South African Punk and Rock Music Collection

The South African Punk and Rock Music collection was initiated by Malcolm McLaren in 1975. It originated with the working classes. The importers of punk music in South Africa started in 1977; it inherited this type music from from the British. Ironically, the South African proponents of this phenomenon hailed from the middle class. These were university students from the white, urban, middle-class of the ruling minority, not disenfranchised or marginalised youths.

The collection is housed at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

The punk movement in South Africa coincides with apartheid and conscription into the apartheid government's army. In 2011 a donation of a small collection of rare punk music material was made to the Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS). The agreement between punk and rock/metal music collector Ernesto Marques and DOMUS at Stellenbosch University Music Library entitled DOMUS to digitize Marques's collection for research on South African popular music. Although groups such as the Sex Pistols and the Ramones formed the foundation of his collection and interest, Marques later drew his inspiration from South African punk music groups for the home production of fanzines and recordings of their music. This rare and valuable collection of fanzines (Crisis SA/Sound Action, Anarchy Again,andWorld Wild Wanderers), supplemented by some thirty recordings of South African punk and rock music, documents the development of punk music in South Africa from the perspective of the producer and performer.