Call Number:

SC001

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Selectors

Extent:

6 boxes

Language:

English

Date:

1964-1981 (inclusive)

Creator:

Dlamini, Jacob S. T

Form:

Administrative reports. -- 20th century and Clippings. -- 20th century

Abstract:

Consists of photocopied documents relating to human rights in South Africa from the National Archives and Record Administration, compiled by Princeton History Professor Jacob Dlamini.

Jacob Dlamini is an Assistant Professor and historian of Africa, with an interest in precolonial, colonial and postcolonial African History. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is also a graduate of Wits University in South Africa and Sussex University in England.

This collection consists of photocopies of official records and news articles/clippings from the National Archives and Records Administration relating to government activities, activism, laws, and court cases in South Africa between 1967 and 1987. Princeton History Professor Jacob Dlamini obtained these documents as the result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

These records document the political lanscape and resistance in South Africa during the later stages of Apartheid. Materials related to Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) are included, specifically documents concerning the arrest of ANC members and the 1979 treason conviction and death sentence of ANC member James Mange. There are also documents illustrating efforts of the UN Centre Against Apartheid, as well as numerous other South African liberation enterprises.