Identity area
Reference code
ZA COM NMAP-2009/3
Title
Ahmed Kathrada Collection
Date(s)
- 1963 to 1964 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
70 stapled folio pages, loose blue cover; charge sheet: 5 folio pages, partially stapled
Context area
Name of creator
(08 August 1929 - 28 March 2017)
Biographical history
Anti-apartheid activist, politician, political prisoner and MP. Leading member of the ANC and of the SACP. Founding member of the Transvaal Indian Volunteer Corps and its successor, the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress. Imprisoned for one month in 1946 for his participation in the SAIC’s Passive Resistance Campaign against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act. Convicted for his participation in the 1952 Defiance Campaign. Banned in 1954. Co-organiser of the Congress of the People and a member of the Congress Alliance General Purpose Committee. Detained during the 1960 State of Emergency. One of the last twenty-eight accused in the Treason Trial acquitted in 1961. Placed under house arrest in 1962. Arrested at Liliesleaf Farm in July 1963 and charged with sabotage in the Rivonia Trial. Imprisoned on Robben Island, 1964–82, then Pollsmoor Prison until his release on 15 October 1989. MP from 1994, after South Africa’s first democratic elections, and served as political adviser to President Mandela.
Repository
Archival history
Both documents were received by Kathrada in 2003 from Sylvia Neame. Kathrada had given these to her at the time of the Rivonia trial.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Ahmed Kathrada
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of an annotated and signed copy of Mandela’s speech from the dock and carbon copy of the charge sheet from the Rivonia Trial, The State vs Mandela and others.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Finding aid is available: NMF_LIB-#205201-v1-NMAP_2009_3_Ahmed_Kathrada_Collection.doc
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Kathrada, Ahmed Mohamed (Kathy) (Subject)
- Neame, Sylvia (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
za-com-nmap-2009-3
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD (G) Second Edition
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Full
Dates of creation revision deletion
2011-06-29
Language(s)
- English