| Description | File includes:
Letters discharging Brutus from his teaching post, Oct 1961; Newspaper cutting re shooting of Brutus in Johannesburg, Sept 1963; Certified copy of Brutus' birth certificate, made 1966; letter to Brutus from UK Home Office suggesting his wife applies for a UK entry certificate, Aug 1966; letter to Brutus from UK Home Office suggesting he applies for UK entry certificates fro his children aged under 16, Aug 1966; letters from UK Home Office extending Brutus' permitted stay in the UK, June 1967; letter to Brutus from Shelter Housing Aid Centre, London, March 1971; letter to Dennis Brutus re his application for a Zimbabwean passport, June 1980; letter to Miss C Brutus from Rhodesia Passport Office rejecting her application for a Zimbabwean passport, June 1980; copy of Anthony Brutus' degree certificate from Harvard, 1980; letter to May Brutus from UK Home Office re her application for citizenship of the UK, Nov 1982; letters to Brutus from UK Home Office re his application for naturalisation 1983 - 1984; reference for Brutus written by Robert Lipsyte to Immigration Court, Chicago, March 1983; transcript of Deportation hearing of Dennis Brutus [Chicago, 1983]; statement by Dennis Brutus re his campaigning, how it started, his ban from teaching, capture by the Police in Mozambique and return to Johannesburg where he was shot by the police, transfer to Robben Island and conditions there [1983?]; articles re Brutus' imprisonment and exile, 1984; letters to Brutus and May Brutus from UK Office declining their applications for naturalisation, Jan 1984; letters written by May Brutus, wife of Dennis Brutus, to Bob Hughes, London re their children's DOBs and passport status, detailing their arrival in the UK Sept 1966, Dennis moving to Northwestern University Aug 1971, requesting help, Jan and Feb 1984;letter from Home Office explaining why Brutus was refused entry to the UK at Heathrow (no visa), Feb 1988; letters re Brutus' sons' status 1989; Letter from RSA Dept of Home Affairs re Brutus' legal status in South Africa "you are a prohibited person in the RSA and you have forfeited your South Africa citizenship", Nov 1990; letters re visa applications 1991; copy of letter to Nelson Mandela in which Brutus writes he hopes to be allowed to visit South Africa and meet him, June 1991; letter from Brutus to Uni of Pittsburgh informing his department that he has been granted a visa to travel to South Africa, May 1991; letter to Brutus from South African Embassy re status of his visa, June 1991; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Information for South African Refugees and Exiles on Voluntary Repatriation, Oct 1991; copy of letter from Brutus applying for the resuscitation of his South African citizenship, Jan 1992 |