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SAHA - FOIP – SAH-2013-NAR-0003 – Request tracker

Information as to: (a) management of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) records they possess, and (b) the number, professions, and motivations of researchers who consult those records.

Reference number: SAH-2013-NAR-0003
Submitting organisation: South African History Archive (SAHA)
Status: closed
Status note: Process concluded
Date submitted: March 07, 2013
Stage(s): Initial request, internal appeal
Transferred To: SAH-2013-DOJ-0015
Request description:

The National Archives holds in its custody the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). SAHA requests from the National Archives records, reports, statistics, documentation, and any other information regarding:

1. Management of the TRC records

a) Policies and procedures for managing public access to the TRC records;

b) Processing plans and schedules for the arrangement and description of the TRC records;

c) Plans and budgets for the ongoing maintenance and preservation of the TRC records, including any plans and budgets relating to the construction of a dedicated archival repository/building in this regard;

d) Plans, schedules, and monitoring mechanisms relating to the transfer of TRC records still held by other government departments to the National Archives;


2. Consultation of the TRC records

a) The number of researchers who have consulted the TRC records since they were acquired by the National Archives;
b) The institutional and professional affiliations of researchers who have consulted the TRC records since they were acquired by the National Archives;
c) The purposes or motivations for which researchers have consulted the TRC records since they were acquired by the National Archives;
d) The frequency with which the TRC records have been consulted since they were acquired by the National Archives;
e) The spectrum of specific TRC records that have been most and least frequently consulted since they were acquired by the National Archives.

Initial request communication

Communication sent

Submission of PAIA request SAH-2013-NAR-0003
Sent on: March, 07 2013
Confirmation of receipt of PAIA request SAH-2013-NAR-0003
Sent on: March, 12 2013

Response received

Response date: 2013-05-10
Response nature: Transferred in part – remainder deemed
Received within statutory period: No

Internal appeal communication

Communication sent

Submission of internal appeal against decision relating to PAIA request SAH-2013-NAR-0003
Sent on: May, 10 2013

Response received

Response date: 2013-11-20
Response nature: Substituted new decision - released in part
Received within statutory period: No

Released records

Record summary
This is a letter from Ms. Mandy Gilder, an acting National Archivist in the Department of Arts and Culture in response to a PAIA request regarding the management and consultation of records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in the National Archives.
Total pages
3
SAHA CALL number
AL2878_B01.3.11
Record summary
This is a National Archives Circular regarding access to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) audio visual records, dated 19 July 2002.
Total pages
1
SAHA CALL number
AL2878_B01.3.12

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