Colin Shum was the first superintendent of the Cato Manor Emergency Camp. He resigned because the municipality refused to provide permanent housing for Africans and Indians in Cato Manor.

Including the Matron's Daily Diary, Kwa Mashu Polyclinic, 11 June 1962-11 November 1967, manuscript; the typed history of the Kwa Mashu Clinic, newspaper clips

The grandson of an indentured labourer, Ramgobin led the re-launch of the Natal Indian Congress in 1971 - first started by Gandhi in 1894 - and was a founding national office bearer in the United Democratic Front, one of the six activists to sit-in at the British Consulate in Durban in 1984, and Accused number 1 in the `Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial - along with Albertina Sisulu, Rev Frank Chikane and others - of 1984 and 1985. Banned and also later placed under house arrest for periods totalling seventeen years, in 1994 he became an African National Congress Member of Parliament, elected in South Africa’s first democratic general elections. In this collection are personal letters from the Consulate and as an imprisoned detainee and treason trialist. Included in the documents are crucial new material on the NIC and the UDF, the return of the ANC in the post-1990 period, and material from his secret state security file. This material offers the informed reader crucial new insights into the dynamics of anti-apartheid politics in the crucial period leading up to both Feb 1990 from then until April 1994. (Book Summary)

This section contains Iain Edward's researcher material for a history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), consisting of handwritten notes and notes (by dicta-phone), taken from sources in Rhodes House at Oxford; excerpts from the D.Phil. thesis by Howard Barrell, St. Antony's College; notes from documents and interviews formerly held at the Mayibuye Centre; copies of documents which were available on the ANC website, and on the website of the SA Communist Party. Reference is made to the autobiographical book by Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils 'Armed and Dangerous'.
Including amongst others copies of:
The Green Book. Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the ANC National Executive Committee, August 1979;
Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Code. Released at the ANC National Consultative Conference at Kabwe in June 1985, and part of the larger document "Report of Commission on National Structures, Constitutional Guidelines and Codes of Conduct";
List of ANC Members who died in Exile, March 1960-December 1993;
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 30th Anniversary Souvenir Magazine, 16 December 1991

Mr S.B. Bourquin was a senior official in the municipal Native Administration Department in Durban from 1950 onwards, becoming Manager and then Director of this Department during the 1950s. He later became Chief Director of the Port Natal Administration Board and retired in 1979. S.B. Bourquin was also a Commandant of the Durban North Commando Group 10.

Independent socialist journal of Southern African studies, edited by Baruch Hirson, Paul Trewhela, Hillel Ticktin, Brian Mac Lellan. Included issues no. 1 (September 1988), 6 (January 1991, 7 (July 1991), 8 (January 1992, 9(August 1992), 10 (April 1993) and 11 (October 1993.

Documents and minutes of WILSA, a South African Trotskyite political grouping.