The records include the following projects:

• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - small scale & subsistence farming
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - job creation
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - Land in South Africa
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - Food Security in South Africa
• Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa (SERSA) - Climate change
• Access to Justice and constitutional Rights Programme - Access to Justice
• Access to Justice and constitutional Rights Programme - Constitutional Rights
• Access to Justice and constitutional Rights Programme - Participatory Democracy

The collection consists of Workshop, Conference and Seminar papers by various authors. The collection also includes readings and publications on various topical political, economic and social issues affecting South Africans during apartheid as well as other matters shaping and influencing the African continent.

Copy of an account of the Sharpeville massacre on the 21 March 1960, as remembered by Michael Thekiso. Included newspaper clips covering the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in 2010.

Tapes and transcript of Interviews conducted and submitted by Professor Peter Delius from various projects, notably for his book "A lion amongst the cattle" and others.

The book "A Just Society" has been published to mark the occasion of the exhibition of 48 works of art by Madelaine Georgette at the Wits Origins Centre in 2012. These works were donated to Wits University, to be accessible in a number of permanent locations across the University after the exhibition. The themes of the project are Apartheid and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Material submitted together with the original artwork of Chancellor House, the offices of Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, the first black legal practice in Johannesburg.

Notebook of Madinda Tshabalala containing his thoughts about African Nationalism, Pass Laws, Black Consciousness and Native Service Contracts. He was an ordinary and probably one of the founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress, arrested, detained, jailed and under house arrest for his political activities between 1960 and 1983.

With brief biographical notes provided by Nonkululeko Tshabalala.

Typescript for a book entitled "A Permit to Live", written by Anna Pearce, with a Foreword by O.D. Schreiner, at the time President of the South African Institute of Race Relations, completed on the 18 August 1965.

The book covers the events of the Paarl Riot in 1962, and the subsequent Commission of Inquiry into the Paarl Riot lead by Justice H. Snyman. His report, which was submitted to parliament on the 25 June 1963, analysed the causes of the uprising, including information on Poqo, the armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), being at the centre of the march in Paarl.

Anna Pearce was a member of the Wellington branch of Black Sash, and appeared as witness at the Commission of Inquiry into the Paarl Riot in January 1963. The book was written mainly from her memory and that of other members of Black Sash who worked with her.

Bound typescript, 410 pages.