The university preserves paper records in 2 sets of collections:
Administrative Archives
The university's Administrative Archives house all the university's administrative records, from 1829 and embodies a rich and prominent collection of:
formal records (minute books of Council, Senate and university committees) correspondence of importance to UCT personnel files (former staff members, selection committee papers, important historical documents) financial records (permanently archived)
University Libraries' Special Collections.
Special Collections collects university papers and records that are not administrative in nature, but which chart the history of the university, its academic work and the people who have worked here. These include: research material, photographs of university staff and publications
UCT Archives - Meulenhof Building - UCT Mountain and Ski Club Archives
Hoare Hut Log Book 1971 - 1990
Base Hut Log Book 1957 - 1966
Base Hut Log Book 1948 - 1956
UCTMSC committee minutes 1948 - 1952
UCTMSC committee minutes 1941 - 1948
UCTMSC committee minutes 1933 - 1940
UCTMSC Rule Book (Waaihoek Rules and Constitution) 1952 - 1995
UCTMSC Legal correspondence pre 1976
Jagger Library Special Collections BC 1463 - UCT Mountain and Ski Club Records
Moved off campus post 2020 fire
Journals:
Stored under Mountain and Ski Club Bulletin, BU 796.5205 UNI s.6503 / s.6503a
Log books:
A Base hut log books
A1 19/08/1967-16/11/1978
A2 25/02/1979-30/12/1991
B Hoare hut log book
C Pells hut log books
C1 02/07/1941-22/08/1954
C2 27/08/1954-09/01/1966
C3 12/12/1965-14/10/1989
C4 23/11/1990-23/06/1996
C5 "Dit was sport en eer en alles" a history of the construction of the Pells hut on Waaihoek by Philip Pells
D Waaihoek hut log book
D1 20/11/2005-18/08/2010
D2 23/09/2010-03/06/2011
Remainder of log books (2?) at Hoare Hut?
1991 - 2004?
2011 - current
E Plans for the building of Hoare Hut drawn by R. D. Hoare, designed by D. Cornell and M. Mamacos, March 1969 - 9 sheets Design details for gable frame, timber design for new hut at Waaihoek and construction details for new hut at Waaihoek. OS
F Zuurberg archives
F1 Letter re Waaihoek rescue that took place ca. 1974 and 1976 from Brian de Villiers to Andrew Lewis (1996), includes six photographs
F2 Zuurberg photos
Rob Jones, 1990-1995. Includes a list of photographs
F3 Map
The Waaihoek Basin and Witels River
Map shows railways, roads: beaconed paths, paths: unmarked routes, waterfalls, important rock features and cultivated lands. Boundary of Zuurberg (UCT Mountain and Ski Club), compiled 1964-1970 and drawn 1970, revised 1973. (4 sheets) OS