Zuid-Afrikahuis

In 1950 the library was invited by the foundation ZASM to move to their building on Keizersgracht 141 in Amsterdam, where office and classroom space was also provided for the university chair.

The goal of the NZAV and the foundation ZASM was to turn the property on Keizersgracht 141 into a South African cultural centre.

The focus of the collection is both older and contemporary South African language, literature, history, art, politics, theology, and social sciences.

[4] To maintain its focus on the education on South African literature, classes have been held every semester at the University of Amsterdam.

At the start of the new millennium the Zuid-Afrikahuis was able to reestablish the chair in Afrikaans language and literature at Amsterdam University which was abolished in the 1980s.