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The National Archives and Records Service is an institutional network, operating on a centralised and decentralised provincial basis under central government control. The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa was established by passing of the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa Act in 1996. [ 1 ]
The South African History Archive Trust, better known as SAHA, is an independent archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and contemporary struggles for justice through archival practice, outreach, and the utilisation of the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000 (PAIA). [1]
The program was part of a UNESCO initiative to enable access to human rights archives. The functionalities they provided acquired an important character such as those of an archival information system, called OSARIS (Open Source Archival Resource Information System), developed by the Committee on Information Technology of the ICA in 2003 under ...
Access to records of public bodies is governed by Part 2 of the Act. A public body is defined in section 1 to include all departments of state or administration at the national, provincial and local levels, as well as any other functionary or institution acting in terms of a constitution or "exercising a public power or performing a public ...
This is list of archives in South Africa. Archives in South Africa. National Archives of South Africa; National Film, Video and Sound Archives (South Africa)
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In terms of South African legal deposit legislation, each of the national libraries was a legal deposit library, entitled to receive from the publishers a gratis copy of every book, serial, newspaper, government publication or other printed item published in South Africa. In South Africa legal deposit, in some form or another, dates back to 1842.
Archival platform is a South African civil society initiative committed to deepening democracy through the use of memory and archives as dynamic public resources. The Archival Platform was established in 2009 by the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, aiming to draw attention to the growing crisis in the national ...