The anti-apartheid archives provide an understanding of our past and therefore present, something Palestinians no longer have
In Heritage Month, we show you how to research your ancestry in South Africa — it’s not always an easy task
Christopher Clark’s debut book, Clare: The killing of a gentle activist’ explores the context of the murder of an activist in KwaZulu-Natal
With the induction last week of the Rashid Lombard Archive at the University of the Western Cape his photography and stories will soon be accessible to a new generation.
Thirty-three years since Dulcie September’s assassination, a new documentary hopes to bring her name back into the public consciousness
Actually, digitising archives is far more complex, expensive and arduous than it sounds
Students, alumni and staff share their memories and thoughts after blaze leaves a path of devastation at the UCT and its Jagger Reading Room
This sequence of texts was written in response to various photographs of Nigeria made between 1920 and 1929 that form part of the Colonial Office photographic collection
As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Saho’s Omar Badsha believes in the power of people telling their own stories, but more funding to support this practice is crucial
Sylvia Arthur founded the Library for Africa and the African Diaspora to house her collection and share it with other readers
An interview with Chimurenga founder Ntone Edjabe about his latest project
The existing Mandela biographies don’t tell the whole story
The archival system is in trouble. To think that we can have a well-ordered land reform process is unrealistic.
If public institutions are to be trusted, they have to fight to defend their holdings, but preserving our literary archives is complicated.