The bulk of the material in this collection concerns the history of the University College of Fort Hare during the troubled period of the late 1950s, when the university was absorbed into the apartheid regime’s increasingly polarised and prejudicial educational system. The materials include administrative documents, personal and professional correspondence, reminiscences, taped interviews, and published articles. There are also items pertaining to Lovedale and some of the eminent alumni of that school, such as Tiyo Soga. For the most part, the materials in this collection have been arranged using annotations and nomenclature used by Donovan Williams on the original file covers and other enclosures in which the materials were housed. The file covers themselves have been preserved as part of the collection as a means of maintaining context and allowing for cross-referencing. There is, further, in the administrative files associated with the collection, correspondence between Donovan Williams and UCT Libraries in which he provides extensive contextual and historical information germane to the collection. Permission to peruse this correspondence can be requested from the manager of Special Collections.