The "Audible Legacy" Project aimed to capture the memories and experiences of the people involved in the formative stages of South Africa's Constitutional Court, to record in comprehensive, reliable and accessible form their memories of how an abstract constitutional ideal was converted into a functioning constitutional organism.

Lady Anne Barnard (1750-1825) was a Poet and letter-writer, wife of Andrew Barnard, Colonial Secretary at the Cape (1797-1802).

Letter from Cape of Good Hope, to Henry Dundas (Lord Melville, London. Gossips about Cape personalities, including the late Governor, Sir George Yonge.

John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), Explorer

Rejoices that Brun agrees with him that the Nyanza Lake is the true source of the White Nile and announces his intention to embark on a third expedition to Africa to settle the source of the Nile.

The Nadine Gordimer collection comprises mainly correspondence with her publishers as well as some general correspondence relating to many important events and activities in her life. The records of the Congress of South African Writers of which Nadine Gordimer was a founding member, are also part of this collection. Other documents include: typescripts of some of her novels, public lectures and speeches, reviews of her literary works (novels, short stories and essays), records relating to the awards given to Nadine Gordimer for her work and achievements, including the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature, photographs and documents on Nadine Gordimer's membership and work for various world organizations such as UNESCO. The collection was deposited in the Historical Papers Research Archive by Nadine Gordimer in 2012.

Order of service for enthronement, enthronement charge and press report

The collection contains the personal and professional papers of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson.

The collection contains the working papers of Stephen Gelb, with materials relating to the South African economy and economic policy debates which he accumulated during his deep involvement in those debates between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s. The materials include his own research and analytical work, as well as his notes from meetings, many reports and documents from South African and international organisations, some published by the organisations, many unpublished working drafts. Some of the material was in the public domain at the time, some had private or narrow circulation. It is a collection reflecting his own involvements and interests.