When was established in 1979, there was no body or committee responsible the gathering dissemination of news about the ANC settlements and around the globe. However, the ANC community relied on the movement's publications about events happening around the world and within the organization itself. In the early 80s both students and workers at the complex took initiatives by producing journals reflecting events in the ANC settlements and the world. Another development was the appointment of two students to monitor and compile news that would then be read before the community every evening. Contributions were anticipated from every participant. The aim was to make the community informed about what was occurring within the complex and around the world. There was lack of trained staff to deal with information handling and dissemination. However, there was a pool of matured political members of the organization who played an important role in the gathering and dissemination of information in line with the ANC policies. With the development of the complex, new structures were put in place to deal with information organically. Students were sent out to do information studies. Consequently, newsgathering and dissemination became better handled than before. The formations like College Publicity Coordinating and Department of Information and Publicity Committees were established. The following were the aims and objectives information establishments: To coordinate all publicity in the complex i.e., News and Views, Voice of SOMFCO (students magazine), Hlanganani (workers magazine), photographic work, public relations, external publicity e.g. progress report for solidarity groups and any other publicity information or activity. Thus, Department of Information and Publicity became a fully fleshed information agency.