Identificatie
referentie code
Titel
Datum(s)
- 1960s-2000s (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Archief
Omvang en medium
13 boxes including documents, photographs, awards, 10 CDs and 14 floppy disks
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
Biografie
Achmat Dangor, born in Newclare on 2 October 1948, was a South African writer, poet and political activist against Apartheid.
He worked extensively in the field of development and civil society, with institutions such as the Kagiso Trust, the Independent Development Trust (IDT), UNAIDS, the Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund (NMCF) and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
His literary works included poetry collections such as Bulldozer (1983) and Private voices (1992), and novels such as Waiting for Leila (1981), the Z Town Trilogy (1990), Kafka's Curse: Novella & Three Other Stories (1997), Bitter Fruit (2001), Strange Pilgrimages (2013) and Dikeledi: Child of Tears No More (2017).
Achmat Dangor was a banned person from 1973 to 1978 by the South African government. He was active on several writers’ bodies advocating the end of segregation such as Black Thoughts, the Writers’ Forum and the Congress of South African Writers (COSAW).
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
The Achmat Dangor Papers are part of the Achmat Dangor Legacy Project (ADLP), an initiative of Audrey Elster, with generous funding from the Ford Foundation. The collection was handed over to the Nelson Mandela Foundation for further processing and listing. It was subsequently deposited with the Historical Papers Research Archive in September 2023.
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
Included are manuscripts, correspondence, awards, journals, diaries, notebooks, newspaper clippings, photographs and artwork, as well as working papers from various institutions, and oral history interviews.
Waardering, vernietiging en slectie
Aanvullingen
Ordeningstelsel
The collection was sorted by Audrey Elster, and a listing created by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. This order in which the collection was received thereafter was largely retained.
Voorwaarden voor toegang en gebruik
Voorwaarden voor raadpleging
Voorwaarden voor reproductie
All rights remain with the Achmat Dangor family.
Taal van het materiaal
Schrift van het materiaal
Taal en schrift aantekeningen
Fysieke eigenschappen en technische eisen
Toegangen
Uploaded finding aid
Verwante materialen
Bestaan en verblifplaats van originelen
Bestaan en verblijfplaats van kopieën
Related units of description
Aantekeningen
Aantekening
Photograph with courtesy from the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
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Onderwerp trefwoord
Geografische trefwoorden
Naam ontsluitingsterm
Genre access points
Beschrijvingsbeheer
Identificatie van de beschrijving
Identificatiecode van de instelling
Toegepaste regels en/of conventies
Status
Niveau van detaillering
Verwijdering van datering archiefvorming
Taal (talen)
Schrift(en)
Bronnen
Aantekeningen van de archivaris
The collection is work-in-progress, both in terms of the digitisation of parts of the collection, as well as the oral history interviews which are still ongoing.