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The Archival Platform’s aim is to facilitate dialogue and information sharing between professionals, academics and government employees in the heritage and archive sector.

Not yet “beyond the racial lens” 09/09/2010

Kylie Thomas reports back on the Bonani Africa 2010 Conference  Read More

Protecting Information: A Practical View by Graham Dominy: 09/09/2010

Some thoughts on the protection and classification of information  Read More

Archival policies in the protection of human rights 09/09/2010

An updated version of the report prepared by UNESCO and the International Council on Archives (1995).  Read More

David Simpson lectures and seminars 09/09/2010

13- 21 September  Read More

IZIKO Social History Collections: Registering change after apartheid 09/09/2010

Thursday 16 September!  Read More

The right to memory 10/08/2010

Jo-Anne Duggan asks, if memory matters, how should it be defined and… Read More

Knocking on ... mothers and daughters in struggle in South Africa 10/08/2010

Shirley Gunn of the Human Rights Media Centre shares her experience of working with mothers and daughters in an intergenerational… Read More

Ancestral Stories: Editorial August 2010 10/08/2010

Mbongiseni Buthelezi raises some questions about the way in which ‘families’ are constituted and describes some of the challenges facing… Read More

Guest Blog
What about the ancestors? 10/08/2010

Michael Worsnip explains how and why his adopted children have ‘inherited’ his ancestors.  Read More

The Cape Town Family History Society 10/08/2010

David Slingsby describes the aims and activities of the Cape Town Family History Society  Read More

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