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Can anybody help out here?

>
>{** The following message has been passed on to H-Albion from H-Africa with
>the hope that someone may be able to help.  -- rbg **]
>
>Date:    Sun, 21 May 2000
>From:   " Chris Lowe, _Oregon Humanities_ magazine"  <clowe@igc.org>
>
>crossposted from H-Africa
>
>I've replied to Nhlanhla Dlamini privately, but have a related
>query that perhaps someone else can help out with. [Editor's
>Note:  the original query is reporoduced below.]
>
>Jonathan Crush, in his article "The Construction of Compound
>Authority: Drinking at Havelock, 1938-1944," in _Liquor and
>Labor in Southern Africa_, ed. Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler
>(Ohio University Press), 367-94, says that when the Havelock
>mine was opened in 1939 it was owned by the British company
>Turner and Newall.  It occurs to me that corporate papers from
>Turner and Newall might survive in Britain, either in a
>corporate archive of the company or some successor company, or
>in a business history archive.
>
>Does anyone on this list who has worked with imperial business
>history know of any such papers or have suggestions as to where
>to begin looking?
>
>********** original query **********
>
>Date:    Fri, 19 May 2000
>From:    Dlamini Nhlanhla
>         <113211@uniswacc.uniswa.sz>
>
>I am a postgraduate student of the University of Swaziland
>pursuing a Master's programme in history. I wish to access
>records of the Havelock asbestos mine but have some difficulty.
>The present mine management at Havelock claims that records got
>destroyed in a riot in 1992. Does anyone know where I could find
>information on the mine?
>
>I would also appreciate oral information from Whites who worked in
>this mine up to the 1960s. I have attempted to fix an interview
>with the mine's management, but have been turned away at the
>door on two occassions. I am, however, bent on producing a
>sterling thesis at the end. Any sort of help would be highly
>appreciated. The Swaziland National Archives has been of help
>but, again there is limited information.
>
>I also wish to know if anything has been written on asbestos
>mining in South Africa, especially where Havelock operated
>before coming to Swaziland. Thank you in advance for your
>contributions!
>
>Dlamini Nhlanhla
>

Stephanie Swenson Towery
stowery@mail.law.utexas.edu

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