An A-Z of African Studies on the Internet 

South Africa--History

'Negotiating history, truth and reconciliation and globalisation: An analysis of the suppression of historical consciousness in South African schools as case study' by June Bam (2000) http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1300jb.html
   

A select online bibliography of South African History. A very useful guide by Mary-Lynne Sutite at the University of South Africa Library

Simons, Jack and Ray, CLASS & COLOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA 1850-1950 [full-text, currently without references]-- on ANC and socialist history http://www.anc.org.za/books/ccsa.html
   

South Africa: Annenberg/CPB "In this exhibit, you will learn about the history and events that have shaped South Africa's politics, culture, and people...."South Africa" is inspired by programs from The Africans http://www.learner.org/exhibits/southafrica/
   

South African History Archive Trust  is a community archive which strives to recapture our lost and neglected history and record history in the making http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/

South African Voices (University of Wisconsin) "researched and brought together by Professor Harold Scheub. Drawing on his fieldwork beginning in the late 1960s, this set of works explores the histories, oral storytelling traditions, and poems" in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouAfrVc/
 
 

South Africa--History--Abdullah Abdurahman

Abdurahman, Abdullah, 1872-1940 (South African political leader). From SA History Online. Includes Works; Addresses, Biography and Gallery Addresses Includes: SAY IT OUT LOUD - The AP0 Presidential Addresses and other Major Political Speeches 1906 - 1940 of DR ABDULLAH ABDURAHMAN COLLECTED, EDITED AND WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION by R.E. VAN DER ROSS The Western Cape Institute for Historical Research (IHR) University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1990 FOREWORD • PART I: BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION • PART II: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION • PART III: OTHER MAJOR ADDRESSES
http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/adhurahman/gallery/gallery.htm

South Africa--History--African Americans

African American Historical Linkages with South Africa , c1890-1965: a documentation project by Robert Edgar, David Anthony, and Robert Vinson, 
http://www.founders.howard.edu/reference/bob_edgar_site/index.html
 
 

South Africa--History--Afrikaners

The Story of the Boers Narrated by Their Own Leaders by Cornelius W. Van Der Hoogt. 285 pp. Harper & Brothers, New York. 1900. [full-text] 
http://www.geocities.com/~portal-hyatt/boers/boers_intro.htm

South Africa--History--Anti-apartheid movements

[Biko, Steve] "Asking for trouble": the South African state and the Cry Freedom saga by Jay Savage, 1989, Honours project, Centre for Cultural & Media Studies, University of Natal http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/freedom.htm
 

[EUROPE] ANTI-APARTHEID MOVEMENTS IN WESTERN EUROPE (With special reference to their role in support of United Nations action against apartheid) by Kader and Louise Asmal, in Notes and Documents, No. 4/74, March 1974 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/kader12.html

"The Heart of Hope - South Africa's Transition from Apartheid to Democracy" "An extensive collection of Padraig O'Malley's interviews conducted between 1985 and 2005 with many key personalities, who influenced South Africa's political history. The collection presents a broad range of perspectives on events in South Africa during and after the Apartheid period. There are also summaries of historical events by year as well as descriptions of the historical background to place events in context." by Padraig O'Malley. Valuable for the transition period 1990-. Also includes PDFs of sections of SAIRR annuals, theses, biographies. University of Massachusetts/University of the Western Cape/Robben Island. http://www.omalley.co.za/

 
'Mbeki backs R6m history project' by HOWARD BARRELL in Mail & Guardian, Sept 11, 2000 reports on business funding of a large project on the history of the anti-apartheid struggle.
http://www.mg.co.za/za/features/2000sep/11sep-history.html


United Democratic Front (South Africa)

20 YEARS SINCE THE LAUNCH OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT, Umrabulo Number 19, August 2003 Feature Theme. Legacy of the UDF. series of articles. http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo19/index.html

"THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT AND TOWNSHIP REVOLT " by Mark Swilling in Work in Progress, 9 September 1987 reprinted in Umrabulo August 2003 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo19/revolt.html

"THE UDF - A HISTORY OF THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT IN SOUTH AFRICA 1983-1991" (published by David Philip, Cape Town, 2000) by Jeremy Seekings Reviewed by Jeremy Cronin reprinted in Umrabulo August 2003 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pubs/umrabulo/umrabulo19/history.html

[USA] 'AMERICAN SUPPORTERS OF THE DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN' by George M. Houser 
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/campaigns/houser.html
 
 

The Alan Paton Centre and Struggle Archives therefore holds not only Alan Paton's literary works and related documents and manuscripts, but also papers pertaining to the Liberal Party and other institutions and organisations who contributed to the struggle  http://www.library.unp.ac.za/paton/

 

University of York (UK) Borthwick Institute, Southern African Archives (brief description only) includes papers of Patrick Duncan, Rev. William Grenfell and Archbishop Joot de Blank) and institutions such as government reports, companies and trade unions. For further details, see T. Lodge (comp.), A guide to the Southern African Archive in the University of York (1979) http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/bihr/holdings#safrica

South Africa--History--Bibliography

A select online bibliography of south african history (sobibsah) This is a major online database based on the comprehensive lists compiled by Mary-Lynne Suttie, Library, University of South Africa, over many years and reguarly published in the authortiative South African History Journal.

South Africa--History-Boer War see South Africa--History-South African War, 1899-1902
 
 

South Africa--History--Cape Town
 
 

"Cape Town and New Orleans: Some Comparisons" by Christopher Saunders http://www.safundi.com/articles/saunders.asp
   

District Six Museum (commemoratesthose  who fought against the forced removals and Group Areas Act in Cape Town's District Six) http://www.districtsix.co.za/  
 

University of Cape Town, Centre for African Studies. Library. Archives. Index to Correspondence http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/ 
 

South Africa--History--Conferences 

 
'ENCOUNTERS WITH PHOTOGRAPHY: Photographing people in southern Africa, 1860 to 1999' Conference Cape Town, 14-17 July 1999 http://www.museums.org.za/sam/conf/enc/
 
 

South Africa--History--Eastern Cape 

"The Labyrinth of East London Lore"  A website on East London urban history maintained by Keith Tankard http://www.ru.ac.za/el/history
   

'The Establishment of a `Native Vigilance Association' at East London (South Africa) to protect the interests of the Black Community against social manipulation by the local municipality, 1890-1923 ' By Keith Tankard http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers96/native.html
 
 

South Africa--History--KwaZulu Natal.

"The Great Battle: THE STORY OF AFRICAN RESISTANCE IN 1879" Sechaba - February 1979 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/isandhlwana.html

South Africa--History--Journals 
   

Kleio (Selected) full-text articles, and tables of contents http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/press/onjourn.html#polit  
 

Military History Journal . Indices and text from current (1998) and past 31 years issues http://www.rapidttp.com/milhist/journal.html
 
Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: "If you click on `periodicals' you will see a list of the `Sources of Struggle Literature' " http://khozi.und.ac.za/disa/
 
 

'Kicking the hornets' nest: a third view of the Cobbing controversy on the Mfecane / Difaqane' An address to the University of Botswana History Society, 16 March 1999 by Neil Parsons http://ubh.tripod.com/ac/mfec.htm

South Africa--History, Military (see also: South Africa--History-South African War, 1899-1902)

 

Military History Journal (The South African Military History Society Die Suid-Afrikaanse Krygshistoriese Vereeniging)--includes a good sampe of full-text articles from variou sissues. http://rapidttp.co.za/milhist/journal.html

South African Military History Society http://www.rapidttp.com/milhist/

South Africa--History--Reviews: Mail & Guardian  African History Book Reviews 
http://www.mg.co.za./mg/books/archive/history-archive.html

includes: BICKFORD-SMITH, VIVIAN - Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town; COETZER, OWEN - The Road to Infamy (1899-1900); DELIUS, PETER -- A Lion Amongst the Cattle; Selected essays on DURBAN - The People's City; LABAND, JOHN and KNIGHT, IAN - The Anglo-Zulu War: The War Correspondents; Anatomy of a Miracle/ Patti Waldmeir ;Sing The Beloved Country; Peter Hain ; All Sides Of The Story: A Grandstand View Of South Africa's Political Transition, Kaizer Nyatsumba ...
A History of South Africa by Frank Welsh http://www.mg.co.za/mg/books/9902/990209-south.html
 
 

ANC Historical Documents http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/
 
 

Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: http://disa.nu.ac.za/

"The first phase of the DISA project, South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-Apartheid Periodicals, 1960-1994, has made accessible online to scholars and researchers worldwide South African serial literature of high socio-political interest that would otherwise be difficult to locate and use. Forty periodical titles have been selected from a very comprehensive list, with a view to presenting not only a wide spectrum of political views published during these years, but also a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion, health, culture, and gender. Publications reflecting both black and white viewpoints are included, and an attempt has been made to represent distinctive regional variations. Some of the publications were short-lived and, by necessity, of limited distribution. These factors lend a certain rarity value in that the publications are generally not well represented in research collections. " 
 

Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre at the University of Durban-Westville
http://scnc.udw.ac.za/ A major collection, with online audio-visual and text resources. "The objective of the archival division is to provide an archival service with a national, international and institutional outlook. ... While the archives have a very large Indian collection, its extended scope ... will include a repository on the Kwa-Zulu-Natal regional history, the history of resistance in the Province to include the records of individuals, families, organisations and institutions....Of particular interest are the records of the Indentured Indian Immigrant records...This facility to trace one's Heritage and family is unique in the country. "

