Generally speaking, many of the biggest technology challenges facing the Agribusiness sector are a combination of factors; the degree of technology offering fragmentation; the existence of legacy / traditional applications; the lack of fully integrated solutions; and the emergence of next generation technologies (e.g. data analytics or high-resolution image processing) for which the value propositions are still evolving. As a consequence, the commercial, logistics, and technology teams are faced with the difficult ongoing decision making process of matching technologies and process solutions to business improvement actions, while ensuring the delivery has a clear return on these investments.
"It's a very exciting time for technology and logistics leaders in the Agribusiness sector"
For agriculture commodity businesses, the real opportunities in my mind are twofold; an end-to-end supply chain automation capability; and a single SKU data analytics platform. Both delivered as a cloud based, subscription based service. Both have yet to be realized.
1. Generating clean data–at least clean enough to enable multiple models to be engineered off the same dataset.
2. Engineering a smart data model–one with flexibility and the end goal in mind.
3. Leveraging a portfolio of integration tools–data originates from an array of sources.
4. Having a great set of visualizations–many analysts and decision makers (maybe most) need pictures to 'see' the insights and possibilities.
5. Creating actionable insights which will have a direct impact on revenue and profits–otherwise it's not worth the cost and effort.
Building the right visualizations and creating actionable insights are most critical to the success of enterprise-wide data integration efforts and will require a new team of talent and skills in order to achieve it.
4. Next generation trading platforms that disintermediate traditional market trading mechanisms by bringing buyers and sellers together more efficiently.
We have been using cloud, subscription-based products, and other support services from the marketplace for several years now. For us the two most exciting technology trends we expect to have a significant impact on our future are; technologies which advance our ability to optimize and predict farm field-level production (yield and revenue), and distributed analytical capabilities allowing us to uncover profit producing insights within super-sized datasets which were previously not attainable.
For us, we have worked very hard to break many of the traditional IT roles using two primary organizational development axioms; the way we run IT, and the way we work with the business teams.
In terms of running IT, we operate on lean principles with an overarching objective to buy services first (that is to say subscription base technology services as a platform), buy products second (the more traditional model), and build it ourselves as a last resort (usually driven by competitive differentiation, lack of marketplace availability, or lack of economies of scale).
In terms of working with our business partners, we are driven to understand all commercial and operational activities needed to generate revenue and profitability–our IT team knows how we make money. We participate with our commercial business partners to deliver technology services to run the business, and secondly, we identify technology investment actions to improve the business. Then, we operate as an integrated cross-functional team to achieve the objectives. In fact, this process even impacted me personally when the executive leadership recently expanded my role to include logistics and transportation.
As an organizational philosophy, we use a flexible assignment approach – typically in the most critical roles needed for the success of our company – where individuals are given different medium-term assignments that require skills generally outside of his or her core skillset, but are well within their potential to perform. Pressing IT professionals into these new assignment areas on a regular basis affords them an opportunity to grow, gives the company the benefits of their hard work and commitment, while creating innovative ways to add value to the company.
Achieving this level of flexibility requires the right IT leadership, the right operational model, the right kinds of IT professionals on the team, and the right level of confidence from business partners (earned by a team with a reputation for success).
Be patient. The Agri-business sector has been under-served by technology solution providers (as compared to retail, healthcare, energy, financial, etc.) in the past. Consequently, there's no obvious pathway to success–this needs to be crafted to align with the strategic objectives of the business and in partnership with the commercial leadership. However, this is an exciting time since we have a chance to leap-frog some of the technology solutions from the past decade and move directly to those that will flourish for the next one.


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CHAPTER 960. VICTIM ASSISTANCE
SECTION 960.065. Eligibility for awards.
1(1) 2Except as provided in subsection (2), the following persons shall be eligible for awards pursuant to this chapter:
20(a) 21A victim.
23(b) 24An intervenor.
26(c) 27A surviving spouse, parent or guardian, sibling, or child of a deceased victim or intervenor.
42(d) 43Any other person who is dependent for his or her principal support upon a deceased victim or intervenor.
61(2) 62Any claim filed by or on behalf of a person who:
73(a) 74Committed or aided in the commission of the crime upon which the claim for compensation was based;
91(b) 92Was engaged in an unlawful activity at the time of the crime upon which the claim for compensation is based, unless the victim was engaged in prostitution as a result of being a victim of human trafficking as described in s. 133787.06(3)(b), 134(d), (f), or (g);
138(c) 139Was in custody or confined, regardless of conviction, in a county or municipal detention facility, a state or federal correctional facility, or a juvenile detention or commitment facility at the time of the crime upon which the claim for compensation is based;
181(d) 182Has been adjudicated as a habitual felony offender, habitual violent offender, or violent career criminal under s. 199775.084; 200or
201(e) 202Has been adjudicated guilty of a forcible felony offense as described in s. 215776.08,
216is ineligible for an award.
221(3) 222Any claim filed by or on behalf of a person who was in custody or confined, regardless of adjudication, in a county or municipal facility, a state or federal correctional facility, or a juvenile detention, commitment, or assessment facility at the time of the crime upon which the claim is based, who has been adjudicated as a habitual felony offender under s. 284775.084, 285or who has been adjudicated guilty of a forcible felony offense as described in s. 300776.08 301renders the person ineligible for an award. Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon a finding by the Crime Victims' Services Office of the existence of mitigating or special circumstances that would render such a disqualification unjust, an award may be approved. A decision that mitigating or special circumstances do not exist in a case subject to this section does not constitute final agency action subject to review pursuant to ss. 369120.569 370and 371120.57372.
373(4) 374Payment may not be made under this chapter if the person who committed the crime upon which the claim is based will receive any direct or indirect financial benefit from such payment, unless such benefit is minimal or inconsequential. Payment may not be denied based on the victim's familial relationship to the offender or based upon the sharing of a residence by the victim and offender, except to prevent unjust enrichment of the offender.
448(5) 449A person is not ineligible for an award pursuant to paragraph (2)(a), paragraph (2)(b), or paragraph (2)(c) if that person is a victim of sexual exploitation of a child as defined in 4811482s. 48339.01(69)(g)484.
History.-s. 1, ch. 77-452; s. 1, ch. 79-297; s. 4, ch. 80-146; s. 2, ch. 85-326; s. 10, ch. 90-211; s. 7, ch. 92-107; s. 1711, ch. 97-102; s. 4, ch. 99-373; s. 34, ch. 2001-64; s. 8, ch. 2012-105; s. 2, ch. 2014-160; s. 61, ch. 2014-224.
Note.-Substituted by the editors for a reference to s. 39.01(68)(g) in s. 61, ch. 2014-224. "Sexually exploited child" is defined in s. 39.01(69)(g). "Secretary" is defined in s. 39.01(68), which has no paragraphs.
Note.-Former s. 960.04.
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Home Best of VA Arts, Culture & Entertainment: Shenandoah Valley Region Winners 2018
Arts, Culture & Entertainment: Shenandoah Valley Region Winners 2018
Best Annual Charity Event
First place: Deck the Halls, Project Horizon, VMI Marshall Hall, Lexington, ProjectHorizon.org, 540-463-7861
The annual gala has sold out every year and raised more than $500,000 since it was first held in 2000. Proceeds from the dinner, dance and silent auction support Project Horizon's mission to reduce domestic violence and help victims in Buena Vista, Lexington and Rockbridge counties.
Second place: Night at the Museum, Explore More Discovery Museum, Harrisonburg, IExploreMore.com, 540-442-8900
Third place: YMCA Spring Gala, Waynesboro, WaynesboroYMCA.com, 540-943-9622
Best Art Event
First place: Fall Foliage Art Show, Waynesboro, SVACArt.com, 540-949-7662
Artists, local businesses and more than 200 community volunteers come together annually to showcase regional art and fine crafts at the Shenandoah Valley Art Center. The nationally recognized show features work from 150 fine artists and artisans in printmaking, painting pottery, glass, jewelry and more, and also includes gourmet food trucks, craft beer and live music.
Second place: Staunton Augusta Art Center's Art in the Park at Gypsy Hill, Staunton, SAArtCenter.org, 540-885-2028
Third place: First Fridays Downtown, Harrisonburg, ValleyArts.org, 540-801-8779
First place: Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, SVACArt.com, 540-949-7662
The center aims to increase art awareness as well create economic opportunities for artists by hosting exhibitions in its Invitational Gallery and in public places, including the Waynesboro, Augusta and Staunton libraries. Events include 40 Under 40, highlighting young, contemporary artists, and the Annual Member's Judged Exhibit featuring more than 200 artists.
Second place: Earth, Fire, & Spirit Pottery, Lexington, EFSPottery.com, 405-788-9919
Third place: Larkin Arts, Harrisonburg, LarkinArts.com, 540-236-4223
First place: Blue Ridge CASA for Children, Staunton, CASA4Children.org, 540-213-2272
Since 1994, the Blue Ridge chapter of the National CASA Association has helped more than 900 Shenandoah area children suffering from abuse and neglect. This year, the group received a $40,000 grant from the national association to help increase the number of children it serves in Augusta and Rockingham counties.
Second place: Project Horizon, Lexington, ProjectHorizon.org, 540-463-7861
Third place: Explore More Discovery Museum, Harrisonburg, IExploreMore.com, 540-442-8900
Best Family Entertainment
First place: Explore More Discovery Museum, Harrisonburg, IExploreMore.com, 540-442-8900
This is where curiosity, creativity and imagination can run wild. The museum is filled with hands-on, interactive children's exhibitions, including a pint-sized car service center, mock farmers' market and science lab. New additions this year include kid-safe laser cutters, woodworking machines and a 3D printer.
Second place: Ruby's Arcade, Harrisonburg, 540-615-5351
Third place: Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, Staunton, FrontierMuseum.org, 540-332-7850
Best Food Festival
First place: Virginia Food Truck Battle, Staunton, VaFoodTruckBattle.com
Eighteen food trucks and six craft breweries battle for first place, chosen by festivalgoers, while event proceeds help battle pediatric cancer. Last year, Paella Perfecta took home the title with its signature Spanish dish. Hosted by the MaDee Project, the September festival also features live music, artisan vendors and children's entertainment.
Second place: Food Truck Festival, Harrisonburg, ValleyOpenDoors.org, 540-705-1908
Third place: Harrisonburg International Festival, Harrisonburg, Harrisonburg-International-Festival.org, 540-434-0059
First place: Visulite Cinema, Staunton, VisuliteCinemas.com, 540-885-9959
In addition to screening blockbuster movies, Visulite screens smaller, independent films and hosts special events such as the Met Opera Live on Screen series. The three-screen theater has been renovated with modern technology, but has maintained its original 1937 marquee and exterior.
Second place: Zeus Digital Theatre, Waynesboro, ZeusTheaters.com, 540-416-0536
Third place: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Winchester, Drafthouse.com, 540-313-4060
Begun in collaboration with Harrisonburg's revitalization efforts, the interactive museum has expanded to provide educational opportunities for children. In addition to its permanent exhibits, which include a science lab, construction zone and TV studio, the museum offers summer and after school classes in music, engineering, cooking and even Lego building.
Second place: Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, Staunton, WoodrowWilson.org, 540-885-0897
Best Music Venue
First place: Clementine, Harrisonburg, ClementineCafe.com, 540-801-8881
This bi-level venue's relaxing atmosphere attracts talent from across the country for weekly performances. For a decade, the upstairs level has hosted Americana, folk and sounds from the region, while downstairs varies from reggae artists to punk bands. Blue Sprocket Sound, a local recording company, helps provide high-quality sound for the venue.
Second place: The Golden Pony, Harrisonburg, GoldenPonyVa.com, 540-901-2628
Third place: Lime Kiln Theatre, Lexington, LimeKilnTheater.org
Best Performing Arts Company
First place: American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse, Staunton, AmericanShakespeareCenter.com, 877-682-4236
The world's only re-creation of Shakespeare's indoor theater is home to ASC's resident company of actors who bring the Bard's language and vision to life year-round. In addition to plays from Shakespeare's canon, the troupe also presents more contemporary work, including a world premiere adaptation of by Jane Austen, on stage through June 9.
Second place: ShenanArts, Staunton, ShenanArts.org, 540-712-0001
Third place: Regional Center for the Performing Arts of Luray Inc., Luray, PerformingArtsLuray.org, 540-743-3311
Best Special Event Venue
First place: Cross Keys Barn, Harrisonburg, CrossKeysBarn.com, 540-820-1744
Its dramatic view of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the attraction for many couples who choose Cross Keys Barn as the venue for their wedding day. The 105-year-old barn, situated on a dairy farm, comprises 3,300 square feet and features a cathedral ceiling and the building's original wood siding.
Second place: Merry Go Round Farm, Covington, MerryFarmers.com, 804-339-3434
Third place: Stover Hall, Luray, StoverHall.com, 540-742-1703
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Edward Cohen was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on July 3, 1948. A former head writer and executive producer for Mississippi Educational Television, Cohen has produced a number of documentaries on southern or Jewish subjects, including Good Mornin' Blues with B.B. King; The Islander, starring James Best; Passover; and Hanukkah, narrated by Ed Asner, all broadcast nationally by PBS. His other documentaries include The Parchman Trials (an exposé of Mississippi's penal farm), and The Last Confederates (the story of the little known culture of the descendants of the expatriate Confederates who emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War). His documentary work has received numerous international film festival awards, as well as two CINE Golden Eagles.
More recently he wrote, produced, directed and edited The Natchez Jewish Experience for the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. The film tells the bittersweet story of a once-thriving congregation in Natchez, Mississippi, now down to a handful of members dedicated to keeping their temple open until the last member shuts out the lights. The documentary won the Judah P. Magnes Museum Muse Award for Best Historical Documentary.
In 1999, he published The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, a memoir in which he describes growing up in the heart of the Bible Belt in the 1950s. The book was honored by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters as the winner of its nonfiction award in 2000. Cohen also was awarded the Mississippi Authors Award for Nonfiction by the Mississippi Library Association in 2000.
Today, Cohen lives with his wife and three cairn terriers in Venice, California, where he is a freelance writer and filmmaker.
You can find out more about Edward Cohen and The Peddler's Grandson at the web site for the book.
The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi. Includes information about the book and author, reviews, purchase information, "little-known southern-Jewish facts," and more.
Edward Cohen, Mississippi writer from Jackson, Mississippi. From the Mississippi Writers and Musicians web site, Starkville High School, Starkville, Mississippi.
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Investing in well-being makes business sense. Today, employers must support a diverse workforce of employees who are working until later in life and with increasing health risks.
The future of public provision of health care is uncertain; and the cost of private health care is rising as it becomes more and more expensive to treat sick employees.
To meet these challenges and remain competitive, employers must think differently about the health care benefits they provide.
We are working with employers of all sizes to help them target and address the specific health risks within their organisation and measure the effectiveness and ROI of their initiatives, building a sound business case for health.
Managing risk for employee benefits is an area of increasing concern. The unpredictable nature of benefits provided in the event of death in service and prolonged or serious ill health sets them apart from similar offerings. Pension scheme trustees and employers who are responsible for providing these benefits must, therefore, seek professional advice on cash flow and the ultimate cost of these benefit provisions.
Continued increases in the cost of providing healthcare and the increasing complexity of the offerings available make the provision of healthcare benefits very challenging. Mercer's healthcare consulting team has a wealth of experience working with both healthcare clients and providers.
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In addition, through the promotion of afforestation and reforestation, improved forest management, and green building and furnishing, the SFO concept further emphasizes the role of wood as a renewable and environmentally friendly material.
Improving safety and ergonomics for forest operators.
"The innovation behind this new paradigm of SFO is the integrated approach to forest operations," said Prof Enrico Marchi, of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Systems at the University of Florence, Italy, and one of the study's authors. "It aims at reconciling bio-economy, environmental ecology, human factors and society and different scale levels.
The five key, interrelated, performance areas necessary to ensure the sustainability of forest operations – environment; ergonomics; economics; quality optimization of products and production; and people and society – "are quite obvious, if you consider them singularly. The real challenge is to find a balance among the performance areas, addressing each of them without negatively affecting the others," said Prof. Marchi.
"It is workable around the world. Each country, depending on its own socio-economic condition, legislation, needs and management objectives, could apply the principles of SFO to find the best way for them to address the sustainable development approach in forest operations," he said.
"Actually, good policies should be applied in order to decrease costs for forest enterprises, because more profitable activity means a higher capacity for businesses to invest in safer machines, healthier equipment and low-impact operations," said Prof. Marchi.
