The collection contains the contributions received from members of the foreign service of South Africa between the years 1960 to 1994. These 'raw' versions of contributions were used to compile the trilogy "From Verwoerd to Mandela: South African diplomats remember", compiled by Pieter Wolvaardt, Tom Wheeler and Werner Scholtz. A number of general emails have also been included to add further context.

The trilogy consists of the volumes 1) The wild honey of Africa, 2) The noose tightens, and 3) Total onslaught to normalisation, and has been compiled from the contributions of more than 100 ex-South African diplomats. The texts contain varied stories from the Apartheid-era diplomatic service with material and photographs never previously published. Reference is made to the published volumes at the William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand.

"The Story of June 16 1976" is a 50 min. radio documentary, produced for the Ulwazi Educational Radio Project, 1996.

The documentary tells the story of the events through the voices of eye-witnesses like Fanyana Mazibuko, Ellen Kuzwayo, Peter Magubane and others.

Sheet of postage stamps, first-day cover and explanatory text.

The CASE studies (Community Agency for Social Enquiry) contained in the collection were commissioned by Carien Engelbrecht during her time at the Gauteng Department of Housing and Land Affairs, to track the impact of land release and informal settlement activities. From a policy point of view, the purpose of the CASE study was to show that proactive, positive engagement with land hunger and informal settlement formation was far more effective from an economic and social development perspective than doing nothing. The study tracked the changes over time. The conclusions of the study speak for themselves, as the provision of security of tenure within "official" land release and informal settlement programmes led to rapid economic and social change that was not matched in "illegal" sites. This perspective strongly informed subsequent work in the Department. The Final Report on the Alexandra Renewal Programme (see B9) was compiled by Carien Engelbrecht on her leaving the Department, after she pointed out issues of corruption.

The records include the following projects:

• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - small scale & subsistence farming
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - job creation
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - Land in South Africa
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - Food Security in South Africa
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - Climate change
• Access to Justice and constitutional Rights Programme - Access to Justice
• Access to Justice and constitutional Rights Programme - Constitutional Rights
• Access to Justice and constitutional Rights Programme - Participatory Democracy

The collection consists of Workshop, Conference and Seminar papers by various authors. The collection also includes readings and publications on various topical political, economic and social issues affecting South Africans during apartheid as well as other matters shaping and influencing the African continent.

The collection contains trial records relating to Wouter Basson, the former head of the South African Apartheid state's Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme (CBW), covering the years 2000-2003. The records were received in electronic format from the records offices of each of the respective courts listed below.

Reference is made to the collection AG3329 South African Apartheid state Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme documents handed to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Copy of an account of the Sharpeville massacre on the 21 March 1960, as remembered by Michael Thekiso. Included newspaper clips covering the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in 2010.