The SRC Resource Centre moved to new premises in late 1981 which were equipped with excellent reading, research and seminar facilities. The SRC decided to allocate R1000 to the Centre for the purchase of new books and other materials. It was also decided to provide further financial assistance support for the development of the Centre.

On the 14 May 1984 the SRC Resource Centre was completely destroyed in a fire which raged through the second floor of the Students' Union building.

Nothing remained of its vast collection of press clippings, magazines, books and posters, much of which was specific to student activity at Wits over the previous ten years. Arson was suspected and a police investigation later confirmed this

The Resource Centre began once again to collect material which dealt not only with Student affairs but also with material of a "consciousness raising" nature.

By 1990 every SRC on the affiliated NUSAS Campuses had developed a Resource Centre. The Wits Students' Resource Centre was forced to close down shortly after this period due to lack of funds

The aim of the project's sponsors, the South African Council of Churches and the Christian Institute of Southern Africa, was to call together a body of experts to examine the implications of applying Christian principles to the major areas of our national life and to make recommendations for a juster social order.
The original stimulus for Spro-cas was provided by the Message to the People of south Africa, which was issued by the Theological Commission of the South African Council of Churches in September 1968. The Message provided the basic theological foundation for the project, i.e. the Gospel as reconciliation.

The Southern African Centre for Survivors of Torture (SACST), formerly known as the Zimbabwe Torture Victims Project (ZTVP), was established in February 2005 and was managed by IDASA. The ZTVP's mandate was to provide medical, psychological and legal services to primary survivors of organized violence and torture (OVT) perpetrated in Zimbabwe from the year 2000 to date. In December 2006 the ZTVP became a partner project of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) until September 2007.

The SACST became an independent Section 21 Company in October 2007 and its founding objective was to facilitate access to a range of services that theoretically should be provided by the state to those seeking asylum from persecution. Its mandate has since expanded to respond to the needs of tortured asylum seekers and refugees in Southern Africa, including survivors of gross human rights violations.

The South African Post Office released a special edition postage stamp in 2012, depicting the Delegation of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) to England in 1914.

The image originates from a photographic collection which is held at Historical Papers in the collection A1384f Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho, which shows the members of the delegation being Thomas Mapikela, Doctor Walter Rubusana, Reverend John Dube, Saul Msane and Sol Plaatje.

The special edition postage stamp was issued in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the founding of the ANC, and was released with as a stamp and first-day cover on the 6 January 2012, designed by Martin Rossouw. Following its release the South African Post Office donated a sheet of the stamps and first-day cover to Historical Papers, accompanied by a text explaining in short the historical events from the founding of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) in January 1912 in Bloemfontein, to the renaming of the SANNC to African National Congress (ANC) in 1923.