Books on a variety of topics relating to South and Southern Africa donated to the South African History Archive (SAHA) by the Netherlands Institute of Southern Africa to allow researchers to consult while vising at SAHA. Also includes posters.

In 2013 SAHA conducted an oral history and photographic project exploring the legacy of the 1913 Land Act in three communities (Braklaagte, Driefontein and Mogopa) in South Africa in order to mark the centenary of this act. Contained in this collection are the materials produced and collected in the course of Land Act Legacy Project. The collection consists of oral history materials, photographs taken during the project, materials collected from community members and project documentation.

The materials deposited by Lloyd Ross (series A-C) form the core of the Shifty Records project collection and include Shifty Records organisational material, but largely a wealth of materials relating to the musicians whose music Shifty recorded, such as the digitised audio recordings, artists’ correspondence, lyric sheets, press releases, news clippings and photographs, as well as digitised copies of album releases (covers, inner sleeves and vinyl records). Documents from the Shifty archive (series A) were withdrawn from SAHA by Lloyd Ross in 2020 and lodged with the Africa Open Institute (AOI) for Music in Stellenbosch as part of their Hidden Years Project. All digitised items included here will remain accessible on this site.

Series D contains materials donated by people other than Lloyd Ross:

Michael Drewett donated education material relating to music and censorship; copies of materials relating to the censorship of Shifty Records' Kalahari Surfers release 'Bigger than Jesus' and Mzwakhe Mbuli's 'Change is Pain'.

Copies of materials relating to the SABC's restriction on airplay of music recorded by Shifty Records were obtained from the SABC Record Library and include: Agendas of the SABC Central Record Acceptance Committee (CRAC) meetings; SABC internal correspondence memos; lyric sheets with comments by the SABC CRAC on why a particular song was restricted; faxes from the SABC Record Librarian to Shifty records to inform them of decisions taken by CRAC; and digitised copies of a number of vinyl records with covers and inner sleeves containing the ‘Avoid’ stickers next to song titles and scratched tracks to prevent DJs from playing the songs.

In order to fill the gaps identified in the collection, SAHA has also obtained artefacts from other sources, such as Shifty artists, Shifty workers and Shifty friends.

Series E contains the oral history component of the project and materials include the audio recording and transcripts of interviews with Lloyd Ross, Warrick Sony, Carl Raubenheimer, Brendan Jury, Chris Letcher, Mzwakhe Mbuli, Koos Kombuis, Chris Letcher, Matthew van der Want, Gary Herselman, Simba Morri, Willem Möller, Roger Lucey, and Hannalie Coetzee. The interviews were conducted by Michael Drewett on behalf of the South African History Archive (SAHA) and the Rhodes University Department of Sociology for the Shifty Records Legacy Archive Project in 2013-2014, and transcribed by Victoria Hume.

The oral history component forms series A of the collection. Interviews have been arranged in alphabetical order by interviewee surname within each region: A1 - Cape Town, A2 - Durban, A3 - Gauteng.

Research materials form series B and project documentation series C of the collection.

The oral history and research component form part of the broader project collection on the Constitution.

Dale McKinley conducted the thirty-three oral history interviews in 2014 in three regions - Cape Town (12 interviews), Durban (3 interviews) and Gauteng (18 interviews). He submitted the audio-recordings (MP3 format) to SAHA by region and this order has been retained for the purpose of archival arrangement. The transcripts, transcribed by Victoria Hume, are accessible online. Consent were obtained from interviewees to make their interview materials publically available.

A collection of related research materials on crucial constitutional rights cases as well as academic, legal and activist materials written over the past two decades submitted by Dale McKinley in electronic format is also part of this collection.

The collection consists of a digital archive covering the organisational operations of GETNET, its work in respect of gender training workshops, research papers, publications and training materials to name but a few of the materials within this collection. The collection further consists of a material based archive which still requires processing before it will be accessible to the public.

