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User icon Jenni Wilson
3 November 2022
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Samuel Baylis Barnard was born in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England, on 10 June 1841. He came from a family clothiers whose wealth was diminished by the industrial revolution. Barnard arrived in …



The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa was established by promulgation of the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa Act (Act No. 43 of 1996, as …


The Archive consists of unique multimedia collections depicting multiple facets of resistance of the freedom struggle that was waged against Apartheid from within and outside the borders of South Africa. …