"Everyone with a stake in wood production, environmental protection, forest-related tourism, forest workers associations, etc., will benefit from SFO. But, in the end, forests are a benefit to everyone. So a correct implementation of SFO principles will, in the long run, benefit everyone," he said.


Here's Tollywood star Nagarjuna posing with his Brahmastra's co-stars Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor and director Ayan Mukherji on the film's sets in a European country.
Brahmastra's producer and popular Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar tweeted the actor, saying that Nag is playing an extremely special role in the film. "Thank you sir for your love and your beautiful energy," Karan said, as he welcomed Nag. It's been nearly 15 years since Nag acted in a Bollywood film. He was last seen in the 2003 film, LOC Kargil.


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Covid has accentuated the private cost of India's public failure
4 min read . Updated: 03 May 2021, 09:25 PM IST Vivek Kaul
People carry a body of a man, who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during his cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi (REUTERS)
The health crisis will boost the trend of India's well-off opting out to create parallel infrastructure
On 2 May, the total number of active covid cases in the country crossed 3.4 million. The number was at 5,80,387 on 31 March, implying a jump of around 488% in a little over a month's time. Unlike the first wave, this time around the well-to-do middle class has also been heavily impacted by the pandemic. Even the upper middle class and the rich are getting a feel of the real Indian system, or rather the lack of it.
As the 15th Finance Commission (FFC) pointed out in its report: "In 2018, there were 11.54 lakh registered allopathic medical doctors [and] 29.66 lakh nurses." The ratio of doctors to our population is very low, at one doctor for every 1,511 people, against one for every 1,000 people recommended by the World Health Organization. Further, India has one nurse for every 670 people against the recommended 300.
As of June 2020, India had just over 1.25 million allopathic doctors. The number of nurses stood at about 3.26 million, as of December 2019.
These are aggregate numbers, and the situation varies across different parts of the country. Kerala has 65,685 doctors for a population of 35.6 million. Jharkhand's population is 38.6 million, but the state has only 6,837 doctors. Karnataka has 130,698 doctors for a population of 67.6 million. In comparison, Gujarat has 69,746 doctors for a population of 63.9 million. Uttar Pradesh has 84,560 doctors for a population of 237.9 million. Clearly, there is a great inequity when it comes to the availability of doctors. The same is true of nurse availability as well.
There is much more to health infrastructure than just doctors and nurses, but a look at this data suggests that India's medical infrastructure is weak and distributed unequally. Even in 2020-21, the central and state governments spent just 1.8% of India's gross domestic product (GDP) on health, against the 1.4-1.5% of GDP earlier.
What's true of health is also true for other sectors like education, and the general ease of living. This leads to what economist Albert Hirschman calls the exit from the state; those who can, opt out. As Akhilesh Tilotia writes in Through the Looking Glass: "They create a parallel infrastructure, at significant private cost."
This exit is visible in how people cocoon themselves in urban gated communities, making sure that there are diesel generators to ensure the availability of electricity even if there is a power cut, sending their kids to private schools, buying vehicles to move around because the public transport is not up to the mark, and so on. Opting out also involves tax avoidance. The taxes collected by our central government have fallen from a peak of 12.1% of GDP in 2007-08 to 10.6% in 2020-21.
Tilotia calls this the private cost of public failure, "as citizens seek out market-based avenues to fulfil their needs" and pay lower taxes in the process.
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The exit also involves using private health services because what the government has to offer in most states isn't deemed reliable. The trouble is that even the private health services do not have enough scale to make up for what the government isn't able to offer. And that has come to the fore with the second wave of this pandemic.
How will this play out once we are out of the pandemic? One thing that will happen is that more of India's super-rich will want to leave the country and move to places with better health systems and lower tax rates. In fact, as per the Global Wealth Migration Review, published by New World Wealth, a wealth intelligence firm, nearly 7,000 wealthy Indians or 2% of our high net-worth individuals left the country in 2019. Of course, this was more on account of high taxes here than our rickety health system.
This migration will intensify in the years to come, putting pressure on the total amount of taxes collected by the government, given that a bulk of the country's income tax is paid by very few people. As the 15th Finance Commission report points out: "The number of taxpayers who filed returns in AY 2018-19 was about 5.87 crore... 40.4% were in the nil tax bracket and another 52.8% in the tax-bracket below ₹1.5 lakh." Hence, those in the top tax brackets pay most of the tax. And if some of them choose to leave the country, it means lower tax collections for the government.
Of course, a bulk of our well-to-do will continue to live in the country. One way for them to push for easier lives is to be politically more active. But given their numbers, they remain politically irrelevant.
So, the only option left for them is even higher self-preservation, and that would mean more people trying to exit from the state. In the short-run, it would mean setting aside more money for a health emergency. An immediate impact of this will be that the release of pent-up consumption we saw after the first wave of covid last year won't happen this time.
In the long-term, one can foresee gated communities with their own hospitals coming up. This could soak up medical resources and put further pressure on our already-weak health infrastructure. No doubt, all this will be very difficult to measure. But it will be the private cost of India's public failure.


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Ladyhawke is back with upbeat new album and life
Ladyhawke is back with a brand new album and a brand new life.
After a four-year break, the New Zealand born singer-songwriter roars back on stage with "Wild Things" – an upbeat album reflecting her much happier state of being. She is now married and sober.
She said recording this third album was only possible after she made some "massive changes" in her life.
"Before I'd made those changes, I was struggling to write songs, you know. I was writing dark material and wasn't happy with anything I was doing and just didn't feel right. I've sort of let go of a lot of my anxieties about the past that I used to have. I think not drinking is a massive reason of how I've managed to let go of those things.
Ladyhawke: 'I was always drunk on stage. It's how I hid my anxiety' – The Guardian https://t.co/t6ja5zkXuL
— Kings of Leon Fans (@kingsofleonfans) June 9, 2016
Born Philippa Brown, Ladyhawke shot to fame in 2008 with a first album and five hit singles including the chart topper 'My Delirium.'
Today the 36-year-old says the music industry can be brutal, and she's set up her own label to work on projects close to her heart.
"Countless peers of mine and musicians in the same position as me have had unfortunate experiences or been taken advantage of in one way or another, contracts, you know," she said.
"It's the boring old story but it's the reality of it and I think if you're a young artist, you need to have a good team around you and really be… read your contract for starters. Make sure you have the best lawyer and make sure the lawyer doesn't work for the record company."
"Wild Things" is out now and Ladyhawke's tour will take her through the US, Australia and New Zealand.
Really excited to be playing Caloundra Music Festival this year! See you there! Tickets https://t.co/9cbqbqndCMpic.twitter.com/2UIVtFRr2J
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Mr A. Philip Randolph, an African American labour and civil rights activist, was a member of the Committee of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR), founded in 1952 to support the Defiance Campaign. He was also a member of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and headed the Committee on Conscience against Apartheid, formed by ACOA. He was very active in the End Loans campaigns.
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AKZA was a national organisation based in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium. It operated from 1972-1991 and developed out of progressive student organisations. It started as the Flemish Angola Committee and supported the liberation movements directly. They organised numerous boycott campaigns and was instrumental in the formation of the largest social action coalition in Flanders, the Flemish Anti-Apartheid Coalition (Vlaamse Anti-Apartheid Koalitie - VAAK). It also collaborated with other AAMs and was part of the Liaison Group of Anti-Apartheid Movements within the European Community (known as the Liaison Group).
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The Africa Centre was established in 1964 in London to create awareness about developments in Africa. Leading African artists, writers, politicians and musicians met at the centre and it served as a platform by organising evenings with theatre and discussions.
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The Africa Educational Trust (AET) was founded in 1958. Originally it was part of the Africa Bureau, which later split into the Africa Bureau and Africa Educational and Publication Trust. The main aim was to help exiles and refugees with their education.
Africa Fund : [Part 1]
US MR-AAO-008
The Africa Fund was founded in 1966 by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). They shared offices and staff but had separate boards and budgets. It supported health and educational projects of the liberations movements. It also supported the South African Council of Churches to aid political prisoners and their families. It researched American corporations and their ties with South Africa. It merged in 2001 with the Africa Policy Information Center (APIC) and ACOA to form Africa Action.
