The papers contain various materials relating to Reverend Torr's involvement with different organizations. The papers illustrate some of the important issues of social security and basic income grant in South Africa, church assistance with the problems of fighting poverty, unemployment, HIV, social transformation and security, as well as peace campaigns and reconciliation. The collection was donated to Historical Papers by Reverend Douglas Torr in 2007.

"The Story of June 16 1976" is a 50 min. radio documentary, produced for the Ulwazi Educational Radio Project, 1996.

The documentary tells the story of the events through the voices of eye-witnesses like Fanyana Mazibuko, Ellen Kuzwayo, Peter Magubane and others.

The collection contains the documents relating to the activities of The Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa, for the period of 1996 to 2005, and an addition in 2019.
The records include information about a number of projects run by various South African Non-Governmental Organizations with the financial support of the Foundation. Each Project contains a set of documents relating to all the activities carried out including the proposal and the outcomes.
An addition to the collection was received in 2019, containing the records of the Institutional Reconciliation and Transformation Commission (IRTC) of the University of Cape Town.

Records of the Provincial Commission for Mission and Ministry (previously Partners in Mission), including records of the Transformation Commission.