The collection includes membership registers, administration records, minutes before and after the merger. Some sections of the collection is focuses on municipal departmental themes and topical issues.

Minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, newsletters and press clippings relating to TUCSA and its predecessors the Cape Federation of Labour Unions, the South African Industrial Federation, the South African Trade Union cngress and South Africn Trades and Labour Council, and to individual trade unions.
Topics are labour relations, industrial legislation, African trade unions, 1922 strike, trade union unity, relations with the government and trade union organisations overeas. Includes material on the National Health Services commission.
The records are of interest not only to the economic and industrial historian but also to those researching the social and political history of South Africa. Topics covered include: individual unions, their relationship to each other and the attempts to form a national association and so bring unity to the trade union movement; relations between South African trade unionism and international bodies, with political parties in South Africa such as the Labour Party and the Communist Party and with government through its committees, commissions, boards and departments; disputes, strikes, arbitration and industrial legislation; race relations, job reservation and the recognition of Black, Coloured and Asiatic unions.

Anna M Cunningham April 1979.

Abbreviations.

AEU Amalgamated Engineering Union.

BWIU Building Workers Industrial Union.

ERPM East Rand Proprietary Mines.

FWIU Furniture Workers Industrial Union.

GWU Garment Workers Union.

ICFTU International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.

ICU Industrial and Commercial Workers Union.

IFTU International Federation of Trade Unions.

ILO International Labour Organisation.

MLA Member of Legislative Assembly.

MPC Member of Provincial Council.

MTWA Manufacturing Tailors Workers Association.

NEC National Executive Committee.

NUDW National Union of Distributive Workers.

SAAEO South African Association of Employees Organisations.

SAAME South African Association of Municipal Employees.

SAIF South African Industrial Federation.

SALP South African Labour Party.

SAMWU South African Mine Workers Union.

SAP South African Party.

SAR and H South African Railways and Harbours.

SATUC South African Trades and Labour Council.

SATUC South African Trades Union Congress.

TUC Trades Union Congress.

TWIU Textile Workers Industrial Union.

TWU Tobacco Workers Union.

WEA Workers Educational Association.

WFTU World Federation of Trade Unions.

WTA Witwatersrand Tailors Association.

WWMA Witwatersrand White Miners Association.

The collection contains the records of the court proceedings in the case State vs. P.M. Baleka and Others, commonly referred to as the Delmas Treason Trial.

The records include the charge, indictment, applications for discharge, bail applications, admissions, evidence and argument, exhibits, judgment, pronouncement of sentence and the appeal. They jfurther contain material relating to the dismissal of the assessor and important items collected by the Defence such as indexes to the trial, trial summaries, statements, affidavits and memoranda. Notes, statements and memoranda by the accused, particularly Popo Molefe, are also included.

The records are a rich source for those researching state repression and opposition politics in the 1980's. They are of considerable interest to lawyers, historians, sociologists and political scientists. There is much about opposition to the tri-cameral parliament, the United Democratic Front, the Vaal Triangle, Azanian People's Organisation, civic associations, the Freedom Charter, the African National Congress, education, Inkatha and the South African Council of Churches.
Michele Pickover, January 1993.

State vs. Mayekiso and 4 Others.

An important section in this collection relates to the preparation of the defence and state cases. This can be divided into 2 categories:

A) the evaluation of slate and defence witnesses and.

B) exhibits.

The State v Ashwell Mxolisa Zwane and seven others in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Witwatersrand Local Division) on a charge of sedition, changed to a charge of high treason, alternatively sedition, 1987 (case No 300/86).

Zwane Treason Trial - Listing of Witnesses.

State Witnesses.