Africa Groups of Sweden [Afrikagrupperna] : [Part 1]
SE SLMAL MR-AAO-011
The AGS was formed in 1974 by several local Africa groups, some of them already active in the early 1960s. It gave unconditional support to the liberation struggle. It began its work by supporting the struggles in the Portuguese colonies and continued to work on Southern Africa lobbying the Swedish government to institute sanctions. It initiated the establishment of the Isolate South Africa Committee (ISAK). In 1992 the AGS merged with the Africa Groups Recruitment Organisation / Afrikagruppernas Rekryteringsorganisation, and continues to operate as Afrikagrupperna.
SE MR-AAO-012
Africa Groups Recruitment Organisation [Afrikagruppernas Rekryteringsorganisation]
The ARO was initiated by the AGS 1978, initially to recruit health care workers, teachers and administrators to work in the former Portuguese colonies. It expanded its work to ANC camps and schools and was active in these areas until 1992. When apartheid ended and Namibia became independent, ARO's main task became to support the reconstruction of South Africa and Namibia. As a consequence, the activities of ARO and the Africa Groups of Sweden became similar, and the organisations merged in 1992 under the name the Africa Groups of Sweden (Afrikagrupperna).
African Skies : [Part 1]
NL AS MR-AAO-016
African Skies is a foundation for audio-visual archives and productions on Southern Africa. African Skies was founded in 1995, shortly after the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994. The roots of African Skies can be found in the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement. The Dutch AAM facilitated and sponsored the foundation of African Skies.
Alexander Defence Committee : Madison Chapter : [Part 2]
ZA UWCRIMA MR-AAO-020
This local branch of the international Alexander Defence Committee was established to protest against and to assist political prisoners, particularly Dr Neville Alexander. It existed from 1964-1968.
American Committee on Africa : [Part 2]
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was formed in 1953 to support the liberation struggle in Africa. It grew out of the ad-hoc organisation Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR), set up to support the Defiance Campaign of the ANC in 1952. It started with an office in New York City and opened an office in Washington DC in 1967. The NYC office had a national focus and organised sanctions and divestment campaigns at universities, churches, states and cities. It merged in 2001 with Africa Fund (AF) and Africa Policy Information Centre (APIC) to form Africa Action.
Amnesty International Netherlands
NL IISG MR-AAO-035
Amnesty International (AI) Netherlands started in 1968 and was mainly active around issues concerning political prisoners, the death sentence and other human rights violations in South Africa.
Amnesty International USA
Early 1960s - present
The AI-USA started in the early 1960s and has several offices in the country. It is an affiliate of AI- International Secretariat and bases its activities on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The campaigns concentrate on the rights of political prisoners and unfair trials, working towards the release of prisoners of conscience.
Anglican Church of Canada : [Part 1]
CA MR-AAO-038
The Anglican Church of Canada took a very active stand against apartheid. In the late 1980s, Archbishop Ted Scott served on the Commonwealth of Nations 'Eminent Persons Group' which advocated the implementation of sanctions against South Africa.
Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 3]
GB ULSOAS MR-AAO-047
The AAM started in 1959 under the name The Boycott Movement Committee. It changed its name to AAM in 1960 after the Sharpeville massacre to become a permanent organisation. It grew into one of the biggest anti-apartheid organisations in the world with committees covering specific subjects and branches all over the UK. It was a member of the European Liaison Group. It was often the fore-runner and initiator of international campaigns and worked closely with the ANC and UN agencies. It dissolved itself in 1995 to continue as Action for Southern Africa (ACTSA).
Anti-Apartheid Movement Germany [Anti-Apartheid Bewegung] : [Part 2]
The Anti-Apartheid Movement Germany (AAB) operated from 1974 till 1994. It was formed on the initiative of the Mainz Working Group on Southern Africa (MAKSA). It was very active in the campaigns against the arms trade with South Africa, the release of Nelson Mandela, as well as the fruit, sport, Royal Dutch Shell and cultural boycott. It consisted of a network of local groups and worked with a variety of peace and religious organisations. In the late 1970s/early 1980s it used shareholders meetings (by buying shares) to pressurise banks not to deal with South Africa and pressured the Federal government to take an active anti-apartheid position. The AAB also participated in the Liaison Group. In May 1994 the AAB changed its name to Afrika-Süd Aktionsbündnis, which continued to carry out solidarity work with Southern Africa. Since the end of August 2001, Afrika-Süd Aktionsbündnis was dissolved and Koordination Südliches Afrika (KOSA, Co-ordination for Southern Africa) became the successor organisation.
Anti-Apartheid Movement of Canada
c 1970 - unknown
The Anti-Apartheid Movement Canada operated from around 1970 and was a Toronto-based organisation.
Anti-Apartheid Movement, London (London Anti-Apartheid Committee) branch : [Part 2]
AAM London was the umbrella organisation for the 32 anti-apartheid groups in the Greater London area, and a regional committee of the national anti-apartheid movement. It took an active role in promoting the boycott movement, encouraging local groups to picket supermarkets, branches of Barclays Bank, Shell garages and other organisations supporting apartheid. It also encouraged involvement by the trade unions and churches, among many other organisations, in the anti-apartheid struggle.
Antigua and Barbuda Anti-Apartheid Organisation : [Part 3]
The Antigua and Barbuda AAO was affiliated with the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement (ACLM), a radical socialist and Pan-African political party founded in 1968. The party supported anti-apartheid struggles in South Africa and organised African Liberation Day celebrations in Antigua.
Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
ACAS was founded in 1977 at Michigan State University to provide an alternative analysis of Africa and US policy towards Africa. It developed communication and action networks between scholars in Africa and the USA. It mobilised support in the USA for anti-apartheid solidarity. It continues to work on current African issues.
Campaign Against Racial Exploitation : [Part 2]
The Campaign Against Racial Exploitation (CARE) was a national anti-racist umbrella organisation whose activities focused on anti-apartheid and Australian Aboriginal issues. It was formed in 1973 as the first national anti-apartheid and anti-racism network in Australia, at the suggestion of South African exile Neville Curtis, and formally launched in December 1974. CARE launched many campaigns, including those against South African company Rothmans, as well as Woolworths and Shell, and was prominent in sports boycotts.
Canadian Anti-Apartheid Committee
The CAAC was active in Toronto in the early 1960s.
Champaign-Urbana Coalition against Apartheid
This was a campus based group at the University of Illinois. It operated from 1964 till about 1991 and worked especially for divestment by the university, boycott and human rights campaigns. The organisation continued and broadened its work in the early 1990s and changed its name to the Champaign-Urbana Coalition on Africa.
Citizens Association for Racial Equality
NZ MR-AAO-108
Founded in 1964, the Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) campaigned to eliminate all sporting contacts with South Africa so long as it practiced apartheid. CARE spearheaded opposition to the 1965 Springbok rugby tour of New Zealand. Besides working towards a boycott of all sports contacts with South Africa it also focused on racism in New Zealand.
Coalition against the Tour : Christchurch : [Part 2]
1985 - unknown
The Coalition against the Tour Christchurch was an ad-hoc, local organisation set up to organise the opposition against the Springbok Rugby Tour in 1985. The tour was eventually stopped by a High Court injunction.
Commission of the Churches on International Affairs - World Council of Churches
The CCIA started to operate in 1946 and is comprised of thirty people nominated by churches and regional ecumenical organisations to advise the World Council of Churches (WCC) in international affairs. It focuses on peace-making and peaceful resolution of conflicts, militarism, disarmament and arms control. After 1975, a Human Rights Advisory Group was formed within the CCIA to advise on policy in this area. The scope of the organisation was much extended in 2006, when it merged with three other WCC advisory bodies.
Committee for Health in Southern Africa
US CU MR-AAO-116
CHISA was a specialist organisation, founded in 1984 and operating till 1995. This specialist organisation worked on health and related human rights issues in South Africa as well as the role of health professionals and organisations. It maintained contacts with NAMDA (National Medical and Dental Association), a progressive health organisation in South Africa). CHISA was also active in other countries in North America.
Committee on South African War Resistance : [Part 1]
ZA MR-AAO-120
COSAWR was founded in 1978 by South African draft (military service) resisters active in the UK. It was a self-help organisation for those escaping conscription in the SADF and to support those who were resisting conscription within the country. It raised the issue of militarism in South Africa and conducted research into the South African military structure and resistance to it. COSAWR established a presence in several other European countries. Its magazine 'Resister' became the leading magazine on South Africa's militarisation.
