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Series 3: Other Country Files, 1985-1997
Series 6: Publications, 1990-1991, 1996

Human Rights Watch records : Record Group 4: Africa Watch, 1977-1997, bulk 1989-1995

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Series 2: Bronwen Manby Files, 1977-1996

This series represents Ms. Manby's work as a consultant on South Africa from 1992 to the mid-1990s. After moving through various positions during her tenure at HRW/Africa Watch, she resigned as Deputy Director in 2003. In 2003, Ms. Manby became the Director of the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) at the Open Society Institute in London.

Subseries II.1: South Africa Files, 1977-1996

Subseries 1: South Africa, 1977-1997 The files are arranged alphabetically by subject and include correspondence, manuscripts, memorandums, newspaper clippings, newsletters and research reports. Through these preceding archival materials, the researcher may trace South Africa's internal political developments from its intense repression of the "independent" homelands to its transformation to a democratic state positively engaged with its neighbors.


Box 263 Folder 1 to 13 Press Clippings, 1991-1992, (13 Folders)

[Unvetted]


Box 264 Folder 1 to 17 Press Clippings, 1993-1994 May, (17 Folders)

[Unvetted]


Box 265 Folder 1 to 18 Press Clippings--Violence, 1990-1992 June, (18 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Academic Freedom


Box 266 Folder 1 Correspondence, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 2 Reports--Africa Watch--Drafts, undated

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 3 Africa Confidential, 1992-1994, 1996, 1992-1994, 1996

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 4 The Africa Fund, 1989-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 5 Africa Watch--Publications, 1989-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 6 African American Institute, 1990

[Unvetted]

African National Congress (ANC)

Box 266 Folder 7 General, 1989-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 8 Policy--Internal Affairs, 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 9 African Topics, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 10 Aid/Famine, 1991-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 11 Aids, 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 12 Amnesty International, 1988-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 13 Anti-Censorship Group, 1989-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 14 Arms Trade, 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 15 Army, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 16 Articles, 1989-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 266 Folder 17 Association of West European Parliamentarians for Action Against Apartheid (AWEPAA), 1989-1990, 1994, 1989-1990, 1994

[Unvetted]

Bophuthatswana


Box 267 Folder 1 Braklaagte and Leeuwfontein, 1989-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 2 Correspondence with Governments, 1990-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 3 General Memos, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1990, 1992, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 4 Interviews and Statements, 1990-1991

[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2067]

Box 267 Folder 5 Legislation, 1977

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 6 Political Prisoners, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 7 to 10 Press Clippings, 1990-1991, 1993-1994, 1990-1991, 1993-1994, (4 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 11 Report (Original), 1991 September

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 12 Buthelezi/Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)--Central Negotiations,, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 13 Center for Adult Education, 1989

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 14 Centre for Applied Legal Studies, 1987, 1988, 1987, 1988

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 15 Children, 1991-1993

[Unvetted]

Church—South African

Box 267 Folder 16 General, 1987-1988, 1992, 1994, 1987-1988, 1992, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 267 Folder 17 No Neutral Ground, 1988-1988

[Unvetted]

Ciskei


Box 268 Folder 1 Bisho Massacre, 1992 September 7

[Unvetted]

Correspondence

Box 268 Folder 2 General, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 3 Governments, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 4 FBIS and SWB Reports, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 5 General Memos, 1987, 1991, 1987, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 6 Goozo, Brig. Gen. O.J.--Press Releases, 1990-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 7 Interviews and Statements, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 8 Material from Independent Board of Inquiry into Informal Repression (KBIIR) and East Cape News Agencies (ECNA),, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 9 to 14 Press Clippings, 1989-1994, (6 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 15 Report--Original, 1991 December

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 16 Civil Rights League, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 17 Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation--Press Releases,, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 18 Committee to Protect Journalists, 1989-1991

[Vetted, open]

Box 268 Folder 19 Commonwealth Report, 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 20 Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1987-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 21 Conscription--Whites, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 22 Constitution, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 23 Correspondence, 1995-1996

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 24 Corruption, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 25 Death Penalty, 1988-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 268 Folder 26 Democracy in Action , 1992-1994

[Unvetted]


Box 269 Folder 1 Democratic Party (DP), 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 2 Disabled People, undated

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 3 Economy, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Education

Box 269 Folder 4 Human Rights/Legal, 1991, 1994, 1991, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 5 SACHED Trust, 1989

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 6 Schools, 1991-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 7 Universities, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 8 Einstein Institution, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 9 Election Monitoring and Voter Education, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 10 Embassy of South Africa, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 11 Environment, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 12 European Community/Union, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 13 Foreign Relations, 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 14 Freedom of Expression Institute, 1994-1995

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 15 Fund for a Free South Africa (FreeSA), 1989

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 16 Gay/Lesbian Rights, 1993-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 17 Gazankulu, 1990-1994

[Unvetted]

Goldstone Commission

Box 269 Folder 18 Press Clippings, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 19 Press Releases, 1993 March 16-17

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 20 Grahamstown Rural Committee, 1989-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 21 Heritage Foundation, 1990-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 22 Holdstock, T. Len, Education: Toward Heaven or Hell, 1987

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 23 to 26 Homelands--General, 1990-1994, (4 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Hostels

Box 269 Folder 27 Draft Report, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 28 Press Clippings, 1990-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 269 Folder 29 Human Rights Commission, 1989-1993

[Unvetted]

Human Rights Commission


Box 270 Folder 1 to 2 Area Repression Report, 1991-1992, (2 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 3 Human Rights Review, 1990-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 4 to 6 Human Rights Update, 1991-1992, (2 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 7 to 8 Monthly Report, 1994-1996, (3 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 9 Monthly Repression Report, 1993

