Southern Africa Support Project Collection
Southern African References in the American Society of African Culture Collection
The U.S. National Archives United States Economic Files (1945-1973)
- Huguenot
Society of South Africa (Franschhoek, South Africa)
- 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
- Hyatt,
Stanley Portal - "The Northward Trek" (London : A.
Melrose, 1909)
- 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
- Ilanga (Durban)
- Print KwaZulu Natal newspaper published in Zulu. The Independent
Newspaper Group represents the newspaper. The paper was founded by Dr
John Dube in 1903. A history of the paper includes images of the first issues. Northwestern and Yale universities have newsprint subscriptions.
http://www.ilanganews.co.za/
- Insitute of Security Studies - Apartheid Grand Corruption: Assessing the Scale of Crimes of Profit in South Africa from 1976 to 1994
- Report by by Hennie van Vuuren on corruption under the National Party government. Pub. May 2006. 113 pages. Discusses the murders of National Party politician Robert Smit and his wife in 1977, the Broederband, the Department of Information scandal of the 1970s, corruption under P. W. Botha and F. W. de Klerk, corruption in the Homelands. http://www.iss.co.za/dynamic/administration/file_manager/file_links/APARTHEIDGRANDC2.PDF?
- International Conference
on a Decade of Freedom: Celebrating the Role of the International Anti-Apartheid
Movement, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 10-13 October 2004
- Activists from around the world attended; many full
text conference papers are online. . http://www.ukzn.ac.za/aam2004/
- Interval
Signals Archive. Southern African Clandestines
- Has audio clips of Radio Freedom, the voice of the African
National Congress during the 1970s. (requires a sound
card, Real Player). The Radio Zambia clip has short segment of Nkosi
Sikelel' iAfrika. Also has clips from SWAPO's Voice of Namibia, the
Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Voice, the Voice of Free Africa (a conservative
station), UNITA's the Voice of the Cockerel, and the Voice of Free Africa
(an anti-SWAPO station). Web site based in Reading, Berkshire, U.K. [KF]
http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/african_clandestines.htm
- Iziko - Museums of
Cape Town
- "...five formerly independent national museums and galleries –
the SA Museum, the SA National Gallery, the SA Cultural History Museum,
the William Fehr Collection at the Castle and Rust-en-Vreugd, and the Michaelis
Collection at the Old Town House – were amalgamated...in 1998."
"Iziko Museums of Cape Town, as the amalgamated institution is now
known, consists of fifteen sites, ranging from the SA Maritime Museum at
the V & A Waterfront, to the Natale Labia Museum in Muizenberg and the
West Coast Fossil Park at Langebaanweg." "The Social History
Collections Division encompasses the cultural heritage of South
Africa past and present." http://www.museums.org.za/iziko/
- Iziko Museums of Cape Town - Democracy X
- 2004 exhibition on South Africa's history. The Museum exhibit brought "together over 300 objects, including archaeological artefacts, contemporary art works, documents, photographs, sound and film." http://www.museums.org.za/democracyx/index.html
- Iziko Museums - Heritage of Slavery in South Africa
- Slavery in South Africa as practised in the Cape Colony between 1658 and 1834. "In 1652, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a base at the Cape. A few years later, the first slaves were imported and the Cape remained a slave society for 176 years until it was abolished in 1834." Documents, bibliography, personal histories, maps, drawings, photographs. Covers the Groot Constantia farm which used slave labour (includes a list of names). [KF] http://www.museums.org.za/iziko/slavery/
- Joburg: A World Class African City
- Official site. Johannesburg city government information, suburb / region descriptions and maps, culural events, news, tourism & business sites, tourist tips. How the city is run. City statistics. History. Soweto. Alexandra Township. 2010 World Cup (soccer). Maintained by the City of Johannesburg. http://www.joburg.org.za/
- 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
- Karis-Gerhart
Collection: South African Political Materials 1964-1990
- Searchable inventory/guide to the 101 reel microfilm
collection held by the Center
for Research Libraries-CAMP. Selected documents from the collection
were published in Volumes 5, 6, and 7 of From Protest to Challenge:
a Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1990,
by Thomas Karis and Gail Gerhart. The inventory lists interviews, political
trials, documents, (including trade union documents), biographical files
