Phone: +31 (0)20 520 62 10, Fax: +31 (0)20 520 62 49, niza@niza.nl, http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

Reference phone number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Reference fax number: +31 (0)20 520 62 49

Reference e-mail address: niza@niza.nl

Committee for the Release of Nelson Mandela

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers, 1990 - 1992

Description: The Committee for the Release of Nelson Mandela (Kommittén för Nelson Mandelas frigivning) was an association of several Swedish central organizations with the objective of celebrating the release of Mandela and working for the release of all political prisoners in South Africa and the total eradication of apartheid. It was formed in January 1990 and dismantled in April the very same year and was a part of the international Nelson Mandela Reception Committee. Members of the committee were i.e. the Africa Groups of Sweden, Isolate South Africa Committee, Swedish Ecumenical Council, UN Association of Sweden, National Council of Swedish Youth and the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. The economic trustees were the Africa Groups of Sweden and Isolate South Africa Committee. The honourable chairpersons were Archbishop Bertil Werkström, MP Karin Söder, Ambassador Ernst Michanek, writer Per Wästberg and the ANC representative in Stockholm Billy Modise. The main practical task for the committee was to arrange the reception of Nelson Mandela in Sweden on his first visit outside Africa in March 1990.

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

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Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Consultation Committee for Southern Africa

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers: 1973 - 1974

Description: The Consultation Committee for Southern Africa (Samrådskommittén för Södra Afrika) was probably formed in 1973 and based on two declarations, the so-called Oslo and ILO documents. It was an umbrella committee or a network of organizations which all in one way or another were involved in the support for the liberation movements in Southern Africa. The member organizations represented various sections of the Swedish society, such as the labour movement, leftist and liberal political parties, youth organizations, the church and religious organizations, ANC and SWAPO representations, solidarity organizations for Vietnam, Cuba and Palestine and others. The committee arranged a campaign week in December 1973. The committee was probably dissolved in 1974.

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

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Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Defence and Aid Fund Nederland

Location: Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1957-1991

Description: Defence and Aid Fund Nederland was established in 1971. It came out of the Comité Zuid-Afrika (founded 1960). It was affiliated with the International Defence and Aid Fund for South Africa. Its aim was the defense and rehabilitation of the victims of the laws of apartheid and the support of the families of victims. The Defence and Aid Fund Nederland was a division of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF). Defence and Aid Fund Nederland worked illegally within South Africa. It was liquidated in 1991 and its activities were handed over to its South African partners. The archive came to the International Institute of Social History in 1992. It contains some documents form the Comité Zuid-Afrika dated before 1971. The first part of the archive has been microfilmed. This part has been re-packed and numbered with the same numbers as the microfilms.

Additional link: Related Collection of historical papers at the UWC Robben Island Mayibuye Archive

Media: 5.6 meters

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Housed at: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31-20-6685866, +31-20-6654181, info@iisg.nl, http://www.iisg.nl/

Reference phone number: +31 20 6685866

Reference fax number: +31 20 6654181

Reference e-mail address: info@iisg.nl

Edinburgh Anti-Apartheid Group

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Timespan: 1980-1993

Description: During the period for which the contents of the collection are relevant, the Honorary President of the Edinburgh Anti-Apartheid Group was the Rev. Professor Duncan B. Forrester, Professor Emeritus of Theology and Public Issues at Edinburgh University, and the Chair of the organization was Abdou Said Bakar. The Edinburgh Group involved itself with the Walter Sisulu Campaign Fund and the Nelson Mandela Freedom at 70 Campaign. The material, largely financial in nature and from the 1980s and 1990s, consists of a list of office bearers, a press list, and accounts including those for the Walter Sisulu Campaign Fund and the Nelson Mandela Freedom at 70 Campaign. Accounts include statements from the Bank of Scotland, and the Co-operative Bank. Also an accounts book and miscellaneous correspondence.

Media: 1 folder or file

Restrictions: Contact librarian in advance. Access to records in a fragile condition may be restricted.

Housed at: Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections Division, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ, Scotland, UK, 0131 650 3384, Fax: 0131 667 9780, special.collections.library@ed.ac.uk, http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/resources/collections/specdivision/

Reference phone number: 0131 650 3384

Reference e-mail address: special.collections.library@ed.ac.uk

Reference Web address: http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/contact.shtml

Eduardo Mondlane Stichting (Eduardo Mondlane Foundation)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1969-1994

Description: Eduardo Mondlane Stichting (EMS) (Eduardo Mondlane Foundation) was founded in 1969 to provide material support to the liberation movements of the Portuguese colonies. After the end of Portuguese colonialism EMS provided support to the newly independent countries. The archives contain material related it Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. In 1997 EMS was one of three organizations that merged to form the Netherlands Institute on Southern Africa (NiZA).

Media: 325 boxes

Housed at: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Visitor’s address: Prins Hendrikkade 33 Visitors Address: Prins Hendrikkade 33, Amsterdam, Phone: +31 (0)20 520 62 10, Fax: +31 (0)20 520 62 49, niza@niza.nl, http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

Reference phone number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Reference fax number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Reference e-mail address: niza@niza.nl

Current name: Institution: Netherlands Institute on Southern Africa (NiZA)

Current address: Mailing address: P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Street: Prins Hendrikkade 33, Amsterdam

Current phone number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Current fax number: +31 (0)20 520 62 49

Current e-mail address: niza@niza.nl

Current Web address: http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

End Loans to Southern Africa

Location: London, England

Summary: Archive of End Loans to Southern Africa, 1974-1995

Description: End Loans to Southern Africa (ELTSA) campaigned for the end to apartheid through the imposition of effective financial sanctions. It was established in 1974 by the Reverend David Haslam to campaign initially against loans by Midland Bank, together with other European banks, to the South African government through the European American Banking Corporation. It subsequently broadened its activities to campaign through consumer and shareholder action, parliamentary lobbying and other activities against all foreign, and particularly British, assistance to South Africa and for the implementation of the United Nations General Assembly resolution to end all new investment in and financial loans to South Africa. ELTSA carried out research into British banks and companies, produced information and campaigning documents and pioneered the techniques of pressure group shareholder action. A major element of its banks campaign was the boycott of Barclays Bank. Published the International Campaign Against Banking on Apartheid (formerly the International Banking Campaign Against South Africa) newsletter, 1986-91. In addition to the banking and disinvestment campaigns ELTSA was involved in the campaign to isolate South African gold through the World Gold Commission and through Embargo (the successor to the Oil Working Group) it supported the oil embargo of South Africa, with a particular focus during the late 1980s on the boycott of Shell. In 1994 ELTSA was transformed into the Southern Africa Economic Research Unit (SAERU) to address the economic legacies of apartheid and encourage financial assistance to the region. The collection includes papers of the World Gold Commission (1988-1991), Embargo (1980-93) and Southern Africa Economic Research Unit (1991-1995).

Media: 24 Meters

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Housed at: University of Oxford, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG, United Kingdom, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: 44 (0) 1865 270908

Reference fax number: 44 (0) 1865 270912

Reference e-mail address: rhodes.house.library@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group

Location: England

Description: The Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group was one of the longest established and most active groups in the UK anti-apartheid movement, and was established as the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Committee in c 1966. The Group was non-political and was affiliated to the national London-based Anti-Apartheid Movement which traced its origins following the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa in 1984. Although primarily concerned with South Africa, the Group also addressed problems associated with racism and human rights elsewhere in the world. This collection contains a variety of print and archival materials relating to administration of the Group. Included are archive materials (correspondence, promotional literature, DOMPAS newsletters, lists of members, financial records, press releases, news cutting scrapbooks), artifacts (badges, flags, banners, collecting boxes etc.), pamphlets, leaflets, newspapers and periodicals. Mervyn Bennun, lecturer in law at the University of Exeter, was active in the group (Chairman and Secretary) and encouraged the deposit of its archive at the University Library. Given to the Library by the Secretary of the Group, on condition that it was retained together with the Papers of Mervyn Bennun.

Media: Approximately eight boxes and some oversize items

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Contact librarian in advance

Housed at: University of Exeter Library & Information Service, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4PT, United Kingdom, +44 1392 263873, library@exeter.ac.uk, http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: +44 1392 263873

Reference e-mail address: library@exeter.ac.uk

Frauen Gegen Apartheid (Women Against Apartheid)

Location: Germany

Summary: Papers, correspondence, campaign material, 1982 - 1993

Description: In September 1977, Deborah Mabiletsa of the Black Women’s Federation visited the Federal Republic of Germany and met with lay activist women in Evangelische Frauenarbeit in Deutschland (Evangelical Women’s Federation [EFD]). In October 1977 the South African government banned the Black Women's Federation. Inspired by the visit, in November 1977 EFD launched lauched a boycott campaign of South African fruit and Frauen gegen Apartheid (Women against Apartheid) was established. Despite opposition from the official church hiaracry, EFD/ Frauen gegen Apartheid continued various anti-apartheid campaigns for over 15 years. Activities included a boycott campaign against Krugerrand gold coin and campaigns against banks making loans to South Africa. For 15 years these women – and a handful of men as well – kept vigil every Thursday in front of the South African consulate. This collection may not be the official archives of the organization. All documents are in German unless otherwise stated. Documents, Press cuttings, correspondence - Frauen Gegen Apartheid Frankfurt. Letters by schoolchildren of a Frankfurt school to Molo Songololo, March 1982. Banken und Apartheid, Unser Geld in Südafrika, Marz 1985. Kauft keine Früchte aus Südafrika!, Baut nicht mit an der Apartheid, 3rd edition. Das Leiden beenden, Informationen und Aktionen zu Südafrika. Angelika Schmidt-Biesalski: Früchte aus Südafrika, Geschichte und Ergebnisse einer Frauenkampagne, 1993. Campaign material, stickers, leaflets, handouts, posters, buttons, matches, balloons, headband. Documents, Press cuttings, correspondence - Frauen Gegen Apartheid Bremen. Bettina von Clausewitz: Ein schwarzes Kind kommt zornig zur Welt, 1987. James Matthews - Gladys Thomas: Schrei deinen zorn hinaus, Kind der Freiheit, 1976. James Matthews: Flügel kann man stutzen, 1977. Thula Baba, 1989. Breyten Breytenbach: Kreuz des Südens, schwarzer Brand, 1977. Weltmission Heute: Zum Schweigen verurteilt In Südafrika gebannt, 1978.

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here: UWC Mayibuye Papers Guide

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 21 959 2939

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 21 959 3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Hall All Racist Tours (HART Aotearoa)

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers, ca 1967-1993

Description: Halt All Racist Tours (HART) was formed in 1969 to oppose the 1970 tour by the New Zealand rugby team, the All Backs, of apartheid South Africa. It became New Zealand’s main anti-apartheid organization and continued to operate until 1992. The primary focus of the organization was to seek and end to all sporting ties to South Africa. Protests at the 1981 tour of New Zealand by the South Africa’s rugby team, the Springboks, resulted in massive protests across the country. Although the protests failed to stop the 1981 tour, no more ruby matches took place between the two teams until after the end of apartheid. Contains general subject files including papers relating to campaigns, tours, conferences, relationship with other anti-apartheid groups, race relations, liberation movements and dealings with other organizations. Also includes organizational material including correspondence, minutes, correspondence with government, financial reports, publications, clippings and ephemera. Also contains copies, mock-ups and correspondence relating to the first three issues of HART Report produced by Dick Cuthbert in 1992. These reports contain clippings of articles and similar material relating to the situation in South Africa. One of the founders of HART was Trevor Richards, who served as chair (1969-1980) and international secretary (1980-1985). The papers of Trevor Richards are also in the National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library.

Media: 73 boxes, 23.80 linear meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library Building, 70 Molesworth St, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone: +64 (04) 474-3030, http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

Reference phone number: +64 (04) 474-3030

Reference Web address: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/using/7librarianatl.html

Halt All Racist Tours: The New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement (HART: NZAAM) Christchurch office

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers, 1969-1992

Description: Halt All Racist Tours (HART) was a nationwide organization that began in 1969 and wound up in 1992. In 1980 HART merged with the National Anti-Apartheid Movement becoming HART:NZAAM. This move was prompted by calls from Black South Africans for the world to oppose all contacts with apartheid South Africa. After the 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour HART: NZAAM decided to officially open an office in Central Christchurch. They had a number of reasons for doing this among them: creating a focal point for Christchurch people and out of town supporters, providing an information distribution point for HART: NZAAM National, supplying a news media contact point, and building a promotional office and local administrative centre. This collection contains the records of the Christchurch office, although there is a great deal of material from other centers including many copies of central office papers and correspondence. While most of our records originate from the post-merger period there are some records from the 1970s that were created by HART and The New Zealand Anti-Apartheid Movement when they were separate organizations. The original records of HART: NZAAM national office are deposited with the Alexander Turnball Library in Wellington. Includes the newsletter entitled ‘Amandla.’ The collection includes material from other organizations.

Additional link: Click here for another Halt All Racist Tours (HART) archive

Catalog/Finding aid: : Click here Includes online history of the organization

Housed at: University of Canterbury, Macmillan Brown Library, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/mb/mb.shtml

Reference phone number: (03) 364 2987 extension 8663

Reference fax number: (03) 364 2816

Reference Web address: http://webapps.libr.canterbury.ac.nz/webdb/phone.php?type=libweb&loc=Macmillan+Brown+Library

