The project was designed to complement the existing labour collection housed at Historical Papers and to ensure that South African labour/human rights documentation which is under threat is preserved and made easily accessible. The Project recognised the dynamic potential of oral history and testimony in providing a meaningful context through which the labour movement in South Africa can be documented in its full complexity, and communicated in ways that illuminate the specific historical, political and cultural contexts in which it occurs.
The collection includes material relating to: Mike Deeb's education, his activities as a priest in rural parishes in South Africa and as the International Chaplain of International Catholic Student Movements. The papers also contain records of: The Dominican Order in Southern Africa, Vicarial Chapter, Catholic Student Organizations, Justice and Peace, Southern African Council of Priests and the Institute for Contextual Theology. There is also extensive Mike Deeb's correspondence, publications and memorabilia in the collection. The material was deposited in Historical Papers by Michael Deeb in 2014.
The collection contains the interviews which were conducted from 2004-2012 as part of a unique and pioneering Archival oral history project undertaken by the Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand.
The project collected personal experiences, perceptions and stories from former members of the Self Defence Units (SDUs) from Thokoza and Katlehong on the East Rand (Gauteng) and former members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), mainly ex-32 Battalion, ex-31 Battalion, Koevoet and from other permanent force and conscripts.
The "Audible Legacy" Project aimed to capture the memories and experiences of the people involved in the formative stages of South Africa's Constitutional Court, to record in comprehensive, reliable and accessible form their memories of how an abstract constitutional ideal was converted into a functioning constitutional organism.
Correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Garment Workers Union, the South African Trades and Labour Council and the South African Defence and Aid Fund.
The bulk of the collection consists of Gavin Morkel Stewart's personal papers focused on research into the closure of the Rand Daily Mail (RDM) newspaper. Additional material relates to Stewart's student's work, his involvement with the Liberal Party, and the Daily Dispatch newspaper.
Much of the collection consists of photocopies of published material.
The collection contains material relating to the history of the Egoli Foundation, its activities, minutes of the meetings, chairman's reports, celebrations of 100 Years of Johannesburg, correspondence on heritage projects, production and erection of plaques, Newsletter of the Foundation, architectural plans and photographs. Majority of the records in the collection illustrate the activities of Witwatersrand Branch of the Simon van der Stel Foundation, which was the predecessor of the Egoli Heritage Foundation. The Egoli Foundation records are mainly related to the organization activities in Johannesburg and its surroundings.
Includes records of the AIDS Legal Network, AIDS Consortium, Treatment Action Campaign and various other organisations concerned with AIDS in Southern Africa. The records consist of minutes, conference papers, memoranda, correspondence and submissions to government bodies, with a view to obtaining justice and equal rights for people living with AIDS.
The collection relates to a number of Trade Unions in South Africa, amongst others the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Other trade unions represented are the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers' Union of S.A., Metal and Allied Workers' Union, National Automobile and Allied Workers' Union, Paper, Wood and Allied Workers' Union, South African Railway and Harbour Workers' Union, Sweet Food and Allied Workers' Union and Transport and General Workers' Union.
The initial part of the collection contains material which had been rescued from Khotso House after the bomb blast in August 1988. In 2012 the larger part of the collection was received and incorporated.
