Summarised description of the anti-apartheid archives transferred from NiZA to the IISH (March 2008)

I Archives Committee South Africa (Comité Zuid-Afrika - CZA) 1959-1971

Total: 6 archival boxes
See the preliminary list of CZA-archives (pdf 181 Kb, in Dutch)

• Correspondence in The Netherlands and internationally 1959-1967 (+ press cuttings) (3 boxes)
• Correspondence in The Netherlands 1959-1966
  various cases 1962-1963 + boycott campaign 1964 (1 box)
• Minutes etc. 1960-1971 + financial data 1960-1971
  World Campaign Political Prisoners 1964
  various political activities in The Netherlands 1962-1971 (1 box)
• Issues of Information-bulletin CZA 1966-1971 (1 box)

II Archives Dutch AAM (Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland - AABN) 1971-1994

Total: 200 archival boxes
See the preliminary list of the AABN-archives (pdf 244 Kb, in Dutch)

• Old archives (1970s): correspondence + PR items
  Minutes meetings Executive Committee, staff, working groups, etc.
  Files on the main AABN-campaigns 1973-1976 (Southern Africa Congresses, Rhodesia sanctions campaign, Namibia/SWAPO-support activities, SACTU Support Fund, Banks campaign, Philips and the arms embargo, etc.)
  Communiquees (monthly) and research reports (22 boxes)
• Internal archives 1971-1994: series of minutes of Executive Committee meetings, staff meetings, plenary meetings, etc. Contacts with other southern africa groups, correspondence, etc. (15 boxes)
• Archives Material Support Group 1976-1989 (mainly on material support to ANC, esp. SOMAFCO): correspondence, minutes, reports, shipments, activities, etc. (8 boxes)
• Archives Women's Group 1978-1989: correspondence, minutes, campaigns a.o. activities (8 boxes)
• Archives of the 'Education against apartheid' campaign 1976-1991: minutes Education Group, correspondence, publicity and publications, educational activities and materials, support for SOMAFCO, etc. (incl. campaign ' Youth against apartheid' 1985) (16 boxes)
• Some 60 (selected) campaign files on AABN-actions and activities 1977-1985
  (in chronological order - minutes, correspondence, campaigning materials, publicity, etc.)(12 boxes)
• Files on major AABN-campaigns 1979-1993: Cultural Conference 1982, Hearing on South African aggression and Amandla tour 1983, POW-status ANC-combatants 1979-1980, National Anti-Apartheid Manifestation 1988, Foreign Nationals in the SADF 1987-1990, Exhibition 'Hidden Camera' 1988-1989, Hearing on Kidnappings by SA 1988, Welcome Mandela Comité 1990, POPCRU/police activities & political violence monitoring 1989-1993, Ilima Conference a.o. environment SA activities 1991-1993, Ipi Tombi action 1981, disinvestment activities 1980s, activities on gays in SA, etc. (34 boxes)
• Educational campaign 1991-1993 (EU-project, including exhibitions, educational materials, television-programmes, etc.) + Twinning projects with SOMAFCO (7 boxes)
• Archives of the campaign for the release of Klaas de Jonge and Heléne Passtoors 1985-89 (2 boxes)
• Archives (partly selected) on two Violence Observation Missions in SA 1992 and 1994 (7 boxes)
• Archives Peter Hermes, coordinator AABN, 1989-1994: correspondence, projects, external contacts, etc. (6 boxes)
• Archives Liaison Group (AAM's in EU) 1987-1995 + SANAM/Standing Ctee NGO's (EU) (5 boxes)
• Archives on video-productions and activities AABN 1984-1990 (2 boxes)
• Archives on local AA-groups 1976-1991: correspondence, documents, etc. (2 boxes)
• Archives on final activities AABN in the autumn of 1994 (2 boxes)
• Correspondence 1986-1994: incoming/outgoing letters and faxes (11 boxes)
• Publications AABN 1972-1994: annual reports (1975-1986), research reports, books, brochures, campaigning materials + all issues of its bi-monthly magazine 1972-1994: Anti-Apartheids Niews/Zuidelijk Afrika Nieuws/Anti-apartheidskrant (including spare copies) (6 boxes)
• Financial archives 1971-1994: annual financial statements, annual NCO subsidies (reports), summarised financial data 1970s-1980s + detailed financial data (still to be selected) 1990s (20 boxes)
• Archives Foundation CASA 1987-1988 (established to organise the cultural conference and festival 'Culture in Another South Africa' in Amsterdam, December 1987): correspondence, minutes, organisational files, publicity, financial data, etc. (11 boxes)
• Archives Foundation Malibongwe 1990-1991 (established to organise the Malibongwe women's conference in Amsterdam, January 1991): correspondence, minutes, organisational files, publicity, financial data, etc. (12 boxes)
• Archives Foundation Thembisa 1991-1992 (established to organise building project for returning exiles in the Transkei): correspondence, minutes, organisational files, publicity, financial data, etc. (2 boxes)

