UCT Libraries

BC 925 UMSA / TABATA COLLECTION  

Manuscripts & Archives

University of Cape Town Libraries

 

A collection of documents concerning the Unity Movement of South Africa and I B Tabata from 1936 to 1990.  Lodged in the Manuscripts and Archives Department, UCT libraries, according to the instructions of I B Tabata, 29 April, 1987.

A

CORRESPONDENCE

 

Correspondence, minutes and other documents for 1936 and 1939 to 1990 between I B Tabata, Dora Taylor and others involved in the Movement.

B

WRITINGS BY I B TABATA

 

Apartheid: Cosmetics Opposed, 1985.  Photocopy

 

The Awakening of a People.  TS of 1950 ed.  Also page proofs and photocopy of 1974 ed.

 

The Boycott, 1952.  Ukwayo, 1952

 

The Dynamic of Revolution in South Africa: speeches and writings by IBT and edited by Dora Taylor.  TS & MS alterations

 

Eight Million Demand Freedom, 1946

 

The Freedom Struggle in South Africa, 1965

 

Imperialist Conspiracy in Africa, 1973.  TS with MS corrections

 

Influx of Natives into Towns, 1944

 

Rehabilitation Scheme, 1945

 

Draft thesis of the Spatacus Group, Cape Town, 1935,

 

with L Trotsky’s comments.  Roneo

 

Lectures on revolutions, ca 1945?

 

Various political writings, 1940s, 1967, 1972.  MSS & TSS

C

DIARIES AND BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL

 

Diaries of IBT: 1944-45; 1947-53; 1955-60; 1962  (16)

 

Biographical material

 

Includes:

 

IBT funeral 27.10.90

 

J Gool: biographical information

 

Other tributes and biographical information

 

viz.: Canon J Collins; Comerade N Honono;

 

     Dr J G Taylor; L L Sihlali

D

PHOTOGRAPHS

 

Includes photos of:

 

IBT

 

Jane Gool

 

Dora Taylor

E

PUBLICATIONS

 

All African Conference, 1941-1945

 

The Voice of the AAC, nos. 10-18, 1946-1948

 

Anti-CAD Movement Conferences, 1943; 1954

 

Anti-CAD Movement Bulletins, nos. 1-177

 

(63 & 69 missing)

 

APDUSA Newsletter, 1966-1982 (incomplete)

 

and Special Issue 1968

 

APO, vol. 1, no. 2, Aug. 1948

 

The Soyan, Feb. 1959

 

Cape African Teachers Association Pamphlets

 

NEUM Conference Proceedings, 1944-1951

 

NEUM Pamphlets, 1960-1963

 

UMSA Pamphlets, 1969; 1983

F

WRITINGS BY OTHERS

 

G Padmore: History of the PAC

 

S W Johns III: Schisms and sects: socialism in SA before 1950

 

D Taylor: Notes for books on or about IBT

 

D Taylor: Notebook on IBT (donated bu Mr R Britten)

G

COURT CASE

 

Trial of K Hassim and others

H

MISCELLANEOUS

 

Choir songs written in Xhosa

J

VIDEO

 

This is a tribute to IB Tabata which was recorded in Zimbabwe, 10 September,1989.  Both Jane Gool and I B Tabata are interviewed. The video is a biographical journey into their personal and political lives.

LTJ/1987

YM/1997 (REVISED)

 

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