The weekly newspaper "Advance" was the successor to the newspaper "Guardian" and was published under this name from November 1952 to October 1954.

Brian Bunting, who became managing editor of the "Guardian" in September 1948, had changed the name of the newspaper from "Guardian" to "Clarion" between May to August 1952, after which it was named "Advance". In October 1954 the name was changed again to "New Age", and from December 1962 to March 1963, after the banning of "New Age" the newspaper was published as "Spark". The final edition of "Spark" appeared on the 28 March 1963, after the banning of its editor and other people like Sonia Bunting, Rica Hodgson, Wolfie Kodesh, Ruth First and Fred Carneson, amongst many others.

The International Campaign to Ban Landmines was first launched in 1992 in order to help alleviate the global and regional landmine crisis. The initial signatories comprised of Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOS) such as the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), Medico International (MI) Handicap International (HI), Mines Advisory Group (MAG) and Physician for Human Rights (PHR). This initiative to ban landmines was later on taken up by most of the countries in the world including South Africa.

The South African Campaign to Ban Landmines (SACBL), launched in 1995, was part of an international movement which was committed to lobbying for a global ban of anti-personnel landmines by the year 2000. In South Africa, the SACBL was popularised by the military veterans. The call by South African military veterans followed on the heels of the Canadian sponsored conference which was held in October 1996. It strengthened world-wide government support for a ban on antipersonnel landmines. This conference ended with the adoption of the Ottawa Declaration which included a commitment to working towards the complete ban on anti-personnel landmines.

The SACBL was coordinated by the Ceasefire Campaign and participating groups included: OXFAM, the Group for Environmental Monitoring (GEM) and the Justice and Peace Unit of the Catholic Church. In an open letter addressed to President Nelson Mandela, the signatories of the SACBL welcomed the government's commitment to eliminate anti-personnel landmines. They called upon the South African Government to declare a complete ban on anti-personnel mines, that is, a ban on their production, stockpiling, sale and use.

By 1997 South Africa joined more than 39 countries that were already supporting a ban. By 2004, the International Campaign Landmines had over 1400 subscribed members. From 1992 to 2004, these countries held conferences and conducted workshops on the landmine ban.

South African Law Firm, which became involved in high profile political trials during the 1980s and 1990s. These included the Delmas Treason Trial and the Neil Aggett inquest, amongst others.

The Historical Papers research archive, situated in the William Cullen Library, was established in 1966. Its first holdings were the Jan Hofmeyr collection and the Gubbins collection as well as manuscripts which were transferred from the Africana section in the William Cullen Library.

It has since become one of the largest and most comprehensive independent archives in Southern Africa. We house over 3300 collections of historical, political and cultural importance, encompass the mid 17th Century to the Present.

The project, which was managed by Vanessa Cooke, due to the depth of her institutional knowledge of the history of the Market Theatre, was supervised by Cynthia Kros, at the time Professor of Heritage Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, and assisted by Carol Prestons.

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), today the largest teachers' union in the country was launched on the 6th of October 1990 in Johannesburg. Its launch was attended by 1500 delegates from 13 teacher organisations. The delegates present were united in the firm belief and commitment to place teachers at the forefront of policy development for an envisaged future South Africa.

The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a broad anti-Apartheid movement, which incorporated organisations such as churches, civic associations, trade unions, student organisations and sports bodies, to fight Apartheid inside South Africa.

The all-white South African Football Association, later known as Football Association of South Africa (FASA), was formed in 1892. SAFA was admitted to the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) in 1952. Later in 1956 SAFA changed its name to FASA, deleting the race exclusion clause from its Constitution. That and FASA's affiliation with the South African Bantu Football Association (SABFA) in 1958 would allow FIFA to officially recognise FASA as the sole governing body of soccer in South Africa. But in 1960 the Confederation of African Football (CAF) expels South Africa, which was followed by FIFA's suspension of FASA in 1964. The FIFA Congress in Montreal in 1976 finally decided on the total expulsion of FASA, after South Africa had already been expelled from the Olympic movement in 1970.

FASA together with other National Football bodies in South Africa unified in 1991 to become the South African Football Association (SAFA), allowing South Africa to join FIFA and international soccer again in 1992.