The Culture and Resistance Symposium was held in Gaborone from 5-9 July 1982. The symposium and the accompanying exhibition and festival of South African Arts was an initiative of a number of South African artists living in Botswana. They felt a need to establish contacts and exchange ideas and experiences with other South African cultural workers. The theme for the symposium ("Culture and Resistance") arose out of their need to discuss the artists' position within the milieu in which they found themselves.

This collection is the result of Dale McKinley's many years of activism and employment by the South African Communist Party. The collection includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, articles, newspaper cuttings, minutes of meetings, press releases, speeches and miscellaneous materials.

Compiled by Dawie Bosch, a lawyer, this collection consists of three discrete archives groups. These groups document the process of formulating the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) and the legal battle for restitution of expropriated land by the Makuleke community. A collection of newspaper clippings and pamphlets, published in the wake of the announcement of the Tricameral Parliament forms the third group.

Materials collected from TRC Archival Audit.

The TRC Archival Audit

SAHA and Historical Papers, University of Witwatersrand have embarked on a project to locate and retrieve records relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). The project entailed conducting an archival audit of all existing TRC records in order to identify and locate documentation in danger of being lost.

In the process of conducting the archival audit, SAHA and HP located many collections from individuals and organizations that participated in the TRC process. Selections from these materials as well as TRC related material found in the freedom of Information Collection and other pre-existing SAHA and HP collections, were digitized and can be accessed online at http://truth.wwl.wits.ac.za/.

A guide to archival resources relating to South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission can also be found at: http://truth.wwl.wits.ac.za/trc_directory.pdf

The collection contains eleven submissions prepared for either of these hearings. Included are submissions from the Centre for Psychosocial and Traumatic Stress, the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa, The Medical Association of South Africa, and various personal submissions from health care professionals and patients.

Materials collected from TRC Archival Audit.

The TRC Archival Audit

Between 2003 and 2006, SAHA and Historical Papers, University of Witwatersrand embarked on a project to locate, retrieve and make available records relating to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC). The project entailed conducting an archival audit of all existing TRC records in order to identify and locate documentation in danger of being lost.

In the process of conducting the archival audit, SAHA and HP located many collections from individuals and organizations that participated in the TRC process, including this collection. Selections from these materials as well as TRC related material found in the freedom of Information Collection and other pre-existing SAHA and HP collections, were digitized and can be accessed online at http://truth.wwl.wits.ac.za/

A guide to archival resources relating to South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission can also be found at http://www.saha.org.za/pdf/trc_directory.pdf

The collection documents Emilia Potenza's active role in NEUSA and includes correspondence, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, speeches, journals, minutes of meetings, press releases, articles and newspaper clippings. Postcards and stickers have been placed in the Ephemera Collection (AL2540) and the posters in the Poster Collection (AL2446).

This collection is made up of minutes, speeches, correspondence and conference material relating to the activities of the Five Freedoms Forum (FFF).

The collection includes a memoir and a tribute.

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 following titles from this multi media collection are available:

Life in South Africa's Homelands (DT 1760 LIF)

The Redundant People (DT 1760 RED)

Going Home (DT 1756 GOI)

Pageview (DT 944.J6 PAR)

Maids and Madams (HD 8039.D5 MAI)

Mayfair (DT 944.A385 MAY)

Matiwane's Kop (DT 764.B2 MAT)

None But Ourselves (DT 962.7FRE)

The HAP also produced various publications which are available on microfiche.