16 Scrapbooks and newspaper clippings.

The Records of the LRC (Johannesburg) currently cover the period 1980-1995 but will continue to be added to as it records are archived.

This collection consists of two boxes containing the original documents and two boxes of photocopies of the original documents. The inventory for the photocopies differs slightly from the original collection and has been included in a file together with the photocopies for reference.

Incomplete records belonging to the National Union of South African Students (1933 -1992) form a large part of this collection.

The following abbreviations are used in the collection:

ANC - African National Congress.

FONS - Friends of NUSAS.

JODAC - Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee.

NUSAS - National Union of South African Students.

RAU - Rand Afrikaanse Universiteit.

RHODES - Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

SASPU - South African Students' Press Union.

SDS - Studente vir 'n demokratiese samelewing.

SRC - Students' Representative Council.

SASTS - South African Students' Travel Service.

UND - University of Natal, Durban.

UCT - University of Cape Town.

WITS - University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg.

In 1984 NUSAS, along with 600 other organisations affiliated to the United Democratic Front (UDF). NUSAS thus had a long history of political resistance.

Race relations and conditions of black, coloured and Indian peoples.

Black healthA.B. XumaBlack educationR.V. Selope-ThomasBlack wagesS.P.M MqubuliBlack trade wivesJ.D.R Rheinallt-JonesBlack juvenile delinquencyMr W.G. BallingerRace relationsAfrican Laundry Workers UnionLandAfrican Commercial vs DistributiveColoured in the CapeWorkers UnionIndian Health serviceBank Welfare TrustCrime in the Witwatersrand and PretoriaDr J. SimonsBus boycottsNative Mine Wages Commission

The collection of James Humphreys contains company reports, notices to shareholders, articles in mining journals, press clippings, correspondence and photographs relating to the mining of gold, coal, metals, minerals and precious jewels in South Africa, Bechuanaland, Nyasaland, Rhodesia and East Africa.

Subject matter includes metallurgy, geology, mineralogy, mining law and legislation, labour and the recruiting of Black labour, mining history, personalities and Rand Pioneers and mining groups, covering the years 1926-1967.

Certified copies of letters and documents supporting the claim of the Struben Brothers to be the first discoverers of gold; articles of association and minutes of shareholders meeting of the Sterkfontein Junction Mining Syndicate 4 Mar. 1884; mining maps including A new geological map of the Transvaal by F. Struben, London, 1889 and 'A geological section of the Witwatersrand' drawn by Fred Struben in 1885, reprinted from the Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, vol. 50, 1947. 9 photographs (by H.F. Gros) of the Strubens' Confidence Reef 1886 and of Johannesburg 1887 and 1889, used as Christmas greetings cards; 2 postcards from water-colours in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg, one of the Struben Brothers Camp at Wilgespruit as sketched by Edith Struben in 1885 and the other of the Old Farmhouse before the discovery of gold by J.W. George.

Including diary kept by Edith Struben (daughter of H.W. Struben), 1885 and 2 diaries by Mary L. Struben (wife of H.W. Struben), 1884-1887; letters between members of the Struben and Lys families, including correspondence of Godfrey Lys (nephew of the Strubens), Fred, Harry, Edith and Mary Struben.

Digest of report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Moroka Disturbances on the 30th of August 1947.

Memorandum by the District Commandant, South African Police, No.39 (Johannesburg) district.