The National Liberation Heritage Institute of South Africa (NaLHISA) is hosting a Media Launch at Freedom Park, today on Friday 22 June 2022, as part of its build up programme and stakeholder engagements towards its main Launch Conference to take place later in the year. The importance of NaLHISA is informed by our liberation heritage, which tells the stories of our country’s many peoples. The material part of that heritage, objects and sites, tells us of their activities, their perceptions, their skills, and their ideas. It is unique, irreplaceable, and unfortunately, vulnerable. This has informed the establishment of NaLHISA, which now bears the solemn responsibility not only of prolonging their survival in today’s digital world but also of making them accessible, so that we can know our past. In practical terms, we must plan how best to reduce the risks to the heritage in our care, and the risks to the plans themselves, and then act on those plans. NaLHISA was founded after numerous discussions among notable former liberation movement members to create a central location for storage, preservation, and digitization of the nation’s rich liberation heritage. Its main goal is to maintain and preserve all materials produced by academics, activists, and artists and to use the past to rekindle the passions of our people. NaLHISA is non-partisan in orientation and serves as a center for mobilisation of the youth and society in the construction of a more democratic and prosperous South Africa based on the ideals of the struggle forebearers.
