The Open Secrets collection is a digital collection. It has been arranged according to the location of information acquired in the process of research by Hennie Van Vuuren. Available online are research notes and summaries of information compiled by Open Secrets. The copies of documents from these sources/archives will not be put online, however they will be made available on inquiry by researchers.

Section 01: African National Congress Archive based at Fort Hare University.

Section 02: Bodleian Library University of Oxford.

01 Anthony Sampson papers; 02 Minerals and Resources Corporation Ltd (Minorco) Reports; 03 UK Anti-Apartheid Movement; 04 UK Conservative Party

Section 03: Armscor Archive, South African Government.

Section 04: Auditor General of South Africa.

Section 05: Barbara Hogan donated papers of investigations by the Auditor General, African Studies Library, University of Cape Town

Section 06: Belgium Foreign Affairs.

Section 07:Belgium National Archive.

Section 08: Companies and intellectual Property Commission (CIPC)

Section 09: David Klatzow Papers - Helderberg Air Crash

Section 10: Department of Defense Archive (SANDF)

Section 11: Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO)

Section 12: United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

Section 13: From Verwoerd to Mandela - Original Contributions - Stellenbosch University Library.

Section 14: Julian Amery Papers, Churchill College Archive, Cambridge University.

Section 15: Minister Danie Steyn Private Papers.

Section 16: National Party Papers, Archive for contemporary Affairs, Free State University.

Section 17: National Security Archives - George Washington University.

Section 18: Shipping Research Burea;

Section 19: South African National Archives.

Section 20: South African National Library.

Section 21: South African National Treasury.

Section 22: Swiss National Archive.

Section 23: Times Media Limited (Avusa)

Section 24: UK National Archive.

Section 25: United States Library of Congress.

Section 26: University of Leuven (KADOC)

01 Andre Vlerick; 02 Walter de Bock.

Section 27: World Council of Churches (WCC)

Section 29: West German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Section 30: Wits Historical Papers

Section 31: South African History Archive. 01 DOJ TRC Related Documents; De Beers_Release on OAG PAIA Request

Section 32: Polokow Suransky Papers, DoD Documents.

This is a Digital collection of documents comprising of 8.01GB ; 2553 Files; 143 Folders.

Armscor Screens Individual Contracts & codes for screens. Pdf files are photographs of documents consulted by Open Secrets.

Armscor reports. Years 1982-1986, 1987-1988, 1989-1992, 1993-1995.

Records of the Bank Supervising Council- National bank of Belgium (1974-1975)

Records of the Banking Supervising Council Kreditbank (1975-1978)

Kreditbank (1978-1979)

Kreditbank (1980-1981)

Ledgers and values.

The CIPC archive contains short extracts from the annual reports for various large South African corporations.

Open Secrets’ primary interest was any reference to S15(a) exemptions, which was a provision in the Companies Act that allowed corporations to withhold information from their annual reports, including information about subsidiaries. The requirements to allow such secrecy were vague.

Open Secrets has also included an excel spreadsheet that lists the records available in the CIPC archive, as well as the long list of companies reports that cannot be found in the CIPC archive. The company records were largely disturbingly incomplete, and often reasons for the absence of annual reports for some of South Africa’s largest corporations were not given.