Records of the South African Campaign to Ban Landmines; papers on the Defence Industry Review Process in 1996 and on 'The Moral Summit', a conference about the moral renewal of the nation in 1998.
The collection consists of 14 reels microfilmed material on corruption and governance related issues, collected by Marianne Camerer for her Doctoral dissertation "Testing the system - democracy on trial: corruption and reform in democratic South Africa". It has been microfilmed for the Cooperative Africana Microform Project by OCLC Preservation Resources, c2006. Included are political cartoons, newspaper articles, parliamentary records, Auditor-General reports, Public protector reports, commissions of inquiry, investigative reports, interviews, conference proceedings, policy documents, survey material, journal articles, court records and court testimony.
Transcripts of interviews conducted by journalist Patti Waldmeir for her book Anatomy of a Miracle. The interviews were mainly conducted in 1994 and 1995.
The CASE studies (Community Agency for Social Enquiry) contained in the collection were commissioned by Carien Engelbrecht during her time at the Gauteng Department of Housing and Land Affairs, to track the impact of land release and informal settlement activities. From a policy point of view, the purpose of the CASE study was to show that proactive, positive engagement with land hunger and informal settlement formation was far more effective from an economic and social development perspective than doing nothing. The study tracked the changes over time. The conclusions of the study speak for themselves, as the provision of security of tenure within "official" land release and informal settlement programmes led to rapid economic and social change that was not matched in "illegal" sites. This perspective strongly informed subsequent work in the Department. The Final Report on the Alexandra Renewal Programme (see B9) was compiled by Carien Engelbrecht on her leaving the Department, after she pointed out issues of corruption.
Hitsquads. Testimony of a South African Security Policeman: the full story, by Dirk Coetzee
The testimony was written by Dirk Coetzee in exile, at the ANC Headquarters in Lusaka and in London, with the help of his brother Ben Coetzee. The main body was completed in 1990, and was spell checked and reprinted by Ben Coetzee in 1994.
Dirk Coetzee's testimony would also form part of the submissions to the Harms Commission of Inquiry, which he gave in London.
Report of the Task Group: "Film and publication control" (dealing with censorship of undesirable materials) to Dr MG Buthelezi, the Minister of Home Affairs.
