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Monday, October 23, 2017
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2017 - SABC has more than one Archive
Follow the day with the hashtags #AudiovisualHeritage
#wdavh2017
Facts about UNESCO, WDAVH and SABC Archives...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Ask An Archivist Day!
Follow the questions on Twitter @SABCRadioArc
— SABC Radio Archive (@SABCRadioArc) October 4, 2017
Friday, October 28, 2016
UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2016 - SABC Radio Archives and Television News archives photos
The SABCRadio Archives and the SABC Television News Archives highlight the rich cultural heritage that they have in their audio and audiovisual collections for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2016.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
SABC TRC CD collection – an oral memoir of the truth and reconciliation commission
In anticipation of UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October, the SABC Radio Archives share a product from the Archives. A 6 CD set called called south africa’s human spirit – an oral memoir of the truth and reconciliation commission.
Production scripts and sound from the TRC recordings are available on the website, or a CD set can be ordered as well!
This six-hour documentary transports the listener through raw sound to the unprecedented public hearings at which survivors - victims, perpetrators and others – testified about gross human rights abuses since 1960.
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| SABC Truth and Reconcilaition CD |
It contains award-winning and brand new radio stories with lots of gripping and contextual sound. Well-known musicians, storytellers, poets, former political prisoners, exiles and most of the Truth Commissioners thread the story of South Africa's past with music, song, poetry and commentary.
This oral record aims to preserve for posterity the rich gamut of viewpoints, memories and emotions of South Africa's history - apartheid and democracy. Another aim is to make it accessible to individuals, schools, centres of higher learning, libraries and human rights organisations world-wide. The production was made possible with a grant by the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (Norad).
Production scripts and sound from the TRC recordings are available on the website, or a CD set can be ordered as well!
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
#AskAnArchivist Day on Twitter
Today is the perfect day to ask the questions you have always wanted to ask about the Archives on Twitter:
Just add the hashtag #AskAnArchivist and the specific archives you want to know more about.
The SABC Radio Archives is available here: @SABCRadioArc
More info: What is #AskAnArchivist Day?
Tomorrow is #AskAnArchivist Day? What do you want to know about the archives? pic.twitter.com/vrpgIaWL8P— SABC Radio Archive (@SABCRadioArc) October 4, 2016
— SABC Radio Archive (@SABCRadioArc) October 5, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016
SABC Media Libraries - #libraryshelfie contributions
It's #libraryshelfie day today @sabcinfolib > Please share some of your photos
— SABC Media Library (@SABCMediaLib) January 27, 2016
Meet @justiceleshilo he is the one incharge of our #Shelfie #libraryshelfie, he does this in the mornings. pic.twitter.com/JoLO8Nrjh2
— SABC Info Library (@sabcinfolib) January 27, 2016
— SABC Info Library (@sabcinfolib) January 27, 2016
Who's who of Southern Africa #libraryshelfie #libraryshelfieday - very helpful in the days before the Internet pic.twitter.com/2cDp7P54AV
— SABC Radio Archive (@SABCRadioArc) January 27, 2016
See #libraryshelfie and #libraryshelfieday on Twitter for more.
See #libraryshelfie and #libraryshelfieday on Instagram for more.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
World Day for Audiovisual Heritage - podcast from Radio Sonder Grense on 27 October #wdavh2015
Karen du Toit, Afrikaans archivist in the SABC Radio Archive, have selected one of the soundtracks for today. Jan Beukes, one of the first African broadcasters in 1937 on the African service, are relaying anecdotes about the first African broadcasts on radio. It was recorded on October 18, 1955. The soundtrack was originally recorded on acetate record and was digitized on a CD by a sound engineer. Unfortunately, we have many formats in the Archives which are perishing because we are not digitizing fast enough. It is a global problem in all audiovisual archives! "
The podcast translated from Afrikaans:
"The theme for the celebration of this year World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2015" Archives in Danger - Protecting the world's identities! "
SABC Media Libraries are part of archives worldwide highlighting the importance of preserving our audiovisual heritage in the SABC Radio archives. Our audiovisual heritage do not only allow us to look and listen with apperciation to our audio-visual collections, but what is more important, it also shows us who we are!
The Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association (CCAAA) encourage everyone to participate in the campaign to protect man's AV heritage. The world's audiovisual heritage of sound recordings and moving images are extremely vulnerable due to factors ranging from neglect, natural decay due to technological obsolescence, as well as deliberate destruction.
Accordingly, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) made it part of its mission to create public awareness with the the Global Audiovisual Heritage celebrations annually.
All the world's audiovisual heritage is endangered. Therefore, the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and the Memory of the World program are the two most important actions identified by UNESCO to help preserve this heritage! The task is on professionals in conservation to help preserve this heritage for future generations, despite the many technical, political, social, financial and other factors that threaten AV survival.
UNESCO encourages everyone to share in the celebrations on October 27 by putting the emphasis on their precious collections to ensure that present and future generations will still be able to enjoy our shared audiovisual heritage. "
Interview with SABC archivists on African Dialogue about the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2015 #wdavh2015
Two of SABC Radio Archives' archivists were interviewed on the programme African Dialogue on Channel Africa about the World day for Audiovisual Heritage that was celebrated on Tuesday 27 October.
Sipho Hlope is the Springbok Radio archivist; and Namatama Mate is the Channel Africa archivist.
"Today the world acknowledges the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage. This is a day, now headed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, aims to raise awareness about the importance of audiovisual documents and the importance of archiving. This year’s theme is “Archives at risk: protecting the world's identities". Today we speak to: • Sipho Hlope, archivist from Springbok-radio • Namatama Mate, journalist and archivist from SABC. • Cecil Nguva-uva – former Southern African Broadcasters Association • Ilse Assman Chairperson of the Southern African Broadcasting Association’s Audiovisual Committee." - iono.fm
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
World Radio Day - Archivist Karen du Toit package for Radio Sonder Grense (Afrikaans)
World Radio Day is celebrated for the 4th time this year after it was established by UNESCO in 2011.
"From the news and public debate, music and entertainment, radio informs us , captivate and inspire us in a way that no other medium can."Archivist Karen du Toit , who is responsible for the Afrikaans language collection in the SABC Radio Archives, compiled a short compilation of the rich collection of radio material that is being kept by the Archives. The programme was broadcasted on Radio Sonder Grense, the Afrikaans language radio station at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. (The programme is in Afrikaans)
Translation of the text:
"SABC Radio Archives preserve a rich cultural treasure sound that includes the history and time period of the South African Broadcasting Corporation as well as that of South Africa .
This radio treasure is made possible by radio itself, which is the main source of our collection . The radio stations are in turn dependent on the archive that makes the material accessible to be uses again . We keep the radio material on sound tapes, cassette tapes, acetate records, mini tapes, CDs and electronically.
Most of the time we can not just press a button to give access, but we need to collect the audio format in the storage room, and dub it in real time and adapted it to make it available again to programme makers, journalists and the public.
As the Afrikaans archivist, it is very difficult to pick some sound clips to illustrate this rich diversity .
I would like to share the following from our Afrikaans language collection :
1. The first broadcast of Radio Sonder Grense on 28 September 1996, with a soundtrack of the late President Nelson Mandela on the importance of this medium.
2. Our first melodramatic radio drama from the thirties, Liefdesdroom (Love Dream), which was broadcasted on December 15, 1937.
3. With the 25th anniversary of Radio in 1949 in the Cape a Mister CD Fuchs ( the then Regional Director of Natal ) aspoke on the first days in radio.
4. The first newscast in Afrikaans from Auckland Park.
5. Finally, an audio clip of a portion of a reading of a poem of NP van Wyk Louw : "Image of a youth - pigeon and horse". It is read by Fred le Roux in 1965. The youth poem was chosen because World Radio Day this year focuses on youth and radio.
6. And sometimes we get recognition as archivists, such as the recent death of André Brink. Colleague Bernard Mashiane came in on Sunday to help with sound clippings for producer Wilna Matthee for a feature on the RSG programme Monitor the next morning."
World Radio Day - SABC Radio joins UNESCO in the celebrations today
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| SABC Radio supports World Radio Day |
"A day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information and freedom of expression over the airwaves."SABC Radio will be covering this day on all 19 radio stations across South Africa!
SABC Radio Archives helped some of the radio stations in compiling packages for World Radio Day today.
SABC Media Libraries are sharing sharing some photos of the formats used in the SABC Radio Archives to preserve the rich cultural legacy of radio.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
World Radio Day on 13 February 2015 #WorldRadioDay
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| World Radio Day |
The SABC Radio Archives supports this day each year by showcasing our collections from all the SABC Radio Broadcast Services.
We have a duty to preserve this rich heritage, as well as make this collection available for research, re-broadcast and re-use.
Celebrating Radio
From news and public debate to music and entertainment, radio continues to inform, captivate and inspire us in a way that no other medium can.
But radio is so much more than a forum for information and entertainment. It reaches more people in more places than any other medium. It’s a bridge of communication for remote communities, developing regions and vulnerable populations, sometimes with no other connection to the outside world. Perhaps no other platform can have the real-time reach between people and across cultures.
Radio is also the medium best-adapted to navigate the new digital frontiers that are pushing the media and communication into unchartered waters. Technologies such as the Internet, mobile communication and geolocation have shifted the traditional dynamic in which the media operate, with young people at the fore-front of these converging trends, at the same time embracing radio as enthusiastically as ever.
So let’s come together on 13 February not only to celebrate the importance of radio in our lives today, but to ensure it lives up to its huge potential in the future.
World Radio Day Message: UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova
Related posts:
- The importance of radio – on World Radio Day 2013 #WRD13 #worldradioday
- World Radio Day 2013 Press Release
Blog post by Karen du Toit, Archivist, SABC Radio Archives.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Archivists of SABC Radio Archives being interviewed about World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2014 #wdavh2014
Three of the archivists of SABC Radio Archives were interviewed by SABC Radio stations about the importance of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage that is celebrated yearly on 27 October 2014.
The interviews are uploaded on SoundCloud.
Morongwa Mokwena, English Archivist, on 26 October on Media@SAFM on SAFM
Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist, on 27 October on Loslip, on RSG. (interview in Afrikaans)
Peter Raseroka, Ikwekwezi Archivist, on 27 October on Ikwekwezi FM (interview in isiNdebele)
Related posts:
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2014 today
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2014 on 27 October
The interviews are uploaded on SoundCloud.
Morongwa Mokwena, English Archivist, on 26 October on Media@SAFM on SAFM
Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist, on 27 October on Loslip, on RSG. (interview in Afrikaans)
Peter Raseroka, Ikwekwezi Archivist, on 27 October on Ikwekwezi FM (interview in isiNdebele)
Related posts:
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2014 today
- World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2014 on 27 October
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
SABC Radio Archives keeps the heritage of SABC Radio broadcast material
In celebration of Heritage Month, and Heritage Day tomorrow, the SABC Radio Archives share a snippet from the heritage that they are keeping in the archives.
One of the gems is an extract from SAFM PM Live on 24 September 1997, part of a news bulletin with actuality of former President Nelson Mandela who opened the Robben Island Heritage Museum, one of South Africa’s heritage sites.
It is still on a reel-to-reel tape, one of the very dependable formats in the Radio Archives.
A quote for Heritage Day:
"National Heritage Day is an opportunity to share stories about our heritage. It is a day for families to visit heritage sites, and for children to learn about the struggle heroes who fought against apartheid. We dare not allow the sacrifices of those who gave all, so that we may be free, to be forgotten.
This initiative is in line with the theme for this year's Heritage Month; "Celebrating 20 years of democracy: Tell your story that moves South Africa Forward". This year's Heritage Month also takes place against the backdrop of our 20 Years of Freedom celebrations which reinforces our collective memory of the struggle towards promoting a national identity.