"The Heart of Hope - South Africa's Transition from Apartheid to Democracy" "An extensive collection of Padraig O'Malley's interviews conducted between 1985 and 2005 with many key personalities, who influenced South Africa's political history. The collection presents a broad range of perspectives on events in South Africa during and after the Apartheid period. There are also summaries of historical events by year as well as descriptions of the historical background to place events in context." by Padraig O'Malley. Valuable for the transition period 1990-. Also includes PDFs of sections of SAIRR annuals, theses, biographies. University of Massachusetts/University of the Western Cape/Robben Island. http://www.omalley.co.za/

SA History Online. A rich and rapidly growing store of historical resources. http://www.sahistory.org.za

South African History Archive Trust http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/    

University of Cape Town, Centre for African Studies. Library. Archives. Index to Correspondence http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss/
 
 

UConn-ANC Partnership http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~wwwanc/index.html

University of Fort Hare Liberation Archive at the University of Fort Hare http://www.liberation.org.za/

"In 1990 when the liberation organisations of South Africa were unbanned it was not surprising that the leaders of all the resistance movements in South Africa decided that the University of Fort Hare should be earmarked as the repository of the "struggle history" of South Africa...In 1992 the University of Fort Hare was declared custodian to an immensely valuable collection of records and artifacts relating the to the fight against apartheid. The signatories to this agreement were the African National Congress (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC), Azanian Peoples' Organisation (AZAPO), Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) and the New Unity Movement (NUM)."

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. William Cullen Library. Historical Papers. Includes Archival Collections, Finding Aids http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/home.htm

South Africa--History-South African War, 1899-1902

Boer War Pages [documents compiled by University of Botswana History Dept.] includes 'Kantwa Yamaburu The Boer War' by Neil Parsons; Boer War in Botswana ; The battle of Derdepoort, 24 Nov 1899; Reports in The Times http://ubh.tripod.com/afhist/saw/saw0.htm

FOB-LIST: unmoderated discussion list on 2nd Anglo Boer War (1899-1902) Emphasis on the Boers' position during the war  LISTSERV@home.ease.lsoft.com

 

[listserv] ANGLOBOERWAR@MOO.SUN.AC.ZA (Discussion about the Anglo Boer War) 

The personal diary of “Private Walter Putland”; Published on the Website of the South African Military History Society Copyright Alan L Putland © December 2000. http://samilitaryhistory.org/diaputld.html

 

South African War Library is a virtual library and contains research data related to the South African War  [1899-1902]  http://www.sawvl.com

South Africa--History--South Africa--History--Soweto Uprsing, 1976

SAHO Special Project on Soweto http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/places/villages/gauteng/soweto/soweto-frameset.htm

 

The Soweto Uprising : extract from The Road To Democracy' in South Africa Volume 2 [1970 - 1980]) Published with permission of UNISA Press ). Also includes biographies, chronology, gallery. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/governence-projects/june16/extract-soweto-uprising.html#soweto

 

South Africa--History--Study and Teaching

Report on National History and Archaeology (Ndebele Report, December 2000) : includes:

Expert Panel calls for National History Commission (14 Dec 2000)

Remarks by Prof Kader Asmal on the submission of the Report by the History/Archaeology Panel (14 December 2000)

Report of the History/Archaeology Panel to the Minister of Education (14 December 2000)

Submission of the Report on National History and Archaeology

Rory Bester, 'At the edges of apartheid memory' paper to ENCOUNTERS WITHPHOTOGRAPHY: photographing people in southern Africa, 1860 to 1999 Conference, Cape Town, 14 to 17 July 1999 http://www.museums.org.za/sam/conf/enc/bester.htm
 

South African Journal on Human Rights http://www.law.wits.ac.za/sajhr/sajhr.html

South Africa--Identities

Post-apartheid social polarisations: The creation of sub-urban identities in Cape Town. by Beate Lohnert , Sophie Oldfield and Susan Parnell in The South African Geographical Journal Vol. 80 No. 2 September 1998 [full-text]
http://www.egs.uct.ac.za/sagj/Lohnert80(2).htm
 
 

South Africa--Indians--History

"THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1924-1946" by Essop Pahad. Full-text, D. Phil Thesis, University of Sussex, 1972. From SA History Online. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/sources/pahad_thesis/index.htm

'South Africa--Justice

 
Bibliography: Traditional justice and juvenile justice in South Africa 
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/criminology/articles/trad7.htm

South Africa--Labour (see also under: South Africa-Trade unions, and Labour and Trade Unions--South Africa)
 

Adler, Glenn and Eddie Webster - "Towards a Class Compromise in South Africa's 'Double Transition': Bargained Liberalisation and the Consolidation of Democracy" paper to 'Labor & Popular Struggles in the Global Economy', Columbia University,  November 1998 http://www.columbia.edu/itc/seminars/671/ 

 

 

Anarcho-syndicalism in South Africa http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7017/

Daily Labour News from South Africa, a service provided to COSATU by LabourStart, a project of Labour and Society International. http://www.labourstart.org/southafrica/
 

Department of Labour - South Africa
 
 

'Labour and the Economy' texts and links by CASE: includes

• Performance audit of the Ntsika Enterprise Promotion Agency. June 2000

 
• Mid-term review of the South African Labour Development Trust (SALDT). March 2000

 
• 'Voting with their feet': a study of cross-border migration into South Africa. July 1998

 
• "Jobs for all": a framework for an equitable job creation strategy. July 1998.

 http://case.org.za/htm/labour.htm
 
 

LabourNet  "provides South African employers with indispensible resources for mastering the diverse challenges of Industrial Relations...you will have access to research facilities; all relevant labour legislation and rules; a precedent bank of draft applications and agreements..." http://www.labournet.co.za/

Labour-news reports http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37a/index.html

 

NALEDI (National Labour & Economic Development Institute) of South Africa  an organisation carrying out labour and economic research, an initiative of COSATU http://www.naledi.org.za/
 

National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) of South Africa. Represents organised labour, government, organised business and community http://www.nedlac.org.za/index.html
 

Restructuring the South African Labour Market
Report of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Labour Market Policy 1996 http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/commissions/fintoc.html
 
 

(see also under: Labour and Trade Unions--South Africa)
 
 

African Mine Workers' Strike, 1946: A Distant Clap of Thunder". Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike. A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers, 1986; The African Miners' Strike of 1946, by M. P. Naicker, from "Notes and Documents", 21/76, Sep 1976
 

[Congress of South African Trade Unions] Cosatu--History] 

Shopsteward (Volume 4. No.6 - December 1995) special COSATU 10th anniversary edition http://www.cosatu.org.za/shop/shop0406.html  
 

Kadalie, Clements, (1896 - 1951), "Champion of the African Workers" - Donal Brody  http://www.greatepicbooks.com/epics/april99.htm  
 

LabourHistory.org.za Includes: History > Timeline > Posters | Studies > Research Papers | Literature | Archive | Cultural Info | Women. Texts include: * Durban Strikes Booklet * May Day Booklet * The 1922 White Mineworkers Strike Booklet * The ICU Booklet http://www.labourhistory.org.za/frames.htm


Limb, Peter " Alliance Strengthened or Diminished? Relationships between Labour & African Nationalist/Liberation Movements in Southern Africa"  paper from "Dynamics of Change in Southern Africa" conference, 1992:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37/069.html#TOC
 

Luckhardt, Ken and Brenda Wall - "Organize or Starve: the History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions" full text: London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1980 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/congress/sactu/organsta00.html 

Luckhardt, Ken and Brenda Wall - "Working for Freedom: Black Trade Union Development in South Africa Throughout the 1970s"  full-text book, Geneva, 1981 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/congress/sactu/wff1.htm
 

Naicker, M.P., THE AFRICAN MINERS' STRIKE of 1946 "Notes and Documents" (U.N.) 21 1976 http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/misc/miners.html

Baruch Hirson, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NON-EUROPEAN UNITY MOVEMENT. - AN INSIDER'S VIEW Analysis of small left and black nationalist movement in the 1940s-80s. http://www.revolutionary-history.co.uk/supplem/Hirson/neum.html
   

South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) historical documents: 

• Declaration of Principles Adopted at the Foundation Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, on 5 March 1955 
• Organize ... or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. full-text book by Brenda Wall and Ken Luckhardt, 1980 
• Working For Freedom. Black trade union development in South Africa throughout the 1970s full-text book by Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Wall, Geneva 1981 
• SACTU Celebrates its 30th Annivesary. New Year statement, 1985 
• Communiqué of the Meeting between the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the African National Congress, 5-6 March 1986 
• Statement from COSATU-SACTU Consultative meeting 1990 
• "Freedom in our Lifetime". full-text book by Archie Sibeko (Zola Zembe), 1996.
  
  
  

The Story of Jane G (Cape Actino League, 1989). http://www.labourhistory.org.za/new_docs/jane_g.swf [Flash version]

South African--Land rights
 

Ruth Beukman "Land Rights and the Environment: Issues in 'urban' settlements in the Former Homelands of South Africa"  Paper to Conference, 'South to South:urban-environmental policies & politics in Brazil & South Africa', London 25-26 March 1999 [full-text document] http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/south.html

South Africa--Language Policy 

Phaswane Mpe, 'Language policy and African language publishing in South Africa' Bellagio Publishing Newsletter 25, 1999 http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/bell/newsletters/News25/article12.htm  

'South Africa's language policy: Controlled status enhancement and reduction' by William W. Bostock (2000) http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1300wban.html

South Africa--Law 
 

Butterworths South Africa 
http://www.butterworths.co.za/

South African Magisterial Districts: http://www.butterworths.co.za/lis/magmap.htm

Commercial law in South Africa:  "reporting South African judgments of interest to commercial lawyers,  summarising all the reported commercial judgments handed down in these courts,  presenting subject-area reviews of various aspects of commercial law. " http://home.global.co.za/~lawpub/
 
