South African History Archive

Johannesburg, Italy

The South African History Archive Trust, better known as SAHA, is an independent archive dedicated to documenting, supporting and promoting greater awareness of past and contemporary struggles for justice through archival practice, outreach, and the utilisation of the Promotion of Access to Informat

ion Act, 2000 (PAIA). SAHA was founded in the 1980s as increasing state censorship in South Africa threatened to obscure the struggle against human rights violations and the oppressive political regime of apartheid. Since 2022, SAHA has been based at the Wits University after a 10-year relocation to Women's Gaol Museum, Constitution Hill where it took over responsibility for archiving the Constitution Hill Trust records in addition to its original collection.

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Nearby

Constitution Hill monumenti
Joburg Theatre theatre · 0.3 km away
Braamfontein street_art · 0.5 km away
Highpoint Hillbrow skyscraper · 0.6 km away
Schlesinger Building skyscraper · 0.7 km away
UCS Building skyscraper · 0.7 km away
Temple Israel, Johannesburg synagogue · 0.7 km away
Alexander Theatre theatre · 0.8 km away