The articles that make up this collection are not dated in terms of the year in which they were written, but rather by day and month. The reason for this phenomenon is relatively simple: Terreblanche donated the electronic copies that she had written for Independent Newspapers to the SAHA/HP Special Project on the TRC in the same format in which she had submitted them to Independent Newspapers - sans year, but with indications for which edition the articles were written: that is, for the morning or evening newspaper, or for a Saturday or Sunday edition.

In addition Terreblanche sent SAHA the articles as clusters without paying strict attention to chronological order with respect to the dates of the days. Nonetheless the author of this inventory conducted an online search and was able to ascertain in which year the clusters of articles were written.

In order to maintain the order in which Terreblanche had written the articles, they appear in this inventory in the chronological order and in the groups determined by Terreblanche, not according to topics or issues such as 'Reparations', or 'Presidential Pardons', for example.

On a final note: the title and dates on each article document the title given by Terreblanche and the date on which she submitted the respective article to the newspaper house.

In the case of the article being published, the (edited) article appears under a title determined by the Editors, and on the date determined by them.

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

This collection was donated by Dr Jill Gerber to the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. It documents the research made by Dr Gerber whilst writing up her MA in Overseas Archive Study during the period 1986 to 1992. Notebooks and correspondence outline the details of the research process.

The collection is made up of records that provided material for 'The Sanctions Handbook' as well as records from studies that were commissioned by the Commonwealth, on how best to handle the sanctions saga. The collection also comprises records from the Southern Africa Development Coordination Council (SADCC) region as whole dating as far back as its creation. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, press releases, reports, communiques, memoranda, policy documents, articles, books, newspapers, newspaper cuttings and miscellaneous records.

The collection is made up of documents relating to the Sub-council of Foreign Affairs of the Transitional Executive Council. Includes rich documentation of the efforts of the Transitional Executive Council to secure cooperation from international governments and bodies as well as former Homelands in the transition to Democracy in 1994.

Researchers can request unedited transcripts of the interviews from the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Wits University directly.

This collection consists of over 4000 unique posters dating mostly from the 1980s-1990s.
Duplicate copies of many of these posters exist. 327 posters from the collection have been
reproduced in the book "Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s" by
Ravan Press. A considerable number of posters also feature in the STP publication "Red on
black: The story of the South African poster movement". Some of the posters are also available
in slides (See AL2432) and digital format. The collection includes a large number of posters from
the End Conscription Campaign (ECC), the United Democratic Front (UDF) and also includes
posters relating to women, youth, AIDS, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) as well
Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) struggles.

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.

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"