International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa

Location: London, England

Timespan: 1960-1990

Summary: Papers and publications, 1960s–1990

Description: The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF) was an anti-apartheid organization that smuggled £100 million into South Africa for the defense of thousands of political activists and to provide aid for their families while they were in prison. IDAF grew out of Christian Action (CA), an organization set up by John Collins aimed at relating Christianity to economic, social and political life, and that worked towards reconciliation with Germany and help for the starving people of Europe. In 1948 Collins was appointed Canon of St Paul's Cathedral in London. CA raised money raised money for the families and dependents of those sent to prison during the Defiance Campaign. In 1954 John went to South Africa where he saw apartheid and its effects for himself, and met activists and leaders in the liberation movements. In 1956, when 156 activists were arrested and charged with High Treason, Canon Collins sent £100 to Ambrose Reeves, Bishop of Johannesburg, asking him to brief the best available defense lawyers and pledging CA to raise the funds to pay legal expenses and care for the families of the Treason Trialists. Reeves, foreseeing further repression, suggested widening the Christian Action terms of reference and so the Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa was born. As repression in South Africa increased, Defence and Aid responded to ever more pressing political and legal defense needs. The organization grew and began to receive international recognition and support, mainly from the Scandinavian countries and the United Nations. Several countries formed aid committees. IDAF went international in 1965, with branches in Britain, New Zealand, Scandinavia, Holland and India. On March 18, 1966, the then Mister of Justice Johannes Vorster banned the South African Defence and Aid Committee as an 'unlawful organization' under the Suppression of Communism Act but IDAF continued to send aid through secret channels. Over a period of 25 years, £100 million was smuggled into South Africa. The organization also had an extensive research and publication operation. Canon Collins died in 1982 and Horst Kleinschmidt was named Director of IDAF that same year, a position he held until the organization closed. The UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives also has an oral history interview that includes his description of his early life in Namibia, his involvement with the Christian Institute, and his escape from South Africa into exile in Amsterdam and London, and then his time as Director of IDAF. IDAF material on Namibia has been moved to the National Archives of Namibia.

Additional link: History of IDAF on Canon Collins Educational Trust for Southern Africa (CCETSA)

Media: Papers, publications, microfiche 800 boxes. Photographs and audio-visual material and Kliptown books 10 Box files

Catalog/Finding aid: Historical Papers

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: 27 (0) 21 959 2939

Reference fax number: 27 (0) 21 959 3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

International Solidarity Committee of the Norwegian Labour Movement

Location: Norway

Summary: Papers, 1969 – 1994

Description: International Solidarity Committee of the Norwegian Labour Movement, AIS [Arbeiderbevegelsens Internasjonale Støttekomité] was a solidarity committee organized under the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions – LO supporting and working with international solidarity and union issues. The Norwegian Trade Union movement was one of the key movements in Norway supporting the liberation struggle in Southern Africa. The Trade Union movement's first direct involvement in campaigns against South Africa was a call for a consumer boycott of South African goods in 1959. From the 1970s the Trade Union movement participated in larger campaigns against South Africa in cooperation with political parties (Labour Party), Norwegian People's Aid and other Social Democratic organizations. AIS and LO worked closely with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), which again worked with the emerging trade union movement inside South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. LO and AIS also gave direct financial support to the liberation movements and the unions, and regularly met with ANC, although the "bulk of the labour movement's assistance for ANC was handled by the humanitarian organization Norwegian People's Aid" (Vetlsen).

Media: 17 Meters

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

Catalog/Finding aid: Browse the Collection

Restrictions: Permission required. Contact the librarian in advance

Housed at: Labour movements archives and library [Arbeiderbevegelsens arkiv], AAB, Folkets Hus, Youngsgate 11, N-0181 Oslo, Norway, lesesal@arbark.no, http://www.arbark.no

Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Summary: Papers, 1961–1989

Description: The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was founded in 1963 to support the people of Southern Africa in their struggle for liberation from white minority rule. IAAM continued until the early 1990s and was replaced by a successor organization call the Ireland South Africa Association. Kader Asmal, after apartheid a member of the South African Parliament and member of the cabinet, was a founder and served as chair until 1990 when he returned to South Africa. Louise Asmal was also a key member of the organization and Sean MacBride was a sponsor. This is the official archive and includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, statements, briefings, press releases, press clippings, Amandla (official publication) etc.

Media: 67 Box files

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here: Mayibuye Papers Guide

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 21 959-2939

Reference fax number: +27 (0) 21 959-3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Current name: Ireland South Africa Association

Current address: 10 Arnold Park, Glenageary, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Current phone number: +353 1 285-1867

Current fax number: +353 1 235-0776

Current e-mail address: isaa21c@eircom.net

Current Web address: http://homepage.eircom.net/~breadandroses/isaa.htm

Isolate South Africa Committee (ISAC)

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers, correspondence, campaign material, newspaper clips 1979 – 1995

Description: The Isolate South Africa Committee (Isolera Sydafrika-Kommitteén), ISAC, was constituted on 15 January 1979 after some preparation work during the autumn of 1978 performed by a group initiated by the Africa Groups of Sweden (AGS) together with some political and Christian youth organizations. The mission was to arrange an annual campaign for isolating apartheid South Africa with the following slogans: Do not buy South African products, Free the Political Prisoners, Dismantle Swedish Investments in South Africa, No Trade with South Africa, No Sport or Cultural Exchange with Official South Africa, Support the Liberation Struggle, Support ANC, South Africa out of Namibia and Support SWAPO. These were the objectives of the organization as well. Accordingly the name of the organization was at the beginning the Isolate South Africa Campaign. ISAC was an umbrella organization consisting of a variety of organizations in one way or another engaged in the support for the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa. All national organizations which could agree with the above mentioned slogans were welcome to become members. ISAC was mainly aimed at campaigning and its archive consists mostly of different types of campaign material. ISAC had at its peak 70 member organizations representing around 1.5 million individual members. All sectors of the Swedish society were represented except for the business sector, the conservative party and the extreme right wing parties, all of whom chose to stay out.

Media: 39 boxes. Approx 400 volumes

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

Catalog/Finding aid: Browse the Collection

Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Reference e-mail address: arab@arbarkiv.a.se

Kairos Collection (Werkgroep Kairos)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1970-2002

Description: This collection is related to Werkgroep Kairos (Working Group Kairos), whose main archives are located at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Much of the material consists of copies with some exceptions. In co-operation with a large number of non-governmental organizations involved in human rights issues an extensive collection of reports, publications, pamphlets, telegrams and telexes, newsletters and letters was collected. There are a few letters from and to Kairos, but the bulk of the collection is Kairos’ research and resource material. Kairos also developed a database and researched reports on detention, torture and deaths in detention for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Description from the Finding aid: The Kairos Foundation (Stichting Kairos) was founded in 1970 as a support group for the Christian Institute in South Africa, whose general secretary was anti-apartheid activist Dr CF Beyers Naude. Kairos, a Greek word, means ‘time is running out’. Until 1990 most of Kairos’ attention focused on violations of human rights in South Africa and mobilization of support in the Netherlands for sanctions and disinvestment. In the 1970s and 1980s the organization focused on the causes of apartheid with campaigns aimed at Dutch firms active in the apartheid economy. Other campaigns were aimed at forced removals, detentions, torture in detention, the death sentence, children, conscription and the activities of the security forces. Kairos’ work was supported by many of the Dutch churches and there was co-operation from church circles in Southern Africa. Extensive contacts were made with black South African clerics studying in the Netherlands. Kairos mobilized attention on the disempowered and influenced public opinion through campaigns and publications. Through Kairos, many South African organizations channeled information to international organizations and the media. From 1996-1997, Kairos researched the assault and torture of political prisoners in the 1960s and 1970s for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Some ephemera have been separated including audio-visual material, photos, posters and campaign buttons, stickers and postcards.

