"The collection consists of over 1100 black-and-white and color exhibit prints representing the work of over 50 South African photographers who documented conditions during and after apartheid, from about the 1940s to 2013, with most dating after 1960. Arranged in five series representing projects curated by documentary photographers Alex Harris, Paul Weinberg, and others: Beyond the Barricades, The Cordoned Heart, Then and Now, Underexposed, and The Other Camera. There is also a series of work by Jeeva Rajgopaul. Set in rural and urban South Africa, the images portray political rallies; protests; forced removals; funerals; social gatherings such as dances and concerts; work and domestic life; the life of the elderly, the migrants, and the impoverished; and labor organizing and strikes. There are many portraits of individuals of all races and classes, well-known activists and politicians, as well as countless ordinary South African citizens. Many of the photographers were members of Afrapix, a collective photography agency engaged in documenting the anti-apartheid struggle. There is a small amount of printed material, as well as a selection of digital image files and a digital audio file of an exhibit talk. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University."
Source: South Africa documentary photographs collection, Archives & Manuscripts, Duke Univerity Libraries

Formed in September 1987, the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network was established in order to promote Primary Health Care, particularly to poor people in rural areas. The NPPHCN was committed to equal, accessible, good health services which everyone can afford and access, and that there should be a national health service.

The collection contains a number of images by Afrapix photographers, which were used by the NPPHCN for exhibitions, conferences, pamphlets and other outreach material. Included are Graham Goddard, Guy Tillim, Cedric Nunn, Roger Meintjes, Chris Ledochowski, Lesley Lawson, Gisele Wulfsohn, Gideon Mendel, Anna Zieminski, Steve Hilton-Barber, Gill De Vlieg.

The photographs were taken by Ellen Elmendorp during a rally after the release of Patrick "Terror" Lekota from Robben Island. He was one of the accused in the Delmas Treason Trial.

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson. Justice Arthur Chaskalson was the President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 2001 to 2005. He was also part of the defence council during the Delmas Treason Trial (1985-1989), also known as the Vaal Triangle Treason Trial.

Some of the Afrapix photographers have deposited their collections at the University of Cape Town, where there have been digitised and made available as part of the UCT Libraries Digital Collections.

The following past and present works of Afrapix photographers can be found here, including images from the Afrapix period:

John Liebenberg: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/john-liebenberg
Cedric Nunn: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/cedric-nunn-0
Guy Tillim: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/guy-tillim
Graeme Wiliams: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/graeme-williams

The newspaper clips were collected by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island.

The newspaper cuttings relate to Robert Sobukwe's treatment in prison; his application for an exit permit; Zephania Mothepeng charged with being a member of the PAC; Potlako Leballo to be expelled from Basutoland and going into hiding; Patrick Duncan and the split of the PAC; Robert Sobukwe denied to leave to US where he is offered a home and work; plea and debates to change the Sobukwe clause; Veronika Sobukwe appeals for her husband; leadership battle for PAC in Basutoland; the Church and race relations; 90-day detentions; newspaper article with the interview and photographs of Robert Sobukwe by the newspaper Sunday Express in Pretoria prison, with handwritten comments 'False'; African politics and leaders, Kwame Nkrumah, Milton Obote, Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda; Robert Sobukwe third year on Robben Island; Helen Suzman debate on Sobukwe clause in Parliament; telegram from 'Godwin' to Robert Sobukwe on Robben Island saying "will see you tomorrow, 24th", dated 23 May 1967; Matanzima brothers accused.

The newspaper clips were collected by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island.

Newspaper coverage of the reign of two Popes, John XXIII, and his successor Paul VI; issues of religion, the churches and race relations; series of interviews by Benjamin Pogrund with various church representatives; Walter Sisulu giving evidence at the Rivonia trial about ANC decision to train guerrillas; political map of Africa in 1967; banned academic Dr. Hoffenberg leaving South Africa; photographs of Nikita Khrushchev, Prime Minister of Soviet Union; Madie Hall Xuma leading march of Black & White in Washington; UN walk out at General Assembly in protest against Apartheid after speech of Mr Jooste, chief delegate of South Africa; various articles by Wayfarer relating to religious matters; news from the African continent.

The scrapbook was compiled by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island. The cover page is signed by Robert Sobukwe 'RMS Robben Island, 1963' and 'South Africa: 2nd book'.

