The Sabinet African Archives portal currently offers an index to collections within academic institutions of South Africa. We are busy expanding this index. Sabinet also offers a hosting and digitisation solution to online collection holders to make it more discoverable to researchers globally.
Disclaimer — The collections listed on the Sabinet African Archives may include materials that reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. These materials are presented as part of historical records. Inclusion of these materials does not mean endorsement of or agreement with by Sabinet on any views or terms expressed in the descriptions and/or materials.
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On 25 January 1981, the Karoo changed forever. The little town of Laingsburg was hit by what continues to be one of the most dramatic natural disasters ever to have happened in…
The library houses about 14000 books, 640 manuscripts and 12000 photographs. Included in the collection are early printed editions of African indigenous languages (San, Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa), early books related…
The historical collections of painting and sculpture within the Art Collections Department of Iziko Museums embrace a wide range of works for art that are both South African and foreign…
These 4 000 items now form the nucleus of the Don Africana Library but, of course, the collection has grown enormously. There are now over 50 000 catalogued items and…
It comprises books, pamphlets, art prints and manuscripts about the lives of the peoples of the country. Many of the works date from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The…
The Africana collection includes social, political and economic history, as well as languages and literature of Africa. Current journals in these fields are accessible from the first basement of the…
The Early Africana collection comprises books and periodicals published before 1850 and runs up to 1925.It can be described as covering all rare and important books which are not Africana.It…
The term Africana refers to materials, such as books, documents, or art objects, relating to the history or culture of African peoples. In the case of UWC the Africana Collection…
A publication about political images taken from De Burger
A collection of Africana books, framed pictures, objects, letters and documents