Media: 36 linear meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Affidavits that have not been published have associated restrictions. Affidavits in the Namibia sub-inventory are embargoed until 2010. The Kairos database compiled for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is subject to restricted access conditions.

Housed at: University of the Witwatersrand, William Cullen Library, Historical Papers, Private Bag X1, P.O. Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa, +27 (0) 11 717 1940, + 27 (0) 11 339 4137, http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/index.htm

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 11 717 1940

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 11 339 4137

Reference Web address: http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/contact.htm

Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika – (Holland Committee on Southern Africa)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1972 – 1986

Description: In 1976, following the end of Portuguese colonialism, the Angola Comité was renamed the Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (known in English as the Holland Committee on Southern Africa) and concentrate its actions on the South African, Zimbabwean and Namibian freedom movements. The Committee was involved in campaigns to isolate South Africa including campaigns for sanctions and divestment and against banks making loans to South Africa. With another Dutch organization, Kairos, the Holland Committee was active in the Shell boycott campaign and helped establish the Shipping Research Bureau which monitored oil deliveries to South Africa. It also campaigned in support of the sports boycott of apartheid South Africa. The Holland Committee had an important success in 1985 when it forced the banks to stop selling the South African gold coin, the Krugerrand. The Holland Committee provided material aid to liberation movements. After the end of apartheid, the Holland Committee, the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Mondlane Foundation established the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA).

Additional link: Photo-collection Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (KZA) finding aid

Media: 8.4 meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31-20-6685866, +31-20-6654181, info@iisg.nl, http://www.iisg.nl/

Reference phone number: +31 20 6685866

Reference fax number: +31 20 6654181

Reference e-mail address: info@iisg.nl

Current name: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA)

Current address: Postal address: P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Visitor’s address: Prins Hendrikkade 33

Current phone number: +31 (0)20 520 62 10

Current fax number: +31 (0)20 520 62 49

Current e-mail address: niza@niza.nl

Current Web address: http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

Kämpfendes Afrika/Medic Angola

Location: Switzerland

Summary: Papers, posters, photos, library material, 1971-1988

Description: Medic'Angola came into being in 1971 in Zurich, as a 'working group for medical support to the Angolan people'. From 1976, the group called itself Kaempfendes Afrika ('fighting Africa'), after the journal of the same name that had been published by Medic' Angola since November 1971. Kaempfendes Afrika was a political solidarity organization that devoted itself to the support of African liberation organizations in Switzerland. To this end, it set about building a dense network of contacts with several liberation organizations, especially in southern Afirca. It supported these materially and financially and conducted intensive publicity activities. The group disbanded in 1988. The Basler Afrika Bibliographien holds the official archives, the library, a poster and photo collection of the group. The archives have been indexed. See Dag Henrichsen (ed.): Registratur AA.5. The Archive of the Solidarity Group Medic'Angola/kaempfendes afrika. Basel 2002.

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Basler Afrika Bibliographien / Namibia Resource Centre - Southern Africa Library, Klosterberg 21-23, P.O. Box 2037, 4001 Basel, Switzerland, Phone: +41 (61) 228 9333, Fax: +41 (61) 228-9330, bab@bluewin.ch

Reference phone number: +41 (61) 228 9333

Reference fax number: +41 (61) 228-9330

Reference e-mail address: bab@bluewin.ch

Lawyers Against Apartheid

Location: London, England

Timespan: 1977-1996 (predominant 1986-1991)

Description: Lawyers Against Apartheid was formed following a legal conference in December 1986 to mobilize the support of the legal community in Great Britain for the liberation struggles in South Africa and Namibia. Membership was open to all members of the legal community in Britain, including practitioners, academics, students and legal workers. The group was affiliated to the Namibia Support Committee, London, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement with whose guidelines for Local Groups it adopted for governing the conduct of its activities. The first official meeting of the group was in London in January 1986 where aims and objectives were discussed. It was decided that the aims of Lawyers Against Apartheid were to include exposing the nature and illegitimacy of the apartheid regime to the British legal community, campaigning for anti-apartheid policies and practices within the British legal community, and providing advice and assistance to the local anti-apartheid groups. The group challenged the established ideas of the South African legal system, especially the myth of impartial hearings from an independent tribunal. They also promoted the issue of Prisoner of War status for captured freedom fighters and supported the campaign for Namibia's independence following South Africa's illegal occupation. Lawyers Against Apartheid held at least 4 speaker meetings a year, usually at Greys Inn, London, and had a number of sub-groups that worked on specific issues such as Prisoners of War, Domestic Legal Support, International Law, and Trials & Punishments. The group was run by a committee consisting of a chair, secretary, treasurer and 9 ordinary members who were elected each year at the annual general meeting. A Steering Committee operated the group until the first AGM when a properly elected committee was established and the steering group abolished. The group was financed through a subscription from its members as well as special functions and fund-raising events. With the fall of the Apartheid system in South Africa, the group folded in 1996 , donating much of its remaining funds to Action for South Africa, London (ACTSA), formerly the Anti-Apartheid Movement.

Media: 4.0 meters

Restrictions: Bona fide researchers only. Written research proposals should be submitted to the Research Collections Manager. Copyright/Reproduction: Applications for permission to quote should be sent to the Research Collections Manager. Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use and condition of documents.

Housed at: Glasgow Caledonian University Research Collections, City Campus, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA, Scotland, UK, +44 (0)141 273 1189, Fax: +44 (0)141 331 3005, researchcollections@gcal.ac.uk, http://www.lib.gcal.ac.uk/researchcollections/index.htm

Reference phone number: +44 (0)141 273 1189

Reference fax number: +44 (0)141 331 3005

Reference e-mail address: researchcollections@gcal.ac.uk

Luthuli Group of Canberra

Location: Canberra, Australia

Summary: Papers, 1986-1988

Description: The Luthuli Group of Canberra was an anti-apartheid organization. The connection includes minutes, newletters, correspondence, membership lists, agenda papers, circulars, leaflets and publications.

Media: 10 cm. (1box)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Unknown

Housed at: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA, Phone: + 61 2 6262 1111 TTY: 1800 026 372, Fax: +61 2 6257 1703 , http://www.nla.gov.au/

Reference phone number: +61 (02) 6262 1259

Reference fax number: +61 2 6262 1516

Reference e-mail address: mnscrpts@nla.gov.au

Reference Web address: http://www.nla.gov.au/contact/

Mervyn Bennun, papers

Location: Exeter, Devon, UK

Timespan: Approximately 1969 - early 1990s

Summary: Papers of Mervyn Bennun

Description: Mervyn Bennun was originally trained at Cape Town University and subsequently practised as a lawyer in South Africa until his departure for Britain in the 1960s. He became lecturer in law at the University of Exeter from 1969-1970 until his retirement in the 1990s when he returned to South Africa. During his time at Exeter University, he was an African National Congress (ANC) activist in the period when the ANC was in exile in Britain, and was involved with the activities of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group as Chairman and Secretary. Bennun's publications include Negotiating justice: a new constitution for South Africa (ed. with Malyn D.D. Newitt), and Witnesses for the prosecution in South Africa: some comments. The collection consists of papers accumulated by Bennun during his period at the University of Exeter. Included are: newscuttings, correspondence, flyers and leaflets, typescripts of articles and other writings (including on the trial of the 'Sharpeville Six'). Some books, pamphlets, and periodicals are also included. The materials relate to ANC activities in the UK and of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group, to human rights and to the period of apartheid in general. Related Units of Description: Book-related print materials belonging to Bennun are also available at the University Library. Donated to the University Library in 1996, together with book-related and other print materials (approximately twenty-two boxes). Archival materials are currently unlisted. Some print materials have been roughly listed: for further details, please contact the Archivist.

