Part 70.19 - The Bible in Standard Tsonga. There is a listing of the items, stored in 58 boxes, which is attached to the hardcopy inventory.

Part S 1-8 - Schneider Papers. The items stored in these S 1-8 boxes are referred to in the inventory. The listing of the items is attached to the hardcopy inventory.

Album with photographs of swords, with handwritten explanatory notes, possibly compiled by Major Pullar.

The main body of this collection consists of the original DRUM magazine, including its first number in March 1951, up to 1962.

The publication was started as "The African Drum" by Jim Bailey and Bob Crisp, and soon after only called DRUM. Its prime time were the 1950s under the successive editorship of Antony Sampson, Sylvester Stein and Tom Hopkinson. The staff of Black journalists, known as the "DRUM boys" included writers like Henry Nxumalo ('Mr DRUM'), Can Themba, Lewis Nkosi, Todd Matshikiza, Nat Nakasa, William Modisane, Arthur Maimane, Casey Motsisi and Bessie Head, as well as Es'kia Mphahlele, who was fictor editor and Dolly Rathebe. The photographers working for DRUM at the time included Jürgen Schadeberg, Bob Gosani, Peter Magubane, Ernest Cole and Alf Khumalo.

DRUM's golden era came to an end towards the end of 1950s, after the Sophiatown removals and many of its writers going into exile overseas or having died tragically, like Henry Nxumalo who was murdered in Johannesburg in 1957.

DRUM covered topics ranging from news from the African continent and politics to sport, scouting, crime, culture, art, music and fashion, including fiction writing and photography, as well as extensive advertising.

The DRUM magazine was distributed in different regions throughout Africa, and this collection includes issues published for its readership in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana (West Africa) and East Africa.

The collection contains the Papers of Sylvia Brererton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn after her marriage in the 1980s to Gerhard Jahn), who was a political activist and member of the South African Communist Party.

Letters sent by Mrs. Anne Hodgson, wife of the missionary T.L. Hodgson, to her sisters and mother in England. These letters cover the years 1821-1829 and describe the difficulties they experienced in their missionary work. Hg extracts from T.L. Hodgson's Journal for the period 4-13 Mar. 1841 giving an account of a visit to the Rhenish institution at Ebenezer and to a Boer household in the Karoo. Also a notebook of T.L. Hodgson containing family records and extracts from the letters of missionaries. A printed obituary notice of T.L. Hodgson, in front cover of the Memoir of Rev. T.L. Hodgson and a page from the Week End Advertiser, 31 Dec. 1927, relating how Maquassi mission was founded and how the first white child in the Transvaal was born there. A letter, 9 Jan. 1939, from T.S. Leask to Mrs. Symons, telling how he had discovered the site of old Maquassi with the help of an aged Bushman. The "Journal of an expedition to the Zoola country in the year 1849" by John and Joseph Archbell and James E. Methley describes a journey, 11 Jan.-5 Mar. 1849, to the Zulu royal kraal with details of the scenery they saw, the difficulties they met in fording rivers and the delights of hunting.

Incomplete Court Record.

The collection contains records relating to the Anglican Church Congress in Toronto, Canada in 1963. It includes: programme of the Congress, addresses of Bishops, presentations of the international speakers, newspaper issues and cuttings, colour slides.
The purpose of the Anglican Congress of 1963 in Toronto was for Anglicans to confer together and to take a look at the world in which they work. The Anglican Congress was examining religio-political movements in the world, life of the church under cultural and scientific advances in life of people.
The subjects discussed at the Congress covered topics like: different world's religions, racism, international relations, problems of social justice, responsibilities of Christians towards those are underprivileged, the refuges and homeless, the role of the priest in this kind of world. During the Congress the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 Anglican Congress was celebrated. At the end of the Conference participating primates and bishops of the Anglican Communion issued a Statement issued a statement to all Christians.

The collection contains material relating to activities of associations in South Africa, which promoted solidarity with Cuba. Records include: minutes of the meetings, reports, financial statements, information and reports on conferences, work brigades to Cuba, newspaper clippings, speeches, publications and photographs.