Copies of letters, including Lady Crewe's letters, unfinished page of a memoir of C.P. Crewe, Unionist Party minutes 1910-1920 and reminiscences of J.M. Orpen.

The collection of Dr Ronald Edwin Press includes an Autobiography, a multimedia CD, photographs and various reliquaries of the South African anti-Apartheid struggle.

The collection was compiled by Dr. Ronald Edwin Press, (Ron Press), during his recent years of retirement. It reflects on his lifelong involvement in the Union movement of South Africa, the 1956 Treason Trial, banning, exile and subsequent activities as a technician of the ANC underground struggle, in various operations, including Operation Vula.

The collection includes membership registers, administration records, minutes before and after the merger. Some sections of the collection is focuses on municipal departmental themes and topical issues.

Included are statements, submissions and evidence presented to the Commission of Inquiry, affidavits, papers and press cuttings relating mainly to hostel violence on the reef between 1990-1992.

This collection consists of correspondence and memoranda to and from the South African Institute of Race Relations. The principal correspondents are: Quintin Whyte and F.J. Van Wyk, while others include M. Horrell, W.B. Ngakane and D. Rheinallt Jones.

Subjects covered are the social and economic conditions of Black South Africans, with particular reference to education, land, farm labour, labour relations, housing, township conditions, health, welfare, liquor, discriminatory legislation and penal reform.

Correspondence relating to this organization, a society for prospective ordinands, and individual files relating to candidates for the ministry.

Personal files of clergymen including correspondence, press cuttings, oath of allegiance, licence and other ecclesiastical documents.

Records relating to the Treason Trial, Regina vs. F. Adams and 152 others on a charge of High Treason, 1956-1961.

Including: Correspondence, minutes, memoranda, printed items and court records including preparatory examination, indictment, arraignment and evidence, admissions, addresses, closing arguments, judgments and documentary exhibits. The exhibits relate to organisations including African National Congress, Communist Party of South Africa, Congress of Democrats, Congress of the People, Federation of South African Women, Natal Indian Congress, South African Coloured People's Association, South African Indian Congress, South African Peace Council, Springbok Legion, Transvaal Indian Congress, and to cultural-political groups, vigilance associations and trade unions. Also included are press summaries and bulletins of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. Amonst the many accused were Chief Albert J. Luthuli, Z.K. Matthews, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu.