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National Archives and Records Service of South Africa to host the xxvii Eastern and Southern Africa regional branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) biennial conference
The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARSSA), in partnership with the Gauteng Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation (GDSACR) and the University of South Africa (UNISA) is hosting the XXVII Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) Biennial Conference in Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa which began on Monday and continues until 18 August 2023 at the Birchwood Hotel.
The conference was preceded by a pre-conference training workshop for junior archivists from 14-15 August, led by knowledgeable experts from the sector.
“We expect 40 Junior Archivists from the region to attend this important training. The main conference programme will be convened on 16 and 17 August. It will be attended by practitioners and academics in the archives and records management sector from the region, which includes Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Angola, and Seychelles. Under the theme “Archives, Records and Memory in Digital Spaces and Global Chaos”, the conference will seek to address current issues and look at solutions to deal with disruption and chaos caused by 4IR and AI within the records and archive management environment,” said the Department in a statement.
There will also be a handover event of the digitised records of the constitutional development process of South Africa’s Road to Democracy.
The project was successfully implemented through a partnership between NARSSA and the Constitution Hill Trust. Honouring this event will be Justice Albie Sachs, renowned struggle icon and one of the founding members of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who will also be the guest speaker at the event.
Chairperson of the Constitution Hill Trust, Mr Valli Moosa (former Minister of Constitutional Development in the Cabinet of Nelson Mandela), will also be in attendance.
The digitised collections include the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), Constitutional Assembly (CA), Multiparty Negotiations (NEG). The digitised records will be made available to the public through the NARSSA website (www.nationalarchives.gov.za), and the Constitution Hill Trust website at (www.wethepeoplesa.org).
The Ministry of Sport, Arts and Culture will receive the digitised records on 16 August 2023.
Heads of national archives from the region will also have their business meetings during this period. This conference promises to be a melting pot of archive and records management experts, administrators and practitioners, and the media is invited to the opening ceremony on the 16th of August, 2023.
For more information about the XXVII Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA) Biennial Conference, including registration details and the conference programme, please visit the official conference website at: https://nssc.dsac.gov.za/esarbica/about_us.php
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