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                                                  Razia Saleh

                        Director Archives & Research, Nelson Mandela Foundation


       Razia Saleh is currently the Director: Archive and         sentenced to life imprisonment during the
       Research at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Prior           Rivonia trial together with Nelson Mandela and
       to this she was the archivist at the African               others.
       National Congress (ANC) over seeing the
                                                                  From 2001 to 2006, she was the Archives Project
       arrangement and description of ANC archives
                                                                  Coordinator for the African National Congress
       primarily those produced in exile. Razia has a
                                                                  (ANC) Archives. Her main responsibility was to
       long association of working in archives from
                                                                  oversee the arrangement and description of
       when she helped established the South African
                                                                  ANC archives that consisted mainly of the
       History Archive (SAHA), and has a Masters’
                                                                  documentation generated during the period
       degree in archival studies from the University of
                                                                  that the ANC was in exile, 1960-1990.
       London. Her interest includes the use of digital
       technologies in enhancing access and as a
                                                                  From 1989 to 2000 she helped set up and
       preservation tool for archives.
                                                                  worked for the NGO South African History
                                                                  Archive (SAHA), which was created to
       Longer piece                                               safeguard the records of the United
                                                                  Democratic Front (UDF) and its affiliates. The
       RaziaSaleh is the Director of Archive and
                                                                  UDF was the leading anti-apartheid
       Research at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
                                                                  organisation operating inside South Africa in
       where she oversees the creation of an
                                                                  the 1980s. Razia was an anti-apartheid and
       integrated and dynamic information resource
                                                                  community activist, working full-time for the
       on the life and times of Nelson Mandela, and the
                                                                  UDF and before that the Transvaal Indian
       research and analysis required to support this.
                                                                  Congress (TIC). Mahatma Gandhi established
                                                                  the TIC in 1904 when he was living in South
       Razia is also a Board member of the Ahmed
                                                                  Africa. After therepressive era of the 1960s. it
       Kathrada Foundation, established by the
                                                                  became dormant but was revived in 1983.
       struggle stalwart. Kathrada was

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