This collection consists of video material on various topics relating to the struggle of South Africa. These productions were put together by the apartheid government for the South African constituency and includes Die Bou van die Nasie (The Building of a Nation) and interviews with Nelson Mandela before his release from Pollsmoor Prison.

These paintings were painted in 1993. From 1912 to 1993 the ANC has had ten President-Generals. Only 9 portraits were painted, of which only eight are found in this collection. These are:

1. John Dube

2. Josiah Gumede (not sure)

3. Pixley ka Seme (not sure)

4. Unidentified

5. Dr Moroka

6. Chief Lutuli

7. O R Tambo

8. Nelson Mandela

The materials that make up this collection cover the operations of the PWV ANC branch for the period 1990 to 1994.

The materials are all paper-based documents. Posters have been removed from the collection and form part of the Poster Collection of the South African History Archive (SAHA).

Hogan served the new post-Apartheid Parliament of the Republic of South Africa as an ANC Member of Parliament and as the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Finance. She was also a council member of the Robben Island Museum.

The records on the relationship between the ANC and the United Democratic Front (UDF) document the period 1985 - when a state of emergency was declared by the Apartheid government - and 1990 when outlawed oppositional movements were unbanned and Nelson Mandela was released.

An in-depth understanding of this period as well as the nature of the relationship between the ANC and the UDF can be reached by consulting the main UDF collection (AL 2431) that covers the period 1983 - 1991.

An inventory of this collection is available. 3 Two posters - 1. 'The Story of the Peace Accord' and 2. 'Female Political Prisoners: What are their Conditions?' - are part of the overall SAHA Poster Collection classified under the collection number AL 2446

This collection consists of books, audio/video tapes, photographs, long player records and T-shirts, all related to various solidarity movements for which Lucia Raadschelders worked.

The collection summarises the activities in which Raadschelders was involved during the years that she spent as an anti-apartheid activist, in Holland and in the Southern Africa Sub-region. These concern in particular, the things that she witnessed.

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.

This collection includes an information bulletin, publications, stickers, pamphlets, posters, T-shirts and other miscellaneous items. Most of the material is in German.

The De Wet Potgieter collection consists of three series:

The oral history interviews with individuals in military intelligence include the audio interviews (MP3), transcripts and translated transcripts (Afrikaans and English) of interviews, and interviewee release forms. De Wet Potgieter conducted these interviews on behalf of SAHA in 2009-2010 as a contracted employee. SAHA is the copyright holder for these materials.

The document collection, relating to the activities of Military Intelligence and the Security Branch of the SAP during the apartheid era and extremist right wing organisations in South Africa (1980s-1990s), contains top secret and confidential documents, booklets, pamphlets, information sheets, correspondence, notes, including explanatory notes/narratives by the donor for each of the sub-series. Faxed items in the collection have been photocopied and/or scanned due to the fading nature of this format. Photographs contained in an Appeal document and 6 videos form part of this series.

The Doug Lee photographic material constitutes a selection of digitised images of negatives from the photographer's collection that is most pertinent to the De Wet Potgieter collection as a whole.

Due to the nature of this collection a substantial portion of the material is in Afrikaans. These are indicated in the inventory.

The first series of oral history interviews has been arranged chronologically.

The second series of documents came to SAHA already sorted by the donor, and this greatly assisted with the final arrangement of the materials as the order defined by the donor was mostly retained. In 2014 De Wet Potgieter added documents relating to the assassination of former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme to his collection and these documents are archived as sub series B1.5.6.

The Doug Lee photographic material consists of negatives stored in 6 files, 1 box and 1 envelope. Although the photographer filed these negatives according to the dates on which the photographs were taken, the dates of events overlap in some of the files, e.g. File 1 (1993-1994), File 2 (1994-2003), File 3 (1997), and File 4 (1996-1999), File 5 (2000-2003), File 6 (2002-2003). Only those negatives containing images relevant to the De Wet Potgieter collection as a whole were selected for digitisation, and only those are described in the inventory. However, the numbering of the selected images indicates that these images form part of a larger collection of Doug Lee materials.

Doc(s) - document(s)

Misc - miscellaneous

Incl - includes / including

Ts(s) - Typescript(s)

Ms(s) - Manuscript(s) i.e. anything hand-written

Corresp - correspondence

pcopy - photocopy

incomp - incomplete

n.d. - no date, i.e. undated

n.a. - no author

n.t. - no title

p - page (or pages)

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Some of the materials in this collection have duplicate hard copies, whereas most of these are also available in digital format.

All items from AL3051 The Bernstein Collection have been withdrawn from this collection. Contact Historical Papers.

The calendars that make the sub-series H was de-accessioned from SAHA Collection AL2446 (posters) and re-accessioned into this collection in November 2011.

The items in the ephemera collection has been arranged according to their format, for example: wardrobe items category "A"; banners category "B".

While the Brian Currin Collection is a private collection, the records do give substantial insight into the professional life of the donor. As a private collection it is incomplete in the sense that a number of items that were regarded as being too personal for the public domain were removed from the Collection. Some items were faxed transmissions and had faded to the point of being illegible.

These documents were disposed of, while those that had maintained a certain degree of legibility have been photocopied and form part of the collection. This was done in collaboration with Currin himself.

The processor of this Collection was given several lever arch files of documents. After a number of bouts of sorting, the records were divided into three discrete groups:

Personal letters, which provide insight into personal and working relationships with individuals and organisations

Diary files that covers events over a period of 7 years, from 1987 to 1993

Subject files including topics such as: Political prisoners and Indemnity

The records are paper-based records and comprise correspondence, diary entries, invitations to events, programmes of conferences and the like, newspaper clippings and cards. However, an audio cassette entitled: 'Diakonia Breakfast Briefing 4/8/94. Brian Currin on the Truth Commission,' forms part of an otherwise entirely paper-based collection. [Ethel appears to have misplaces this cassette as it is not in the boxes.]

As the largest part of the collection comprises 'diary files' consisting of multiple types of documents - traditional diary entries, letters, newspaper articles, drafts of addresses and press statements - the methodology employed was to arrange and classify the records/records accumulations strictly chronologically - but taking into account how the donor had arranged his documents in the lever arch files.

Some records are not dated. These have been identified as such and have been arranged in the order and as part of the fonds which Currin himself had created when compiling his diary. This methodology applies to the letters as well. (In some instances Currin placed newspaper articles in his 'Letters' lever arch file).

In cases where it might be reasonably presumed that a record had been erroneously dated, this circumstance was indicated as such. In some cases the archivist undertook research to establish when certain undated records may have been created in that particular form. In these instances errors may have crept in.