III Archives Broadcasting for Radio Freedom (Omroep voor Radio Freedom - OvRF) 1982-1995

Total: 37 archival boxes
See the preliminary list of OvRF-archives (pdf 190 Kb, in Dutch)

• Correspondence OvRF 1982-1993 (alphabetically organised)(4 boxes)
• General organisational and activity files OvRF 1983-1995 (incl. minutes Board meetings, reports on equipment shipments and training programmes for RF, financial data, etc. (6 boxes)
• Archives on the Jabulani Conference in 1991 (on future of broadcasting in SA) and the Radio Freedom Institute support campaign in the 1990s. (4 boxes)
• Press cuttings, publications and campaigning materials OvRF 1982-1995 (including spare copies) (8 boxes)
• Financial archives OvRF 1990-1995 (still to be sorted)(5 boxes)
• Miscellaneous materials (archives and documentation) - still to be sorted (10 boxes)

IV Archives Angola Committee (Angola Comité ) 1961-1976 + Holland Committee on Southern Africa (Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika - KZA) 1977-1997

Total: 285 archival boxes and lever files
See the preliminary list of the archives of the Angola Committee and the Holland Committee on Southern Africa (pdf 218 Kb, in Dutch)

• Historical archive Angola 1961-1976 (incl. documentation, press cuttings and publications)(8 boxes)
• Correspondence Angola Comité 1961-1976 and KZA 1977-1979 (in chronological order) (11 boxes)
• Archives Angola Comité 1971-1976: Angola coffee boycott campaign, National Southern Africa congresses, local groups, national groups (4 boxes)
• Archives of the Shell campaign of KZA a.o. 1977-1991 (incl. press cuttings) (13 boxes)
• Telexes veldwerk (information, publicity and general campaigning activities) Angola Comité and KZA 1975-1991 (in chronological order)(12 lever files)
• Archives on campaigning activities KZA 1976-1995: SWAPO support campaign 1976-78, sportboycott 1979-1985, Internat. Seminar on an Oil Embargo against SA 1980, UN Internat. Sanctions Year 1982, Frontline States campaign 1983-84, Krugerrand campaign 1984, Fruit boycott campaign 1985-86, Conference 'Apartheid & Southern Africa: the Western European Response' 1985, National Anti-Apartheid demonstration 1988, Namibia consultation group 1988-89, campaign 'Netherlands for een free SA' 1990, conference 'Changing SA. Challenge for Europe' 1991-92, contacts 'Amsterdam anti-apartheid city' 1984-1995, cultural activities 1993-1995, landmines campaign Angola 1995, 35 years KZA 1995-96, etc.(26 boxes + 30 lever files)
• Telexes material support programme Angola Comité and KZA 1975-1990 (mainly for the liberation movements in Southern Africa) (in chronological order) (11 lever files)
• Archives on women's activities KZA 1986-1997 (incl. minutes women's group, projects, campaigns, documentation, etc.)(22 boxes)
• Archives on the material support programma (projects) KZA 1976-1996: for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, local government/civics in SA, women, etc. (21 lever files)
• Archives on publications KZA: mainly Facts and Reports 1974-1996 + Amandla 1976-1996 (10 lever files)
• Archives on NCO subsidies 1974-1997 + EC/EU-subsidies 1980-1997 (6 lever files)
• Archives on SANAM 1984-1994 (10 lever files)
• Archives KZA (Liberation Fund) projects 1986-1997: files on projects in esp. South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe (50 boxes + lever files)
• Archives KZA board, committee and staff meetings + editiorial board Amanda 1986-1997 + merger negotiations with EMS and IZA 1995-1997 (15 boxes)
• Archives board meetings Shipping Research Bureau (KZA) 1990-1999 (3 boxes)
• Archives campaigning activities KZA 1990-1997: economic issues, housing, sport boycott, Namibia, landmines, Angola, Zimbabwe, local elections South Africa, etc.(20 boxes)
• Financial archives KZA 1978-1997: budgets, financial annual reports, etc. (6 boxes)
  + still to be selected financial archives 1995-1997 (14 boxes)
• Archives PSO-programme 1989-1997: detachments, circular letters, travel reports, minutes, correspondence, administrative data, etc. (still to be selected) (50 boxes+ lever files)
• Archives Liaison Group of AAM's in the EC 1990-1996 (6 boxes)

