Ponsford, Ronald van Buuren, John Hunt, Godfrey Coetz and David Hunter.Įarly correspondence refers often to American YMCA secretary Max Yergan, his role in the Students' Christian Association (SCA), and the attempt to get him into South Africa as a secretary. The primary people mentioned in this collection and throughout the correspondence are John Raleigh Mott, Oswin Boys Bull, Max Yergan, T. Hofmeyer School of Social Work, the Ga-Rankuwa Youth Center Project, the Interracial Student Christian Conference, the South African Exile Repatriation Program and the introduction of the PLATO Learning System to the education programs. Other topics include the Bantu Education Act, the Chiappini Street Boys Club, the WWII War Work Campaign, the Jan H. There are many reports in the collection on the World Council of YMCAs' stance against apartheid and the way that the YMCA helped the South African citizens affected by the process of "separate development." There are also some reports on the 1988 program Youth In Exile which supplied assistance to the displaced youth living as refugees due to the economic and military destabilization efforts of the South African government. There is much in the way of discussion about the YMCA's stand on civil rights especially when faced with apartheid in South Africa.
Much of the collection involves the discussion of racial relations throughout South Africa, primarily between the Bantu, Afrikander and British populations but there is mention of an Indian population as well.
Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, financial documents, pamphlets, maps, journal and newspaper articles and other records of the YMCA movement in South Africa, particularly Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Cape Town, Natal and Kimberley.
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