- GB MR-AAO-007
- Collection
- 1958 - present
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Turok, Ben
South African Institute of Race Relations
Part of Mandela Materials
South African Institute of Race Relations
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
Part of Mandela Materials
Witwatersrand Local Division of the Supreme Court (Johannesburg)
British Defence and Aid Fund Southern Africa : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
British Defence and Aid Fund Southern Africa : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
Institute of Race Relations (IRR)
Joel Carlson South African legal files
Part of Mandela Materials
The Treason Trial and other Trials
Part of Mandela Materials
Criminal Court Case No. 253/1963 (State Versus N Mandela and Others)
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives and Record Service of South Africa (NARSSA)
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
African National Congress Oral History Interviews
Part of Rivonia Trial
African National Congress (ANC) Archives Oral History Project
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 4]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Citizens' All Black Tour Association
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
South African Political Papers of His Honour Judge Kellock
Part of Rivonia Trial
The material includes fragments of the Rivonia Trial Transcript concerning the details of the charges; news sheets and press releases about the Rivonia Trial; a statement by Kellock on the Trial; information sheets on South African legislation; minutes and circulars from the World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners. Other material includes Anti-Apartheid Movement correspondence, and national and executive committee meeting minutes for 1965 - 1966; correspondence relating to the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee and its officials; and papers relating to the Nyasaland emergency of 1959.
Judge Kellock, (formerly Mr. Thomas Oslaf Kellock, Q.C.) was Chairman of the National Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain from 1963-65. This group of papers is mostly concerned with the period when Mr. Kellock was sent to South Africa by Christian Action to act as an observer for the Defence and Aid Fund at the Rivonia Trial in 1964.
Kellock, Thomas Oslaf
African National Congress Oral History Interviews
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC) Archives Oral History Project
Collectie Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika
Part of Rivonia Trial
Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika
Part of Mandela Materials
SABC Sound Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Comite Zuid-Afrika
Part of Mandela Materials
Forman, Lionel
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Committee on South Africa [Comité Zuid-Afrika] : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Committee on South Africa [Comité Zuid-Afrika] : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers
Part of Rivonia Trial
Donated by Annemarie Wolpe.
-Mostly newscuttings scrapbooks, albums and folders re Harold Wolpe's escape, Annemarie's arrest, Kantor's arrest and refused bail application, family reaction to arrests, Kantor's acquittal etc. Also cuttings re Rivonia Trial generally.
-Documents including escape story, pamphlets, articles, manuscript of Annemarie's book "The Long Way Home", documents re the Wolpe's becoming citizens of the UK, Harold Wolpe's academic papers, Annemarie Wolpe's prison file.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for James Kantor Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
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Part of Rivonia Trial
Mbeki, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa
Part of Rivonia Trial
Acquired from the Yutar family.
-Eight scrapbooks labelled "The Rivonia Trial 11 July 1963-12 June 1964 as reported by the press from 28 August 1963 to 13 June 1999". They contain a timeline of events, clippings labelled with the date. Also seven scrapbooks labelled "Soweto Riots". It is unclear whether Yutar compiled the scrapbooks or only collected the clippings.
-One lever arch file containing a manuscript for a book by Percy Yutar entitled "The Rivonia Trial - The Facts (based in authentic documentary exhibits)". The manuscript contains a preface and a breakdown of chapters but the bulk does not read like a book but rather appears to be a reproduction of the State's trial records (indictment, State's opening address, evidence for the State, evidence for the Defence, judgement, evidence in mitigation of sentence etc).
-One volume: A factual analysis of the documentary exhibits handed in and other oral testimony given at the so-called Rivonia Trial. Inscribed: "With appreciation from B G Fourie, Secretary for Information"
-Scrapbook with clippings, photographs etc. Mostly of Yutar's career after the Rivonia Trial but a few clippings relate to the Trial from May 1964.
