The Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR) was based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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.

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 Non-Racial Sports History Project was formed in June 2015. Its primary mandate is to record the histories of non-racial sport from the ground up clubs and their administrators and players, provincial and then national ,paying special attention to the role played by women. While our main focus is on the histories of non-racial sport before the unity talks and the advent of democracy in 1994, we are also interested in recording the stories of community sports in all areas but more especially where there was a tradition of non-racial sport before 1994.

We see the project as contributing to the revival of the ethos that characterized the non-racial movement. To this end, some of the main objectives of the project are:

1. Revive the concept of community sport (which represents the majority of our population ) compared to professional sport.
2. Actively to promote and support the formation of community based sporting bodies.
3. Safeguard and secure the future of amateur sport.
4. Where there is an interest, to assist in the revival of sporting codes that are currently dormant.
5. Where possible to assist those who were active in non-racial sport and who have fallen on hard times.
6. To acknowledge the role played by sportspeople for the struggle for non-racial sport
7. Finally, to revive the spirit of voluntarism and non-racialism.

The Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, under the chairmanship of Justice Richard Goldstone, was appointed by President FW de Klerk on 24 October 1991, to investigate incidents of public violence and intimidation in South Africa prior to the 1994 general election. Other commissioners were Adv. Danie Rossouw, SC (ViceChairman), Adv. Solly Sithole, Ms. Lillian Baqwa, and Mr. Gert Steyn. The commissioners were appointed for a statutory period of three years. The Commission became commonly known as the Goldstone Commission.
During its three year life-span the Commission, in terms of its founding Act, No 139 of 1991, presented 47 reports, usually following public inquiries, containing a large number of recommendations.
The Commission closed on 27 October 1994.

This organisation was formed as a multi-racial group of parents in support of their children who were kept in detention, often without trial. The DPSC operated on national level under extreme conditions of State repression, such as banning orders and detentions. Although the DPSC did not operate in isolation, the sheer numbers of those who were detained was overwhelming. Some of the earlier material of the organisation appears to have been lost in the Khotso house bombing in 1988, where the DPSC offices were located.

Previously Christian Council of South Africa, General Missionary Conference

The bulk of the material dates from 1970, collected by Philip Bonner, and 1983, collected by Carolyn Hamilton, working with a number of SiSwati-speaking researchers and assistants. Some of the interviews were undertaken at the behest of Bonner and Hamilton. Others were undertaken at the behest of the Swazi King, Sobhuza II, or by the Swaziland Broadcasting Corporation and others were collected by or given to the Swaziland Oral History Project in the early 1980's.