Janus: Blackspot removals in Natal

RCS contains:
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RCMS 207	Reminiscences of General Botha
RCMS 208	Development of the white community in Natal, 1845-72
RCMS 21	Diaries of John Laing in India and Europe
RCMS 212	South African flowers of the Eastern Province
RCMS 217	Journal of William Napier
RCMS 218	Blackspot removals in Natal
RCMS 219	South Africa Aid to Britain Fund
RCMS 22	Commonwealth miscellanea
RCMS 220	Southern African collection of Wren Robinson
RCMS 221	A walk to the Nyassa country
RCMS 222	Browne's expedition to the Zambezi, 1823
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Blackspot removals in Natal

Title	Blackspot removals in Natal
Reference	GBR/0115/RCMS 218 (former reference: MSS 58)
Creator	Liberal Party of South Africa; Northern Natal African Landowners' Association
Covering Dates	1953–1965
Extent and Medium	2 boxes; negative/paper/photograph; Mixed
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

During the Blackspot Removal Campaign the National Party Government in South Africa passed legislation that forced black communities living on freeholdings in white rural areas to leave and resettle on infertile land and in townships. The campaign was its height during the period covered by the material in this collection.

Papers and a few photographs and negatives concerning the impact of the Blackspot Removal Campaign in the province of Natal. Most of the papers are written in English, but there are a few items in Afrikaans and Xhosa.

Deposited by S.T.W. Hayes, St Chad's College, Durham.

Access and Use

Those wishing to consult the RCMS 218 must sign the written list of readers that accompanies the collection.

In English, Afrikaans, Xhosa

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Blackspot removals in Natal, RCMS 218

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Indexed

This collection level description was created by RAS.

Index Terms

Africa

Kwazulu-Natal, Province of

South Africa

Northern Natal African Landowners' Association

Liberal Party of South Africa

RCS/RCMS 218 contains:

Besterspruit. Correspondence, press cuttings, reports, and questions and answers in the House of Assembly.
1 folder.

1961–1964

Charlestown. Correspondence; negatives; press cuttings; reports; Chairman's address to the Liberal Party's Annual Congress, 1955; Alan Paton, 'The Charlestown story', a 26 page pamphlet on the African land issue; notices of eviction; questions and answers in the House of Assembly.
2 folders.

1955–1965

Khambula. Press cuttings; negatives; an issue of 'The Net', June 1963, including a section on Khambula; notes on South African/Race relations annual surveys.
1 folder.

1963–1965

Kumalosville. Negatives; press cuttings; reports; notes taken at a meeting on the land issue; correspondence regarding the removal of the black population, including the issue of compensation; schedule of effected owners and properties.
2 folders.

1955–1964

Mondhlo. Correspondence; press cuttings and extracts; reports, including coverage of the typhoid outbreak; interviews on conditions in Mondhlo; twelve unlabelled black and white photographs, including some depicting members of the black community receiving medical treatment; 'Bantu', no. 6, June 1963, including a report on Mondhlo; 'Intuthuko', vol. 4, no. 7, 1963.
2 folders.

1963–1965

Roosboom prayer meeting. Reports on the prayer meeting held on 1 September 1963; petitions; press cuttings; letter from the Northern Natal African Landowners' Association.
1 folder.

1963

Apartheid philosophy. Correspondence; press cuttings; reports, including a report on a student protest meeting; maps of Bantustan areas; Prof. Monica Wilson, 'Let no man put asunder', a 7 page pamphlet on the land issue.
1 folder.

1962–1965

Border industries and the Duck Ponds location. Negatives; press cuttings; unsigned two-page letter; 'Intuthuko', vol. 5, no. 8, 1964.
1 folder.

1963–1964

Campaign against Blackspot removals. Correspondence; press cuttings; reports, including a 37 page report on the Blackspots and a report on the Roosboom prayer meeting; Alan Paton, 'The Charlestown story', a 26 page pamphlet on the African land issue; signed protests and petitions; resolutions of the Liberal Party Conference of 1964; photograph and cuttings on Elliott Mngadi, National Treasurer of the Liberal Party and Secretary of the Natal African Landowners' Association, and protests at his treatment; material concerning student protests; questions and answers in the House of Assembly.
3 folders.

1962–1964

Northern Natal African Landowners' Association. Press cuttings; Association constitution; letters from the Association; interview with Mr Ngadi, Association Secretary; report on the Roosboom prayer meeting.
1 folder.

1958–1963

Technical. Correspondence; maps; press cuttings and extracts; reports; negatives from Mondhlo, Roosboom and Vryheid; Government proclamations of new land regulations; outlines of Government policy; Blackspot questionnaire for landowners, with answers; lists of African freeholders; questions submitted to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, with replies; questions and answers in the House of Assembly.
3 folders.

1953–1965

General articles. Typescript and press articles and pamphlets on the Blackspot removals; reports on student protest; four photographs of Northern Natal Blackspots with accompanying manuscript descriptions; 'Bantu', vol. xii, no. 4, April 1965.
2 folders.

1962–1965