Verne Harris
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Verne Harris has been the archivist for the papers of Nelson Mandela since 2004, as Head of the Memory Programme at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Centre of Memory and Dialogue.[1][2][3]
Before that, he had worked for South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and was the Director of the South African History Archive (SAHA).[4] 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; he served as deputy director from 1993 to 2001.[4]
References
- ^ Honorary Research Fellows: Verne Harris" [biographical note]. Archive & Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
- ^ Centre for Memory site
- ^ "The Private Side of Nelson Mandela - Verne Harris on what Nelson Mandela wanted to reveal in his autobiography - Video". ABC News. 20 October 2010. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ a b "Verne Harris" [speaker's biographical note], The Power and Passion of Archives conference program, Information Studies, University of Toronto, March 21, 2003. Retrieved 2015-05-09.