AL2878 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION PROGRAMME (FOIP) COLLECTION
Records, correspondence, listings, photocopies, clippings;
1941 – 2006; 106 boxes at time of printing (ongoing additions to this collection)
Copies of materials released pursuant to the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). Collection includes apartheid era security establishment records, documents created by South African government bodies and agencies post-apartheid, and documents from several private bodies. Also contains documentation of the collection process. Special projects include: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in particular sensitive materials; attempts by the SA Defence Force to identify and deal with homosexuals; apartheid government's nuclear weapons programme; HIV/AIDS policies and implementation thereof of private bodies and parastatals; the health and environmental impacts of the nuclear energy industry; and documents relating to migration to and within South Africa. See AL2992 for archival material related to the formation of the Public Access to Information Act.