In camera:

witness 5 p631-721.

witness 4 p723-787.

witness 6 p787-882.

witness 7 p883-961.

witness 8 p964-969.

witness 9 p970-1169. p1193-1201.

witness 10 p1170-1238. p222-1238.

witness 11 p1239-1257.

witness 12 p1257-1261. p1262-1272. p1383-1397.

witness 13 p1273-1297.

witness 14 p1298-1335.

witness 15 p1336-1341.

witness 16 p1341-1358.

witness 17 p1359-1372. p1373-1382.

witness 18 p1413-1429.

witness 19 p1. 429-1443. p1441-1443.

witness 20 p1498-1537. p1520-1553.

witness 21 p1554-1567.

witness 22 p1566-1573.

witness 23 p1675-1696. p1710-1724.

witness 24 p1751-1777.

witness 25 p1778-1789.

witness 26 p1852-1868. p1957-1959. p2029-2032.

witness 27 p2015-2028.

witness 28 p2052-2056.

witness 29 p2160-2162.

witnesses not in camera:

Botha Pieter Barendse p310-391.

de Beer Zacharias A S p650-1655. p1656-1663.

Dickinson Ambress p1807-1833. p1868-1900. p1901-1956. p2057-2141. p2142-2159.

Esterhuyse Leon A p1959-2003.

Harker p2032-2036.

Hlungwane Maxson p1538-1553.

Kemp Vernon Denis p2004-2014.

Mabale Victor p1398-1412.

Mafutha Emily p1803-1806.

Mageko Anastasia p500-530.

Hogan R p2014-2015.

Mollentze James Andrew p1386-1390.

Monakali William Lizwe p488-495.

Motebe Johannes Khagoli p464-488.

Marks PS p2514-2518.

Marx Pieter Schalk p1390-1397.

Ndaba Samson p532-630.

Ngwenya Adronica p1833-1837.

Oosthuizen Hans Jurgen p495-500.

Phalongwane Miriam p1800-1803.

Rooibaadjie Joseph p1664-1674.

Sanyane Samson p1837-1838.

Schutte Mauritz p1748-1750.

Sebola Johanna p1797-1800.

Semenya Simon p1444-1452.

Stadler H D p2163-2512.

van Heerden Johannes H B p1453-1476.

van Huyssteen Gert L S p1737-1748.

van Wyk Cornelius J p1575-1615. p1616-1650.

Vilakazi Grace p1793-1797.

Wessels P C W p2512-2514.

Yende Deliwe p1839-1851.

Zeelie Gert Petius p391-464. p1697-1709.

Zwane Mabel p1790-1793.

Defence Witnesses.

Mogano M p4382-4540.

Ngwenya V A p5362-5461.

Phalongwane Phillemon p4761-4857.

Sebola A A p2523-3461.

Zwane A M p3662-4381.

The Methodist Church of Africa.

PN Mkamka & 20 others (Plaintiff) vs Minister of Law and Order (Defendant).

Re: Events in KTC & Crossroads 1986 (SAP Support for 'Witdoeke' vigilantes).

Includes extracts of court record.

State vs.

Mabatu Enoch Zulu.

Siyabulela Ndoda Gcanga.

Vincent Alson Mathunjwa.

Sestiba Paul Mohlolo.

Daniel Saul Nkopodi.

Achmed Cassiem.

Yussuf Patel.

Contravention of Section 54(1)g Act 74g 1982 (Terrorism) and aiding and abetting the Pan African Congress.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA.

(APPELLATE DIVISION).

In the matter between:

PHILLIP BEKIZIZWE NGIDI Appellant (In-Jail) (Accused 3 in court a quo).

and THE STATE Respondent.

APPEAL.

AGAINST THE SENTENCE ON COUNT 1 OF THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE SPOELSTRA IN THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA (WITWATERSRAND LOCAL DIVISION) AT JOHANNESBURG ON 3 JULY 1987.

ON BEHALF OP THE APPELLANT:

Instructed by

Priscilla Jana:

First Floor. Abbey House.

51 Commissioner Street.

JOHANNESBURG 2001.

Webber's:

Third Floor.

Allied Building.

Cnr. West Burger and Maitland Streets.

BLOEMFONTEIN 9301.

ON BEHALF OF THE RESPONDENT:

The Attorney-General.

JOHANNESBURG.

BLOEMFONTEIN.