 

Juta & Co.  http://www.juta.co.za/

Jutastat  (electronic databases)  http://www.Jutastat.com/

 

University of the Witwatersrand Law Dept. http://www.law.wits.ac.za/

South Africa--Links 

http://minotaur.marques.co.za/index.htm

http://crawford.onwe.co.za/index.htm

South Africa--Literature  

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa http://www.und.ac.za/und/english/curwrit/
 

English in Africa INDEX Volumes 1-26, 1974–Oct 1999 http://www.rhodes.ac.za/affiliates/isea/eia/authors.htm
   

[links] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/southafrica/rsalit.html
 
 
'"Something terrible happened": Nadine Gordimer's The house gun and the politics of violence and recovery in post-apartheid South Africa' by Sue Kossew (2000) http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1300sk.html
   

South African literature newsgroup, hosted by Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Languages, University of Durban-Westville "to ... exchange ideas about South African literature, inform one another of conferences, new books and debates in the discipline" To subscribe majordomo@udw.ac.za: subscribe salit@udw.ac.za
 
 Southern African Review of Books, 'the finest review journal' in Southern Africa:  http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/sarb/
   

'A view from the ground: The new South Africa in its own literature' by Kristof Haavik  http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1300kh.html
   

'Voices from the past: The depiction of the khoisan in contemporary Afrikaans historical novels' by Luc Renders  http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1300lr.html
 
 

'South African Television: from Activism to Affirmation after 1994' by Arnold Shepperson 1997 Cultural & Media Studies, Durban  http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/acttoaff.htm
 
 

'The Visual Role of 'the Rubicons' as Part of the Reform Strategy: the Beginning of the End of Apartheid' by D Daran, A Chetty, J Prinsloo & M. Allison-Broomhead paper to 1986 Conference of Association of Sociology in Southern Africa 
http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/rubicon.htm

South Africa--Mines and Mining Companies

Chamber of Mines of South Africa http://www.bullion.org.za/

South Africa--Museums

Apartheid Museum http://www.apartheidmuseum.org/

District Six Museum http://www.districtsix.co.za/

Irma Stern Museum (Cape Town; University of Cape Town) http://www.irmastern.co.za/

Iziko Museum "Iziko Museums of Cape Town are African museums of excellence that empower and inspire all people to celebrate and respect our diverse heritage." http://www.museums.org.za/iziko/

Includes:

south african museum planetarium westcoast fossil park
s.a. national gallery michaelis collection natale labia collection
rust en vreugd koopmans-de wet house bertram house slave lodge s.a. maritime museum sas somerset groot constantia
bo-kaap museum william fehr collection

Robben Island Museum http://www.robben-island.org.za/

South African Museums Association http://samaweb.org.za

South Africa --Muslims

Media Review Network aims to improve understanding about Muslims in South Africa 

South Africa--News and Newspapers

ANC Today "weekly online publication of the African National Congress, providing up-to-the-minute information on the programmes, perspectives and policies of the movement on current national and international issues. Among its regular features is a column by ANC President Thabo Mbeki" http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/index.html.
 
 

Die Beeld (Johannesburg) http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Home/0,4125,,00.html

 

Die Burger http://www.dieburger.com/
 
 

Business Day http://www.bday.co.za/
 
 

Cape Argus  http://www.capeargus.co.za/


Cape Times http://www.capetimes.co.za/
 

Channel Africa (South African Broadcasting Corporation) http://www.channelafrica.org

City Press http://www.news24.com/City_Press/Home/

Daily Dispatch (East London) http://www.dispatch.co.za/

Daily News (Durban) http://www.dailynews.co.za/

 

Eikestad Nuus (Stellenbosch) http://www.stellenboschvillage.com/
 
 

Financial Mail http://free.financialmail.co.za/ 

 

Ilanga [Zulu language] http://www.ilanganews.co.za/

 

History: 9 full-text images of the first three issues of Ilanga, published in 1903: http://www.ilanganews.co.za/history

Independent Online  http://www.int.iol.co.za/

IndyMedia South Africa 1. "We strive to provide an information infrastructure for people and opinions who do not have access to the airwaves, tools and resources of corporate media. This includes audio, video, photography, internet distribution and any other communication medium. 2. We support local, regional and global struggles against exploitation and oppression. 3. We function as a non-commercial, non-corporate, anti-capitalist collective." http://southafrica.indymedia.org

Isolezwe (Zulu) http://www.isolezwe.co.za/

 

Mail & Guardian [previously Weekly Mail],  http://www.mg.co.za/mg/

 

[about] Lilian Ringera. (1999). 'Production and Reading Processes and the Online Newspaper: the electronic Mail and Guardian as hypertext.' Masters Coursework Dissertation http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/re2.htm

 

Mercury (Durban) http://www.themercury.co.za/

 

