I need some resources discussing the destruction of documents during Apartheid South Africa.
The war between documents being destroyed by the police against people saving documents and making copies for proof of wrong doing.
The sources should mention the topic in some detail and length.
Thanks
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In addition to the book suggested by maggieray, I would suggest the following South African resources:
"They Should Have Destroyed More": The Destruction of Public Records by the State in the Final Years of Apartheid, 1990-1994 by Verne Harris. Full doc here: http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/7871/HWS-166.pdf?sequence=1
Government Documents Still Destroyed in November 1996: TRC by the South African Press Association: http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/trc/stateofaccess.pdf
From the SADF to the SANDF: Safeguarding South Africa for a Better Life for All? by Noel Stott. Of particular interest to you may be the section entitled Research and Destruction of Apartheid Era Documents. Full doc here: http://www.csvr.org.za/wits/papers/papvtp7.htm#research
Contesting Remembering and Forgetting: The Archive of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Verne Harris. Full doc here: http://www.innovation.ukzn.ac.za/Innovation/InnovationPdfs/No24Harris.pdf
The State of Access to Information in South Africa by Dale McKinley. Full doc here: http://www.csvr.org.za/docs/trc/stateofaccess.pdf
The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa --http://www.national.archives.gov.za/aboutnasa_content.html
Questions put to the NP (National Party) -- http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/hrvtrans/submit/q_np.htm
I hope these resources help.
Leesybee.
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M$here are my suggestions regarding to your questions. . .
1) TRC FINAL REPORT
Summary and Guide to Contents
http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/execsum.htm
2) Amnesties, The TRC and the false promise of prosecutions in South Africa
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/Research/InstituteofCriminologyandCriminalJustice/Research/BeyondLegalism/filestore/Filetoupload,158281,en.pdf
3) The History of Apartheid in South Africa
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/apartheid.hist.html
4) The South African experience after apartheid
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100731-284141/The-South-African-experience-after-apartheid
5) What happened in africa?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sa/
6) http://www.jstor.org/pss/40034834
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http://books.google.com/books?id=C_ME-s1UJPcC&pg=PA193&lpg=PA193&dq=Apartheid+document+destruction&source=bl&ots=aas2xgHmIq&sig=asDWwukOtgAH-cIPdHMDRYsKILs&hl=en&ei=9aq3TNS4DITQcaPS8ZAJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CEAQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=Apartheid%20document%20destruction&f=false
Some of the truth commission hearings are online but I am not finding anything about the people who saved the documents vice the burning/destruction.
You can read one of the hearings, and see reference to the documents being burned here:
http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/amntrans/capetown/capetown_ct1.htm
I don't think this gives you much to go on, but the question interested me so I am offering what I found in reading. I'll be watching for other responses also as I hope someone else can provide more information.
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