The newspaper cuttings in this scrap book cover relate issues of Nationalist Party view points from the newspaper Die Burger; administration of justice in South Africa; Hoover Institute bursary for Rand Daily Mail reporter Benjamin Pogrund; politics and the church; Darius 'Ndaru' Dhlomo, former soccer captain marrying a white woman in Holland; calls to train non-whites as artisans; UN Security Council resolution for an arms embargo against South Africa; four man held in detention after Rivonia Liliesleaf farm raid, escape from Marshall Square including Arthur Goldreich, Harold Wolpe, Mosie Moolla, and Abdulhai Jassat; how Apartheid isolates South Africa; James Kantor to be tried under Sabotage Act, with photographs of Rivonia trialists; Miriam Somana suing her former husband Brian for divorce, on the ground of adultery with Winnie Mandela; Dr. Dan Phule Kunene awarded Carnegie Grant; Potlako Leballo reported alive in Basutoland; artist Gladys Mgudlandlu selling 43 of her paintings in Cape Town gallery; how solitary confinement affects prisoners, by Professor Kurt Danziger; case of Rev. Arthur Blaxall; Nana Mahome wanting PAC office in New York; Vorster's attacks on NUSAS; 'V.I.P. detainees' Robert Sobukwe and Hazel Goldreich.

The scrapbook was compiled by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island. The cover page is signed by Robert Sobukwe, together with the text 'SOUTH AFRICA - LOCAL'.

It includes news paper cuttings relating to details of Sobukwe's conditions of imprisonment on Robben Island, with reference to a parliamentary debate on the 'No Trial' Bill (later called Sobukwe Bill), as announced by B.J. Vorster, the Minister of Justice, which stipulated that Sobukwe could be detained further, after his three-year sentence expired; a photograph of the house in which Sobukwe was held, an ex-Navy barrack, out of sight of the other prisoners on Robben Island; articles and photographs about his wife Veronica and children; Kaizer Matanzima and Transkei politics; race relations in South Africa; articles relating to PAC arrests; POQO; (Potlako) Leballo letters from Basutoland, leading to the arrest of two women, Cynthia Lichaba and Patricia Lethala; NUSAS congress at the University of the Witwatersrand; Apartheid laws; arrests of ANC MK leaders at Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia; Philip Kgosana's attack on Patrick Duncan; scholarship offered to Robert Sobukwe; leadership crisis in PAC.

The organization and delivery of social services to rural areas, Minia, Egypt, 1982, 201 pages, Copies located at: University of California – L.A.; Joint Bank Fund Library, Washington D.C.; Northwestern University, Illinois; Boston University, Ma; Michigan State University, Michigan; Columbia University, N.Y.

Training for social development; Methods of intervention to improve people’s participation in rural transformation in Africa with special emphasis on women, Ethiopia, 1985, 110 pages, Copies located at: Yale University, ct; Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Northwestern University, Ill.; Baker & Taylor Inc. Tech Serv & Prod Dev. North Carolina; New York Public Lib. Res libr. N.Y.

Social development agents in rural transformation in Africa, Ethiopia, 1989, 200 pages, Copies located at: Stanford; Yale; Northwestern; Library of Congress; Boston Univ; Michigan State Univ; and others.

Compilation of case studies in social development in West Africa, 1974, 159 pages, Copies located in: Stanford, Calif.; Yale; Northwestern, Illinois; University of Illinois, Urbana; Boston University

• Case Studies from Ghana, by Y.Shamoah (English)
• Case Studies from Sierra Leone, by Mrian J.T.Kamara (English)
• Case Studies from Togo, by H.Eklou (French)
• Case Studies from Madagascar, by M.Monteiro (French)
• French Translations of Case Studies from East Africa (Volume One):
• Case Studies from Ethiopia, by Seyoum Gebra Selassie
• Case Studies from Kenya, by J.S.Nyaribo
• Case Studies from Malawi, by R.Manda
• Case Studies from Mauritius, by E.Roche
• Case Studies from Tanzania, by P.J.Mhaiki
• Case Studies from Uganda, by G.M.Ssenkoloto
• Case Studies from Zambia, by V.G.Nyirenda

Relationship between social work education and national social development planning. 2nd ASWEA conference Lome, Togo, 1974, 69 pages, Copies located in: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Northwestern University, Illinois; Michigan State, Michigan; Baker & Taylor Inc. Tech Serv and Prod dev., North Carolina; Columbia University, N.Y.; Hunter College, N.Y.; Case Western Reserve, Ohio; Bibliotheque Universitaire de Metz, France.

Curricula of Schools of Social Work and Community Development Training Centres in Africa Ethiopia, 1974, 127 pages, Copies located in: Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; Boston Univ. Cape Town

Directory of social welfare activities in Africa. 3rd Edition, Ethiopia, 1975, 126 pages, Copies located in: Northwestern Uni., Ill.

Report of ASWEA’s workshop on “Techniques of teaching and methods of field work evaluation”. Proceedings of the Debre Zeit Workshop, Ethiopia, 1975, 85 pages, Copies located in: Northwestern Univ., Ill.; Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; University of Illinois, Ill.