South Africa - criticisms of policy, 1938-1979
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 366
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-18) Anti-Slavery Society: report by Sir John Harris of his talks with Hertzog, Smuts, and others during a visit to South Africa, 1938 (fols. 1-3); 'Racial Discrimination in the Union of South Africa' by C.W.W. Greenidge, [1953] (fols. 4-16); minutes of a meeting in 1965, when the treatment of the San people in the Kalahari Desert was discussed (fols. 17-18)
- folder 2 (fols. 1-123 and item 1) Africa Bureau publicity concerning the claim of South Africa to the High Commission Territories (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini), the treason trials in South Africa, the Native Resettlement Bill and the Western Areas Removal Scheme, Mary Benson's statement to the United Nations, the policy of apartheid, its effects and opposition to it, and the situation in the Transkei and Namibia, including many copies of X-ray and Africa Bureau Fact Sheets, 1954-1979; also included is Venture, Vol. 14, No. 5, May 1962, with an editorial on 'Britain, South Africa and the Commonwealth'
- folder 3 (fols. 1-64) memoranda and papers by several people on a comparison of policy in the High Commission Territories (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini) with that in the Union (fols. 1-2); the problem of the poor white population in South Africa (fols. 3-7); race relations in South Africa, as seen by William Ballinger in 1949 (fols. 8-25); 'Race Relations in South Africa as an International Problem' by H.V. Roberts (fols. 26-30); 'Notes on the Inter-Racial Conference of Church Leaders, Witwatersrand, Dec 1954' (fols. 31-38); 'Religion and Race in British Africa: a Study of the Effects of the Doctrine and Practices of the Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa on Racial Attitudes and Policies in the Union, and their Possible Repercussions in the British Central and East African Territories' by C.N. Lawrence, District Officer Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), May 1955 (fols. 39-52); review of Sir Keith Hancock's biography of Smuts by Kenneth Kirkwood (fols. 53-54); and the catalogue of a Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) exhibition on South Africa entitled 'For I am a Man' (fols. 55-60), 1954-1979
- folder 4 (fols. 1-32) Royal Institute of International Affairs: article in International Affairs by Heaton Nicholls on 'The Part of the Union in the Development of Africa', 1945 (fols. 1-6); Race Relations Department summaries of press news and comment from Central and South Africa and Kenya, 1956 (fols. 7-29); and a record of a private discussion meeting in 1960 on 'South Africa: what should United Kingdom policy be in the present crisis?' (fols. 30-32)
- folder 5 (fols. 1-9) translations of poems, including 'The Army of the Dark-skinned' and 'The Sinking of the Mendi' by S.E. Mqhayi, n.d.
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1979
Extent
5 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 366
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk