Archival Significance
A technical standards document rather than a narrative or historical text. This Code set out binding safety requirements for electrical installations across the Central African region, requirements later carried forward into independent Rhodesia and Zimbabwe’s own technical standards regime.
Institutional Context
Issued by the General Council of the Standards Association of Central Africa. The item held is the Third Edition, 1982.
Content Summary
Sets out the required standards for the electrical wiring of premises across the region covered by the Association.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of technical and industrial standardisation history in Central Africa, and for tracing how colonial-era technical infrastructure carried forward into the postindependence period.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.