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.

SAHA Current Board of Trustees

Advocate Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza

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 South African History Archive Board of Trustees since March 2003 and became chairman in 2005.

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 been a SAHA Board of Trustee member since 2001.

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 been a SAHA Board of Trustee member since 1994.

Horst Kleinschmidt

Horst Kleinschmidt is the Managing Director of Feike (Pty) Ltd - Natural Resource Management Advisors. Horst has been a SAHA Board of Trustees member since 1993.

Nkosinathi Biko

Mr. Nkosinathi Biko is the Chief Executive Officer of the Steve Biko Foundation. Nkosinathi has been a SAHA Board of Trustees member since March 2003.

Professor Ciraj Rassool

Professor and Chairperson of History at the University of Western Cape. Ciraj has been a SAHA Board of Trustees member since March 2003.

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 been a SAHA Board of Trustees member since 1994.

Professor Noor Nieftagodien

Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand History Department. Noor has been a SAHA Board of Trustees member since March 2009.

Anthony Manion

Anthony was the head archivist for the Gay & Lesbian Archive sfrom  2001 to 2007. He is now the Director of GALA and an ex-officio Board of Trustee member on the SAHA Board since 2007

If you wish to come into contact with any of SAHA Board of Trustees member, please contact Olga