The Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) collection comprises copies of materials released
pursuant to the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). The collection includes apartheid
era security establishment records, documents created by the South African government bodies
and agencies post- apartheid, and documents from several private bodies. It also contains
documentation of the collection process. Special Projects, undertaken by the South African
History Archive (SAHA) to test the parameters of freedom of information in South Africa, include
materials relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in particular sensitive
materials; gays in the apartheid military; South African Defence Force (SADF), the apartheid
government's nuclear weapon programme; HIV/AIDS policies and implementation thereof of
private bodies and parastatals; the health and environmental impacts of the nuclear energy
industry, and documents relating to migration to and within RSA