Items

• Africa Through Her Poets

  Movie, audio reels, production notes, poem texts, rights clearances, and the script of the film.
• South African College Song, 1856

  Score and words of the South African College Song. Words by Rev Dr FC Kolbe, music by JH Meiring Beck. Manuscript, 1887. Printed copies, 1903.
• Once we thought thus

  Once we thought thus: being a collection of verses and essays written in the classroom and expressing the thoughts and feelings of the senior pupils of the Girls’ Central School, Cape Town, in the year 1931. Assembled and edited by Hilda Purwitsky, English Mistress”. Bound copy.
• Sarah Ruden: Old man by the highway

  Sarah Ruden. Typescript of collection of 45 poems by Sarah Ruden.
• Verses

  A small hard-cover book containing handwritten verses.
• St. Helena Boer Prisoner of War poems and plays

  St. Helena Boer Prisoner of War poems and plays. Collection of poems and plays in Afrikaans, written by boer prisoners of war on the island of St. Helena. Manuscript.
• Three poems

  Allene Peck.
• Four poems

  Ben Edwards. Four poems.
• Three poems: "Om die portret te skilder van 'n Voël", "Vrye Wyl", "Eerste Wag", translated by Uys Krige from the work of Jacques Prévert.
• "Hoe ik er kwam" - poem.

  Casparus Petrus Hoogenhout (1843-1922), author, poet and pioneer of the Afrikaans Language Movement. A manuscript poem.
• "Op Den Dood van Ds. van der Lingen" (by) Een Theologisch Student (Rev SJ du Toit)

  Stephanus Johannes du Toit (1847-1911), pupil at Paarl Gymnasium, theologian and proponent of the Afrikaans language.
• Jesus Bid

  Jacob Daniel du Toit (pseud. Totius) (1877-1953), manuscript poem of two pages "Jesus Bid". UCT Libraries
• De Dame met den Waarzeggenden Geest

  A poem in Cape Dutch.
• In Die Sabie Die Groot Konyn. An essay in verse together with a letter by Du Plessis to UCT Librarian.

  Du Plessis, Izak David (1900-1981), prominent poet, playwright, lecturer and government official. An essay in verse and related letter.
• Poems

  Commonplace book of poetry, religion, botany etc. Started 28 May, 1843.
• "Ronde Vlei 2/11/30"

  RC Bolster, South African ornithologist. Manuscript poem entitled Ronde Vlei 2/11/30. Ronde Vlei is a minor lake in Cape Town that attracts water birds.
• Over the sea

  Arthur Henry Johnstone Bourne, headmaster of the Boys' High School, Kimberley, South Africa, late 19th century. A manuscript poem entitled "Over the sea".
• Poems

  MS volume of poetry by various authors.
• Album containing WWII prisoner of war verse

  Album containing WWII prisoner of war verse from handwritten newsheet entitled "Our POW WOW" written by South African prisoners of war.
• Poems

  Scrimgeour, ACS. Professor of Education at UCT from 1910-1940. A volume of poetry: "Rambles in rhyme....". Some poems were published viz: "Echoes and imitations", Cape Town (1926); "A little book of verse", London (1935).
• Poems
• Poems and songs

  Dora Taylor (1899-1976), writer and lecturer, resident in Cape Town 1926 to 1963. She participated in the activities of multiracial groups opposed to the government’s racial policies, and she became a Marxist. She was a founder member of the Non-European Unity Movement. Among her writings are poems and songs related to South Africa.
• Poems
• Protest poems and songs

  Frank Molteno (1953-) was a sociology lecturer and first equal opportunity manager at UCT, who later worked in the Anglican Church's HIV/Aids programme. It is still to be established whether the struggle peoems and songs were written or collected by him.
• Poems