ABOUT
NaLHISA

The National Liberation Heritage Institute of South Africa (NaLHISA) is a non-profit organization founded to build an institute that would serve as a repository for the country’s rich legacy and history of resistance to colonialism and apartheid.

A safe space for the collection, archiving, and preservation of non-partisan material produced by scholars, activists, and artists during the reign of the oppressive apartheid regime leading up to the birth of the new South Africa in 1994.

DOCUMENTING
OUR UNTOLD
STORIES

NaLHISA collects, preserve, and share the authentic story of South Africa’s liberation through digital and physical archives, as well as to communicate with, share, and educate people about it.

Looking
Into the Past
to Inspire
the Future

Our aim is to have an inclusive South Africa that is knowledgeable about its national liberation heritage in pursuance of social cohesion, and nation-building and inspires future generations.

OUR VISION

The National Liberation Heritage Institute tells the authentic and proud story of our liberation to impact the thinking of future generations

NaLHISA’s vision is to be the centre of all FACTUAL information and heritage pertaining to the South African liberation and to provide a fountain of knowledge for future generations.

OUR MISSION

NaLHISA’s mission is to:

• Collate the historical information and knowledge available from freedom fighters, liberation movements, scholars, researchers, institutions, foundations, and ordinary people,
• Digitally archive and preserve the information and knowledge for future generations,
• Partner with individuals, parties, and organisations to tell the FACTUAL story of the liberation of South Africa

OUR value
proposition

An aggregator of information on the national liberation heritage
A custodian the national
liberation heritage
A contributor to the national educational curriculum on the country’s liberation heritage
An advocate for the
preservation of the national liberation heritage
Builder of the capacity of
archivists, activist, and
researchers
Convenor of dialogues/ engagement of the national liberation heritage

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