Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      National Archives of Zimbabwe

    • Postal Address:

      Private Bag 7729, Causeway
      Harare
      Zimbabwe

    • Location:

      Borrowdale Road, Gunhill

    • Telephone:

      (263) 4-79-2741-4

    • Facsimile:

      (263) 4-792398

    • E-mail:

      Archives@gta.gov.zw

    • Director:

      Ivan Munhamu Murambiwa

    • Year founded:

      1935

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

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

    • Size:

      Over 50,000 linear metres of material, over 30,000 photographs

    • Holdings:

      The National Archives is the storehouse of the nation's documented history. The material contained here falls into two categories: unpublished material which consists of public archives, local government and statutory body archives, historical manuscripts, oral history material; and published material largely found in the National Reference Library. The material dates as far back as the 1880's to the present. There are Provincial Records Centres in Bulawayo, Gweru, Masvingo and Mutare which house semi-current records. We also have microfilm and some English translations of original portugese documents on Mozambique and Central Africa from the 16th Century AD

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English, Shona, Ndebele, Portugese

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      Researchers have to be 18 and above. Research permits are required for foreign researchers. These are applied for from the Research Council of Zimbabwe before coming to Zimbabwe. Access is free for Zimbabwean citizens 18 years and above. Foreign researchers have submit a research or temporary employment permit before access is granted.

    • Access restrictions:

      25 years closure period, processing backlog

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Card catalogs
      Guides
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

  • References:

    Rennie, J.K. "Materials on Zambian History in the Zimbabwe National Archives, Pt. 1 (1899-1924)." <I>History in Zambia</I> 11 (1981): 32-39.