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Historic Agreement
UConn Will Help Preserve African National Congress History
On March 2, 1999, the University of Connecticut signed an historic agreement with the African National Congress in the Parliament Buildings in Capetown. The agreement outlines a partnership to gather and preserve the records of the ANC's struggles against apartheid, to create oral histories of ANC leaders, and to develop an on-going academic relationship focusing on human rights. Over the next several years, staff from Archives & Special Collections will provide technical expertise and training to ANC staff and assist in organizing the more than 5,000 boxes of archives created during the apartheid struggle. The records reflect the apartheid struggle both inside and outside of South Africa. They include documents from ANC missions around the world as well as records reflecting para-military activities. As materials are organized, a portion of the records will be copied and these copies will be placed in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center for scholarly use. In addition, copies of all of the oral histories of ANC leaders will also be added to the Dodd Center collections. Collaborative efforts began in February with the visit of ANC archives assistant Xolani Malawana. Mr. Malawana spent a month-long internship at the Dodd Center following his attendance at the Modern Archives Institute at the National Archives in Washington. A meeting is planned for June 1999, in Durban, South Africa to review programmatic needs to and set project priorities.
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