Citizen archives, oral history, inclusive archives, sports archives, and heritage awareness in the grassroots communities

Managing Archives (ARM1503) and Developing and Collection of Information resources modules (AIS2605)

• Matshotshwane, J and Ngoepe, M. 2022. Transcending invisible lanes through inclusion of athletics memories in archival systems in South Africa. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 78(3): 1-12.
• Matshotshwane, J and Ngoepe, M. 2022. Golden bulb covered with a dark cloth: memories of undocumented athletes in South Africa. ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives 41, 1-18.
• Ngoepe, M and Matshotshwane, J. 2022. Athlete still marginalised 30 years after apartheid. Sowetan live. 19 September.
• Ngoepe, M and Matshotshwane, JR. 2024. One step at a time: towards inclusive memory through unmuting silenced athletics voices. (2024). Inclusão Social 16(1):1-12 https://doi.org/10.18225/inc.soc.v16i1.6399 [Published in three international languages]
• Ngoepe, M, Mbuyisa, S, Saurombe, N and Matshotshwane, J. 2024. Transforming a provincial archive through the collection of sports memories: experiences of the Gauteng province in South Africa. Collection and Curation 43(1):19-23.

• Joseph Matshotshwane. 2024. Global South international archiving, memory and methods conference at Makerere University, Kampala. “Local is lekker: The unrecorded accounts of the township sports games at the Gauteng Provincial Archives Repository”.
• Ramokone Sekwakwa and Joseph Matshotshwane. University of South Africa Department of Information Science Fourth Biennial UNILISA Conference. Collaborative research in reimagining the implementation of the recommendation by the researchers at the UL, Department of Information Studies: a case of UL library.
• Joseph Matshotshwane. The East and Southern Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (ESARBICA): Archives, Records, and Memory in Digital Spaces and Global Chaos in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Decolonisation of Archival materials: A case of Gauteng Provincial Archives Repository.
• Joseph Matshotshwane. 2023. The fourth triennial School of Arts Conference. Mining activities and cultural heritage of Mapela community in Mokopane, Limpopo Province, South Africa. 16^th – 20^th
• Joseph Matshotshwane. 2022 South African Society of Archivists Annual Hybrid Conference: Rethinking the movement to get moving archives and records in the era of disruption. Inclusion of citizen archives in Gauteng Provincial Archives: a case of township sports games.
• Joseph Matshotshwane. 2021 South African Society of Archivists Annual Hybrid Conference 2021 “Disrupt or be Disrupted: Archives, Records and Memory in the Covid-19 Era. Towards inclusive archives through the collection of sports athletics memories at Gauteng Provincial Archives Repository.
• Joseph Matshotshwane. 18th Annual National Oral History conference organised by the Oral History Association of South Africa. Towards inclusive archive through collection of athletics memories at Gauteng Provincial Archives”.

South African Society of Archives

• Management of land Records by Traditional Councils in South Africa
• Gauteng Provincial Decolonization of the Archives Community Project
• Management of Land Records by Traditional Councils in South Africa

Dr.  Matshotshwane is a young Ph.D. holder in Information Science interested in citizen archives, decolonization/Africanisation of archives, oral history, inclusive archives and sports archives. Dr. Matshotshwane also holds a Master's in Information Science and lectures at the University of South Africa (UNISA), specializing in Managing Archives (ARM1503) and Developing and Collecting Information resources modules (AIS2605). Joseph is a journal reviewer of the South African Journal of Library and Information Science and reviews master’s proposals at the departmental level. Joseph has also presented a paper at the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA) annual conference and the South African Society of Archives (SASA) (2021).