Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Botswana National Archives and Records Services

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box 239
      Gaborone
      Botswana

    • Location:

      Khama Crescent, Government Enclave

    • Telephone:

      (267) 311 820

    • Facsimile:

      (267) 308 545

    • E-mail:

      archives@gov.bw

    • Director:

      Ms. Kelebogile Kgabi

    • Year founded:

      1967

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Archival records
      Business records
      Ecclesiastical records
      Electronic archives
      Ephemera
      Government records
      Manuscripts
      Maps
      Music
      Newspapers
      Oral histories
      Personal papers
      Photographs
      Posters
      Sound recordings

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      Setswana and English

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Researchers are not allowed to duplicate (copy) the whole record; Researchers are given a maximum of 4 records at a time; All foreign researchers must have a research permit.

    • Access restrictions:

      20 years

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Electronic catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Lekaukau, T.M.. A Guide to the Public Archives of Botswana, Vol. 1, 1885-1965. Gabarone: Botswana National Archives, 1984.