The documents are arranged in three sections:

The first section A (Boxes 1 and 2) consists of interviews with PAC member (a list is attached).

The second section B (Boxes 3 and 4) consists of some of the ANC, PAC and Black Consciousness papers that were microfilmed for CAMP (Cooperative African. Microform Project). There is an inventory of these microfilms and the numbers of the documents included in these boxes have been circled in the inventory.

The third Section C (Boxes 5 and 6) consists of miscellaneous documents of the same kind as in Section B, arranged roughly by date. (Some of the section C papers may correspond with descriptions in section B but they have not been numbered).

The documents include interviews, biographical profiles, ANC annual reports, newsletters, journals such as The Africanist and African Lodestar, correspondence, flyers about meetings and campaigns, press cuttings including some on Sharpeville and on PAC breakaway from the ANC. There is also material on FOFATUSA (Federation of African Trade Unions of SA).

Correspondents and authors of articles include PK Leballo, CM Makwetu, MC Mampunye, S Motjuwadi, M Nkoana, DJ Nyaose, R Sobukwe, etc.