[New Nation]

 

[about] 'Corporate monopoly in the South African print media: Implications for the alternative press with particular reference to New Nation' by Bhekizulu Mpofu  1996 MA, University of Natal, Durban, http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/mpofu.htm
 
 

'[about] New Nation: Unmasking Tradition, Family, Property's media maneuver'   Keyan Tomaselli, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, Ansuya Chetty, P Eric Louw.  University of Natal  1988  http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/tfp.htm

 

News24.com http://www.news24.com

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Pretoria News http://www.pretorianews.co.za/

 

SouthScan "South African and regional policy issues"

 

Sowetan information, profile, history etc. but not full-text

 

Star (Johannesburg)  http://www.star.co.za/
 
 

Sunday Times http://www.suntimes.co.za/
 
 

The Teacher/Daily Mail and Guardian http://www.teacher.co.za/
 
 

Weekly Mail & Guardian  http://www.mg.co.za/mgoverview.html
 

Witness http://www.witness.co.za/

 

WOZA - South Africa's all-online five-day-a-week paper geared to business  http://www.woza.co.za/woza.htm

 

South Africa--News and Newspapers--History

 
Daniel Daran, Ansuya Chetty, Jeanne Prinsloo and Mark Allison-Broomhead, Paper to 1986 Conference of the Association of  Sociology in Southern Africa, University of Natal 
http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/rubicon.htm 'The Visual Role of 'the Rubicons' as Part of the Reform Strategy: The Beginning of the End of Apartheid'

Mpofu,Bhekizulu 'Corporate monopoly in the South African print media: Implications for the alternative press with particular reference to New Nation 1996 MA dissertation, Centre for Cultural and Media Studies, University of  Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/mpofu.htm  

Skjerdal,Terje 'Mapping the gap: South African journalists indisagreement over the Truth and Reconciliation Commission media hearings'November 1997 http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/trc.htm
   

Skjerdal, Terje Steinulfsson (2001 Masters dissertation, University of Natal)
Responsible Watchdogs? Normative Theories of the press in Post-Apartheid South Africa. A discourse analysis of 102 newspaper articles, 1996-99

L. and D. Switzer, THE BLACK PRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND LESOTHO a descriptive bibliographic guide to African, Coloured and Indian newspapers, newsletters and magazines 1836-1976 (1979) full-text PDF (large size, 4 MB) of the classic annotated bibliography http://icon.crl.edu/guides/Switzer.pdf

Tomaselli, 'New Nation: Unmasking Tradition, Family, Property's media maneuver' by: Keyan G Ruth E Teer-Tomaselli, Ansuya Chetty and P Eric Louw. Commissioned by: New Nation. University of Natal  1988  http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/tfp.htm

 

South Africa--News groups-Index 
http://minotaur.marques.co.za/SANewsgr.htm
 

South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy for high school/undergraduate students; video interviews with 45 South African activists, 140 topical interviews; original narratives/essays, raw video footage of resistance/repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and educational activities. Launced 2008. Preview video: overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/promo.php. (http://www.overcomingapartheid.msu.edu)

South Africa-Parliament-Hansard 
Hansard is the documentary record of the proceedings of parliament. The aim here is to provide the complete record of parliamentary debates since the start of democratic government in 1994 http://www.polity.org.za/govt/hansard/
 
 

South Africa--Parliament-- Parliamentary Papers 

http://www.polity.org.za/gnu/gnuindex.html

http://www.polity.org.za/govt/parliament/papers/
 
 

South Africa-Political history http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/37a/index.html
 
 

South Africa-Political Parties 

lists of all parties 

http://www.anc.org.za/lists/parties.html

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/za.html
 

African Christian Democratic Party http://www.acdp.org.za/

African National Congress (ANC): ruling party since 1994: a massive site with many full-text douemnts.   http://www.anc.org.za/ 
 

Communist Party  http://www.sacp.org.za/   

Congress of the People (COPE)
http://www.congressofthepeople.org.za/

Conservative party  http://www.kp.co.za/  
 

Democratic Alliance Includes news and e-newsletter. http://www.da.org.za/

Democratic Party http://www.dp.org.za/  
 

Freedom Front (FF) / Vryheidsfront (VF)  http://www.vryheidsfront.co.za/  
 

Green Party http://www.greenparty.org.za/  
 

Herstigte Nasionale Party van Suid Afrika  http://www.hnp.org.za/afrikaner/  
 

Independent Democrats (ID) http://www.id.org.za/

Inkatha Freedom Party  http://www.ifp.org.za/
 
 

National Party  http://www.natweb.co.za/
 
 

New National Party (NP) = Nuwe Nasionale Party (NP) NOTE: In August 2004 announced it would merge with the ANC http://www.natweb.co.za/
 

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)  http://www.paca.org.za/

 

PAC--History http://www.paca.org.za/history/pachist.htm
 
 

