Prominent figure of South African nationalist politics, as well as writer, scholar, and editor for the South African publications Ilanga lase Natal (“The Natal Sun,” Durban), Bantu World (Johannesburg), and Inkundla ya Bantu (“Bantu Forum,” Verulam).

Clive Nettleton was Assistant to the Director of the S.A. institute of Race Relations. This collection comprises SAIRR documents from 1970-1974 including minutes, correspondence, papers, records of the Youth Programme and Open School as well as records of other organisations - such as SASO, NUSAS, and Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre.

Matthew Nell was the Founder & Director and of the Shisaka Development Management Services in South Africa. He has over thirty years of experience in development finance, primarily in low income housing, urban regeneration and in socio-economic development programmes. Matthew Nell oversaw the establishment of key housing finance and micro-credit institutions and public funding interventions, including the National Housing Forum, where he was responsible for the overall management and its direction. He has provided advisory services to national, provincial and metropolitan government on public housing strategies and programmes and assisted in drafting national housing policy, legislation and regulations as well as establishing housing related public entities.
Matthew Nell holds a Bachelors Degree in Building Science and Masters Degree in Town and Regional Planning, both from the University of the Witwatersrand.

The Malaboch war resulted from Chief Malaboch's refusal to pay hut taxes to the Transvaal Republic Government (ZAR), and his resistance to be moved from his traditional area of Blouberg. The Boer Campaign following these developments in 1894, led by Commandant-General Piet Joubert, was essentially a punitive action against Malaboch. He was taken prisoner and tried on the 2 August 1894, where he was found guilty but was never sentenced. He was kept prisoner of war until released by the British forces during the Anglo-Boer War in 1900, after which he returned to his people. He died in 1939.