The collection contains court records, correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the legal matter between the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) and African Game Services / African Game Properties, held at the Magistrate's Court for the District of Brits, held at Brits.

Between 1998 and 2000, thirty wild baby elephants were forcibly removed from their mothers and families in Botswana and taken to South Africa, where their spirits were intentionally broken for captive exhibition and display to feed the trade in wild animals.

Because of the conditions under which these elephants were 'trained', a case of cruelty to animals was brought against wild-life dealer and owner of African Game Services (AGS), Riccardo Ghiazza, and his employee. Five years later they were found guilty. The legal wrangle around the Tuli elephants illustrated how weak animal protection legislation is in South Africa.

Correspondence relating to Project Noahs Ark, a plan to help preserve endangered species; Millennium Project a proposal for granting Egypt a UN mandate for the Gaza strip; Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Gaza, Letter to Editor of 'South African Psychiatry Review, May 2007; Avoiding Gulf War 3 by expanding structures, article in 'Adler Museum bulletin', December 2019.

The collection is made up of the ASC Constitution, newsletters, paper on transformation and miscellaneous statements, pamphlets and posters.

Records of the South African Campaign to Ban Landmines; papers on the Defence Industry Review Process in 1996 and on 'The Moral Summit', a conference about the moral renewal of the nation in 1998.

The collection consists of 14 reels microfilmed material on corruption and governance related issues, collected by Marianne Camerer for her Doctoral dissertation "Testing the system - democracy on trial: corruption and reform in democratic South Africa". It has been microfilmed for the Cooperative Africana Microform Project by OCLC Preservation Resources, c2006. Included are political cartoons, newspaper articles, parliamentary records, Auditor-General reports, Public protector reports, commissions of inquiry, investigative reports, interviews, conference proceedings, policy documents, survey material, journal articles, court records and court testimony.

Transcripts of interviews conducted by journalist Patti Waldmeir for her book Anatomy of a Miracle. The interviews were mainly conducted in 1994 and 1995.

The CASE studies (Community Agency for Social Enquiry) contained in the collection were commissioned by Carien Engelbrecht during her time at the Gauteng Department of Housing and Land Affairs, to track the impact of land release and informal settlement activities. From a policy point of view, the purpose of the CASE study was to show that proactive, positive engagement with land hunger and informal settlement formation was far more effective from an economic and social development perspective than doing nothing. The study tracked the changes over time. The conclusions of the study speak for themselves, as the provision of security of tenure within "official" land release and informal settlement programmes led to rapid economic and social change that was not matched in "illegal" sites. This perspective strongly informed subsequent work in the Department. The Final Report on the Alexandra Renewal Programme (see B9) was compiled by Carien Engelbrecht on her leaving the Department, after she pointed out issues of corruption.