Find out more about the key Archival Platform projects. Discuss your views via the forum. You can download academic papers and find links to a number of helpful websites relating to the archive.
SAHA documentaries on oral history and freedom of information
The South African History Archive (SAHA) is an independent human rights archive dedicated to documenting and providing access to archival holdings that relate to past and contemporary struggles for justice in South Africa.
Three short film documentaries produced by SAHA over the past few years can now be viewed on the SAHA website:
A dream deferred (2009)
Documentary of a SAHA project, ‘Forgotten’ Voices in the Present: alternative, post-1994 oral histories from three poor communities in South Africa”
Meeting history face to face: a guide to doing oral history (2008)
Documentary showcasing a ground-breaking oral history and memorial building project undertaken by schools in Bethal, Kroonstad and Polokwane in 2007.
Right to Information: video report on SAHA’s field trip to India (2009)
Brief report on SAHA’s Freedom of Information Programme field trip to meet with Right to Know activists in India in 2009
