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 Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) collection comprises copies of materials released pursuant to the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). The collection includes apartheid era security establishment records, documents created by the South African government bodies and agencies post- apartheid, and documents from several private bodies. It also contains documentation of the collection process. Special Projects, undertaken by the South African History Archive (SAHA) to test the parameters of freedom of information in South Africa, include materials relating to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in particular sensitive materials; gays in the apartheid military; South African Defence Force (SADF), the apartheid government's nuclear weapon programme; HIV/AIDS policies and implementation thereof of private bodies and parastatals; the health and environmental impacts of the nuclear energy industry, and documents relating to migration to and within RSA
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 communiqus from individual countries most of which pertain to the situation in Southern Africa.