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 10 Political Imprisonment in South Africa, 1991 April

[Unvetted]

Human Rights Committee

Box 270 Folder 11 Human Rights Report, 1996

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 12 Monthly Report, 1995 March

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 13 Human Sciences Research Council, 1992, 1994, 1992, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 270 Folder 14 IDOC--African Files, 1993-1994

[Unvetted]

Independent Board of Inquiry Into Informal Repression (IBIIR)


Box 271 Folder 1 Memorandum, 1990 July

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 2 to 7 Reports, 1990-1994, (6 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 8 Index on Censorship, 1990-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 9 Information Centre on South Africa, 1989-1990

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 10 Inkatha, 1989-1990

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 11 Institute for Mult-Party Democracy, 1993, 1995, 1993, 1995

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 12 Institute for Public Interest Law and Research, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 13 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 14 International Mobilisation: Against Apartheid and for the Liberation of Southern Africa , 1990

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 15 International Republican Institute--South Africa: Campaign And Election Report, 1994 April 26-29

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 16 to 17 The Journal of the Human Rights Trust Monitor, 1989-1991, 1993, 1989-1991, 1993, (2 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Justice

Box 271 Folder 18 Access, 1989-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 19 Monitors, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 20 Obstacles to Justice, 1989-1991

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 21 KaNgwane, 1989-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 271 Folder 22 KwaNdebele, 1986, 1992-1994, 1986, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

KwaZulu

Box 271 Folder 23 Freedom of Expression, 1991-1994

[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2070]


Box 272 Folder 1 Inkatha--Links--United States, 1977-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 2 KwaZulu/Natal--Federalism, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 3 Language, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 4 Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1990-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 5 Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1989, 1991-1992, 1989, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Lawyers for Human Rights

Box 272 Folder 6 General, 1989-1990

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 7 National Office, 1990-1991, 1994, 1990-1991, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 8 Publications, 1992

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 9 Reports--Annual, 1989, 1991-1992, 1989, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 10 to 11 RIGHTS, 1990-1994, (2 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 12 Lebowa, 1990-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 13 Legal Resources Centre, 1989-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 14 Local Government, 1990, 1994, 1990, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 15 Mahomed, Ismail, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 16 Mandela, Winnie, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 17 Media Institute of Southern Africa, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 18 Medical Education for South African Blacks, Inc., 1992

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 19 Medicine, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1990, 1992, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 20 National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 21 National Party, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 22 National Peace Accord, 1993

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 23 National Peacekeeping Force, 1994

[Unvetted]

Box 272 Folder 24 Negotiations--Key Steps, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]


Box 273 Folder 1 Operation Hunger, 1992

[Unvetted]


Folder 273 Folder 2-3 Organization of African Unity, 1992

[Unvetted]


Box 273 Folder 4 Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 5 Peace Action, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 6 Physicians for Human Rights, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 7 Pietermaritzburg Agency (PACSA), 1989-1994

[Unvetted]

Political Prisoners

Box 273 Folder 8 Africa Fund, 1990-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 9 General Memos, 1990-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 10 Press Clippings, 1990-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 11 Political Support, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 12 Project for the Study of Violence, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 13 Publications Miscellaneous, 1989, 1991, 1989, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 14 Right Wing, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 15 QwaQwa, 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 16 Sanctions, 1991-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 17 Saspost , 1992

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 18 South Africa Now (television program), 1988-1989

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 19 South African Communist Party (SACP), 1991-1994

[Unvetted]

South African Council of Churches (SACC)

Box 273 Folder 20 APS News And Features Bulletin , 1982-1988

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 21 Pamphlets, 1987-1989

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 22 Position Papers/Documents, 1987-1994

[Unvetted]

South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR)

Box 273 Folder 23 Frontiers of Freedom , 1994-1995

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 24 Statistics--Conflicts--Human Rights Commission, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 25 Watchdog on the South African Election , 1993-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 26 South African Union of Journalists, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 27 Southern Africa Church News , 1991-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 28 Southern Africa Exclusive , 1993

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 29 SouthScan: A Weekly Bulletin of Southern African Affairs , 1990-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 273 Folder 30 Streetwise: The Street Law Magazine, 1989, 1992, 1989, 1992

[Unvetted]


Box 274 Folder 1 TransAfrica , 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 2 Transfer of Land to the Self-Governing Territories, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Transkei

Box 274 Folder 3 Background Information, 1991-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 3a Background Information, 1991-1993

[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2068]

Box 274 Folder 4 Press Clippings, 1988-1994

[Unvetted]

United Nations

Box 274 Folder 5 to 6 General Assembly, 1988, 1990-1994, 1988, 1990-1994, (2 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 7 Press Clippings, 1992-1994

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 8 United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 1988

[Unvetted]

United States

Box 274 Folder 9 to 10 South Africa Policy, 1989-1992, (2 Folders)

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 11 South Africa Relations, 1992-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 12 U.S. State Department Reports, 1991-1992

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 13 U.S. Committee for Refugees, 1990

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 14 Venda, 1989-1994

[Unvetted]

Writers

Box 274 Folder 15 Conference, 1991 November

[Unvetted]

Correspondence

Box 274 Folder 16 Africa Watch, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 17 General, 1991

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 18 Human Rights Abuses, 1981-1993

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 19 Papers, 1990

[Unvetted]

Box 274 Folder 20 Yunus Mahomed Case, 1989

[RESTRICTED UNTIL 2065]