Community Aid Abroad Southern Africa
AU SLNSW MR-AAO-124
In 1979 the group formally became a constituent of Community Aid Abroad, under the name Community Aid Abroad (Southern Africa). The core members of CAASA came together in 1983 to form the African National Congress Support Group. The group proclaimed their support for the ANC in the liberation struggle in South Africa. In 1984, as a result of Eddie Funde's request, the group became Anti-Apartheid, Melbourne. It grew rapidly in support and numbers until internal politics and outside pressures caused the group's dissolution in September 1985.
Council on Ecumenical and International Relations, Church of Norway [Mellomkirkelig råd] : [Part 1]
c 1948 - present
The Council of the Church of Norway, the official Norwegian church, became involved in anti-apartheid issues through their contacts with churches in South Africa around 1948. It worked especially with the South African Council of Churches and the Christian Institute. South Africa became the central focus for the Church of Norway's international work. It gave a lot of direct, financial support as well.
Country Committee for South Africa Action [Landskomiteen Sydafrika-Aktion] (Danish Anti Apartheid Movement) : [Part 1]
DK MR-AAO-132
The Country Committee for South Africa Action (LSA) was formed in 1978 by several organisations and political parties. It was one of the first organisations to co-ordinate campaigns at the local level. It organised several information campaigns involving speaking tours of ANC members as well as cultural events. It continues to operate as Africa Contact.
Coventry Borough Labour Party : [Part 2]
GB UWL MR-AAO-135
The Coventry Labour Representation Committee was founded in December 1902. The Coventry Borough Labour Party, which grew out of it and was established in 1906, expanded its influence so that by 1923 Coventry had returned its first Labour MP. The party was instrumental in establishing the Coventry Anti-apartheid Committee in 1960. The early records of the party were destroyed during the blitz on the city in 1940, and the surviving records mostly date from after the war.
Dennis Brutus : [Part 2]
Dr Dennis Vincent Brutus was a Zimbabwean-born South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have apartheid South Africa banned from the Olympic Games. His efforts eventually led to the country's expulsion from the Games in 1970. Following 18 months on Robben Island and another year of house arrest, Brutus and his family were allowed to leave South Africa, settling in London in 1966. In 1970 he moved to the USA, and was granted political asylum in 1983. He was president of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SAN-ROC).
Edinburgh Anti-Apartheid Group
This local organisation was active from 1980-1992. It was involved in the Walter Sisulu Campaign Fund and the Nelson Mandela Free at 70 Campaign.
Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy : [Part 1]
ES Reddy was born in India and moved to the USA to study at New York University. He held several positions at the United Nations and a driving force behind the Special Committee against Apartheid (of which he was Secretary from 1963 -1965) and its Centre against Apartheid (of which he was Director from 1976-1983). He also served as Director of the UN Trust Fund for South Africa and the Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa.
European Confederation of Free Trade Unions
In 1969 the European Trade Union Secretariat (ETUS) adopted a new name, the European Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ECFTU). It was active in the area of code of conduct for companies investing in South Africa, the conduct of national and international trade unions towards South Africa and the application of the European Community Code of Conduct for multinational companies. In 1973 the ECFTU merged with the Trade Union Committee for the European Free Trade Area (EFTA-TUC) and continued as the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC).
Impact Visuals
US UCTDRC MR-AAO-185
Impact Visuals was a cooperative photo agency dedicated to social documentary photography. It started in 1964 and operated till 2001. Most of the archive comes from Afrapix, a now-dissolved South African collective of freelance photographers. Although most of the collection containing photographs, slides and negatives come from South Africa, it also covers other countries.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
GB UL MR-AAO-189
Unknown - present
The ICS has a substantial collection of papers concerning the ant-apartheid struggle including the papers of Ruth First, Mary Benson, Baruch Hirson and many ANC documents.
International Council for Equality of Opportunity Principles
The ICEOP was founded in 1977 to promote social justice in South Africa. Reverend LH Sullivan devised a set of principles for companies conducting business in South Africa. This voluntary business code became known as the 'Sullivan Principles'. The code required an annual independent evaluation of individual business activities in South Africa. The results were published in the public domain. The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and other anti-apartheid organisations disapproved of the 'Sullivan Principles' since it provided companies with a way out of the boycott.
International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa : [Part 2]
IDAF started in 1956 as Christian Action, later becoming the British Defence and Aid Fund which started its work with the 1956 Treason Trial in South Africa. IDAF became an international organisation in 1965. The South African Defence and Aid Fund was banned in 1966. Over the years, many national affiliates and branches were set-up. It smuggled millions of pounds into South Africa to defend thousands of political activists and provided aid to their families. It paid lawyers to defend political detainees and provided financial support families of political prisoners. It published numerous books and films on repression in South Africa.
International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa Canada : [Part 1]
The International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa Canada (IDAF Canada) operated from 1980-1990. It focused mainly on raising funds to support political prisoners and their families in South Africa and Namibia. US-IDAF executive director Kenneth N. Carstens was instrumental in the establishment of the Canadian IDAF.
International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa- United States Committee
The US-IDAF was established in 1972. In addition to raising funds for legal defense of prisoners and aid for their dependents, it also disseminated information about conditions in Southern Africa and supported boycotts and other solidarity actions. It grew out of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF). US-IDAF executive director Kenneth N. Carstens was also instrumental in the establishment of the Canadian IDAF.
International Institute for Social History [Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis]
ZA COM MR-AAO-199
The IISH holds many collections of the international trade union secretariats and international human rights organisations. It also holds the archives of most Dutch trade unions and Anti-apartheid Movements.
International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism : [Part 2]
ZA UFHLMA MR-AAO-202
IMADR was formed in 1988 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Its International Secretariat is based in Japan, and continues to work towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination. It works closely with the UN.
International Solidarity Committee of the Norwegian Labour Movement [Arbeiderbevegelsens Internasjonale Støttekomité]
NO NLMAL MR-AAO-204
The International Solidarity Committee of the Norwegian Labour Movement was a solidarity committee organised under the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions, supporting and working with international solidarity and union issues. The Norwegian Trade Union movement was one of the key movements in Norway supporting the liberation struggle in Southern Africa. AIS worked closely with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
International Transport Workers' Federation : [Part 2]
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions. The ITF was founded in London in 1886 by European Seafarers and Dockers' union leaders who realised the need to organise internationally against strike breakers. The ITF represents transport workers at world level and promotes their interests through global campaigning and solidarity. It works for the advancement of fundamental human rights and trade union rights and opposes discrimination. The Reports on Africa contains reports on its activities, amongst others, in South Africa.
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement : [Part 1]
The Irish AAM was established in 1964 and functioned till 1994. It was co-founded by Kader Asmal (who later became a South African MP and cabinet member) and started with sport, cultural, economic and academic boycotts and grew into an organisation that was active in all areas of anti-apartheid and solidarity. It gave direct support to the liberation movements and worked closely with the ANC. It continues to be active as the Ireland South Africa Association.
Isolate South Africa Committee [Isolera Sydafkrika-Kommittén]
ISAC was an umbrella organisation consisting of a variety of organisations in one way or another engaged in the support for the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa. ISAC started in 1979 when it organised its first annual campaign to isolate South Africa and to support the liberation movements and political prisoners. It became an influential lobby group and often worked together with other Nordic countries. Its campaign work expanded from the annual campaign to year-long activities. It ceased to function in 1995.
Liberation Movements Archives, University of Fort Hare
The Liberation Movements Archives at the University of Fort Hare holds the archives of the ANC Foreign Missions, the Azania People
Merseyside Communist Party : [Part 1]
GB MRO MR-AAO-237
National Anti-Apartheid Movement New Zealand
Unknown - 1980
NZAAM merged with HART in 1980 to form HART: NZAAM. It became one of the major AAMs in New Zealand and was very active in boycott campaigns and actively lobbied the government to take a strong stance against apartheid. In the last decade of its existence it focused increasingly on race issues in New Zealand.
Norwegian Council for Southern Africa [Fellesrådet for det sørlige Afrika] : [Part 1]
NOCOZA was formed in 1967 by a merger of NAMA and CFSA. It was an umbrella organisation for youth organisations and undertook solidarity work for southern Africa and anti-apartheid activities. It opened for individual membership and other organisations in 1976 and started local committees. It also worked with the Shipping Research Bureau on the oil boycott of South Africa. It continued to operate after 1994 as Norwegian Council for Africa.
Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund [Studentenes og Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond] : [Part 1]
SAIH was established in 1961 and worked with other NGOs and institutions to support projects in Africa and Latin America. It organised local universities and colleges around educational projects and supported many projects from the liberation movements. A substantial amount of their funding came directly from students' contributions.
Operation Day's Work [Operasjon Dagsverk]
NO MR-AAO-261
ODW is a student organisation that organises annual solidarity campaigns in Norway. The money earned by volunteers for one day's work is donated to education projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Norwegian Council for Southern Africa (NOCOZA) and SAIH both were beneficiaries of this initiative.
ET AU MR-AAO-262
The OAU was founded in 1963 to work towards unity and solidarity amongst African countries and act as a collective voice for the African continent. It worked towards the eradication of all forms of colonialism. The OAU's Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa (Liberation Committee) organised diplomatic support and channeled financial, military and logistical aid to liberation movements. The OAU was disbanded in 2002 and replaced by the African Union (AU).
Organisation of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America [Organización de Solidaridad con los Pueblos de Asia, Africa y América Latina] : [Part 1]
1966 - present (?)
OSPAAAL was established following the Tricontinental Conference held in Havana, January 1966, to promote "solidarity with the Third World people's struggles, claims and most precious desires". The organisation supported struggles against colonialism and apartheid, and notably produced a large number of brightly coloured propaganda posters to promote its cause.
Political Archives : [Part 2]
The Political Archives website is the product of a project sponsored by the Vice-Chancellor's Development Fund (University of London) and run jointly by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICS) and the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA). It aims to improve access to and use of their extensive collections of political ephemera. Southern Africa is particularly well represented, with materials from a wide variety of different political parties, trade unions and pressure groups.
Prexy Nesbitt : [Part 2]
Prexy Nesbitt is an activist and academic from Chicago who was active in the struggle to end apartheid and worked to end colonialism in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia. He founded the Antioch Committee for a Free South Africa, which succeeded after a ten-year campaign to achieve the divestment of Antioch College's holdings from companies involved with apartheid. Nesbitt worked for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) where he coordinated the National Committee to Oppose Bank Loans to South Africa from 1976-1979. From 1979-1983 he was Program Director for the Program to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches in Geneva. He has also worked for the Institute for Policy Studies, the American Friends Service Committee and Africa Action.
Programme to Combat Racism : World Council of Churches : [Part 2]
The Programme to Combat Racism started in 1968 as part of the WCC Programme Unit on Justice and Service. Its aim was to develop policies and programmes contributing to the liberation of victims of racism. Much of its attention and focus was on southern Africa, especially apartheid and the divestment campaign. It established a special fund from which donations to liberation movements were made and to solidarity organisations around the world.
Richard Albert Etheridge
Born in 1909 in Birmingham, Richard Albert Etheridge had a lifelong involvement with the Amalgamated Engineering Union. In 1940 he started work at the Austin Motor Co.'s Longbridge plant, and was elected shop steward in the following year. He was also elected secretary of the Austin AEU Shop Stewards' Committee. In 1946, Etheridge was elected to the AEU's Birmingham District Committee, remaining a member until 1965 when he was elected President of the newly-created Birmingham West District, a post he held until 1975. In 1963, and again from 1966 to 1974, he was elected an AEU to the annual Trades Union Congress. A lifelong supporter of the Communist Party, he helped formulate Party policy with regard to the motor industry, and stood as a candidate in the 1950 general election. From 1961 to 1973, Etheridge was a member of the Party's Executive Committee. He died in 1985.
Rutgers Grass Roots - Progressive Activist Files, Rutgers University
US RUL MR-AAO-283
Rutgers University, New Jersey, holds a collection of materials related to anti-apartheid and divestment activities. It includes material on the Coalition in Solidarity with South African Liberations and the Rutgers Coalition for Total Divestment.
Shipping Research Bureau : [Part 2]
The Shipping Research Bureau was a specialist organisation, mainly dealing with research into the oil trade with South Africa and alerting the world to breaches of the UN oil embargo. It pressured national governments to adopt sanctions against South Africa. It was founded by the Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (KZA) and Working Group Kairos in 1980, and continued operating until 1995.
South Africa Contact [Sydafrika Kontakt]
South Africa Contact was founded in 1978 by several political parties, trade unions and other organisations to work against colonialism and oppression in Southern Africa. After the liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe it concentrated its activities towards establishing an economic and cultural boycott of South Africa.
South Africa/Namibia Association
The SA/NAM was founded in 1986 and worked until 1993 to co-ordinate development projects in South Africa and Namibia. In South Africa, most of the funds went to the Kagiso Trust. The funds mainly came from SA/NAM members, European NGOs and anti-apartheid organisations, as well as from the European Special Programme for Victims of Apartheid (ESP).
Swedish Labour Movement Archives and Library [Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek]
The Labour Movement Archives and Library hold substantial collections of the Swedish labour movement from around the 1950s. It holds records from political parties and other organisations as well. It concentrates on archives of the central and Stockholm-based local organisations. It holds a big Africa collection.
Swedish South Africa Committee [Svenska Sydafrikakommittén]
1961 - mid-1970s
The SSAC was formed in 1961 as an umbrella organisation of NGOs to start campaigning for a consumer boycott of South African products. It pressured the Swedish government to apply sanctions and later supported the ANC's armed struggle. The committee dominated the anti-apartheid work in Sweden during the 1960s but its activities decreased as other organisations became more active.
Task Force on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility : [Part 1]
The Task Force on Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR) was established in 1975 as a coalition of Canadian Churches. It worked towards social responsibility in Canadian based corporations and financial institutions. It supported the South African Council of Churches (SACC) proposal for a code of business ethics for companies operating in South Africa. It campaigned strongly to end loans to the apartheid regime and approached shareholders to accomplish this. In 2001, TCCR became part of KAIROS Canada.
The UN is an international organisation that aims to facilitate cooperation in international law, security, economic development, social progress, human rights and achieving world peace. It was founded in 1945 and replaced the League of Nations. It has been concerned with the issue of racial discrimination since its beginning and racism became an important item on the United Nations agenda after African nations attained independence and after the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960. The Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1963), which led to the International Convention in 1965. It proclaimed the International Year for Action to Combat Racial Discrimination in 1971 and the three Decades for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination in 1973. Besides the specialised agencies on apartheid, several other agencies of the UN were also involved in anti-apartheid and solidarity activities.
United Nations Centre against Apartheid : [Part 2]
The Centre against Apartheid started in 1976 in the UN Secretariat under the name Unit on Apartheid. Its role was to promote publicity against Apartheid and it worked under the guidance of the Special Committee and in cooperation with the Department of Public Information. During its existence, it published hundreds of posters, audio materials and documentary films. It organised art competitions and exhibitions. It had radio broadcasts to South Africa in several languages. It worked closely together with the liberation movements and the AAMs. Many of the documents published by the Centre were written by members of liberation movements and the AAMs.
United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid
The Special Committee against Apartheid was set up in 1962 and operated till 1994. Initially named the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa, the name was shortened in 1971 to Special Committee on Apartheid and changed again in 1974 to Special Committee against Apartheid. One of its main roles was to secure effective, mandatory sanctions against South Africa. It worked closely together with the OAU, the liberation movements and the AAMs.
William Julius Henry 'Joe' Harris : [Part 2]
WJH (Joe) Harris was a carpenter and member of the Queensland branch of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. He became a freelance journalist writing on the history of the labour movement. He played an active role in, amongst others, the campaign against the South African Springbok Rugby tour.
Women against Apartheid - Frankfurt [Frauen gegen Apartheid - Frankfurt] : [Part 1]
This was a local organisation of women in Frankfurt which formed part of the national Women against Apartheid organisation. Its activities included a boycott campaign against the Krugerrand gold coin and campaigns against banks making loans to South Africa. It also participated in the Outspan fruit boycott, and worked in schools.
Women's Union of the Dutch Labour Party [Vrouwenbond Partij van de Arbeid] : [Part 2]
NL BHIC MR-AAO-356
The Women's Union started its activities in 1946 as the women's union of the political party PvdA. In 1969 the Women's Union changed its name to Women's Contact. It was renamed the Red Women (Rooie Vrouwen) in 1975. They participated in campaigns of the national AAMs as well as Amnesty International Netherlands.
