Apartheid Archives

Should all archives that tell the African story during the apartheid era be open to the public? Is this going to be rubbing salt on unhealed raw wounds or could this be a way of healing them. The History Workshop at South Africa’s Wits University celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and the Wits Historical Papers Research Archive, together with SECTION 27 and Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), will be hosting a colloquium on apartheid era archives and public record keeping in a post-apartheid state this week. Currently there is an ongoing inquest into the death of struggle icon Ahmed Timol. To help us unpack and discuss this further we are joined on the line by:1. Omar Badsha Chief Executive Officer S.A History Online 2. Dr Brown Maaba Historian/Author 3. Verne Harris Director: Archives and Dialogue Nelson Mandela Foundation