In June 2008, the South African History Archive and Nelson Mandela Foundation have submitted recommendations on the existing draft of the Protection of Information Bill to Parliament’s ad hoc committee on intelligence legislation. The proposed legislation will replace the existing apartheid-era secrecy laws that allowed for comprehensive concealment of state documents. The suggested new law certainly represents important complement to existing access to information laws developed under our constitutional dispensation. Despite a clear commitment to greater transparency and

On the evening of 24 February 2011 SAHA, in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Robert Sobukwe Trust, hosted a launch of the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe exhibition. The exhibition features multimedia content about Robert Sobukwe's life, his legacy and some of his personal artefacts which includes such things as an iron from his incarceration at Robben Island, study material he pored over while at the University of Fort Hare and a schoolbook with the inscription "Remember Africa", which was a continuing theme throughout his life and work. The event continued ...

Archives and Human Rights Documentation Archives in South Africa Archives at the Crossroads 2007 Report on two-day conference, organised in 2007 by Nelson Mandela Foundation and the University of the Witwatersrand, with the support of the Minister of Arts and Culture, to assess the state of the national archival system and the vitality of the broader archival sector. View the Archives at the Crossroads 2007 PDF (1.39MB) The Archival Platform Site aimed at supporting the ongoing development of archives and heritage in South Africa. Site includes lists of links to South ...

... stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today - I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands”. With these words, on 11 February 1990, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela opened his first speech as a free man, 10 050 days after being imprisoned for fighting against apartheid. Mandela’s release was the one of the first in a series of tentative and often frustrating steps, as he began the discussions of how South Africa would move ...

On 22nd September, SAHA, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, hosted a discussion that focused on non-racialism and its place in a contemporary and democratic South Africa. The evening began with an introduction from Julie Frederikse and her reflections on the work she had done for her 1990 book The Unbreakable Thread: Non-racialism in South Africa. She described the book as 'a mashup of words and pictures: transcriptions of interviews, news conferences, political meetings, court cases, state radio and liberation movement broadcasts juxtaposed with ...

... 'The long-term utility of human rights documentation: a SAHA case study'. Documentation Affinity Group meeting, Thailand, January 2010. Presentation: 'The long-term utility of human rights documentation: a SAHA case study'. Global Archives Management Professional Delegation to South Africa, Nelson Mandela Foundation, March 2010.   Seminar: 'Tracing the TRC archive: a SAHA case study'. University of the Witwatersrand, 19 April 2010. Gabriella Razzano Panellist: 'How to Catch a Slippery Eel'. University of the Witwatersrand School of Journalism, 25 ...

On 5 July 1985, the two rivals met to discuss how to best forge a way forward considering that apartheid was no longer viable. Nelson Mandela was still a prisoner - with a year to go before his release from his 27-year long incarceration. This year marks 27 years since that historic meeting. Madiba had already been removed from Robben Island and kept at Victor Verster prison (renamed: Drakenstein Correctional Centre). When he met Botha, little did he know that he would occupy the same office just five years later as the first democratically elected South African president. The ...

... Cape Town as the legislative capital.” According to the President, this is a “big expenditure item” which “requires the attention of Parliament soon.” Significantly, this is not the first time government has considered the maintenance of two capitals as ex-President Nelson Mandela, during his presidency, requested KPMG investigate the cost of maintaining the unusual circumstance of continuing with two capitals and all the attendant expense that brings. As a result of the President’s statements, on the 22nd of February 2016, SAHA submitted ...

On 24 - 25 February 2011, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, in conjunction with the Robert Sobukwe Foundation and the South African History Archive (SAHA), will be hosting the launch of the exhibition "Remember Africa: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924-1978)" and a one-day dialogue forum: "Access to Information and the Making of South African Pasts", which will take place on at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, 107 Central Street, Houghton.  PROGRAMME Day 1, 24 February 2011 18:00 for 18:30Forum and exhibition launchKeynote speeches by Jacob Dlamini and Dini Sobukwe ...

... Mozambican President Samora Machel and 34 fellow passengers died on a presidential plane crash in Mbuzini (Mpumalanga).President Machel and other government officials were on their way back to Maputo after attending a Frontline States summit in Lusaka.20 October 1963: South African President Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists went on trial for their lives. This trial is regarded as the "trial that changed South Africa''21 October 1931: Transvaal women started vending without licenses in Vereeniging and ended up crossing the Natal Border to encourage the ...