Throughout her career, Ruth Weiss built up a collection of articles, manuscripts, biographical documents, professional correspondence, research material, photographs and audio recordings that she eventually entrusted to the archive of the 'Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Basel Africa Bibliographic library) in Basel. The collection consists of approximately eight meters of documents, 300 photographs and 180 audio tapes and cassettes. The parts of the collection received by BAB before November 2011 are catalogued and can be accessed through a finding aid.Melanie Boehi (comp.), Registratur PA.43. Ruth Weiss: Apartheid und Exil, Politik und Wirtschaft im südlichen Afrika: Teilsammlung der Journalistin und Autorin Ruth Weiss (*1924). (Apartheid and Exile, Politics and Economy in Southern Africa: The Papers and Manuscripts of the Journalist and Writer Ruth Weiss) (*1924). Basel 2012. 300 p., index. .Registratur PA.43 The photographs can be accessed via the BAB archive catalogue. The Ruth Weiss sound archive contains recordings of interviews made by Ruth Weiss, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s, with prominent actors from politics and economics but also ordinary people. The collection further contains recordings of press conferences, political events, independence celebrations, live music and readings. With support of Memoriav, the Swiss National Sound Archives digitalised the recordings which are now preserved as WAV and MP3 files. BAB published a finding aid for the Ruth Weiss sound archive that can be accessed online and in print.Hubler Baier, Susanne (comp.): Registratur TPA.43 Interviews und Tondokumente der Journalistin Ruth Weiss zu Apartheid und Exil, Politik und Wirtschaft im südlichen Afrika. 1970er bis 1990er Jahre / Interviews and Sound Documents by Journalist Ruth Weiss on Apartheid and Exile, Politics and Economy in Southern Africa. 1970s to 1990s
