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Verne Harris has been the
The Power and Passion of Archives
' conference program, Information Studies, University of Toronto, March 21, 2003. Retrieved 2015-05-09. From 1985 until 2001 he was an archivist with South Africa's State Archives Service and, beginning in 1997, the newly established
Verne Harris has been the archivist
An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to Document, records and archives determined to have long-term value. The records maintained by an archivist c ...
for the papers of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...
since 2004, as Head of the Memory Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue.
Before that, he had worked for South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
A truth commission, also known as a truth and reconciliation commission or truth and justice commission, is an official body tasked with discovering and revealing past wrongdoing by a government (or, depending on the circumstances, non-state act ...
and was the Director of the South African History Archive (SAHA)."Verne Harris" peaker's biographical note The Power and Passion of Archives
' conference program, Information Studies, University of Toronto, March 21, 2003. Retrieved 2015-05-09. From 1985 until 2001 he was an archivist with South Africa's State Archives Service and, beginning in 1997, the newly established
National Archives of South Africa
The National Archives and Records Service is an institutional network, operating on a centralized and decentralized provincial basis under central government control. The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa was established by p ...
; he served as deputy director from 1993 to 2001.
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