Ruth First Papers
GB UL MR-RT-006
Part of Rivonia Trial
The collection includes personal material of First and her immediate family such as correspondence and financial records, papers relating to First's work as a journalist in South Africa, as a university lecturer, an anti-apartheid activist, and as an author and editor of numerous books and articles on Africa and other political topics. Also included are research papers and printed material relating to First and her family, collected both during her lifetime and after her death.
Material related to the Rivonia Trial:
-Background material, correspondence and reviews concerning "No Easy Walk to Freedom," edited by Ruth First. Includes printed copies of Nelson Mandela's speech at the Rivonia Trial, drafts of sections of the book, and a typescript of Mary Benson's statement before the UN Special Committee on Apartheid in 1964, with handwritten alterations. Also includes correspondence, mainly between Ruth First and Heinemann Publishers, as well as clippings of newspaper reviews (RF/1/6/2)
-ANC publications includes introductory pamphlets on the ANC and the Rivonia trial, copies of magazines: Sechaba and Mayibuye.(RF/1/17/2/3)
-Materials on political detentions between 1963 and 1970, including a copy of the 1963 Detention Act, a radio script by Mary Benson entitled "Nelson Mandela and the Rivonia Trial," and notes produced by First (RF/1/18/2)
- Transcripts of interviews with Robben Island political prisoners (RF/1/18/1).
-Newspaper cuttings from both British and South African newspapers, mainly covering issues relating to politics in South Africa including the Rivonia Trial (RF/1/19)
-Correspondence (Feb 1964-Aug 1965) covering subjects such as the Rivonia Trial and First's exile to Britain. Correspondents include Govan Mbeki, Molly Bernstein and Julius Lewin (RF/2/1/2).
The collection is on indefinite loan to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and remains the property of the Ruth First Memorial Trust.
First, Ruth
Denis Goldberg Papers
ZA UFHL MR-RT-007
The files reflect Denis Goldberg's activities and interaction with VIPs in the country and abroad on uplifting the educational and socio-economic status of previously disadvantaged South Africans. Includes files on a wide range of issues from 1983-1995.
Although there is no material related to Rivonia Trial in this collection, it has been included as it speaks to the subsequent activities of one of the main protagonist in the Trial.
Goldberg, Denis Theodore
Mandela: An Audio History
ZA SABC SA MR-RT-011
SAFM documentary in two parts for The Inner Ear Programme. Details the role played by Nelson Mandela and the ANC in the struggle for freedom in South Africa. Compiled by Joe Richardson and Sue Johnson and presented by Will Bernard. Dated 9 May 2004.
Part 1 deals with the call for armed struggle, the creation of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the arrests at Rivonia. Mandela as the first witness in the Trial, four hour statement from the dock made at the Trial, sentencing to life imprisonment, meaning of Rivonia Trial.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
Rivonia Trial: Sentencing
SABC English Service broadcast. A short summary of the Rivonia Trial case, the verdict and the passing of sentence by Judge President Quartus De Wet. Dated 11 June 1963.
National Public Broadcasting Archives
US NPBA MR-RT-026
Programmes and programme segments broadcast on National Public Radio. Includes reports on the following:
-Restoration of Mandela's 1964 Rivonia Trial speech by the British Library.
-Death of South African anti-apartheid leader, Walter Sisulu, at the age of ninety.
-Audio history of Mandela's life premiered on NPR programme All Things Considered in week April 26-30 2004.
ZA MR-RT-029
UNISA bought the microfilm from CAMP (Cooperative Africana Microfilm Project). These were transferred from the Archives and Special Collections.
Reel FI4059:
-Starts on list of evidence and exhibits (incomplete)
-Charge
-First indictment
-Annexure B to Indictment: The defence request for further particulars and State's reply thereto Part I and II
-Notice of application to quash indictment (27 October 1963)
-Heads of argument re application to quash by Bram Fischer and Percy Yutar's reply
-Second indictment
-Annexure A to indictment: Particulars to the counts set out in the indictment
-Annexure C
-Annexure B
-Notice to quash (22 November 1963)
-Heads of argument
-Bail applications of Bernstein and Kantor and judgment on application
-Opening address by Percy Yutar
-Index to state witnesses and exhibits
-Statements by witnesses including, amongst others, Makda, Mtolo, Davids, Mashiloane, Sulliman, Jaantjies, Jelliman. Card
-Notes on state witnesses evidence taken by defence (volumes 1-4 and extra piece in volume 5). Incomplete.
-Continuation of witness statements including Mtolo,
-Notes on state witnesses evidence taken by defence
-Record of state witnesses in regard to James Kantor: Makda, Gibson, Kleynhans, Cox, First, Fenn, van Rensburg
-Analysis of state evidence by defence
-Defence opening address and Nelson Mandela's (sic) Statement from the Dock
-Walter Sisulu's evidence volume 1 (p.1-155), volume 2 (p. 156-296)
-Walter Sisulu's evidence volume 3 (p. 297-356), volume 4 (p. 357-464)
-Ahmed Kathrada's evidence
-Raymond Mhlaba's evidence
-Lionel Bernstein's evidence (with notes)
-Denis Goldberg's evidence and cross examination by Mr Krog
-Govan Mbeki's evidence (includes notes passed between defence (?) team
FI4062:
-Elias Motsoaledi's statement (4 pages)
-Andrew Mlangeni's statement
-Analysis of defence evidence and notes on argument
-Judgement
-Evidence in mitigation of sentence and judgement on sentence
-Photographs of Rivonia
-Index of accused and co-conspirators and photographs
-Plans of Mountain view and Liliesleaf Farm
-List of documents found by police in raids
-Statement prepared by Nelson Mandela in his handwriting
-Evidence prepared by Sisulu in his handwriting
-Handwritten statement prepared by Sisulu in event of receiving the death sentence
It appears that these microfilms are a defence set and, according to the archivist, the originals came from Joel Joffe. However, they are not identical to the defence set of trial records at Wits (AD1844). That set contains some material that these microfilm do not and this set contains some material that Wits' does not (most notably, Sisulu's evidence and Goldberg's evidence are both complete in UNISA's and not at Wits). The reason for the differences are not known.
Norwegian Action Against Apartheid
NO NLMAL MR-RT-033
Translated from Norsk Aksjon Mot Apartheid.
Correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, pamphlets, reports, publications and other campaign materials concerning:
-The World Campaign for the Release of South African Political Prisoners (1964 - 1967).
-The Rivonia Trial, and a call to save South Africa's resistance leaders, including Nelson Mandela, from the death penalty.
-Mandela's statement from the dock at the Rivonia Trial, translated into Norwegian.
-Amnesty International reports on prison conditions in South Africa (1965).
Norwegian Labour Movement: Press Clippings Collection
Collection of news clippings, mostly in Norwegian, that include:
-Historical profiles of Mandela
-Rivonia Trial, with references to Mandela and Percy Yutar (1964), and reports on Mandela and others being found guilty on charges of sabotage
-Telegram sent to Verwoerd by 21 Norwegian youth organisations, in protest against the life sentences imposed on Mandela and other prisoners
-Reactions to the Rivonia Trial judgement by the Foreign Minister of Great Britain, Richard Butler, as well as a statement by Verwoerd that Mandela and his men are in the category of spies, and that they have a communist plan to take over the world
Records of the Foreign Office: Correspondence from General Public on Internal Situation: Detainees and Rivonia Trial
GB NAUK MR-RT-040
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; African, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
Rivonia Trial judgement and sentences: Correspondence and telegrams and letter from various British citizens and organisations.
UK Foreign Office
Records of the Foreign Office: Export of Arms to South Africa: Internal Security Operations: Rivonia Sabotage Trial of ANC Leaders
These records fall under: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence; Africa, West and Central (J): South Africa (JS) subseries.
-The escape of Bob Hepple (telegram, 28 November 1963)
-Prison conditions with affidavits from Bernstein, Goldberg, Motsoaledi, Mbeki, Kathrada and Sisulu (report, 21 November 1963)
-Newspaper articles on the Rivonia trial (November and December 1963)
-Note from Mitford to the British Consulate General requesting that political trials that might seriously impact the Rivonia Trial to be closely monitored (5 December 1963)
-Visit by John Arnold Q.C. a leading conservative barrister in London (includes a summary of proceedings, 13 December 1963)
-Arrest, assault and torture of Isaac Tlale of the ANC at the hands of security police who wanted him to testify against the Rivonia accused. Police claimed to him that Joe Slovo bought Mandela and Sisulu with money from the communists (report/affidavit, no date)
-Report of John Arnold Q.C. at the International Commission of Jurists on his visit to South Africa and includes a comment that he believed the Rivonia trial judge was fair and partial (16 December 1963)
-Nelson Mandela's life sentence: reactions (1963)
-Foreign reaction to the Rivonia trial judgment and sentences
-Statement in parliament by H.F. Verwoerd (16 June 1964)
-Rivonia trial judgment (correspondence and press cuttings)
-Rivonia trial sentence (summary from press articles 1964)
-Question whether the British government should ask the South African government to reduce the life sentences handed down in the Rivonia trial (Correspondence, 26 June 1964)
-Libyan embassy in London will ask the UK secretary of state to intervene and have the Rivonia trial life sentences reduced (report, 15 June 1964)
-The U.S. state department will not ask for a reduction in the Rivonia trial (correspondence Internal British foreign office, (27 June 1964)
-Secretary of the state talking about the Rivonia (speech house of Commons, July 1964)
-The Canadian Ambassador asks that the Rivonia trial sentences be reduced (report, 22 July 1964)
-Rivonia trial accused decide not to appeal (report, 27 July 1964)
-The German government approaches South Africa about the Rivonia trial sentences (report, 2 September 1964)
-Book on Rivonia trial by Judge De Villiers (Report 24 September 1964)
-Death sentence in Rivonia trial "unlikely" (note, 4 June 1964)
-Upcoming judgement and sentence in the Rivonia trial (note , 2 June 1964)
-The Australian representative to South Africa has been instructed to register his government's concern over the Rivonia trial (note, 9 June 1964)
-U.K. should abstain in the vote on the Rivonia resolution by Ivory Coast and Morocco unless is amended (America will also abstain) (note, 10 June 1964)
-Verdicts in Rivonia Trial (telegram, 11 June 1964)
-Analysis of evidence at the Rivonia Trial (report, 10 June 1964)
-Decision to defer any attempt by the U.S. to get a reduction in Rivonia Trial sentences until the defence has lodged an appeal (note, 14 June 1964)
-Unsigned copy of the Rivonia trial judgement (15 June 1964)
Records of the Foreign Office: Export of Arms to South Africa: Internal Security Operations: Rivonia SabotageTrial of ANC Leaders
Papers of John Mendelson, M P
GB MR-RT-049
Letters, circulars, reports relating to South Africa including letter from the British Consulate-General in Johannesburg re the Rivonia Treason Trial (1963), copy of a letter from David Astor to Harold Wilson (1965), letter from Stop the Seventy Tour re possible resumption of arms sales (1970), letter from John Mendelson to David Astor re Nelson Mandela and his colleagues (1974).
Mendelson, John
Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers
Donated by Annemarie Wolpe.
-Mostly newscuttings scrapbooks, albums and folders re Harold Wolpe's escape, Annemarie's arrest, Kantor's arrest and refused bail application, family reaction to arrests, Kantor's acquittal etc. Also cuttings re Rivonia Trial generally.
-Documents including escape story, pamphlets, articles, manuscript of Annemarie's book "The Long Way Home", documents re the Wolpe's becoming citizens of the UK, Harold Wolpe's academic papers, Annemarie Wolpe's prison file.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for James Kantor Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, Percy Yutar Papers.
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) Collection
ZA UWCRIMA MR-RT-061
Includes correspondence, minutes of meetings statement, briefings, press releases, press clippings, Amandla, publications.
Records related to Rivonia:
2.1.1. Minutes of meetings 1964: Contains reference to lobbying around Rivonia Trial
2.4. Dealings with Irish Press: Contains references to Rivonia Trial in statements and press conferences
31.1.1 Correspondence with ANC: Contains brief references to Rivonia Trial
39 Press cuttings 1963-1994: Cuttings are in date order and include cuttings from Irish press re arrests at Rivonia, escape of Wolpe and Goldreich and trial.
Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM)
Govan Mbeki Papers
Prison letters and writings, unpublished manuscripts, and a proposal for documentary on Govan Mbeki (1992). There is no material directly related to the Rivonia Trial but this collection has been included as it provides insight into the life and personality of one of those involved in the Trial.
Mbeki, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa
Toni Strassburg Papers
One folder of press cuttings on Treason Trial, bannings and arrests, and Rivonia Trial. Rivonia Trial reports in New York Times and South African newspapers. Also article on Bernstein escape after rearrest after acquittal and escape of Wolpe and Goldreich.
Strassburg, Toni
Denis Goldberg Collection
This collection does not have material directly related to the Rivonia Trial. It contains material from after Goldberg was released (IDAF correspondence, ANC documents, press clippings, publications etc.). It has been included as it speaks to the post-prison involvement of one of the Trial's main accused.
Percy Yutar Papers
Acquired from the Yutar family.
-Eight scrapbooks labelled "The Rivonia Trial 11 July 1963-12 June 1964 as reported by the press from 28 August 1963 to 13 June 1999". They contain a timeline of events, clippings labelled with the date. Also seven scrapbooks labelled "Soweto Riots". It is unclear whether Yutar compiled the scrapbooks or only collected the clippings.
-One lever arch file containing a manuscript for a book by Percy Yutar entitled "The Rivonia Trial - The Facts (based in authentic documentary exhibits)". The manuscript contains a preface and a breakdown of chapters but the bulk does not read like a book but rather appears to be a reproduction of the State's trial records (indictment, State's opening address, evidence for the State, evidence for the Defence, judgement, evidence in mitigation of sentence etc).
-One volume: A factual analysis of the documentary exhibits handed in and other oral testimony given at the so-called Rivonia Trial. Inscribed: "With appreciation from B G Fourie, Secretary for Information"
-Scrapbook with clippings, photographs etc. Mostly of Yutar's career after the Rivonia Trial but a few clippings relate to the Trial from May 1964.
-Press clippings in folder in plastic sleeves re Yutar's legal career, Rivonia Trial, Excelsior case, Moodie case and others.
These papers do not necessarily form a collection discrete from other Liliesleaf Farm collections but have been listed as such for ease of reference. Also see entries for Harold and Annemarie Wolpe Papers, Liliesleaf Farm Audio-Visual Collection, Liliesleaf Farm Artefact Collection, Liliesleaf Farm/Rivonia Trial Research Collection, James Kantor Papers. There are also prosecution records from the Yutars in the personal collection of businessman Douw Steyn and in the National Archives (transferred from Brenthurst Library).
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers: South African Political Prisoners: The life we led 1963-1966
Manuscript of "South African Political Prisoners: The Life We Led 1963-1966" by Mahlubi L Mrwetyana. Reference to Robben Island prison conditions including for Rivonia Trialists. File on Race Relations with completed questionnaires and extensive notes on prison conditions in South Africa 1956-1961; file with material on families; biographical notes on some of the persons persecuted by the government of the Republic of South Africa for their opposition to the policies of apartheid, 30 May 1964. The list includes Nelson Mandela and other Rivonia Trialists. The list is fairly extensive. File re IRC visits to South African prisons 1964; copies of the letter and reports sent to B J Vorster (Minister of Justice) by the ICRC, June 18 1964 re: conditions in South African prisons (Robben Island, State farm prison, Victor Verster, various police stations in Pretoria and Johannesburg, Pretoria Prison, Leeuwkop, Prison Vooruitsig, Kroonstad, Pretoria Prison, T B Hospital Sonderwater).
Not available for inspection at time of this audit.
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) Papers: Trials
Drafts, memos, Treason Trial Defence Fund correspondence, various Treason Trial documents. Apparently also includes Rivonia Trial brief, Rivonia Trial extracts of records.
Records of the Department of Home Affairs, Director of Publications, Cape Town (Complaints and Appeals)
ZA WCARS MR-RT-084
This directorate was responsible for classifying documents for censorship or banning post 1970. The references below are not the actual documents but rather reports and notes written by those classifying them. Also see Records of the Publications Control Board in this database.
P89/04/08, volume 3/255: Statement from the dock, Rivonia Trial: Objectionable Literature (1989)
P84/6/15, volume 1/104: Pamphlet: Release Mandela Campaign Remembers Rivonia: Objectionable Literature (1984)
P83/2/26, volume P83/2/26: Sticker: The People's Leader, Denis Goldberg: Objectionable Object (1983)
Director of Publications
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