In 1974 SASO/BPC members were arrested for staging Viva Frelimo rallies at Curries Fountain and at Turfloop University, and charged. They were Saths Cooper, Muntu Myeza, Strini Moodley, Patrick ‘Terror’ Lekota, Nchaupe Mokoape, Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, Nkwenkwe Nkomo, Kaborone Sedibe and Zithulele Cindi. Their trial, officially known as 'State vs Cooper and Eight Others', dragged on for 16 months, after which the accused were found guilty and sentenced to five and six-year terms on Robben Island.
Steve Biko appeared as one of the defence witnesses in the trial in May 1976, and his testimony is included in the court records. The records also include 'The Definition of Black Consciousness'.
Letter from J. Speck, Table Bay, to the Administrators of the Dutch East India Company, Rotterdam.
Supports the claim of passenger, Samuel Jan H. van Nimmegen, to be paid wages for acting as steersman on board the 'Prins Willem' from Batavia to Table Bay; van Nimmegen was an old employee of the Company, fallen from favour because his ship had been captured by the Portuguese and sunk.
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".
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."
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.
Typescript for a publication entitled "Cold Storage Chronicle: The History of the Imperial Cold Storage". The typescript contains the history of cold storage in South Africa, no year. It was kept in the library of Dr. Vivian Solomon, former staff member of Wits University, at the Department of History, and was later donated to Historical Papers by his widow.
"The Third Day of September: an eye-witness account of the Sebokeng Rebellion of 1984", by Johannes Rantele. Published as part of the Storyteller Series No.1, by Ravan Press. The author was a witness to the events which unfolded in Sebokeng and other townships in the Vaal Triangle. He took photographs on which the artist Goodman Mabote based the illustrations in the publication.