Full text of the book. Berkeley : University of California Press,
c1993. 277 p. Series: (Perspectives on South Africa). Text is keyword
searchable. "Adam and Moodley offer a nonpartisan and controversial analysis
of the social conditions and political restraints operating...in
post-Apartheid South Africa, and propose options for a new South Africa and a
new foreign policy for all of Southern Africa. They reject purely racial
explanations for political violence....", discusses the Black Consciousness
Movement. http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/africa/adam
Describes a project to collect and publish primary documents illustrating
ties between African Americans and Africans in South Africa. Has an essay,
with photographs, on the "Historical Relationships of African Americans with
South Africa." Directed by Profs. Robert Edgar (Howard University) and David
Anthony (University of California, Santa Cruz). http://www.founders.howard.edu/reference/bob_edgar_site/index.html
Articles, diaries, myths and legends, events of the Anglo-Boer War
Centenary Celebrations 1999 - 2002, book descriptions, related web sites.
http://news.24.com/News24/Anglo_Boer_War/Boer_War_News/0,1357,2-53-54_834577,00.html
" formed by a...group of experts and historians to educate, .........and
to further their interest in that most fascinating of Victorian campaigns, the
Anglo Zulu War of 1879." Has the table of contents of its Journal
and a few full text articles, photographs, sells postcards. Based in Great
Britain. http://www.web-marketing.co.uk/anglozuluwar/
A data-bank on the Dutch East India Company trading posts and
settlements which will include paintings, drawings, maps, prints and
photographs.
"The first stage of the project involves the collation of illustrative data in
the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Rijksdienst voor de
Monumentenzorg in Zeist and the Algemeen Rijksarchief in The Hague. Stage 2
will include the collation of illustrative data relating to Dutch East India
Co. settlements in other collections in the Netherlands and abroad."
"The data-bank is primarily intended for storing information relating to VOC
settlements in Africa and Asia as well as illustrations of these
settlements. The AMH data-bank can also be adapted for supplementary modules:
for example, the Portuguese East India Company, embassies and expeditions,
Dutch monuments overseas from 1800 to the present day." http://www.art-culture.nl/amh/index.html
News articles, photographs, 1997 speech by Mandela on the 20th anniversary
of Biko's death, links to related sites. Maintained by Nathan Everett, History
Teacher, New Bedford High School, New Bedford, MA. http://home.ici.net/~nikos/biko1.html
"Astonishing court recordings of the last speech that Nelson Mandela made
before he was sentenced to life imprisonment can be heard for the first
time..." The audio recording excerpt from his speech requires sound card, Real
Player software, speaker or headphones. http://www.bl.uk/information/pr2001/08.html
"...a searchable online union database of finding aids to archival
collections." One can
search the entire database by keyword (South Africa, Mandela, etc.) to
retrieve some (but not all existing) inventories. Includes some of the finding
aids from the Hoover Institution Library and Green Library (Stanford
University), UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa
Barbara, and other California institutions. Has for ex. a 1995 finding aid for
the
South African Subject Collection, one of the South Africa related
collections in the Hoover Archives, Stanford University. Access can be slow.
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/FindingAids/
The Univ. of Cape Town's Research Unit for Archaeology, RESUNACT, focuses
on 19th century Cape Town. The work incorporates literature, architecture,
graphic art. A GIS database will be created, an occasional series is planned.
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/archaeology/
On events 21 March, 1985 in African township of Langa, outside of
Uitenhage. Paper presented at the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African
Studies (SERSAS) Spring 2000 Conference. [KF] http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/Catsam400.htm
The Commission maintains graves / memorials throughout the world for
members of the Commonwealth forces who died in World Wars I and II. Has
statistics on the number of Commonwealth war dead commemorated by country, for
ex. 50,000 + in Kenya, 8,000 + in South Africa, 5,000 + in Tanzania, 4,00 +
in Nigeria, 900+ in Eritrea, etc. Select "Global Commitment" then "breakdown
by country." http://www.cwgc.org/
On the use of computer hardware and software from the United States and
multi-national technology companies to aid apartheid. Prepared as a CS201
(Computers, Ethics, and Social Responsibility) Final Project by: Monal Chokshi,
Cale Carter, Deepak Gupta, Tove Martin, and Robert Allen. http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~cale/cs201/index.html
Locate historic Africa-related photographs and send them as
electronic postcards (when the site is working properly). Has
photographs of Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe. The Corbis photograph
collection is owned by Microsoft's Bill Gates. To use the photographs in a
publication, you need to pay a fee and fill out a long application providing
bank and trade references.
http://www.corbis.com/
"a digital library of primary sources [mainly from 1840 - 1900]
in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction."
Has scanned images of the full text of books and articles. A
search on Cecil Rhodes produces 102 matches in 57 journal
articles. Examples of article titles: The Ultimate Triumph of the
Boers, Briton and Boer in South Africa, Military Problems in
South Africa, A French General's Defense of the Boers, The Historical
Causes of the Present War in South Africa, Problems of the Transvaal,
The Responsibility of Cecil Rhodes. [KF]
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/index.html
Full text of the book (New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1911, 228 pp.)
Includes
- accounts of a young Winston Churchill's escape from a South African prison
during the Boer War (South African War)
- American Frederick Russell Burnham's participation in the 1st and 2nd
Matabele Uprisings, the Boer War, his killing of Umlimo, and brief mention of
his visits to Ashanti and East Africa. Part of Project Gutenberg Etext. [KF]
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=3029
Thirty-five periodicals covering the growth of opposition to apartheid
rule, 1960-1990, are being digitized for free access online. Has full text
articles of journals in gif format. Available are -
Black Sash, 1960-1990 - "The Black Sash was a journal concerned
with Human Right's and how they were abused during the Apartheid Era."
[Stanford Students Please Note. Stanford has Black Sash print issues
for 1959-1965,1967-1992, 1995 Jan.]
Clarion Call (Inkatha), 1983-1990 - "published
as the official journal of the KwaZulu Government and Inkatha" - "a liberation
movement committed to non-violence, peaceful change and a negotiated future
for South Africa".
[Stanford Students Note. Stanford has print issues of Clarion Call
for v.1:no.9 (1984:Apr.) - 1991:Nov.]
Pro Veritate (Christian Institute of Southern
Africa) , 1962-1977 - "relating to the Christian standpoint in the face of the
anti-apartheid regime."
Account (1999) by antiquarian bookdealer, Dr. Brody, of Dinuzulu's exile
on the island of St. Helena from early 1889 until late 1897.
http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/may99.html
The South African museum's site seeks "to ensure that the history and the
memory of forced removals in South Africa endures.....its mission is the
documentation and imaginative reconstruction of the history, labouring life
and cultural heritage of the District Six community." Has a background to the
museum, history of the church, etc. http://www.districtsix.co.za/
This web course provides a "brief introduction to South African politics
and political history using internet-based resources. Students can develop
research skills using the web through simple web-based exercises." Includes a
historical overview, reading lists, research exercises, two maps.
Dr. Drew is with the Dept. of
Politics, University of York, U.K.
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ad15/SApolitics.htm
"The Labyrinth of East London Lore" relates the history of a harbor town
in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Features Cybertrails, "a walk back into
history" which include historical analysis, primary sources, maps,
photographs. Has related articles from other sources, a detailed index.
Created by East London townspeople, sponsored by Rhodes Univ., East London
campus. Site maintained by Keith Tankard, Rhodes University.
http://www.ru.ac.za/el/history
Site for "sharing information to assist with genealogy research in
South Africa." Search on a name and locate South African archives
(Cape Archives, Transvaal Archive, etc.) with relevant information. Has links
to South African geneaology sites. http://www.e-family.co.za/
Full text of the book. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.
403 p. Series: (Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 53). "Bureaucracy and
Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was
enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of
violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great
and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native Affairs (DNA), which
had dwindled during the last years of the segregation regime, unexpectedly
revived and became the arrogant, authoritarian fortress of apartheid after
1948..." Discusses the Tomlinson Commission.
http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/africa/evans/@Generic__BookView
FOB-LIST - 2nd Anglo-Boer War
An open, unmoderated discussion list, in English, featuring the 2nd Anglo
Boer War (1899-1902), South Africa. Emphasis is on the Boers' position during
the war. Includes discussion of the present day situation of the Boers. There
is a separate topic for discussion in German. Archives are kept in monthly
files. Email for the listowner is: owner-FOB-LIST@home.ease.lsoft.com
To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to:
LISTSERV@home.ease.lsoft.com
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Full text. From the print volume. Covers aid to Africa,
German-U.S. coordination regarding aid, relations with
South Africa with regard to U.S. Strategic Materials and Commodities
Policy during the administration of President John F. Kennedy. (Dept. of State
Publication, 10229) [KF]
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/frus/frus61-63ix/index.html
Full text primary documents (letters, telegrams, memoranda, etc.)
regarding U.S. relations with Africa. Includes the entire continent plus
Ghana, the Horn of Africa, Nigeria, Southern Africa, South Africa,
Portuguese Africa, Rhodesia. (Dept. of State Publication 10627). [KF]
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxiv/index.html
Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955. On the
African National Congress web site.
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/charter.html
From Protest to Challenge, A Documentary History of African Politics
in South Africa, 1882-1990, Volume 5: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964-1979. By
Thomas G. Karis and Gail M. Gerhart . One page advertising the book.
http://www.bibim.com/fptoc/
In Afrikaans and English. "established to collect and preserve
genealogical source material in a scientific manner and conduct genealogical
research with a view to rendering a service and to publish genealogical
registers and family histories of all South African families." Has links to
many South African family web sites, a link to a South African
family coats-of-arms site, related genealogical sites, an extensive
library, an archive for genealogical data files of individual South
African genealogists in the GEDCOM format. Publishes a journal, Familia,
and sells its own publications. Based in Stellenbosch.
http://www.sun.ac.za/gisa/home.asp
An electronic discussion group on all aspects of South African history.
Includes job adverts, book reviews, conference announcements, information on
new computer software, websites, films, and a key word search engine for past
discussion topics. One can
subscribe online. The list address is:
H-SAfrica@h-net.msu.edu
Annotated guide to libraries, archives, museums and the types of records
they hold. Directories of researchers, mailing lists related to Southern
African genealogy / history, South African family home pages, guidelines for
conducting genealogy research, family surnames with dates of arrival in South
Africa or Namibia, etc. [KF] http://www.genealogy.co.za/
Heinz was a Congressman (1971-1976) and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
(1977-1991). Portions of his archival papers are keyword searchable and
available in full text from Carnegie Mellon University
Library. Included is information on international trade, Rhodesia, South
Africa, articles from newspapers, journals, his correspondence, etc. [KF]
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Guide/Heinz/
Judge Henderson is United States District Court Judge in San Francisco.
The interview, by Harry Kreisler, is part of the Institute of International
Studies, U.C. Berkeley, "Conversations with History" series. Includes being
interrogated by the police in 1985 during a
visit
to South Africa under apartheid.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Henderson/henderson-con7.html
Has an article, "How should the remains of Africa's early inhabitants be
treated? How can one satisfy conflicting claims – between descendants and
museums – to these priceless relics?" By Eddie Koch. From the South Africa
government's Department of Arts and Culture.
http://www.artsdiary.org.za/fr-history.html
Has the table of contents, abstracts and full text articles. Based at the
Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, Vanderbijlpark, South
Africa. http://journals.sabinet.co.za/hist/
Extensive essays are included on some sites. Has political cartoons from
the "Boer War."
Maintained by Jim Zwick.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/index.html
The site for the U.S. TV program has brief audio files (in the Speeches
section) of Christiaan N. Barnard, South African surgeon, describing
the first successful heart transplant and of F. W. de Klerk, former
South African president, speaking on the eve of Nelson Mandela's release from
prison. You'll need Real Player, sound card, and speakers.
http://www.historychannel.com/
History Departments
There are sites with extensive lists of history departments, their
faculty, courses, syllabi,etc. George Mason University has over 200
History Departments Around the
World home pages http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts/
Site maintained by the National Historical Society, a U.S.-based
membership organization of history enthusiasts. Mainly on U.S. history but has
an article from Military History magazine on the
1879 Anglo-Zulu War. Readers should seek other sources outside of this web
site such as books on these topics as well. One can search their articles
database. http://www.thehistorynet.com/
Includes land tenure history. Report prepared by a graduate student in a
Spatial Information Engineering
course at the University of Maine, "Cadastral and Land Information Systems."
http://www.umesve.maine.edu/Landtenure/hodsonSA.html
By the former head of the American Committee on Africa (New York City).
Part of the ANC's Historical
Documents site. http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/hous123.html
"explores the relationship between the South African culinary tradition
and the country's history in oppression." In the e-magazine, USA-SA.com.
Houston is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
http://www.usa-sa.com/contributors/houston/
Concerns the history of the French Huguenots who settled at the Cape of
Good Hope in the 17th century. They maintain the Huguenot Monument and Museum in Franschhoek. Has a list
of
Huguenot surnames, links to family pages such as the
Viljoen
Family. [KF] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/8140/begin-e.htm
The full text of Hyatt's 309 page book "The northward trek." Includes some
of the book's photographs, two maps (1888, 1890). Hyatt favored a British
South Africa. Discusses Bechuanaland, attitudes towards Africans,
missionaries, John Mackenzie, Cecil Rhodes, Lobengula, Umzilakazi, Khama,
Portugal, Mozambique, Gungunhana, etc. The Appendices include the 1891
Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, Ordinances made by the British South Africa Company,
1889 Message to Lobengula, the 1889 Charter of the British South Africa
Company. Site maintained by Ronald J. Wilson.
http://www.geocities.com/~portal-hyatt/nwtrek/tnt_intro.htm
Kadalie, Dr.
Clements, (1896 - 1951), "Champion of the African Workers" - Donal Brody
Profile (7 p.) by Dr. Brody (antiquarian bookseller) on the founder of the
Industrial and Commercial Worker's Union (ICU). Has photographs and excerpts
from letters with Arthur Creech-Jones, UK labor leader.
http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/april99.htm
"South African Ahmed Kathrada served 26 years as a political prisoner of
apartheid with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. He is now a
member of South Africa's Parliament." Interview, by Harry Kreisler, part of
the Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, "Conversations with
History" series. Includes a biography and information on the Ahmed Kathrada
Collection. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Kathrada/
Memoranda, (in the Presidential Papers of John Fitzgerald Kennedy at the
Kennedy Library in Boston, Mass.), by either President Kennedy or McGeorge
Bundy, Kennedy's National Security Advisor. Topics covered include South
Africa policy, CIA support of U.S. actions towards Portuguese territories in
Africa, U.S. arms in Angola, Soviet training of Ghanaian troops, Volta Dam in
Ghana, U.S. Fighter Aircraft in the Congo, Intelligence on Operations in the
Congo. [KF] http://www.jfklibrary.org/nsam.htm
Has scanned jpeg files of Zulu War pictures from the Illustrated
London News and The Graphic plus some articles (as jpegs) from
the Illustrated London News. Maintained by Ed Allen. Part of the
Colonial Wargaming Ring. http://tetrad.stanford.edu/hm/Colonials.html
"...published annually by the University of the Western Cape Institute for
Historical Research. It is a forum for the presentation and discussion of
original research relating primarily to Cape history from pre-colonial times
to the present." Has the table of contents.
http://www.uwc.ac.za/arts/ihr/kronos/index.html
Inventory of the Leo Kuper Papers microfilmed by CAMP, the
Cooperative Africana Microform Project, based at the Center for Research
Libraries in Chicago. Kuper, a South African sociologist, conducted interviews
with over 100 South African black professionals in the 1950s/early 1960s for
the book, An African Bourgeoisie. The microfilm may be borrowed from
CAMP.
http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/info/camp/kuper.htm
Site about Thomas Edison's motion pictures, sound recordings, and related
materials. Included are short, not terribly sharp, videos of the South
African War, 1899-1902 (a Red Cross ambulance, the Battle of Mafeking,
English lancers charging, Capture of Boer battery by British, Charge of Boer
cavalry, Boers bringing in British prisoners, 2nd Special Service Battalion,
Canadian Infantry--parade), Gold and diamond mines of South Africa.
Copies of tapes
may be purchased. [KF] http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
A page on the film, the "story of [a] Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from
South Africa, and then exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and idea
of 'The Hottentot Venus' swept through British popular culture. A court battle
waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed." From First
Run/Icarus Films, New York, NY. http://www.frif.com/new99/hottento.html
"This article examines a little-known aspect of Australia's relations with
South Africa via a case study of the visit of eminent Australian historian
Fred Alexander (1899-1996) to South Africa in 1949-50; a time of the dawn of
the apartheid system and the `changing of the guard' in Australian
politics...it throws new light on intellectual contacts between the two
countries, the response of historians to the onset of apartheid, and the
nature of Australian historiography." From the Electronic Journal of
Australian and New Zealand History, Nov. 1999.
http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/article/limb.htm
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch
of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the
Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent,
Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. (London, 1857). Full-text
of the book. Part of Project Gutenberg. Includes an 1858 review of the book in
Harper's Magazine. [KF] http://ubh.tripod.com/etext/liv0.htm
About Dr Wouter Basson who headed a 1980s effort to "develop chemical and
biological weapons for the white-minority regime." Has full text articles,
transcripts from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, political cartoons,
etc. http://home.global.co.za/~jrad/index.html
Article (1998) with photographs (Banda and Vorster) by Dr. Brody,
antiquarian book seller, on the former Malawi President's (Hastings Banda)
South Africa policy.
http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/april98.html
Site of South African writer, Mark Mathabane, author of "Kaffir Boy,"
"Kaffir Boy in American," "African Women," and "Love in Black and White." Has
the full text of opening chapters of his books. Describes life in
Alexandra township under apartheid. Mathabane lives in North Carolina
and is available to speak on campuses, etc. http://mathabane.com/
About the African National Congress camp, in Tanzania,
where young, mostly black, South Africans got their schooling. The web site is
"a virtual reunion of the South African (ANC) exile community that existed in
the 80's in Mazimbu Tanzania......The former inhabitants of Mazimbu are
invited to send in their stories, memories and photographs." Includes
photographs from the 1980s (the Secondary School SOMAFCO, etc.), a diary by a
Dutch volunteer couple who lived in Mazimbu from 1983 till 1986,
http://www.mazimbu.com/
Memory and History : Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiving in the life of
the Nation and the Community, An International Conference. Has papers
online (some are in French). Topics include African Modes of
Self-Writing, Robben Island, the South African War, 1899-1902, the Creole
experience (Mauritius), Afrikaner identity, a memory exhibit for the
Lubumbashi Museum, les Luba, Rwanda, Burundi, urban women in Lubumbashi, Women
and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, curriculum
development and History textbooks in South Africa after 1994, Ubuntu, the
killing of Hintsa, Shaka, Ethiopia, etc. Writers wishing to cite the content
of papers in their own work need to request permission from the paper authors.
http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/franco/CAPE1/PROGRAM.HTM
The magazine, Mother Jones, honored 8 photographers' work June 5,
1997. Winners included Peter Magubane of South Africa for his "Images
of the Soweto Student Uprising, 1976".
http://motherjones.com/photofund/
In Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Carries out research in archaeology,
historical anthropology, rock art studies. Current historical research
includes the role of the UDF in the 1950s-1980s and the role of Indian
women in the struggle. Its library holds a significant photograph
collection. http://www.linx.co.za/natalmus/
A team from the U.S., Botswana, and South Africa hunt for fossils
in Botswana, Sept.-Oct. 1998. How to interpret findings, why is
Africa a hotspot for hominid development, classroom ideas for K-12, links to
related sites. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/outpost/
An independent research institute and library in Washington, D.C. which
collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of
Information Act, FOIA. Their holdings include press clippings on Africa and a
Horn of Africa refugees (1979-1984) collection. Their microfiche collection,
South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989 (2,500
documents on 439 microfiche, cost U.S. $3,900). The collection is held by at
least 23 U.S. libraries and Oxford U.; check RLIN or the OCLC World Catalog
for a list of these. The site provides information on
how to use the
FOIA. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/
Their Digital National
Security Archives has full text documents, mainly one page
each, in Adobe PDF format, on U.S. foreign relations. Includes memos, cables
re Angola, military training by South Africa for the Contras, African reaction
to the Cuban missile crisis, Zambia, Mozambique, etc." The National Security
Archive is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, D.C.,
which provides .... public access to declassified government documents
obtained through extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)."
http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/
Has online images of 77 posters, part of a larger collection. Posters are
from anti-apartheid movements, South Africa under apartheid, the 1994 South
African election and Lusophone / Southern Africa liberation movements.
http://www.library.nwu.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html
Nuafrica
Interdisciplinary discussion on African history including South African
issues. List hosted by Michigan State and the History Dept., Univ. of Natal
(Durban). The list owner is Keith Breckenridge (breckenr@mtb.und.ac.za)
To Subscribe, send e-mail to:
listserv@h-net.msu.edu
In the message area put: sub nuafrica YourFirstName LastName
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Bibliography which includes chapters in books, articles, monographs,
bibliographies. Topics include ANC Foreign Policy in Exile, South Africa and
the OAU, cooperation, peacekeeping, etc. Vol. 6, 2001 of the Electronic
Journal of Africana Bibliography, University of Iowa Libraries.
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/ejab/6/index.html
Its Gallery
has contemporary and historical photographs. Licenses photographs of the late
South African photographer,
Ken Oosterbroek
(1962-1994), Drum magazine / Baileys African History Archive, and
photographs from South Africa's Sowetan newspaper.
http://picturenet.africa.com/home.html
Full text of the book (4th ed. Kimberley, South Africa, 1916?). Plaatje
was "First Secretary-General of the South African Native Congress (forerunner
of the ANC), and author of "Mhudi", "generally considered the first
novel written by a black South African." http://www.anc.org.za/books/nlife.htm
Full text of the book, Commando; a Boer journal of the Boer War
(probably 1929). "Deneys Reitz served in the Boer forces during the South
African War and, after fighting to the bitter end, chose exile in Madagascar
rather than life under the British flag." Includes a Preface by General J.C.
Smuts who wrote "We have not only an unforgettable picture of mobile guerrilla
warfare, but also an accurate description of life among the Boer forces." [KF]
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/reitzd/commando/index.htm
Has a project
Social History of Christianity in South Africa "undertaken initially
by John de Gruchy and Charles Villa-Vicencio...."
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/projects/sochist/index.htm
Covers history from the 1600s to the 1900s, apartheid, prisoners, Nelson
Mandela, flora/fauna, tour information, related links.
http://www.freedom.co.za/
Robben Island was established as a National Monument and a National Museum
by the Cabinet of the South African Government September 1996. Information on
tours, history, exhibitions, Artists-in-Residency programme, the geology, etc.
http://www.robben-island.org.za/
Justice Sachs is a member of the South African Constitutional Court. He is
"a leader in the struggle for human rights in South Africa and [was] a freedom
fighter in the African National Congress." Interview, by Harry Kreisler, part
of the Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley, "Conversations with
History" series. Includes an e-mail exchange with students from Marin Academy
(high school) in San Rafael, CA; April of 2000.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Sachs/sachs-con0.html
Full text article on historical exhibitions and oral history in the new
South Africa. From the Radical Historians Newsletter (Somerville, MA),
No. 73, Nov. 1995. 5 pages. http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/skotnes.htm
Contents include (from book sources) the Cape slave code of 1754, social
conditions of slaves at the Cape, a timeline of slavery at the Cape, an
extensive bibliography, scholars of slave history, etc. Hosted on the
Dutch East India Company website of
the University of Ghent (Belgium).Site by Mogamat G Kamedien.
http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/
Usenet discussion group on the genealogy and family history of
African-ancestored people world-wide. Formed October 1995. Most recent
messages concern African-American genealogy. Others were on South African
genealogy.
Brief history of South Africa (for young people) from European settlement
to the post independence establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. Site by the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting to promote the video series, The Africans. Has a series
of quizes which cannot be answered from information on the site alone. Has
very useful
links to
related South African history web sites.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/southafrica/
Has a brief
South African history section from the South Africa Yearbook
(Pretoria: Government Communications (GCIS).
http://usaembassy.southafrica.net/YearBook1999/History/history.htm
The History section of the South African government's annual South Africa Yearbook
(Pretoria: Government Communications (GCIS) is available, full text. Written
by T. R. H. Davenport, Emeritus Prof. of History, Rhodes University and
published by the South African Communication Service, Pretoria. [KF]
http://www.gov.za/yearbook/1998/index.html
The full text of the long established annual reference work (formally
called South Africa Official Yearbook). Published by the South African
Communication Service, Pretoria. Reproduces each chapter of the book (except
for sports). The history chapter is by Prof. T. R. H. Davenport of UCT. The
Dawn of a new era chapter covers the 1994 election, constitution, new
government, biogs of Mandela, Mbeki and de Klerk. [KF]
http://www.sacs.org.za/level5/yearb95.htm
"An example of classes and types of British official documents in the
Stanford libraries for the study of African colonial history." Uses examples
of British documents to illustrate locating sources for research. Prepared by
John Rawlings, Stanford Univ. Libraries' Africa Bibliographer.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/boers.html
"information relating to the relatively recent history of the South
African Defence Force." Has full text selections of personal
accounts of South African military personnel who served in Angola,
Namibia, and elsewhere. Maintained by Paul Anderson. Part of the
South African Military Web Ring. [KF]
http://www.geocities.com/odjobman/index.htm
The site maintained by the African National Congress has the full-text of
primary documents - speeches by Albert J. Lutuli, Oliver Tambo, Mandela, G. M.
Naicker, Yusuf Dadoo, Olof Palme, documents from Umkhonto we Sizwe, the OAU
and the UN, documents concerning women in the struggle, the text of leaflet
bomb fliers, biographies of leaders, etc.
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/
Bi-annual journal of the South African Historical Society. Has the table
of contents. Publishes articles on southern African history and 'A Select
Bibliography of South African History.' http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~safrica/
"The central representative institution of the community is the South
African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD), to which most of the country's
Hebrew congregations, Jewish societies and institutions are affiliated."
Includes a short history of early Jewish Johannesburg, etc.
http://www.shemayisrael.co.il/sa/sajbd/index.htm
Its Research Centre houses the library of the "John H Marsh Maritime
Collection with its several hundred shipping reference books going back to the
1800's." Has information on the Maritime Archaeology Society South Africa
"dedicated to the preservation of South Africa's Shipwreck heritage;"
the Museum has the largest collection of shipmodels in Southern Africa. [KF]
http://maritimemuseum.ac.za/
Founded in 1966 by a "group of amateur historians." Has issues of the
national and branch newsletters from 1997, the tables of contents of Military History
Journal and the full text of selected articles, and
links to Southern African military history web sites. Pub. by the South
African National Museum of Military History in assoc. with the Society.
http://rapidttp.com/milhist/
Features on rock
paintings, terracotta heads, a
history of the
museum, the second oldest scientific institute in South Africa.
http://www.museums.org.za/sam/index.htm
Has a chronology of the war (cited in early histories as the Anglo-Boer
War), biographies of major figures, many photos and maps, and more. Sources
are often given. Has links to related sites. Pages by Robert Wotton, doing an
honours degree at the University of Queensland.
http://www.uq.edu.au/~zzrwotto
"SA-SIG provides information of interest to those researching Jewish
family history in the communities of South Africa, Lesotho (Basutoland),
Botswana (Bechuanaland), Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia), Zambia (Northern
Rhodesia), Swaziland, Moçambique and the former Belgian Congo." Has full text
articles, sources for research, discussion forum, book list, the
1929 South African
Jewish Year Book Database of biographies, etc.
http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica
Quarterly on the cultural politics of Southern Africa. Has the tables of
contents of issues and a selection of articles and reviews covering
autobiography, cultural studies, diaries, fiction, history, essays,
literature, politics.
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/sarb/
Contact:
robert.turrell@humboldt.uni-ulm.de
Review by Rob Turrell of "The South African War 1899-1902" by Bill Nasson
(London: Arnold, 1999) and "Uyadele Wen'osalapho: Black Participation in the
War" by Bill Nasson (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1999). In SARB, December 1999.
http://www.uni-ulm.de/~rturrell/sarobnewhtml/nasson.html
Two page history
of South Africa. From the site of Study Abroad in South Africa. Includes short
pages on politics, culture, arts, geography. Information from a book which can
be ordered. Co-published by the International Education Association of South
Africa (IEASA) and Artworks Publishing, Durban, South Africa.
http://www.studysa.co.za/about/history.html
Pages by Marius Loots describe the excavations at Thulamela located in
Kruger National Park. Artifacts from Thulamela date from c.1240 AD to 1630 AD.
Thulamela is linked with Great Zimbabwe. Photos include gold jewelry and
skeletons excavated by Sidney Miller and, 3 years later, by the Univ. of
Pretoria, Dept. of Anatomy. There is one page on Mapungubwe, another gold site
in South Africa.
http://www.geocities.com/athens/6398/
Includes two posters of the 1970s and 80s from former East Germany
expressing its solidarity with the
South African anti-apartheid struggle. Posters are from the Hoover
Institution Archives, Stanford University. Exhibit by Elizabeth Schwartz and
Diana T. Swartz for the Stanford Libraries Germanic Collection.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/german/exhibit/GDRposters/developing.html
Full text article about an ANC prison camp and a 1984 internal
mutiny within the ANC. 25 pp. Originally published in Searchlight
South Africa (London). No.5, July 1990. Includes a 1990 "Open letter to
Nelson Mandela from Ex-ANC Detainees." On the web site of the London print
journal, Revolutionary
History.
http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/supplem/Hirson/Quadro.html
"specialises principally in contemporary material relating to the Anglo
Boer War, together with material on the Anglo Zulu War, the Kaffir Wars and
related Afrikaner. " Has a mailing list. Owned by Shaun Walbridge, based in
Plymouth, England. http://www.boer-war-books.com/home.htm
In English and French. About the "richness, the diversity, and the
fragility" of Africa's cultural heritage. Includes
mission
settlements in South Africa. Lists World Heritage sites in Africa. Part of
the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. [KF]
http://www.unesco.org/whc/exhibits/afr_rev/toc.htm
1993-1999, .5 linear feet. Materials collected by University staff in
prepartion for the UConn-ANC Partnership. "The governing party since 1994, the
ANC has established its archives at the University of Fort Hare, an
historically Black institution. In March 1999, the ANC and the University of
Connecticut signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing a partnership to
foster training assistance and cooperation." See the Container Listing.
Includes film of the A. B. Xuma Papers and O.R. Tambo Papers.
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/findaids/ANC/collectiondesc.htm
The "Center is a unique archive and museum concerned with documenting the
'new' history of Kwa-Zulu Natal." Includes a biography section with
profiles especially of South African Indian nationalists. Has online exhibits
(Gandhi: Mahatma in the Making, 1893-1914 by K. Chetty, and Gandhi,
Lutuli, King, Mandela : a legacy for the future.) Has an index to
Fiat Lux, a journal published by the Department of Indian Affairs.
[KF] http://scnc.udw.ac.za/doc/home/Index.html
An inventory of the Ruth First Papers, deposited at the Institute, is
available in MS Word. Covers the period 1889-1991 [predominantly 1946-1982].
Includes a biography of Ruth First. First was "one of the foremost campaigners
against the South African apartheid regime. The papers include personal
material relating to her family life in South Africa and later in England, her
writing and newspaper editorships..." Also included are letters between First
and her husband, Joe Slovo, their family and fellow activists, material from
her research into the welfare of Mozambican miners in South Africa, tapes and
transcripts of interviews of friends of Ruth First.
http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/archives/first.html
"some 30,000 images, [by Dr Killie Campbell] mainly black and white and
sepia toned prints, a rich visual documentation of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth century, mainly of Natal and Zululand."
Includes Bambata Rebellion 1906, Dinuzulu, King of
the Zulu, "early Durban, including street scenes,
architecture, harbour and environs in late nineteenth century," Cape Town;
Stellenbosch; Pietermaritzburg; King William's Town, Sheba Mine and town of
Barberton, Swaziland, raiilways, hunting scenes, military
groups, cultural dress and traditions of Northern Zululand and Tongaland. Part
of the Killie Campbell
Africana Library. [KF] http://khozi2.nu.ac.za/albumead.html
Has information on staff, grad students, the table of contents of the
latest issue of Journal of Natal and Zulu History, a history
module on South East Africa (from the Cape through the
Transkei, Natal, Zululand, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya),
undergraduate web presentations, etc.http://www.history.und.ac.za
Has photographs of C.T. Loram, School Inspector of Natal, Durham,
South Africa on a visit to Virginia. Over 100 photographs from various African
countries (Uganda, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Congo, etc.). Part of 4,000 photographs
of African-American educational scenes in the southern United States.
Photographs by Jackson Davis ca. 1915-1930 taken when he was with the General
Education Board in New York, New York.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/jdavis/
"The Institute for Historical Research (IHR) at the University of the
Western Cape initiates, conducts and promotes research and teaching of
Southern African history, particularly the history of the Cape, from
pre-colonial times to the present." http://www.uwc.ac.za/arts/ihr/index.htm
(New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1900, 284 p.) Full text of the
book. Montagu White was Consul-General of the South African Republic at
London. Includes some photographs. Includes an 1899 letter from P. J. Joubert,
a proclamation by M. T. Stein, official dispatches between Pres. Stein and the
British High Commissioner, Cape town, Sir Alfred Milner, Boer govt's reply to
Mr. Chamberlain, various conventions (Sand River 1852, etc.). Maintained by
Ronald J. Wilson, Spokane, Washington. [KF]
http://www.outspan.com/books/boers/boers_intro.htm
R. L. Watson, with the History Department, North Carolina Wesleyan
College, presented this paper at the Southeastern Regional Seminar in African
Studies (SERSAS) Spring 2000 Conference.
http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/Watson400.htm
Brief article on the life of the physician and President-General, African
National Congress, 1940-1949. Includes an account by the late Malawi
President, Hastings Banda on Xuma. In two parts, by Dr. Donal Brody,
antiquarian bookseller.
Part One: http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/august98.html Part Two:
http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/september98.html
The Council "supports and coordinates the study of Africa within Yale
University." The
Working Papers, online in Adobe PDF format, include -
"The Failure of Rural Segregation [Land Policies] In South Africa:
Black Land Ownership After The Natives Land Act, 1913-1936,"
by Harvey M. Feinberg, Department of History, Southern Connecticut State
University. October 2000.
