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Scrapbooks containing press clippings roughly grouped chronologically and according to subject.
Subjects include: Sash demonstrations (throughout).
1950s: Treason Trial, Universities (6 scrapbooks).
1960s: Sabotage Bill, Fischer trial, prison conditions, 90 and 180 day detentions, Strachan Case, Student protest, Kitson and Robertson cases, disbanding of Liberal Party, death of Luthuli, Helen Joseph, conflict with press, Rev. Thompson freed, Hoffenberg banned. (30 scrapbooks).
1970s: Education, Mxenge, Helen Joseph, Eugene Terreblanche, National Front. (2 scrapbooks).
1980s: Education, boycotts, detention, unrest, reform, Neil Aggett, universities, Kennedy's visit, Tricameral parliament, Boesak, treason trial, sanctions, Mandela, Tambo, state of emergency, police, meetings with ANC, Wendy Orr, Molly Blackburn, PFP, Pass laws abolished, Zola Budd, rent boycotts, UDF, ECC, removals, elections, Harare conference, Alan Paton, De Klerk (140 scrapbooks).