These documents received by SAHA from SAYCO Head Office are not the complete archives of SAYCO. It is doubtful if records of the period before 1990 were kept or even exist at all given the repressive conditions of the period. Thus, this collection has documents mainly from 1990. This is a small collection, comprising of 3 archival boxes.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, reports and articles, photographs. Includes information on animal research facilities in South Africa, primate trapping, drugs, cosmetics and legislation.

The collection contains the documents relating to the activities of the Southern African Centre for Survivors of Torture and concentrates on the Zimbabwe Torture Victims/Survivors Project run by this organisation.

Research materials and press cuttings on the Soweto uprisings 1976-1977, compiled and donated by Pat Hopkins.

Statements by students and individuals involved in the Soweto demonstrations.

The photographs were taken by the police during the June 1976 Uprising.Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, who compiled this collection later published these images and documents in a book with the title "'I Saw a Nightmare...' Doing Violence to memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976", published by Columbia University Press, and electronically available under www.gutenberg-e.org/pohlandt-mccormick/index.html. (Please note that Historical Papers cannot guarantee this link).

Interviews with people associated with Soweto.

Poems in Dutch written by a Cape resident in the 18th century, 1798 (water-mark).

'Een liet op het afsterven van û klijne kind wijke agdat mij hart en mije gedagten'.

This collection includes Spark: 3, 24 January and 21, 28 March and New Sjambok: photocopies: various dates from July-September 1931.