A Getnet

A1 Profile

A1.1 Organisational overview from website

A2 Constitution

A3 Annual reports

A4 Audits

A4.1 GETNET Annual Financial Statements

A4.2 Funder project specific Annual Financial Statements

A5 Board

A6 Funders

A6.1 Funding proposals

A6.2 Funding agreements

A6.3 Funder reports

A7 Strategy and Plans

A7.1 Civil Society Consultation

A8 Budgets

A9 Evaluation

A10 Accreditation

A11 NPO Status

A11.1 Tax exemption

A12 Organisational Development

A13 Tenders

B Programmes

B1 Overview of Programmes

B2 Gender

B2.1 Conferences, Papers, Presentations

B2.2 Gender Mainstreaming Reports

B2.3 Gender Budgeting

B2.4 Miscellaneous

B3 Men and Masculinities

B3.1 Conferences, Papers, Presentations

B3.2 Programme plans and reports

B3.3 Miscellaneous

B4 Panel Training

B5 SADC

B6 Local Government

B6.1 Conferences, Papers, Presentations

B6.2 Programme plans

B6.3 Women and elections

B6.4 SALGA working group

B7 Economic Literacy

C Training materials

C1 Gender Awareness

C1.1 Workshop Tools

C2 Gender and Organisational Change

C3 Men and Masculinities

C4 Panel Training

C5 Gender Mainstreaming

C6 Local Government

C6.1 Workshop Tools

C7 Gender Budgeting

C8 Training of Trainers

C9 Gender and HIV/AIDS

C10 Economic Literacy

C11 Other

C11.1 Diversity

C11.2 Sexual Harassment

C11.3 Lobbying and advocacy

C12 Non-GETNET materials

C12.1 Workshop Guides and Tools

C12.2 Readings

D Publications

D1 Conference reports

D2 Newsletters

D3 Training manuals

D4 Research Papers

D5 Presentations

D6 Gender Audits

ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) released the Environmental Master Plan records to the Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance (VEJA) in hard copy. SAHA obtained scanned copies of the records from CER on five DVDs and through Dropbox. Scanned records will be accessible on the SAHA website, while print copies of the records can be consulted in the SAHA reading room.

This collection was first created in September 2015 as a digital collection, intended to create access to various digital records relating to the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation's work on non-racialism, through SAHA's online repository "Tracing the Unbreakable Thread"

This collection consists of an essay entitled 'David Webster: A fearless defence of legality and due process?' by Glenda Webster. The essay, drawing on material from Glenda Webster's personal collection (not lodged with SAHA), records her experiences of David Webster's contribution to the work of the Detainees' Parents' Support Committee (DPSC), an organisation established in October 1981 to oppose and expose detention without trial in particular and repressive human rights violations in general.

The Open Secrets collection is a digital collection. It has been arranged according to the location of information acquired in the process of research by Hennie Van Vuuren. Available online are research notes and summaries of information compiled by Open Secrets. The copies of documents from these sources/archives will not be put online, however they will be made available on inquiry by researchers.

Section 01: African National Congress Archive based at Fort Hare University.

Section 02: Bodleian Library University of Oxford.

01 Anthony Sampson papers; 02 Minerals and Resources Corporation Ltd (Minorco) Reports; 03 UK Anti-Apartheid Movement; 04 UK Conservative Party

Section 03: Armscor Archive, South African Government.

Section 04: Auditor General of South Africa.

Section 05: Barbara Hogan donated papers of investigations by the Auditor General, African Studies Library, University of Cape Town

Section 06: Belgium Foreign Affairs.

Section 07:Belgium National Archive.

Section 08: Companies and intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)

Section 09: David Klatzow Papers - Helderberg Air Crash

Section 10: Department of Defense Archive (SANDF)

Section 11: Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO)

Section 12: United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Section 13: From Verwoerd to Mandela - Original Contributions - Stellenbosch University Library.

Section 14: Julian Amery Papers, Churchill College Archive, Cambridge University.

Section 15: Minister Danie Steyn Private Papers.

Section 16: National Party Papers, Archive for contemporary Affairs, Free State University.

Section 17: National Security Archives - George Washington University.

Section 18: Shipping Research Burea;

Section 19: South African National Archives.

Section 20: South African National Library.

Section 21: South African National Treasury.

Section 22: Swiss National Archive.

Section 23: Times Media Limited (Avusa)

Section 24: UK National Archive.

Section 25: United States Library of Congress.

Section 26: University of Leuven (KADOC)

01 Andre Vlerick; 02 Walter de Bock.

Section 27: World Council of Churches (WCC)

Section 29: West German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Section 30: Wits Historical Papers

Section 31: South African History Archive. 01 DOJ TRC Related Documents; De Beers_Release on OAG PAIA Request

Section 32: Polokow Suransky Papers, DoD Documents.

This is a Digital collection of documents comprising of 8.01GB ; 2553 Files; 143 Folders.