Media: Approximately seven boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Archive Description

Restrictions: Contact library in advance.

Housed at: University of Exeter Library & Information Service, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4PT, United Kingdom, +44 1392 263873, library@exeter.ac.uk, http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: +44 1392 263873

Reference e-mail address: library@exeter.ac.uk

Mouvement Anti-Apartheid Suisse (MAAS) / Anti-Apartheid Bewegung der Schweiz (AAB)

Location: Switzerland

Summary: Papers, 1974-2003

Description: Mouvement Anti-Apartheid Suisse (MAAS), the French speaking branch, was founded on February 10, 1965 in Geneva/Meyrin. First MAAS-president was the CERN physician Michael John Pentz . (CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory). The Swiss German branch Anti-Apartheid Bewegung der Schweiz (Anti-apartheid Movement of Switzerland) (AAB) was established on 1 March 1975 with the secretariat was in Zurich. The AAB organized numerous demonstrations, protest actions, conferences and seminars Both branches were coordinated by a common National committee. In 1994 the name of the organization was changed to "AAB Südliches Afrika”. The AAB-activities were prepared and organized by five working groups: 1. Sponsorship, 2. Tourism and Emigration, 3. Church, 4. Trade Unions, 5. Information. The initiators of the Anti-Apartheid-Mouvement in Switzerland had mainly a religious background. AAB activities were supported by various religious and social organizations like autonomous local Third World Groups. AAB published the periodical “Anti-Apartheid-Nachrichten” (since 1995: AAB Nachrichten Südliches Afrika). The records include AAB and MAAS material (1974-2003): minutes, correspondence, newsletters, press releases, periodicals, brochures, leaflets, conference papers, campaign files and material about economic relations between Switzerland and South-Africa. The archives include documents related to the trade relations between Switzerland and South Africa (banks, various Swiss enterprises, tourism) and documents related to different activities, approximately 1977-1991 (conferences, symposiums, parliamentary raids, petitions, fruit boycott).

Media: 3.0 meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click her for a collection description in French

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv, Stadelhoferstrasse 12, CH-8001 Zürich, Switzerland, Phone: (043) 268-8750, Fax: (043) 268-8759, sozarch@sozarch.unizh.ch, http://www.sozialarchiv.ch/

Reference phone number: (043) 268-8750

Reference fax number: (043) 268-8759

Reference e-mail address: sozarch@sozarch.unizh.ch

Namibia Communications Centre / Namibian Churches Communications Trust

Location: London, UK

Description: The Namibia Communications Centre (also known as the Namibian Churches Communications Trust) provided information related to the Namibian independence struggle in the 1980s. The Namibia Communications Center was run by the Rev. John Evenson. Accession A.668. The collection is not fully organized.

Media: very voluminous

Restrictions: Access may be restricted; contact in advance

Housed at: National Archives of Namibia, Private Bag 13250, Windhoek, Namibia, 264-61-2935211, 264-61-2935217, natarch@mec.gov.na

Reference phone number: +264-61-2935211

Reference fax number: +264-61-2935217

Reference e-mail address: natarch@mec.gov.na

Namibia Support Committee

Location: London, England, UK

Timespan: 1967-1993

Description: The Namibia Support Committee started in 1969 as the Friends of Namibia in order to support Namibian liberation movements and assist individual liberation activists. In 1971, when the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) had been recognized as the 'sole and authentic representative' of the Namibian people, it became a solidarity group to assist SWAPO. It was recognized by the UN Council for Namibia and was renamed the Namibia Support Committee. The Committee aimed to raise public awareness of the country's particular problems and was active in organizing meetings, lobbying Parliament, etc, while in its solidarity function it arranged the transport of supplies to SWAPO's camps in Angola and Zambia. Much of its work was supervised by its sub-groups, including the Health Collective, Campaign Against Namibian Uranium Contracts and the SWAPO Women's Solidarity Campaign. Originally based in London, the Committee built itself into a national campaign from 1986 with a network of local Namibia Support Groups. It became a registered company in 1990 (the same year that Namibia gained its independence from South Africa) and was wound up in 1993. It has since been revived as a friendship society between Britain and Namibia under the titles Friends of Namibia Society and Friends of Namibia (Scotland). Scope and Content: Minutes and papers of policy-making bodies, 1981-1993; Records relating to the Committee's London administration, including minutes, accounts, funding applications, correspondence, papers relating to staff and membership, press releases and reports, [1981-1993]; Records of the Campaign Against Namibian Uranium Contracts (CANUC), including minutes, funding applications, correspondence, reports, papers relating to particular campaigns and events, and publications, [1977-1992]; Campaign reports, minutes, publications, photographs, etc. relating to the SWAPO Women's Solidarity Campaign (SWSC), 1980-1991; Campaign leaflets, correspondence, photographs, etc. relating to the Health Collective, 1977-1989; Papers relating to the Release All Political Prisoners campaign, with lists of Namibian political prisoners, 1984-1986; Reports, minutes, leaflets, etc. relating to the Trade Union Group, 1977-1991; Papers relating to other campaigns and projects, 1980-1993; Papers relating to national events organized by the Committee, 1980-1992; Publications and related papers, 1979-1993; Memoranda, correspondence, reports, minutes, posters, etc. produced by and relating to local Namibia Support Groups, 1986-1991; Minutes, correspondence, etc. relating to inter-agency campaigns with Committee representation, 1988-1992;Papers of other British and international organizations, 1977-1992; Papers of other Namibian organizations, c1969-1993; Photographs, [1967-1991]; and Merchandise and banners, 1970s-1990s. Custodial History: The papers were donated to the library by the Namibia Support Committee in 1996. Material relating to the Committee's Centenary Conference 'Namibia 1884-1984', and reports of visits to Namibia by Committee members and others and of visits to Great Britain by Namibians invited by the Committee, [1981-1992] was donated by Randolph Vigne. Minutes, correspondence, publications and other papers concerning the Committee and related organizations was accumulated and donated by Jenny Morgan on 16th February 2001. A handlist is available in the library reading room. Some pre-1985 archival and printed material relating to the Committee is housed at the Estorff Reference Library (part of the Namibian State Archives) in Windhoek, Namibia.

