Correspondence, diary, telegrams, reports, notes, printed items, scrap-book, photographs, share certificates and photograph albums relating principally to Rhodesia, the Charter Company, the gold mining concession from Lobengula and the Matabele Rebellion. Other subjects are the Warren expedition to Bechuanaland 1885 and a visit to Tunisia by Maund in 1887. The scrap-book relates to gold mining on the Witwatersrand 1896-1898 including items on the Barnato Group of Companies (J.C.I.), Chamber of Mines, Black labour, the Gold Law, the cyanide process and a report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry, 1897, appointed by the Volksraad.

Dissertation for a D Phil, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006, entitled "'From the mouths of our countrymen': the careers and communities of Tswana evangelists in the nineteenth century.".

Copy of the PhD Thesis submitted by S.G. Byala to Harvard University, 2006, entitled "Thinking in three dimensions: John Gubbins, Museum Africa and the making of modern Johannesburg 1902-2004".

Various photographs of hunting scenes mainly from around 1920s. Unknown collector.

Most photographs do not have descriptions and were grouped according to available descriptions and fitting images.

The main locations are Lebombo Flats / Eastern Transvaal, Brak River / Northern Transvaal, Selati River / Northern Transvaal, Unqababa.

The Ruth First collection relates predominantly to the years 1946-1982, and includes personal material, papers relating to her work as a journalist in South Africa, as university lecturer, anti-apartheid activist, and author and editor of books and articles.

MA Thesis about the Swiss Mission in South Africa - Lemana Training Institution, by Inge Neugebauer, Master of Arts in African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2010, in German.

Title: "Ein Jahrzehnt der Ungewissheit: Von der Segregation zur Apartheid in einer Suedafrikanischen Schule. Lemana Training Institution 1948-1958."

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.

Small banner depicting General Josiah Tongogara (1938-1979), with the wording: "Gamba Guru ReZimbabwe General Josiah Tongogara" - Zimbabwean War Hero General Josiah Tongogara.

Book of cartoons entitled "Political Cartoons", by Frank Holland, which appeared in the Johannesburg "Star" from January to June 1907, reprinted by The Star thereafter. The book also contains a complete Portrait Gallery of the Transvaal Parliament in 1907.