Scope and arrangement
The Southern Africa Committee records, dating from 1965 to 1985, document the committee's anti-apartheid activism and its magazine Southern Africa organized by the following groupings: Administrative Files, Research Files, Articles, Interviews, and Activism.
Administrative files include advertisements; correspondence; design drafts for Southern Africa; financial records; annotated galley proofs; issue outlines; mailing lists; and miscellaneous administrative records of the Southern Africa Committee (SAC). Financial records include material related to the SAC's fundraising, newsletter subscriptions, and other administrative tasks.
Research Files are organized by subject matter and include news clippings, printed matter, and some notes from international and local publications related to political and economic matters of Southern African countries. The Research files also include bibliographies, some of which are handwritten on index cards.
The Articles files are comprised of published and unpublished article drafts in addition to pitched articles for Southern Africa. Files also include any printed matter and correspondence directly related to the writing of the article. This grouping also contains article fragments and articles where the author or title is unclear.
The Interviews files are comprised of interview transcripts and summaries with government officials, activists, scholars, and other stakeholders in the anti-apartheid movement. These files notably include interviews with Winnie Mandela, Sam Nujoma, and Nthato Motlana.
The Anti-Apartheid Activism grouping comprises three sub-groupings: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity; Conferences, Events, and Projects; and Boycotts and Divestment.
The Anti-Apartheid Solidarity files highlight organizations that aligned themselves with the anti-apartheid movement, many of which were student-led.
The Conferences, Events, and Projects files include initiatives and conferences that SAC members either attended, led, or were otherwise involved with.
The Boycotts and Divesment files contains ephemera related to anti-apartheid boycotts such as the Shell boycott and cultural boycotts of American artists who performed in Apartheid-era South Africa. These files also highlight other corporate divestment efforts outside of South Africa, most notably the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement in the United States.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by file name title except for the Interviews files, which are arranged alphabetically by interviewee last name.