Natal Worker History Project (N.W.H.P) /Papers

Natal Worker History Project papers

MS Title: 
Natal Worker History Project papers
MS Date: 
1984-1995
MS Extent: 
13 files
MS Physical description: 
manuscripts, typescripts, printed material, photographs
MS Historical note: 

The Natal Worker History Project was based in the Sociology Department (Industrial Organisation and Labour Studies) at the University of Natal during the 1980s and 1990s, and undertook oral history research in partnership with the trade union movement and community-based organisations (CBOs). It also conducted educational projects and prepared publications for the unions and CBOs.

MS File list: 
Online
MS Scope and Content: 

This collection contains the organisational records of the Natal Worker History Project (NWHP), as well as transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by NWHP.  The organisational records include NWHP's constitution, annual reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence, funding proposals, and brochures.

The oral history interview transcripts comprise: the working life oral history interviews and photographs (1984-1985); the women and violence project (1992); the Umlazi oral history project (1994); and the South African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) history project (1990s).

Audio cassettes are housed separately in the KCAL library.

MS Shelf: 
MS NAT

Manuscript Inventory:

N.W.H.P./Files 1-13

MS Item Description

File 01 Constitution, activity reports and annual reports
File 02 Brochures
File 03 Minutes of steering committee and staff meetings
File 04

Correspondence: funding (1): general 1990-4; Trocaire 1985-6; Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference and EU 1992-5
File 05

Correspondence: funding (2): Liberty Life Foundation 1993-4; Aktionsgemeinschaft solidarische Welt e.v., 1991-2; terre des homes, 1992-5; Evangelisches missionswerk, 1993
File 06 Correspondence: funding (3): Adult Education Proposal Maputoland, Life histories of Women 1993; Jabu Ndlovu History and other, 1991; A new history of Natal 1990; Umlazi Educational Project 1993-4
File 07 Funding proposals
File 08 Correspondence: Natal ABE Support Agency (NASA); University of Natal; and other 1989-1995
File 09 "Women and Violence" project
File 10

Umlazi oral history project: evaluation; financial report; workshop notes; preliminary notes; Umkhumbane interview in Zulu
File 11 [Working life] oral history interviews and photographs, relating to the Worker Resistance in Natal Project and book "Divide and Profit" by Shamim Marie
File 12 KwaZulu-Natal NGO education and training sector meeting
File 13 South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) history project: typed transcripts of interviews
Appendix 01 Appendix to SACTWU history project: primary and secondary documents associated with the history of SACTWU; garment unions such as GAWU, ACTWUSA (mergers); and Dunlop strike
Appendix 02 Photocopies of the "Garment Worker": 1936-1940; 1941-1947; 1965-1987
Appendix 03 Copy of publication, "Ukubamba amadolo" by Bettie du Toit. (1978). Banned by the apartheid regime
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