Collection 127 - Nelson Mandela Collection

Identity area

Reference code

ZA UFHL MR-RT-127

Title

Nelson Mandela Collection

Date(s)

  • 1983 - 1998 (Accumulation)

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Extent and medium

Approximately 400 boxes ; Text-based documents

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(18 July 1918-5 December 2013)

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Scope and content

The records of the Office of the ANC President were initially listed so that they could be used to complete the writing of Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom. They were sent to his house in Houghton, and were returned to the ANC in 2004. The records cover the period from the time Nelson Mandela was ANC Deputy President (1990), ANC President (1991) to the time when he stepped down as ANC President (1997). It also however includes the few 1998-1999 records that were generated. The Nelson Mandela collection is divided into the following main series: Correspondence, Discussion Documents, Minutes of meeting, Reports, Statements, ANC departments, ANC Mission offices, ANC structures, Embassies, Negotiation/Elections, Organizations, Notebooks, Publications, Manuscripts, Memorabilia, and Braille material.

Although this collection does not relate to the Rivonia Trial, it has been included as it speaks to the post-prison involvement of the Trial's main accused.

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Unrestricted

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Finding aids

Inventory available online - http://www.liberation.org.za/findingaids/personal/nmandela.html

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