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Letters, interviews & interrogations/ testimonies
1900 - 1949
- Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 1928
- Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives' Representative Council, to Dr. A.B. Xuma, November 11, 1942
- Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Y outh Council, March 16, 1945
- Letter to the Coloured people of South Africa, 1910 - Abdul Abdurahman
- Letter reporting on this meeting, from Moses Kotane to Professor Z. K. Matthews, May 8, 1949
- "Protest against [proposed] incorporation South West Africa into Union" - Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South- West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
- "Pass Law Resisters, Native Case Stated." Report on interview with I. Bud Mbelle, J.W. Dunjwa, and P.J. Motsoakae of the South African Native National Congress, 1 April, 1919 (Published in The Star).
1950 - 1959
- Letter fom A. Luthuli to the Prime Minister, Mr J.C. Strijdom May 28, 1957
- Letter to Prime Minister D. F. Malan on behalf of the African National Congress, January 21, 1952
- Letter dated 11 February 1952 from the African National Congress to Prime Minister Malan
- Letter dated 21 January 1952 from the African National Congress to Prime Minister D.F. Malan
- Prime Minister D. F. Malan's reply to the ANC Ultimatum, 1952
- Letter dated 29 January 1952 from the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister to the A.N.C.
- Letter dated 20 February 1952 from the South African Indian Congress to Prime Minister Malan
- Interview with Dorothy Masenya, interview conducted in 2000, about the 1956 Women's march
- Albert Luthuli - interview with drum, May 1953
- Interview with Caroline Motsoaledi, interview conducted in 2000, about the 1956 Women's march
- Interview with Magdalene Matshadi Tsoane and Rahaba Mahlakedi Moeketsi, interview conducted in 2000, about the 1956 Women's march
- Nelson Mandela's Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-60
- "Future of the Africanist Movement." Questions and Answers R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
1960 - 1969
- "The Role of the Indian people in the South African Revolution": An interview in 1968
- "The Duty of a Communist in the National Liberation Army—Umkhonto we Sizwe." Internal memo by the SACP Central Committee, 1967
- An interview with Mr. Champion conducted in 1964 by Mr. Stanley Trapido, Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Oxford.
1970 - 1979
- Extracts from the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 1976, written by Tutu
- Interview with Hector Peterson's mother about the death of her in the 1976 youth riots
- Interview with Prime Minister Vorster . Face the Nation, 7th November 1976
- Steve Biko Speaks: An interview taken from the Disa Archives (Biko speaks about Black Consciousness)
1990 - 1999
- 'Insights into Mandela's Reign'. Interview with Ahmed Kathrada, Business Day, 15 June 1999.
- The complete transcripts of interview conducted by Dr. Franklin with Desmond Tutu. Tutu was the chairman of the TRC in 1997:- (titled: The Present, The Past and The Future)
- Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin on Mandela.
- Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour.
- Ray Alexander Simons - Interviewed by Steven Robins and Immanuel Suttner, 20 July 1993 and January 1996, Cape Town
- Interview with Tony Leon (post 1994)