V Archives Eduardo Mondlane Foundation (Eduardo Mondlane Stichting - EMS) 1969-1997

Over 400 archival boxes and lever files with largely still to be selected and sorted archival materials, including:

• Archives EMS 1969-1979: correspondence, minutes and campaign files (selected) (22 boxes)
• Internal archives EMS 1976-1997: minutes Executive Committee, staff meetings, etc., policy documents, organisational issues, cooperation EMS-KZA (60 boxes + lever files)
• Archives on general activities, organisation and publications EMS 1976-1997 (including campaigns, publicity, management issues, etc.) (50 boxes + lever files)
• General correspondence EMS 1980-1997 (mainly 1988-1997) (30 boxes + lever files)
• Correspondence Mozambique 1982-1997 (with EMS-office in Maputo, Mozambique, etc.) (50 boxes + lever files)
• Archives on activities in relation to Mozambique 1976-1997 (campaigns, projects, etc.) (90 boxes + lever files)
• Archives on activities in relation to Angola 1976-1997 (campaigns, projects, etc.) (50 boxes + lever files)
• Archives on activities in relation to Guinee-Bissau & Cabo Verde 1975-1990 (idem)(10 boxes + lever files)
• Financial archives EMS 1969-1997(partly still to be selected) (40 boxes + lever files)

VI Archives Institute for Southern Africa (IZA) 1994-1997

Total: 54 archival boxes

• Archives IZA internal policy issues: minutes board and staff meetings, coödination and merger meetings with KZA and EMS, etc. (12 boxes)
• Archives IZA internal organisation: housing, subsidies, opinion poll supporters, BIDOC, etc. (8 boxes)
• Archives correspondence IZA: post/fax in/out (5 boxes)
• Archives activities IZA: education, culture, trauma therapies, sexual violence, COHESA, etc. (17 boxes)
• Archives external contacts IZA: COA (Amsterdam), Liaison Group EU, ENIASA (3 boxes)
• Financial archives and staff matters (+ 6 boxes still to be selected financial archives) (3 boxes)

VI Other archives: local groups, individuals

These include archives of:

• Den Bosch tegen Apartheid 1981-1986 (3 archival boxes)
• SOMAFCO-Groningen Koppelingsgroep 1985-1992 (3 large boxes, including much educational materials, photographs + video's)
• SADWU Steungroep 1992-1996 (10 boxes and lever files)
• Bing Muller/Path-SA (1980s; 4 boxes)
• Lawyer Willem van Manen 1985-1991 (South Africa activities relating to political prisoners and trials, repression, human rights violations, etc.; 16 folders)
• Peter Waterman (mainly documentation on trade unions and social movements in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s; 10 archival boxes).

Limited access

In order to realise the transfer of the NiZA collection, its description and integration into the IISH holdings, an extensive project will be executed from April 2008 to April 2011, enabled by a very substantial donation from the SNS Reaal Fonds. The former NiZA archivist, Kier Schuringa, will be implementing this project.

During this project the collection will be accessible for researchers and others, but only by contacting the archivist Kier Schuringa: telephone +31-06-20474460 or email So there is no access to the NiZA collections through the reading room of the IISH.