United Democratic Movement (UDM)   http://www.udm.org.za/

Vryheidsfront Plus http://www.vf.co.za/a/index.asp

South Africa--Political Parties (Left)--History

Simons, Jack and Ray, CLASS & COLOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA 1850-1950 [full-text, currently without references]--a classic work on ANC and socialist history http://www.anc.org.za/books/ccsa.html
 

South Africa--Politics

Alexander, Neville, "MANUEL CASTELLS AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA . A consideration of the relevance of Castells' ideas on the politics of identity to the project(s) of post-apartheid South Africa http://www.chet.org.za/castells/nalexander.html

"The Heart of Hope - South Africa's Transition from Apartheid to Democracy" "An extensive collection of Padraig O'Malley's interviews conducted between 1985 and 2005 with many key personalities, who influenced South Africa's political history. The collection presents a broad range of perspectives on events in South Africa during and after the Apartheid period. There are also summaries of historical events by year as well as descriptions of the historical background to place events in context." by Padraig O'Malley. Valuable for the transition period 1990-. Also includes PDFs of sections of SAIRR annuals, theses, biographies. University of Massachusetts/University of the Western Cape/Robben Island. http://www.omalley.co.za/

Institute for Security Studies (ISS)  includes full-text online publications: African Security Review SA Crime Quarterly, Monographs ("wide range of topics ... the latest analysis on various subjects such as peacekeepers in Africa, the African Union’s opportunities and challenges, crime and drugs in South Africa, and smalls arms"); ISS Papers series (research in progress); ISS Situation Reports; Books; Conference Reports; http://www.iss.co.za

 

South African Politics, Culture & Society Internet Resources by Allison Drew, University of York. A very useful teaching guide with many good links and illustrations. http://wwwusers.york.ac.uk/~ad15/SAInternetResources.htm
 

Stremlau, John & Helen Zille A House No Longer Divided: Progress and Prospects for Democratic Peace in South Africa (Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict 1997) http://www.ccpdc.org/pubs/house/hsfr.htm
 

"THINKING THEORETICALLY? Afrikaner nationalism and the comparative theory of the politics of identity. A tribute to Harold Wolpe"by Dan O'Meara paper  to Inaugural Conference of Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust, The Political Economy of Social Change in South Africa University of the Western Cape1-2 April, 1997 http://www.uct.ac.za/misc/wolpe/meara.htm

[Wolpe, Harold] Harold Wolpe Forum: to promote debate on crucial issues facing South Africa.  http://www.uct.ac.za/misc/wolpe

 

"Yenza" -- links to Political Science http://www.geocities.com/~yenza/subjects/politsc.htm

South Africa--Politics--10th anniversary of end of democracy

"New South Africa: Ten Years Later" by Mandisi Majavu (February 15, 2004, Z-Net) http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2004-02/15majavu.cfm

The Power of Culture: Ten years of democracy in South Africa (Netherlands) http://kvc.minbuza.nl/uk/specials/southafrica/

SAFUNDI Newsletter March 2004: "Ten Years of the New South Africa."
http://www.safundi.com/newsletter/

SOUTH AFRICA: The frustrating decade of freedom by Patrick Bond,
Johannesburg http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/578/578p19.htm

SOUTH AFRICA: TEN YEARS ON A View From Across The Atlantic by Dr Mamphela Ramphele (LRC News, South Africa)
http://www.lrc.org.za/Features/Archive_detail.asp?art_ID=74

TOWARDS TEN YEARS OF FREEDOM, Review [South African Government] full-text review of ANC rule http://www.10years.gov.za/index.html

South Africa-Politics-Journals 

Politeia: Journal for the Political Sciences (Selected) full-text articles, and full  contents http://www.unisa.ac.za/dept/press/onjourn.html#polit

South Africa's Struggle for Democracy: Anti-apartheid periodicals, 1950-1994  40 full-text periodical titles selected "with a view to presenting not only a wide spectrum of political views published during these years, but also a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion, health, culture, and gender. Publications reflecting both black and white viewpoints are included, and an attempt has been made to represent distinctive regional variations. Some of the publications were short-lived and, by necessity, of limited distribution." Part of the DISA Project. High quality searchability. http://disa.nu.ac.za

South Africa--Relations--United States/African Americans

African American Historical Linkages with South Africa , c1890-1965: a documentation project by Robert Edgar, David Anthony, and Robert Vinson, http://www.founders.howard.edu/reference/bob_edgar_site/index.html


South African Research Archival Project (SARAP), Howard University, with University of Fort Hare. "identifies, inventories, and facilitates access to archival collections that demonstrate linkages between Americans and South Africans, principally African Americans, during the anti-apartheid movement. Includes collections (and a video and some full-text): African National Congress United Nations Mission Records * African National Congress Washington, D.C. Mission Records * Pan Africanist Congress United Nations Mission Records * Records of the House sub-Committee on Africa in the Charles C. Diggs Papers * Southern Africa Support Project Collection * Southern African References in the American Society of African Culture Collection." http://sarap.howard.edu