Media: 31 boxes

Catalog/Finding aid: Description available through Archives Hub, enter Namibia in the search box

Restrictions: Contact Librarian in advance

Housed at: University of Oxford, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies, Rhodes House, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RG, United Kingdom, http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Reference phone number: + 44 1865 270908

Reference fax number: +44 1865 270912

Reference e-mail address: rhodes.house.library@bodley.ox.ac.uk

New Zealand Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers, [ca 1970]-1992

Description: The International Defence and Aid Fund was founded in 1956 by Canon John Collins to provide legal defence for 156 people in South Africa charged with high treason. The International Headquarters of the Fund was established in London. The New Zealand Branch of the Fund was established in 1967 by the Reverend Godfrey Wilson and like the international Fund its aim is to help people of all races who have become victims of the race laws of Southern Africa. It concentrated mainly on the task of raising money, producing a newsletter and distributing Defence and Aid publications. The fund disbanded in 1991. The records of the New Zealand branch of the Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa include minutes, correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, conference papers and other miscellaneous material. One folder of cartoons has been transferred to the Cartoon Archive. Newsletters have been transferred to Serial Collection. Donated by the New Zealand Defence and Aid Fund, Wellington, 1992.

Media: 17 folders, 2 volumes: 0.30 linear meters; typescript and printed matter

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library Building, 70 Molesworth St, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone: +64 (04) 474-3030, http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

Reference phone number: +64 (04) 474-3030

Reference Web address: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/using/7librarianatl.html

Newnham, Thomas Oliver, - Papers relating to anti-apartheid and peace movements

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers, ca 1965-1986

Description: Tom Newnham was national president and secretary of the Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) at various times. Consists of papers collected from Tom Newnham in his work with CARE and the anti-apartheid movement including correspondence, 1977-1984; CARE press releases and submissions; copy of a page of a petition calling for the abandonment of the 1960 tour of South Africa and instructions to petition gatherers; printed matter including pamphlets, CARE, Halt All Racism Tours (HART) and other groups newsletters, articles and other miscellaneous material relating to the anti-apartheid movement. In 1999 scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, copies of letters, incoming letters, and other papers, relating to the question of sporting contacts with South Africa from 1975 to 1978, along with court transcripts and other papers on the libel case between Mr. R D Muldoon and Mr. Newnham in 1977, were added to the collection. Transferred to Photographic Archive - 6 photographs - 5 relating to anti-apartheid matters and one to the Peace Squadron.

Media: 2.06 linear meters; 59 folder(s), 3 boxes (36 folders, 3 bundles); Holographs, mss, typescript and printed matter (some photocopies)

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library Building, 70 Molesworth St, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone: +64 (04) 474-3030, http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

Reference phone number: +64 (0)4 474-3030

Reference Web address: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/using/7librarianatl.html

Poster Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Location: Switzerland

Description: Poster Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB). With more than 3, 000 African posters, including those from the solidarity and Anti-Apartheid movement in Europe, the poster archives of the BAB is one of the largest existing on the topic. A selection of some 900 posters, including a whole chapter of the posters from various southern African liberation movements (notably SWAPO) and another chapter on the Solidarity and Anti-Apartheid posters (mainly in Europe) has been published: See Giorgio Miescher & Dag Henrichsen, “African Posters: A catalogue of the poster collection in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien,” Basel 2004.

Media: 3,000+ posters

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: Basler Afrika Bibliographien / Namibia Resource Centre - Southern Africa Library, Klosterberg 21-23, P.O. Box 2037, 4001 Basel, Switzerland, Phone: +41 (61) 228 9333, Fax: +41 (61) 228-9330, bab@bluewin.ch

Reference phone number: +41 (61) 228 9333

Reference fax number: +41 (61) 228-9330

Reference e-mail address: bab@bluewin.ch

Programme to Combat Racism, World Council of Churches

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Description: In 1968, the World Council of Churches (WCC) Central Committee created a Programme to Combat Racism (PCR). The main aim of the PCR was to define, propose and carry out ecumenical policies and programs that substantially contribute to the liberation of the victims of racism. Although it attempted to deal with racism as a world-wide problem, much of its attention and energy during the apartheid era was focused on Southern Africa. One of PCR's most effective tools was a WCC special fund to combat racism, from which annual grants were made to African liberation movements and to solidarity organizations around the world. The fund was supplied by voluntary contributions from churches as well as from local ecumenical and support groups all over the world. WCC is the broadest and most inclusive among the many organized expressions of the modern ecumenical movement, whose goal is Christian unity. Even before the creation of the PCR, the WCC was involved in supporting African liberation struggles and is documented in the WCC archives. This collection brings together the reports, general correspondence, papers, news clippings, trial reports, personal reflections, information on finance (grant proposals) and country files.

Additional link: Guide to the microform publication Programme to Combat Racism, 1939-1996 Published by IDC Publishers, 2004

Catalog/Finding aid: WCC Archive Search Facility

Housed at: World Council of Churches Library and Archive, Library and archives of the Ecumenical Center, 7, route des Morillons, 1211 Genève 2, Switzerland, Phone: +41 (0)22 791-6279, Fax: +41 (0)22 710-2022, library@wcc-coe.org, http://library.wcc-coe.org/Home.395+B6Jkw9MA__.0.html

Reference phone number: +41 (0)22 791-6279

Reference fax number: +41 (0)22 710-2022

Reference e-mail address: library@wcc-coe.org

Richards, Trevor

Location: New Zealand

Summary: Papers, 1969-1998

Description: Trevor Richards founded Halt All Racist Tours (HART) in 1969 and worked for the organization for many years serving as chair (1969-1980) and international secretary (1980-1985). He remained active in the anti-apartheid movement until the 1990s; his papers reflect his work with the movement, which focused particularly on sporting contacts with South Africa, and the organization behind it. Richards authored “Dancing on our bones; New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and Racism” (Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books: 1999). A significantly longer manuscript of the book is in the collection. The collection includes inward and outward correspondence with individuals, groups and organizations mostly concerned with sporting contacts with South Africa, reports, press releases, clippings and articles, circulars and other papers. Much relates to observance of the Gleneagles Agreement. The collection was donated by Mr. Trevor Richards, Wellington, in 1999. Photos have been transferred to the Photographic Archive. Stickers and buttons transferred to Ephemera Collection.

Media: 650 folders, 11 linear meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: Partial restriction: Specified items have been restricted

Housed at: National Library of New Zealand, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library Building, 70 Molesworth St, Wellington, New Zealand, Phone: +64 (04) 474-3030, http://www.natlib.govt.nz/

Reference phone number: +64 (04) 474-3030

Reference Web address: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/en/using/7librarianatl.html

Shipping Research Bureau

Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Summary: Papers and publications, 1980-1995

Description: The Shipping Research Bureau (SRB) was founded in 1980 by the Holland Committee on Southern Africa (KZA) and the Working Group Kairos, two Dutch anti-apartheid groups that were active in the campaign for the withdrawal of Shell from South Africa and the promotion of national and international oil embargoes against the apartheid regime. The SRB monitored violations of the oil embargo against South Africa by tracking the movement of oil tankers. The SRB pressured oil companies, transporters, and oil producing states to end sales and deliveries of oil to South Africa. The SRB also pressured national governments and international bodies to adopt relevant measures such legislation banning the involvement of their nationals and companies in the oil trade with South Africa. Two European countries, Denmark and Norway, adopted laws banning the transport of crude oil from anywhere in Danish/Norwegian tankers. SRB produced numerous reports on oil deliveries and the companies and countries involved. The United Nation General Assembly adopted resolutions in support of an oil embargo and in 1986 established Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa. The SRB played a key role in providing information to the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa. Directors of the SRB included Janwillem Rouweler (1981-1985), Jaap Woldendorp (1985-1991) and Richard Hengeveld (1991ff). The main archive of the SRB is scheduled to be placed at International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam in 2005. A complete set of SRB publications are available at the Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) in Amsterdam and the Mayibuye Centre in Cape Town.

Suggested reading: Embargo: Apartheid’s Oil Secrets Revealed, edited by Richard Hengeveld and Jaap Rodenburg, with an introduction by Nelson Mandela (Amsterdam University Press, 1995) ISBN 90-5356-135-8,

Media: 10 meters

Housed at: Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), P.O. Box 10707, 1001 ES Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Visitor’s address: Prins Hendrikkade 33 Visitors Address: Prins Hendrikkade 33, Amsterdam, Phone: +31 (0)20 520 62 10, Fax: +31 (0)20 520 62 49, niza@niza.nl, http://www.niza.nl/index_en.phtml

Reference phone number: +31 (0)20 520 6210

Reference fax number: +31 20 520 6249

Reference e-mail address: bidoc@niza.nl

South Africa/Namibia Association

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Summary: Papers, 1986-1993

Description: The South Africa/Namibia Association (SA/NAM Association) was founded in 1986. Located in Brussels, it was concerned with co-coordinating, stimulating and monitoring development projects in South Africa and Namibia, which were initiated by its member organizations. Money for these projects was raised by the member organizations of SA/NAM, mostly European NGO's and anti-apartheid organizations. A list of the member organizations can be found at the end of the Finding Aid. A greater part of the funds were provided by the European Community in the European Special Programme for the Victims of Apartheid (ESP). Most of the development projects in South Africa were conducted by the Kagiso Trust which was founded in 1986 by the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the South African Bishop Conference (SABC). The projects were mainly in the fields of education, community building and culture. In Namibia the Namibia Development Trust was responsible for the projects. The organization was dissolved in 1993. Contents: Minutes of meetings, correspondence, financial and other documents relating to activities of NGOs in South Africa and Namibia 1988-1992. A large part of the archives consists of nearly 200 project files of the development projects in South Africa which were conducted by the Kagiso Trust.

Additional link: Short description

Media: 6.75 meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Restrictions: None

Housed at: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019AT Amsterdam, The Netherlands, +31-20-6685866, +31-20-6654181, info@iisg.nl, http://www.iisg.nl/

Reference phone number: +31 20 6685866

Reference fax number: +31 20 6654181

Reference e-mail address: info@iisg.nl

South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) & Sam Ramsamy archive

Location: London, England, UK

Summary: Papers, 1960-1990s

Description: This archive includes the papers of Sam Ramsamy and the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC). SANROC was formed in 1962. In 1966 it was established itself in exile in London and led campaigns to isolate South Africa on the sports field. Sam Ramsamy (based in London) was Chairman from 1976-1990. Dennis Brutus was President (based in the USA). SANROC led the international sports boycott of apartheid South Africa. SANROC played a major role in South Africa being excluded from the Olympic Games in 1966 and the Olympic movement in 1969.

Suggested reading: SPORTS AND THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE: Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport, E. S. Reddy: http://www.anc.org.za/un/reddy/sam-ram.html

Media: 208 Box files (including Sam Ramsamy archive)

Catalog/Finding aid: Mayibuye Papers Guide

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (21) 959-2939

Reference fax number: +27 (21) 959-3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Support Association for White Shadows

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers, 1986 - 1988

Description: White Shadows was a Norwegian multimedia display on the developments in South Africa. The display toured Sweden 1986-88 and was especially focused on schools. To manage the tour the Support Association for White Shadows (Stödföreningen för Vita Skuggor) was formed on 6 March 1986. Members of the association were the Africa Groups of Sweden, the Isolate South Africa Committee, the Co-operative Association, the Co-operative Institute, SIDA, the Swedish Pupils Association, the Swedish Co-operative Centre, Folksam Insurance, Huddinge Gymnasium and Konsum Stockholm.

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

Catalog/Finding aid: Browse the Collection

Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Swedish South Africa Committee (SSAK)

Location: Sweden

Summary: Papers, 1960 – 1967

Description: The Swedish South Africa Committee (Svenska Sydafrikakommittén) was founded 6 March 1961. Among the founders were Anders Thunborg (later minister of defence), Joachim Israel (later professor in sociology), Björn Beckman (later professor in political science) and the writer Per Wästberg (later member of the Swedish Academy). The Committee was engaged intensely in opinion and lobbying work with the objective to start a consumer's boycott of South African goods. The aim was as well to get the Swedish government to proclaim sanctions against South Africa. They had some success in getting some local authorities as well as the army to stop using South African products. The Swedish monopoly state liquor shops also stopped import from South Africa. The Committee arranged several visits to Sweden by South African activists against apartheid, whom performed at many meetings all over the country. The Committee also raised funds for mainly Defence & Aid Fund in London. When the liberation fronts started an armed struggle the Committee decided in 1965 to support that type of resistance as well. The Committee dominated the anti-apartheid work in Sweden during the 1960s but its activities decreased as other organizations became more active. The archive material was delivered by Anders Johansson and Dick Urban Vestbro.

Catalog/Finding aid: About the Collection

Catalog/Finding aid: Browse the Collection

Housed at: Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement (ARAB) [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek], Mailing: Box 1124, SE-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden. Visiting address: Upplandsgatan 4, Stockholm, Sweden, Phone: +46 8 4123900, Fax: +46 8 4123990, http://www.arbarkiv.nu/english.htm

Reference phone number: +46 8 4123900

Reference fax number: +46 8 4123990

Reference e-mail address: arab@arbarkiv.a.se

Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility

Location: Toronto, Canada

Summary: Papers, 1970-1995

Description: The Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR) archives are part of the archives of the United Church of Canada. TCCR was established in 1975 as an ecumenical coalition of churches in Canada, its purpose was to promote social and ecological responsibility in Canadian-based corporations and financial institutions. One of the first efforts of the Taskforce was to assist church shareholders in influencing Canadian banks to stop making loans to the apartheid regime in South Africa. When banks refused to discuss the loans the TCCR coordinated the efforts of church shareholders who began to attend the banks' annual meetings to raise their concerns in a public forum about the banks' complicity in the apartheid system. The TCCR anti-apartheid effort gained momentum as they combined public education efforts with protests and coordinating efforts with international networks such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility in the United States. The TCCR did not limit its efforts to banks and loans, any Canadian for Alcan -a Canadian company whose South African affiliate was involved with military production in support of the apartheid state in 1982. After appearances at three annual meetings and a visit by a Canadian delegation to South Africa, Alcan announced its withdrawal from South Africa. In July 2001, TCCR, together with nine other ecumenical social justice coalitions, became part of KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, to continue its advocacy work about corporate responsibility. The records of the TCCR were used extensively by Renate Pratt (Taskforce Coordinator) during the writing of her book: "In Good Faith: Canadian Churches Against Apartheid". There is not a finding aid but here are file lists for the bulk of the material.

