Abstract
In today’s highly contested political arena, public institutions need to efficiently and effectively
manage records in accordance with international standards (ISO 15489). This paper seeks to
analyse and examine the current status of the South African Strategic State Office records
management practice in order to determine the extent of alignment with international records
management standards and best practices. The qualitative research approach was applied to
collect data, descriptive content analysis analyse and interpret the findings. Primary data was
collected through the means of face to face semi-structured interviews and the respondents of
this study are the records managers in a South African Strategic State Office. The results suggest
that the South African Strategic State Office current records management practices are
inadequately aligned to the international records management standard and best practices
because the practices are below the set requirement.