South Africa--Research

NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION http://www.nrf.ac.za/
 
 

South Africa--Science

South African Journal of Science http://www.nrf.ac.za/sajs/index.stm

 

South Africa--Socialism--History

Simons, Jack and Ray, CLASS & COLOUR IN SOUTH AFRICA 1850-1950 [full-text, currently without references]--a classic work on ANC and socialist history http://www.anc.org.za/books/ccsa.html

South Africa--Telecommunications 

 
A GREEN PAPER FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION: Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting 
http://wn.apc.org:80/technology/telecoms/greenpaper.html

South Africa--Trade Unions

(see also Trade Unions--South Africa and under names of individual unions, and under COSATU) 
 
 

South Africa-Trade Unions--Directories http://wn.apc.org/labour/unions.htm
 
 

South Africa--Truth and Reconciliation Commission

[archive] http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/index.html

Bester, Rory 'At the edges of apartheid memory' paper to ENCOUNTERS WITHPHOTOGRAPHY: photographing people in southern Africa, 1860 to 1999 Conference, Cape Town, 14 to 17 July 1999 http://www.museums.org.za/sam/conf/enc/bester.htm
   
 

ReCONCILIATION NeT:  Net resources on South African and other reconciliation and transition processes. (Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation). Includes many full-text documents]  http://www.reconciliation.org.za
   

[Report] Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Final Report  (Nov. 1998) 

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/report/index.htm

or

via SA Government Website (free: html, no indexing or searching)
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/commissions/1998/trc/index.htm

(Secret) Truth Commission Files -  compiled by researcher Klaas de Jonge, 'reveals the leads that may prove the involvement of the apartheid government's intelligence structures and European secret services in several covert operations. You will find reports on, among others:- The death of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme - The murder of ANC Paris representative Dulcie September and; - The involvement in the S.A. Chemical Warfare program  http://www.contrast.org/truth/  
 

Skjerdal, Terje, 'Mapping the gap: South African journalists in disagreement over the Truth and Reconciliation Commission media hearings' November 1997 http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/trc.htm

 

South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Videotape Collection "features 84 episodes of news broadcasts assembled by journalist Max Du Preez, covering the history and activities of the Commission. The site features finding aids to the collection, summaries of each tape, and a short RealMedia presentation highlighting portions of several of the tapes." http://www.law.yale.edu/trc/

Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Final Report  (Nov. 1998) 

http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/report/index.htm

or

via SA Government Website (free: html, no indexing or searching)
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/commissions/1998/trc/index.htm
 
 

Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Links  http://home.global.co.za/~jrad/page_4.htm
 

Truth and Reconciliation Commission [official home page] 
http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/

'Struth: unofficial website of the TRC process (Former TRC Webmaster, Steve Crawford, fired for protesting the withdrawal of public material from the Website, set up an 'unofficial' TRC Website)  http://www.struth.org.za/

 

South Africa--Urban Geography

"The institutions and politics of provincial planning: the case of KwaZulu-Natal" by Philip Harrison, Amanda Williamson & Alan Mabin Paper presented at International Conference, 'South to South: urban-environmental policies and politics in Brazil and South Africa' Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London 25-26 March 1999 [full-text Word 97 document] http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/south.html
 

"Land Rights and the Environment: Issues in 'urban' settlements in the Former Homelands of South Africa"  by Ruth Beukman, Paper presented at the International Conference, 'South to South: urban-environmental policies and politics in Brazil and South Africa' Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London 25-26 March 1999 [full-text document] http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/south.html
 

'The limit of the law & urban change in Northern Province, South Africa' by Maano Ramutsindela, Dept of Geography, University of the North  paper to International Conference, 'South to South: urban-environmental policies and politics in Brazil & South Africa' 1999 [full-text] http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/south.html
 

Post-apartheid social polarisations: The creation of sub-urban identities in Cape Town. by Beate Lohnert , Sophie Oldfield and Susan Parnell in The South African Geographical Journal Vol. 80 2 September 1998 [full-text] http://www.egs.uct.ac.za/sagj/Lohnert80(2).htm
 

Marie Huchzermeyer "From exclusion via patronage to self-determination? Informal settlements in the socio-political process in South Africa and Brazil" Paper presented at the International Conference, 'South to South: urban-environmental policies and politics in Brazil and South Africa' 1999 [full-text ] http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/events/south.html

 

South Africa--Women (see also under "Women")

 

IMBOKODO WOMENS PROJECT August 9 1956 Womens March on Union Buildings, Pretoria. "Participants were interviewed: * Interview with Dorothy Masenya * Interview with Caroline Motsoaledi * Interview with Magdalene Matshadi Tsoane and Rahaba Mahlakedi Moeketsi" http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/sources/sourcesINTERVIEWS.htm

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