Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1987Volume Number: Vol. 10-42Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: Comrade President Samora Machel 1933-1986
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: For Peace, Freedom and Democracy
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-19Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: Mass Struggles and Sanctions have Opened Hospitals! The Same Combined Force will end Apartheid!
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-20Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story:Peace in Welkom Demands the Disarming on Killer Squads. The State must act to stop the spiral of racist violence
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-21Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: The State must also act to bring Peace to Natal in Accordance with the Groote Schuur Minute!
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-22Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: Nelson Mandela\'s World Tour in Defence of Sanctions
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-23Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: June 16th- South African Youth Day
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-24Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: South African Freedom Day- June 26th
ANC News Briefing ANC News Briefing
Publisher: African National Congress South Africa (ANC)Year: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 14-25Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Cover Story: Partial Lifting of the State of Emergency Does Not Meet the Demands of the Harare Declaration