Celebrating our heritage is an integral part of healing the divisions of the past and to establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights." - SABC
Enjoy your Heritage Day, "respecting and acknowledging the past, celebrating the present and building the future together" (SABC).
Thursday, September 18, 2014
SABC Cape Town Principal Librarian Marlene Ungerer training at the SABC Radio Archives in Auckland Park
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| Marlene Ungerer and Cate Jele |
The Principal Librarian of the SABC Media Library in Cape Town, Marlene Ungerer, was this week in Auckland Park at the SABC Radio Archives.
SABC Cape Town is planning to appoint a Radio Archivist for the first time, and the archivist will be expected to report to the Principal Librarian in Cape Town. SABC Cape Town Media Libraries provides services to the following radio stations: Good Hope FM, RSG, SAFM and Umhlobo Wenene. A need was identified for training for Marlene to be able to understand the role and complexities of the post.
Cate Jele, the Acting Manager and Team Leader of the request team, trained her on the in-house cataloguing system, Natural Document Management (NDM), as well as all the processes, systems and procedures of working in the Radio Archives.
Marlene expressed her delight in being able to learn so much in one week, as well as walking away with a new understanding about the work of the radio archivists.
Blog post by Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives.
Friday, September 12, 2014
The voice of Steve Biko from the SABC Radio Archives
The news archivist, Nare Mashiane, reminds us today, 12 September, about the death of Steve Biko.
Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist, died on 12 September 1977. He was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.
The photo is from the SABC and the sound of an interview is from the SABC Radio Archives. In commemoration of the man.
For more information from the SABC: "Confidant" remembers Steve Biko
Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist, died on 12 September 1977. He was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa.
The photo is from the SABC and the sound of an interview is from the SABC Radio Archives. In commemoration of the man.
For more information from the SABC: "Confidant" remembers Steve Biko
Scratched acetate 1943 record sound saved in the SABC Radio Archives
A 1943 acetate record with a large scratch was fixed by the SABC Radio Archives' sound engineer, Obakeng Phiri.
It is a 1943 song about "Generaal De la Rey" (composed by C Lamprecht) and sing by Betsy de la Porte. On the 15th of September it is the 100 year anniversary since the South African Boer War general died, and the material is needed from the archives for a tribute programme.
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| The scratch |
This is the original sound.
As archivists we do not always have the specialised skills of the sound engineers, and we sometimes struggle to fix the formats when they are damaged. It became very apparent when the sound engineer was called in and he could do his digital magic.
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| Obakeng Phiri working his magic on Wavelab |
Thanks to specialised skills!
The archivist could now update the catalogue, and save the fixed version electronically for future use as well!
Blog post by Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives.
Thursday, August 7, 2014
SABC Media Libraries sharing some of their collections for National Women's Day on 9 August
The SABC Media Libraries are sharing some of their collections on social media in preparation for National Women's Day on 9 August.
The SABC Information Library has been posting photos of collections on Facebook:
The SABC Radio Archives shared a short video clip on Instagram of one of their oldest recordings in the Archives: The voice of Florence Nightingale from 1890 recalling the Battle of Balaclava. The original recording was done on a wax cylinder, and this specific recording is a copy that was done in 1984 on a reel-to-reel tape.
It was part of a series of recording from the SWABC, from a programme by Percy Sieff, This Week in Time.
Blog post by Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives.
The SABC Information Library has been posting photos of collections on Facebook:
The SABC Radio Archives shared a short video clip on Instagram of one of their oldest recordings in the Archives: The voice of Florence Nightingale from 1890 recalling the Battle of Balaclava. The original recording was done on a wax cylinder, and this specific recording is a copy that was done in 1984 on a reel-to-reel tape.
It was part of a series of recording from the SWABC, from a programme by Percy Sieff, This Week in Time.
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| One of the oldest audio recordings from 1980: Florence Nightingale |
Blog post by Karen du Toit, Afrikaans Archivist in the SABC Radio Archives.
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