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.
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Historical Papers is one of the largest and most comprehensive independent archives in Southern Africa. We house over 3300 collections of historical, political and cultural importance, encompass the mid 17th…
The Jackie Grobler collection consists of copies of articles and archival documents dealing with the political situation in South Africa during the Apartheid years. The documents in the files are…
The collection consists of correspondence, documents and other items about the Ossewa-Brandwag, and other diverse documentation Die versameling bestaan uit korrespondensie, dokumente en allerei oor die Ossewa-Brandwag, en diversie dokumentasie
The Nestadt Family Collection comprises a number of photographs (most with captions and taken from photograph albums) depicting the family and social life of generations of the Nestadt family. Included…
The Molly Seftel Sklaar Collection contains a large number of photographs pertaining to Molly's life and acting career, amongst her other achievements. It is divided into five subseries, named Acting…
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…
The Documentation Centre promotes and facilitates research in the political, theological, social, economic, cultural and historical fields by collecting and making available unpublished historical and contemporary material. Documents of various…
Art Artefacts Posters and Banners Audiovisual Archive Historical Papers Photographic Archive
Lusophone Africa, probably the largest privately owned collection. This remarkable collection of books and serials represents the concentrated and systematic gathering of both currently available and scarce out of print…
The collection consists of handwritten volumes of political events