-Press clippings in folder in plastic sleeves re Yutar's legal career, Rivonia Trial, Excelsior case, Moodie case and others.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, James Kantor Papers. There are also prosecution records from the Yutars in the personal collection of businessman Douw Steyn and in the National Archives (transferred from Brenthurst Library).
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Carter-Karis Collection of South African Materials
Part of Rivonia Trial
Karis, Thomas
Canada and the Fight Against Apartheid
Part of Rivonia Trial
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Canadian Anti-Apartheid Committee
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Archives Committee South Africa ( Comite Zuid-Afrika- CZA)
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Katz, Freda
Part of Mandela Materials
Tambo, Oliver Reginald
Commonwealth Pressure Groups, Trade Unions and Political Parties Materials
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Rivonia Trial
The Library collection of roughly 200,000 books, pamphlets, maps and microform units covers all areas and disciplines. There is an emphasis on the socio-economic development and history of sub-Saharan Africa, with special emphases (reflecting faculty interests) on Ethiopia/Eritrea, Zimbabwe, South Africa, the Sahel region of West Africa, and Nigeria (especially the Eastern Region).
Materials related to the Rivonia Trial include:
- A number of video recordings relating to the life story of Nelson Mandela and thus mentioning the Rivonia Trial in the Audio-Visual Materials on Africa
-Microform and photocopies of Kathrada Collection (originals at UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Centre) in Special Collections. Over 100 fiche in 13 boxes. DT1949.K38A4 1996; also on film: SPEC COLL RARE BOOKS XX 27823 Microfilm. Guide (1995) available at DT1949.K38S35 1995
-The Voice of Nelson Mandela (SABC, 1999), which includes extracts from the Statement from the Dock. In general library holdings (MSU DIGITAL/MEDIA AUDIODISC, 4 WEST - PT1974 .M36 1999 Audio disc)
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Part of Rivonia Trial
There are legal documents relating to the Rivonia Trial and to Kantor's law firm, personal papers, correspondence and notes from prison, and research and manuscripts for his book. The papers are not fully sorted or listed but some are in numbered folders. They do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection.
Legal papers from the Trial include cross examination of Makda in the Rivonia Trial, charges, request by defence for further particulars, replies to request for further particulars by accused #9 and 10, motion to quash the indictment (with ms notes) 26 October 1963, bail application for Kantor and Yutar's reply, Annexure A to the indictment, Annexure B to the indictment, extract of evidence of Kantor. Also Yutar's reply to application to quash, bail application for Kantor and for Bernstein, judgment on bail application (p.1-90 and p.140-144 missing), comments on the evidence by Sergeant C D van Rensburg and Lieutenant Victor, statements by Berman, Fine, Greef, Tlale, Van Niekerk, Williams.
Financial statements from Kantor, Zwarenstein and Partners Law Firm. Payments shown by Kathrada, Wolpe, Hodgson, Ezra. Shows deposit for Liliesleaf Farm. Also other legal documents including transfer of Liliesleaf Farm in November 1961 from D B Fyfe to Novian Pty Limited. Also, a copy of letter from Kantor to staff at his law firm that he had to close it due to the Trial
Personal documents of James Kantor: passport, Defence Force Card, handwritten statement entitled "Details of my trip to Liliesleaf Farm" (5 pages with diagram of farm), personal history and career summary, correspondence (including from prison while being tried), will and other personal papers. Handwritten biographies of Trialists apparently written for Kantor while they were in prison during the trial (laminated), notes written in prison during the trial some on scraps of a chocolate box. One note reads: "Welcome! If that's the right word. What the hell are you doing here? You should be out defending us. Here's a pencil. Guard it with your life. It's worth its weight in gold"
Original typed manuscript for book "A Healthy Grave", various versions of this book some with manuscript additions sometimes called "The Reluctant Revolutionary", research for the book.
Articles: "Introduction to demolition and theory of explosives", newspaper clippings about Wolpe and Goldreich's escape.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
Part of Rivonia Trial
The collection has been arranged in four series: A. Personal Documents, B. Office of the President, C. Special Topics, and D. Press Cuttings (not microfilmed).
Only a few records relate indirectly to the Rivonia Trial:
- News clippings from South African and international newspapers concerning the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962, his court appearances, and calls for his release from prison (1962 - 1988)
- A letter from the ANC London office concerning the arrests of Mandela and Walter Sisulu
- Reports on campaigns for the release of political prisones
- Correspondence from Mandela, written from Pollsmoor Prison, to Oliver Tambo and a number of other individuals
- Correspondence, reports and messages concerning international support for Mandela’s release from prison. Subjects covered include tributes on his 60th and 70th birthdays, and awards and honours conferred on Mandela, particularly through the work of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (1984)
- Correspondence and statementsre international calls for Mandela’s release from prison. These include correspondence about a resolution passed by the African Symposium on African Orality in Nigeria and a statement by the President of the Republic of Senegal after Mandela's release.
- Drafts of plays and books on Mandela, including" No Easy Walk to Freedom", "Nelson Mandela and the Rivonia Trial" and "What Is To Be Done"
- Published and unpublished statements and speeches of Mandela, 1962 - 1991
- Biographical notes onMandela
Tambo, Oliver Reginald
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
Mfaxa, Elliot
Militant Photographic Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
Part of Mandela Materials
Mbeki, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) Collection
Part of Rivonia Trial
Includes correspondence, minutes of meetings statement, briefings, press releases, press clippings, Amandla, publications.
Records related to Rivonia:
2.1.1. Minutes of meetings 1964: Contains reference to lobbying around Rivonia Trial
2.4. Dealings with Irish Press: Contains references to Rivonia Trial in statements and press conferences
31.1.1 Correspondence with ANC: Contains brief references to Rivonia Trial
39 Press cuttings 1963-1994: Cuttings are in date order and include cuttings from Irish press re arrests at Rivonia, escape of Wolpe and Goldreich and trial.
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Swedish South Africa Committee [Svenska Sydafrikakommittén]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM)
Part of Mandela Materials
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM)
Part of Mandela Materials
Tambo, Oliver Reginald
Mandela First Television Interview
Part of Mandela Materials
Naidoo, Neville
African National Congress records in Tanzania
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC)
African National Congress records in Tanzania
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC)
International Defence and Aid Fund Audio Collection
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
Turok, Ben
Part of Mandela Materials
La Palm, Robert
Amnesty International : International Secretariat : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands [Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland] : [Part 1]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
League for Socialist Action : Canada
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers: Conditions for political prisoners in 1960s
Part of Rivonia Trial
General strike: Report of the 3 day strike in South Africa (May 29, 30,31, 1961) by Nelson Mandela (Secretary, National Action Council of South Africa); prisoners of Apartheid a biographical list of political prisoners and banned persons in South Africa (IDAF in cooperation with UN Centre Against Apartheid); South African Prisons and the Red Cross Investigation and examination by the International Defence and Aid Fund with prisoners testimony. Includes general recommendations of the ICRC sent to the South African Government (18 June 1964), the SA government reply, conditions at Leeuwkop, Robben Island, Victor Verster, Vooruitsig Prison Kroonstad, and other prisons, Robert Sobukwe on Robben Island. Relates to Rivonia Trial in terms of conditions in prison for trialists once convicted.
Not available for inspection at time of this audit.
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Amnesty International : International Secretariat : [Part 3]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Amnesty International : International Secretariat : [Part 4]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Rand Daily Mail
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)Publications
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
Reddy, Enuga S.
