Film production by Georgina Jaffee entitled "The struggle of the workers at B&S Furniture Co.", September 1983. The Company was established on the border between South Africa and the Homeland of Bophuthatswana in the mid 1970s.

Incomplete records belonging to the National Union of South African Students (1933 -1992) form a large part of this collection.

The following abbreviations are used in the collection:

ANC - African National Congress.

FONS - Friends of NUSAS.

JODAC - Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee.

NUSAS - National Union of South African Students.

RAU - Rand Afrikaanse Universiteit.

RHODES - Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

SASPU - South African Students' Press Union.

SDS - Studente vir 'n demokratiese samelewing.

SRC - Students' Representative Council.

SASTS - South African Students' Travel Service.

UND - University of Natal, Durban.

UCT - University of Cape Town.

WITS - University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg.

In 1984 NUSAS, along with 600 other organisations affiliated to the United Democratic Front (UDF). NUSAS thus had a long history of political resistance.

UNISA Documentation Centre for African Studies, May 1981.

The documents of the accession, totalling 118 pages, relate to the early work of the two missionaries in Valdezia between 1874 and 1899 and give an insight into the difficulties and hardships of early missionary life in Southern Africa of that period.

There is an extensive and almost complete set of correspondence (including copies and translations) and other documents in connection with the missionaries' requests to the authorities, namely of the Transvaal Republic, for permission to "preach the gospel to the heathen" of the Spelonken area. The request was refused in spite of the fact that the Church already owned a farm in Valdezia. Later after the two men had been taken to Marabastad and kept prisoner there for a considerable time for ignoring the orders from the State Secretary to cease their activities, permission was eventually granted to do missionary work - but only on their own farm! So the battle for recognition continued. Of special interest here is the 'Declaration' of the 'Commission des Missions' of October 1876 and a copy/translation of a letter from the President of the Swiss Confederation asking for the same rights to be given to Rev. Creux and Berthoud as to other missionaries of "friendly nations".

There is further considerable correspondence between Creux and the 'Commissaris naturellen' re various troubles concerning the local inhabitants in connection with work, taxes and warfare with chiefs Modjadji and Magato. Other letters deal with diseases and the need for vaccine, gifts of fruit, milk and meat. Documents concerning Albasini, 'Commissioner over the Natives of Spelonken' and 'Knopneus kaptein,' are kept separately.

All letters are, except where indicated, handwritten and in the original. They are in English, French and Dutch with a few in Tsonga.

The spelling of names of places and persons are given as they appear in the documents and therefore varies.

Part 70.19 - The Bible in Standard Tsonga. There is a listing of the items, stored in 58 boxes, which is attached to the hardcopy inventory.

Part S 1-8 - Schneider Papers. The items stored in these S 1-8 boxes are referred to in the inventory. The listing of the items is attached to the hardcopy inventory.

Album with photographs of swords, with handwritten explanatory notes, possibly compiled by Major Pullar.

The main body of this collection consists of the original DRUM magazine, including its first number in March 1951, up to 1962.

The publication was started as "The African Drum" by Jim Bailey and Bob Crisp, and soon after only called DRUM. Its prime time were the 1950s under the successive editorship of Antony Sampson, Sylvester Stein and Tom Hopkinson. The staff of Black journalists, known as the "DRUM boys" included writers like Henry Nxumalo ('Mr DRUM'), Can Themba, Lewis Nkosi, Todd Matshikiza, Nat Nakasa, William Modisane, Arthur Maimane, Casey Motsisi and Bessie Head, as well as Es'kia Mphahlele, who was fictor editor and Dolly Rathebe. The photographers working for DRUM at the time included Jürgen Schadeberg, Bob Gosani, Peter Magubane, Ernest Cole and Alf Khumalo.

DRUM's golden era came to an end towards the end of 1950s, after the Sophiatown removals and many of its writers going into exile overseas or having died tragically, like Henry Nxumalo who was murdered in Johannesburg in 1957.

DRUM covered topics ranging from news from the African continent and politics to sport, scouting, crime, culture, art, music and fashion, including fiction writing and photography, as well as extensive advertising.

The DRUM magazine was distributed in different regions throughout Africa, and this collection includes issues published for its readership in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana (West Africa) and East Africa.

The collection contains the Papers of Sylvia Brererton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn after her marriage in the 1980s to Gerhard Jahn), who was a political activist and member of the South African Communist Party.

Letters sent by Mrs. Anne Hodgson, wife of the missionary T.L. Hodgson, to her sisters and mother in England. These letters cover the years 1821-1829 and describe the difficulties they experienced in their missionary work. Hg extracts from T.L. Hodgson's Journal for the period 4-13 Mar. 1841 giving an account of a visit to the Rhenish institution at Ebenezer and to a Boer household in the Karoo. Also a notebook of T.L. Hodgson containing family records and extracts from the letters of missionaries. A printed obituary notice of T.L. Hodgson, in front cover of the Memoir of Rev. T.L. Hodgson and a page from the Week End Advertiser, 31 Dec. 1927, relating how Maquassi mission was founded and how the first white child in the Transvaal was born there. A letter, 9 Jan. 1939, from T.S. Leask to Mrs. Symons, telling how he had discovered the site of old Maquassi with the help of an aged Bushman. The "Journal of an expedition to the Zoola country in the year 1849" by John and Joseph Archbell and James E. Methley describes a journey, 11 Jan.-5 Mar. 1849, to the Zulu royal kraal with details of the scenery they saw, the difficulties they met in fording rivers and the delights of hunting.