The collection contains the Papers of Sylvia Brererton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn after her marriage in the 1980s to Gerhard Jahn), who was a political activist and member of the South African Communist Party.

Material collected for a PhD. in History on white opposition to Apartheid 1945-1960, including transcripts of interviews, discussion papers and articles, dissertations and source documents. Subjects include: Liberal Party, South African Congress of Democrats, South African Communist Party, Torch Commando, Helen joseph and Bram Fischer.

The papers contain memoranda which illustrate the organisation of the Ossewa Brandwag, how it was set up and functioned. There are photographs (unidentified) of parades and festivals. In the printed section there are newsletters and periodicals which amongst other cover the split with the Nationalists as well as the aims of the movement.

Report of the first National Conference of Women, 1954; memoranda and press clippings on women's rights, passes, women's disturbances in natal 1959; "Women's subsistence production and the capitalist economy: Transvaal Bantustans" by F. Mkhombo; "Disposable nannies? Some questions on the role of domestic servants in the political economy of South Africa" by J. Cock.

The papers consist partly of administrative records and partly of the records of political actions undertaken by Black Sash. There is also a large part of press cuttings and scrap books.

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.