The Guides provide an overview of all collections at the Historical Papers Research Archive. The descriptions are provided on Fonds level.

The collections housed at Historical Papers include diaries, letters, memoranda, reports, minute-books, press clippings, pamphlets, photographs, drawings, maps, oral interviews, trial transcripts and financial, legal and personal documents. They are contained in various formats such as paper based records, microfiche, microfilm, photographs, slides, negative and positive film, tapes, DVD and CDs, audiovisual formats and digital formats.

This part of the collection contains historical documentation relating mainly to the life and struggle of the Indian community in South Africa between the late 1920s and 1960s. There is various printed matter of legislation, published by the Union and later the Republic of South Africa, relating to the Indian community. Particularly the Group Areas Act of 1950 is well documented in legislation as well as in documents, particularly in terms of the impact it had on the Indian community (See also collection A1485 Group Areas Act).

The Accused a member of the ANC: was charged with terrorism in 1991, he was granted postponement pending application for Indemnity (Records Incomplete).

A - K - (Medical Reports of post mortems) for Edward Modube, G.P. Ncube, M.G. de Nysschen, C. de Nysschen, J.J. de Nysschen, N. van Eck.

Ignatius M. van Eck, Jacoba van Eck, T.J. Gerber, J.M. Nel.

L - W - Medical Reports in connection with injuries of: J. Prinsloo, T.N. Fombie, R. Mathebula, M.W. P. van Toonder, M.S. Ndarera, M. J. Ngobeni, M.A. Malatji, P.G. Mlangeni, M.Z. Chigambe, H.B. Chiberi, D.C. Fourie.