The speeches are predominately by leaders of nations, International and local (SA) organizations, and other pressure groups all opposed to apartheid. Some are also from leaders of nations that hold the view that sanctions will hurt the majority of South Africans.

Press releases from bodies such as the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa, from Governments such as Canada, Australia, Belgium, expressing their views on apartheid, and condemning South Africa's policy of destabilization of the Southern African region, and also debriefings from expert studies regarding sanctions.

These come largely at the end of Commonwealth Heads of Government review meetings, Southern African Development Coordination Conference, SADCC Summits, Frontline Summit meetings as well as communiqu‚s from individual countries most of which pertain to the situation in Southern Africa.