by AnneS · Published 13/05/2022 · Updated 26/09/2022

For a number of years the South African national archive suffered for various reasons for being a 'white' archive. It was created under the British Empire and then added to under the Apartheid government - the records of government being those of the white political majority. As a result after the collapse of Apartheid the archive was generally thought (by non regular users) to only hold material relevant to white people.