Identity area
Reference code
ZA MR-RT-014
Title
Nelson Mandela Papers
Date(s)
- 1962 - 1964 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box. Rivonia Trial material is approximately 46 pages ; Text-based documents
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Handwritten speeches and papers by Nelson Mandela for the Pretoria Regional Court Trial (1962) and the Rivonia Trial (1963-1964). The collection includes further notes by Nelson Mandela for his defence; the application for the remand of the trial; an application challenging the right of the court to try him and his preparatory notes. Rivonia Trial records are a typed copy of Mandela's statement from the dock (signed); final clause of statement from the dock (manuscript); notes that Mandela intended to use if he were sentenced to death when asked if he had anything to say (manuscript). There are copies of these in the Legal Resources Centre, Bram Fischer Library, Johannesburg.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Inventory available online - http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/?inventory/U/collections&c=A2519/R/6289