Governance
SAHA is a registered Non-Profit Trust in terms of section 6(1) of the Trust Property Control Act, 1988 (Act 57 of 1988) - Trust No 2522/93.

SAHA is also registered as a Non-Profit Organisation (registration no.: 031-807-NPO / PBO).

SAHA is governed by a board of trustees.
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SAHA Current Board of Trustees
Advocate Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza (Chairperson)
A lawyer by background, Dumisa was admitted as an attorney in 1984. He is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and served as one of the commissioners on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Dumisa has served on the SAHA Board of Trustees since March 2003 and became chairperson in 2005.
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Nkosinathi Biko
Mr. Nkosinathi Biko is the Chief Executive Officer of the Steve Biko Foundation. Nkosinathi has served on the SAHA Board of Trustees since March 2003.
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Luli Callinicos
Luli Callinicos is a Council member of the National Heritage Council, biographer of Nelson ‘Madiba' Mandela ("The World that made Mandela". STE Publishers, 2000) and Oliver Tambo. Luli has served on the SAHA Board of Trustees since 1994.
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Verne S Harris
Verne is the Head of Memory Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation's Centre of Memory and Dialogue and has also been Mandela's archivist since 1994. He is the former Deputy Director of the National Archives and Director of the South African History Archive. Verne has served on the SAHA Board of Trustees since 2010.
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Sello K Hatang
Sello is the Nelson Mandela Foundation's Information and Communication Manager and spokesperson and currently serves on the boards of SAHA and Open Democracry Advice Centre. He is a member of the editorial team for Nelson Mandela's forthcoming book Conversations with Myself. Sello has served on the SAHA Board of Trustees since 2010.
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Horst Kleinschmidt
Horst Kleinschmidt is the Managing Director of Feike (Pty) Ltd - Natural Resource Management Advisors. Horst has served on the SAHA Board of Trustee since 1993.
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Professor Noor Nieftagodien
Based at the University of the Witwatersrand History Department, Noor has served on the SAHA Board of Trustee since 2009.
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Piers Pigou
Director of SAHA from 2006 - 2009, Piers has served on the SAHA Board of Trustee since 2010.
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Marlene M Powell
Marlene Powell was one of the founder members of SAHA in 1988 and was originally deployed by the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Marlene has served on the SAHA Board of Trustee since 1994.
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Professor Ciraj Rassool
Professor Rassool is Professor and Chairperson of History at the University of Western Cape. Ciraj has served on the SAHA Board of Trustee since 2003.

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Razia Saleh
Razia Saleh was the SAHA archivist and administrator Senior from 1989 - 2000.  She is currently a Programme Officer at the Nelson Mandela Foundation and was the ANC Archives Unit Coordinator from 2001 - 2006. Razia has served on the SAHA Board of Trustee since 2001.
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Anthony Manion (ex officio)
Anthony was the head archivist for the Gay & Lesbian Archive from  2001 to 2007. He is now the Director of GALA and an ex-officio Board of Trustee member on the SAHA Board since 2008.