South African Police

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380609
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: South African Police
Date(s)	: 1930-1931
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file
Name of creator(s)	: South African Police Union of South Africa | Magistrate's Office

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Although apartheid was strengthened in the period from 1948, in the preceding period black (African) and 'coloured' (other non-white) inhabitants of the Union of South Africa (established in 1910) were already disadvantaged legally and economically in comparison with white inhabitants. Initiatives to oppose their inferior treatment included the activities of the politican and writer Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript papers, 1930-1931, on the court case Rex v C Diedericks and others, concerning alleged unrest between Europeans and coloured people and a supposed meeting by the Plaatjes in the coloured township of Bulawayo, Swellendam, South Africa, including police witness statements, and correspondence between the police and the magistrate relating to alleged inconsistencies between the statements.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and Afrikaans

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired in 1988.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds papers of and concerning S T Plaatje (Ref: MS 375495); a photocopy (Ref: MS 380192) of his manuscripts, 'Notebook 1: The Essential Interpreter', and 'Notebook 2: Sekgama' (originals in Witwatersrand University Library, Johannesburg), part of the South African Materials Project.

Papers of S T Plaatje are held at the Historical Papers section of the Library, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 2002