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South Africa falls to 38th place on the World Press Freedom Index
This is attributed to attacks on journalists during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ and to the behaviour of the ANC toward the press.
Save and savour your audiovisual heritage now!
This month we celebrate World Audiovisual Heritage Day
“Letters for Lulu / Postcards for Paul” 2010
This year we’re inviting you to write a postcard to the Minister of Arts and Culture about the challenges facing South African museums.
International sports events and their documentary heritage
Shadrack Katuu considers the documentary heritage of the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver this year and asks what lessons South Africans can learn form the way in which the city processed the records relating to this event.
Web-based discussion forum
Melissa Mannon is seeking participants for a web-based discussion forum on community documentation and cross-professional collaboration
Journal of African Cinema
Call for submissions: ongoing
Nelson Mandela Foundation “Dialogue for Social Change” seminar
This seminar focussing on xenophobia and the experience of migrants in South Africa, raised some thought provoking questions about memory practice, amongst other issues.
“Working with the Archive: Second Apartheid Archive Conference”
This project examines South African experiences of racism and the continuing effect on individual and group functioning in contemporary society.
St George’s Cathedral Crypt: A place of memory and witness
The Archival platform visited the Crypt to hear how the Church is working to remember the past and explore the issues confronting society today.
Our letter FROM Lulu
Read our open letter to Minister Xingwna, in response to her reply to our 2009 “Letters for Lulu” campaign
Protecting Information: A Practical View by Graham Dominy:
Dr Dominy asks why a Protection of Information Bill is needed; explains how security and archival information classification systems work and how an Information Access regime can be better monitored and adjudicated.
Archival policies in the protection of human rights
An updated version of the report prepared by UNESCO and the International Council on Archives (1995).Concerning the management of the archives of the state security services of former repressive regimes.
Graves of three women activists declared National Heritage Sites
SAHRA is honouring the courage, determination and bravery of struggle heroines Charlotte Maxeke, Lillian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph
