IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 101 ICS153
Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Title: Cullinan, Sue: papers
Date(s): [1970-1993]
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 3 boxes
Name of creator(s): Cullinan | Sue b 1956 | journalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Sue Cullinan was born in South Africa in 1956. She worked as a journalist and researcher in South Africa until 1985. In 1985 she went to Namibia to help launch the Namibian newspaper in Windhoek, Namibia. The newspaper was launched with the intent to be: "an independent newspaper committed to independence for Namibia. The newspaper will follow an independent editorial policy and will strive to achieve a greater flow of information and open debate...". While in Namibia, Sue Cullinan also pursued research for a Master's degree on the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO). This was based partially on primary interviews with people involved in the organisation. Her studies were broken abruptly (and not completed) when her fiancé was expelled from South Africa in 1987 by the government of PW Botha. Sue Cullinan lived in a number of cities in Africa and Europe and continued to work as journalist.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Includes unpublished reports, papers, speeches and articles on Namibia; National Union of Mineworkers 1986 Wage Negotiation; report - Detainee's Parents Support Committee April 1986; Keynote Address National Education Crisis Committee, Second National Consultative Conference 1986; South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) Combatants - various papers, including reports of activities made by combatants and copies of The Combatant; Memorandum of the SWA Bar Council Acting on Behalf of the Society of Advocates in Regard to the Commission of Enquiry into Security Legislation; unpublished speeches and conference papers, SWAPO; reports and conferences including: UN Council for Namibia, UN Institute for Namibia, United Nations, World Council of Churches, South African Institute of International Affairs, Worldwatch, Christian Resistance Group of South Africa, reports into the Windhoek Observer (Afrikaans) and into mining in South West Africa.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English, Afrikaans
System of arrangement:
Box listed.
Conditions governing access:
Open for research although at least 24 hours notice should be given. Some files may be closed under Freedom of Information legislation. Please see archivist for more details.
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Finding aids:
Listed to file-level
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: 2012-12-13