The collection includes various materials relating to the first South African Democratic Elections in 1994 and the Local and National Elections of 1996 and 1999, as well as the South African transition to democracy and the country's New Constitution. The documents also illustrate the Boipatong Massacre of 1992, TRC submissions and reports, human rights and racial issues, political parties in South Africa, HIV/AIDS in this country, research material used by O'Malley for publishing a book on Mac Maharaj including tapes, CDS and transcripts of interviews with many prominent South Africans. This collection was donated to Historical Papers by Padraig O'Malley in 2008.

The collection contains personal and historical documents, correspondence, photos, wishing cards and newspaper clips.

The collections contains the compiled set of memorabilia and edited letters, which John A Fulton had sent home during his gold mining career in Nevada, Columbia and later Cape Town, Rhodesia and the Johannesburg Rand, between 1898 and 1906.

Volumes I-III in hard copy, colour, spiral bound; Volumes I-IV on DVD; bibliographical sketch of JA Fulton.

The volumes, through Fulton's letters, not only provide an insight into mining management and practices at the time, but also contain research, carried out by the editors of the volumes, on labour issues in the mines, mining personalities, the Boer War (1899-1902) and other matters current during that period. Intended for educational use it offers a valuable insight into the Rand mines and their, what Fulton called "most advanced mining methods in the world" at the turn of the 20th century.

General contents and acknowledgements, p. i.

Table of contents for all volumes, pp. ii-iii.

Persons mentioned in the text of all volumes, pp. iv-vi.

Bibliography and sources cited for all volumes, pp. vii-xii.

Items in the collection.

The collection contains record books originating from the former gold mines Robinson Deep Gold Mining Company, Luipaardsvlei Estate and Gold Mining Company, Rietfontein Consolidated Mines and few unidentified. They cover the years 1904-1972 of gold mining operations in Johannesburg.

The collection includes biographical material, personal correspondence, photographs, transcripts of unpublished writings, drawings and sketches as well as various student and labour publications.

It has been recognized that there is no comprehensive and complete archive on The Market Theatre that covers the years mentioned above, and this is a serious gap in historical recording of knowledge in South Africa. The archives that exist at present are housed in various places across the country. These include the Wits Historical Papers, The Star Newspaper, NELM and the State Theatre archive. This project proposed filling that gap by initially establishing what is missing in the various existing archives, negotiating with custodians of said archives in order to possibly bring original material together under one roof or to make copies of this material. The project also aimed at conducting interviews across the country with practitioners who worked at The Market Theatre during that time in order to compile a living memory that will be included in the archive, before this valuable knowledge is lost.
This archive will enable those researchers, academic or otherwise, to access knowledge on the art of that era, information on Apartheid and the arts, and The Market Theatre in general. There is no other archive that specifically addresses performance during the Apartheid era. It is thus vitally important that this history is readily available to anyone who might need to access it. It is also imperative that this history is recorded before it is lost. Innovation lies in the content of the archive.

The collection contains documents generated by the South African Police, particularly its Security Branch, mainly before 1994.

Included are amongst other:
Reports relating to organisations and alliances; Information and reports relating to regions, including former Homelands and Namibia; Files on individual activists; Reports and memoranda relating to education, including Universities; Reports and memoranda produced by various Police sections and departments; Internal Police guidelines and methodologies.

Contains correspondence, circulars, telegrams, orders, duty and occurrence books, patrol reports, case dockets, charge sheets, lost and found lists, returns and statements.
Subjects are poll and dog tax, stock disease and theft, crime, registration of voters, agricultural census and the administration of the police at Van Reenen.