African National Congress German Mission Records
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC) German Mission
Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Amnesty International : International Secretariat : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands [Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland] : [Part 2]
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid
Part of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives
Part of Mandela Materials
Supreme Court of South Africa
Part of Mandela Materials
African National Congress (ANC)
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers
Part of Mandela Materials
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
Part of Mandela Materials
Kodesh, Wolfie
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
Joffe, Joel
Files of United Nations Secretary-General, U Thant
Part of Mandela Materials
U Thant
National Security Archive Declassified Document Set
Part of Mandela Materials
US State Department
Part of Mandela Materials
PC 86/1/1/2/1-34
Peter Brown Correspondence
PC 86/7/1/2/6
Mandela's arrest- Letter to Randolph Vigne from Stephen Ellis ( 24th September 1992) who sent a photocopy of a newspaper cutting from the Atlanta Journal (10 June 1990) claiming that a CIA tip led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela.
PC 86/9/1/8/1
Lists of names of former activists to invite to Veteran party, London, 1994- List sent by Randolph to Manny -5 July 1995
PC86/9/1/8/3
Programme for President's birthday party- Durban City Hall 15/06/1996
PC86/9/1/11/1
The men on Robben Island an article by Mary Benson in the Guardian,10 August 1964
PC86/9/1/11/2
"I speak of Freedom" review of No easy way to Freedom on The Times Literary Supplement -29 July 1965
PC86/19/2/19
" Once it witnessed Apartheid slaughter: Yesterday Sharpeville saw a spirit if peace". The independent,11 December 1996. Report on the speech by President Mandela at the signing of the constitution in Sharpeville.
PC 86/9/1/8/3
Progammme for the President's birthday party, Durban City Hall 15/06/1996.
PC86/9/1/11/1
The men on Robben Island by Mary Benson, Guardian 10 August 1964
Vigne, Randolph
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
Trial- State vs. Nelson Mandela
Part of Mandela Materials
Arrivals for the Mandela Trial
Part of Mandela Materials
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives United Kingdom
Part of Mandela Materials
National Archives (United Kingdom)
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Records of Secretary-General U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
U Thant
Part of Rivonia Trial
Joffe, Joel
South Africa: The Making of US Policy: 1962-1989
Part of Rivonia Trial
This collection provides primary source documents describing U.S. relationships to apartheid including implementation, enforcement, and violations of the U.N-sponsored sanctions against South Africa. Including the following that relate to the Rivonia Trial:
-United States Embassy (South Africa) reports that the African National Congress (ANC) was created to carry out sabotage, stating that the arrest of Nelson Mandela occurred after he planned subversive activities (1962).
-A memorandum issued by the Summit Conference of Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1963), agreeing to provide funding to help South African liberation movements and calling for the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe and all other political prisoners.
-A memorandum on the Rivonia Trial providing biographical information on the Rivonia Trialists, and in which Nelson Mandela argues that opposition groups resorted to armed struggle only after avenues for peaceful change were blocked (1964).
-A report in which ANC and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leaders, including Nelson Mandela, Michael Harmel and Walter Sisulu are described as Communists, and documents presented during the Rivonia Trial are cited as evidence of the contacts between the ANC, PAC, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China (1964).
-A memorandum of conversation in which Cecil Eprile characterises black leaders like Nelson Mandela as careless and prone to bad judgment (1965).
-A cable relating to Resolution 473 of the United Nations Security Council urging South Africa to release all political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela (1980).
-Biographic sketch information on Nelson Mandela provided by the US Department of State (1983).
-A cable on the awarding of the international Simon Bolivar prize to Nelson Mandela by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (1983).
-Correspondence to the South African Ambassador to the United States, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela (1984).
- A cable about the Johannesburg Star Newspaper reports that the arrest of Nelson Mandela 25 years ago occurred after he was betrayed by a US Central Intelligence Agency agent posing as a diplomat of the United States Consulate General in Durban (1986).
- A statement in which Chester A. Crocker calls for the release of Nelson Mandela (1986).
- A report in which the US Department of State Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa asserts that the first steps taken by South Africa must be the release of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and all other political prisoners (1987).
The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library providing public access to declassified government documents obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These are then published as declassified document sets (as this one on South Africa), are produced in microfiche, and digitised to become part of the Digital National Security Archive database which some universities subscribe to (Monash University in South Africa).
US State Department
Part of Rivonia Trial
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla