The official handbook on the history, productions and resources of the Cape of Good Hope, was commissioned by the Committee appointed by the Government for the representation of the Cape Colony at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition to be held in London in 1886.

The Foreword was written by the editor John Noble, Parliament Houses, Cape Town. The book covers issues such as health, geography of the Cape Colony, land and agriculture, ostrich farming, viticulture, manufacturing, population statistics, communication systems and infrastructure, cities and diamond mining.

The softcover publication was part of the series "The Bantu tribes of South Africa: Reproductions of photographic studies" entitled "The Bavenda", by A.M. Duggan-Cronin, with an introductory article on the Bavenda and descriptive notes on the grayscale plates by G.P. Lestrade, Ethnologist from the Native Affairs Department of the Union of South Africa.

Printed at the Cambridge University Press for Cambridge Deighton, Bell & Co., Ltd. and Kimberley Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, 1928.

The booklet was compiled and written by Bill Goldsworthy. In it he relates the story of the New Zealander Edwin John Harris which is closely connected to the history of the "Steinaeckers Horse" Unit, which was formed during the South African War (1899-1902). After the war EJ Harris was involved in several more conflicts in Natal, German West Africa and in German East Africa.

An insight into life in the early 1900s: an autobiography written by a Dutch immigrant who came to South Africa in 1893.

Film production by Georgina Jaffee entitled "The struggle of the workers at B&S Furniture Co.", September 1983. The Company was established on the border between South Africa and the Homeland of Bophuthatswana in the mid 1970s.

Large print of a painting by Edward Roworth (1880-1964), and published by The Art Type Fine Art Company London. It depicts The Rt. Hon. Baron de Villiers standing in front of the National Convention of South Africa, undated

A set of photographs taken by photographers Deni Garthorne & Keartland.

The photographs were taken at an outdoor exhibition in South Africa, circa 1944. It could be that these photographs were taken at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg. The exhibition was opened by Field Marshall January Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa until 1948. In the photographs Smuts (as well as personnel at the various exhibition stands) is wearing a military uniform which supports the idea that the exhibition took place during the Second World War period. Another clue to the date of the exhibition is that a large exhibition space was provided to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), who were, during the Second World War, allies of Britain and its colonies.

The exhibition also offered wide spaces for entertainment and food, with a number of foreign visitors and countries, as well as local organisations and companies.

The collection includes correspondence, extracts of birth and marriage registers, typescripts of speeches and press cuttings on war compensations.

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, interviews, photographs and posters relating to the following organisations: Black Sash, Detainees' Parents Support Committee, End Conscription Campaign, Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa, Jews for Social Justice, Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee, Mass Democratic Movement, National Education Union of South Africa, National Education Crisis Committee, NUSAS and the United Democratic Front.

Subjects are Namibia, education, trade unions, women, detentions, protest theatre and the Black liberation struggle. Includes interviews with H. Barsel, I Heymann, A Sisulu, S. Kentridge, H. Joseph and D. Alexander.