The collection contains in part the court proceedings of prominent trials against political activists in South Africa.

Reports and letters relating to the campaign against Chief Sekukuni, being chiefly letters from M. Osborn, Secretary to the Government, Pretoria, to Captain M. Clarke, Special Commissioner for Lydenburg. Other correspondents include A. Aylward, I. Ferreira, R. Godlonton, G.A. Roth, Sir T.S. Shepstone and G. van Deventer.

Memorial to Lord John Russell (Colonial Secretary, Great Britain) from inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, urging that revenue received from the sale of waste lands in the Colony be diverted to the transportation of emigrants from the United Kingdom.

Commemoration scrap-book, 1820-1920.

Contains press clippings, programmes of services, banquets, lectures, etc. commemorating the landings of the British settlers at Algoa Bay in 1820.

'Reports upon Lands in the district of Albany'

Names of petitioners were Robert M. Bovey and John Grant. The reports were signed by W.B. Dundas, landdrost and John Hope, surveyor.

Copy of the PhD Thesis submitted by S.G. Byala to Harvard University, 2006, entitled "Thinking in three dimensions: John Gubbins, Museum Africa and the making of modern Johannesburg 1902-2004".

Included in this collection: Summary of the panel discussion "Does Truth have a Gender? A women's perspective of the TRC", Minutes of the Workshop: "Gender and the TRC", Register of workshop participants, Workshop paper by Jessie Duarte, Press release by TRC entitled "Special Hearings on Women", Submission to TRC prepared by Goldblatt and Meintjies, transcript of hearing relating to submission presented by Meintjies, and papers relating to the issue of Gender and the TRC.

Materials collected from TRC Archival Audit.

The TRC Archival Audit

Between 2003 and 2006, SAHA and Historical Papers, University of Witwatersrand embarked on a project to locate, retrieve and make available records relating to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). The project entailed conducting an archival audit of all existing TRC records in order to identify and locate documentation in danger of being lost.

In the process of conducting the archival audit, SAHA and HP located many collections from individuals and organizations that participated in the TRC process, including this collection. Selections from these materials as well as TRC related material found in the freedom of Information Collection and other pre-existing SAHA and HP collections, were digitized and can be accessed online at http://truth.wwl.wits.ac.za/

A guide to archival resources relating to South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission can also be found at http://www.saha.org.za/pdf/trc_directory.pdf

One photo of a large Shembe gathering, with some groups in traditional dress, others in white robes and others in colonial type outfits. Location and date of the photo unknown.

The African Initiated Church was founded by Isaiah Shembe in 1910. It is seen as a mixture of Zulu tradition and Christianity, which reveres Shembe as an African Messiah and emphasizes the Ten Commandments. The church has two main large gatherings, one being a pilgrimage to Nhlangagazi at the beginning of each year, and the other being a month-long celebration near Eshowe in October.