Media: 7.2 meters

Restrictions: Contact United Church of Canada Archives

Housed at: United Church of Canada/Victoria University Archives, 73 Queen's Park Crescent E., Toronto, ON M5S 1K7, Canada, (416) 585-4563, info@unitedchurcharchives.ca, http://unitedchurcharchives.vicu.utoronto.ca/

Reference phone number: (416) 585-4563

Reference e-mail address: info@unitedchurcharchives.ca

Reference Web address: http://unitedchurcharchives.vicu.utoronto.ca/contact.shtml

United Church Of Canada, Division Of World Outreach

Location: Canada

Summary: Papers, textual records, photographs, 1954-1985

Description: The Division of World Outreach of the United Church of Canada (UCC) was created by General Council in 1972 out of the Board of World Mission and became operational in July 1973. The new Division promoted mutuality in mission and interdenominational cooperation; it divided its administrative framework into geographic areas, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, South Asia and Pacific. In relation to Africa see: SERIES 4: RECORDS OF THE AREA SECRETARY OF AFRICA. This series consists of records of the staff person responsible for Africa, including correspondence; reports of sponsored agencies; press clippings re partnership activities with national churches, social and political agencies, and other mission bodies, and clippings re issues of human rights, divestment, and liberation struggles. Countries include Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra-Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Africa country focuses: Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra-Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Subject areas: Political Instability -Africa, Racism –Africa. A users guide is available.

Media: 5 meters of textual records

Restrictions: Some restrictions apply - contact in advance for details

Housed at: United Church of Canada/Victoria University Archives, 73 Queen's Park Crescent E., Toronto, ON M5S 1K7, Canada, (416) 585-4563, info@unitedchurcharchives.ca, http://unitedchurcharchives.vicu.utoronto.ca/

Reference phone number: (416) 585-4563

Reference Web address: www.unitedchurcharchives.ca

Current name: United Church of Canada

Current address: 3250 Bloor Street West, Suite 300, Toronto, ON M8X 2Y4, Canada

Current phone number: (416) 231-5931

Current e-mail address: info@united-church.ca

Current Web address: http://www.united-church.ca

Vigne, Randolph Collection

Location: United Kingdom

Timespan: 1950 - 1990

Summary: Randolph Vigne Collection. Publications, papers and correspondence

Description: Personal archival collection of Randolph Vigne of material related to the struggle for Namibian independence. Vigne was Chairperson of the Namibia Support Committee, which started in 1969 as Friends of Namibia. The collection includes Vigne’s correspondence with Namibia’s early political luminaries dating back to the 1950s and the activities of the Namibia Support Committee/Friends of Namibia. Included in this extensive collection is a copy of the original constitution of the Owamboland People’s Organization (O.P.O.) dating back to 1959 and a vast array of published and unpublished source material related to the anti-colonial struggle.

Restrictions: Unknown, contact in advance

Housed at: National Archives of Namibia, Private Bag 13250, Windhoek, Namibia, 264-61-2935211, 264-61-2935217, natarch@mec.gov.na

Reference phone number: +264 (61) 293-5211

Reference fax number: +264 (61) 293-5217

Reference e-mail address: natarch@mec.gov.na

Werkgroep Kairos (Working Group Kairos)

Location: The Netherlands

Summary: Papers, 1971-1993

Description: Werkgroep Kairos (Working Group Kairos or Kairos study group), an anti-apartheid organization based on Christian principles, was established in 1970 by Cor Groenendijk, who subsequently became the organization’s chairman. J. Verkuyl and Erik van den Bergh held influential positions in the organization. Originally a support organization for the Christian Institute that Beyers Naudé had established inside South Africa in 1963, Kairos became one of the three largest anti-apartheid organizations in the Netherlands. It worked with the AABN (Antiapartheidsbeweging Nederland or Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands) and the KZA (Komitee Zuidelijk Africa or Southern Africa Committee) to pressure the government and corporate industry in the 1970s and 80s. Kairos advocated a program of disinvestment from South Africa, as advocated by the World Council of Churches in 1972. From 1973, Kairos representatives authorized by shareholders such as churches and monastic orders attended the Koninklijke Shell shareholders meeting every year to urge the company to leave South Africa. Following the proclamation of an oil embargo by the UN General Assembly in 1975, this cause became a focal plan of action for Kairos. In 1980 Kairos and the KZA founded the Shipping Research Bureau, which tracked international oil transports to call attention to any supplies bound for South Africa. The archive includes a vast collection of documentation, magazines and books. All these items combined provide an opportunity for exploring the anti-apartheid struggle in the Netherlands. This collection also features a wealth of primary material about campaigns in South Africa.

Additional link: Photo collection finding aid

Media: 4 meters

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: International Institute of Social History, Cruquiusweg 31, 1019 AT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, + 31 20 6685866, Fax + 31 20 6654181, info@iisg.nl, http://www.iisg.nl/

Reference phone number: +31 20 6685866

Reference fax number: +31 20 6654181

Reference e-mail address: info@iisg.nl

Western Australia Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (WACARE)

Location: Australia

Summary: Publications, newsletters, pamphlets, 1979-1994

Description: WACARE was the Western Australia branch of the Campaign Against Racial Exploitation, the first national anti-apartheid network in Australia. Items include South Africa: apartheid in crisis - a speech by Raymond Suttner; Australian economic ties with South Africa/ Michael Little; Amandla publications 1984 – 1988; CARE Newsletters 1979 – 1990; Viva (CARE anti-racist newsletter) 1991 – 1992; Liberate Southern Africa – newsletter, African Studies Review and Newsletter December 1994 & June 1995; Wacare News/ January 1994; South African election pamphlet 1994. Other collections include 1) Papers, ca. 1974-1990s, privately held, Paul Kaplan, Perth and 2) Papers, ca. 1974-1990s, privately held, Peter Limb, contact limb@msu.edu.

Media: 5 Box files

Catalog/Finding aid: Click here

Housed at: University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives, Level 1, UWC Main Library, Modderdam Road, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa , 27 (0) 21 959 2939/2954, 27 (0) 21 959 3411, mayib@uwc.ac.za, http://www.mayibuye.org/

Reference phone number: +27 (0) 21 959 2939

Reference fax number: + 27 (0) 21 959 3411

Reference e-mail address: mayib@uwc.ac.za

Western Australia Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (WACARE) [newsletters]

Location: Australia

Description: This is a collection of the newsletters of the anti-apartheid organization WACARE in the National Library of Australia.

Catalog/Finding aid: WACARE news

Catalog/Finding aid: CARE anti-racist newsletter

Housed at: National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA, Phone: + 61 2 6262 1111 TTY: 1800 026 372, Fax: +61 2 6257 1703 , http://www.nla.gov.au/