documenting the struggle for freedom in South Africa. [KF] http://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/collections/karisgerhart.htm
- Kathrada,
Ahmed - Alongside Nelson Mandela
- "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/
- Kennedy
(John F.) Executive Orders, 1961-1963
- Contains one Executive Order (1962) excluding South Africa from the definition
of "economically less developed countries". Site by Maria E. Schieda.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/jfkeo.html
- John F. Kennedy Library
& Museum - National Security Action Memorandum
- 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
- Journal of Peace Conflict
and Military Studies (Harare, Zimbabwe)
- Published by the University of Zimbabwe. Centre for Defence Studies. Some
full text articles from Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2, 2000. Topics include: Pre-colonial
Fortified Settlements in Northern Zimbabwe, 1550-1750 AD, the History
of Umkhonto We Sizwe Between 1961–2000, The Malawi Army
and the Disarming of the Malawi Young Pioneers, The Making of South Africa’s
Defence Policy, 1990-99, Critical Assessment of Zimbabwe’s
Demobilization and Reintegration Programmes, 1980-2000. http://www.uz.ac.zw/units/cds/
- The Khyber Pass,
A Page Devoted to Victorian Era Colonial Wargaming
- 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
- Kronos:
Journal of Cape History=Tydskrif vir Kaaplandse Geskiedenis
- "...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
- Kuper,
Leo - Papers 1952-1966
- 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://www.crl.edu/areastudies/CAMP/collections/kuper.htm
- Library of
Congress Country/Area Studies Handbooks
- Has the full-text of the "Area Handbooks" long used as basic
reference sources. Information on the history, society, economy, politics,
national security of each country. Search across all countries or
any combination of countries and browse the table of contents for
a specific country. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
The South Africa
Country Study has an extensive history section.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/zatoc.html
- Library of
Congress. Inventing Entertainment.The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings
of the Edison Companies
- 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
- Life and Times of
Sara Baartman - "The Hottentot Venus." A Film by Zola Masekoa
- 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
- Limb,
Peter - "An Australian Historian at the Dawn of Apartheid: Fred Alexander
in South Africa, 1949-50"
- "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
- Livingstone, David, "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa"
- 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 with information on slavery. Part of Project Gutenberg. Includes an 1858 review of the book in Harper's Magazine. [KF] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1039
- Luthuli,
Albert - A Brief Profile
- A short biography, with photograph. Part of the online exhibit, Gandhi,
Lutuli, King, Mandela : a legacy for the future. From the Gandhi-Luthuli
Documentation Centre, at the University
of Durban-Westville, South Africa. [KF] http://scnc.udw.ac.za/doc/TEXTS/dc/dclutuli.htm
- "Mad Scientists"
- South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Projects
- 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
- Mandela, Nelson
- Information about Nelson Mandela from "Africa South of the Sahara: Selected
Internet Resources."
- "Mandela
Supports Ngwazi" - Donal Brody
- 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
- Marothodi Institute for Archaeology in Africa
- Non-profit engaged in research and conservation of Africa's heritage. Provides professional training in archaeological theory, methods and practice. Publishes Ukumba, a quarterly magazine and a newsletter, Simulizi. Grants and scholarships for African students. Offices in the U.K., California, and Cape Town, South Africa. [KF] http://www.marothodi-institute.org
- Mathabane.com
- 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/
- McGregor Museum (Kimberley,
South Africa)
- "has departments actively engaged in research in history, oral history,
archaeology and rock art, with a principal focus on the Northern Cape Province,
South Africa." Is strong in "Military History, focussing on the
Anglo-Boer War." Has an EnviroZone covering the natural environment
of the Northern Cape and an exhibition on the human history of the Northern
Cape from three million years ago, and departments of botany and zoology.
Their library holds "unpublished diaries of ordinary citizens
reflecting life during the Siege of Kimberley (October 1899-February 1900)."
Its walking tour lists historical
events in Kimberley. Has links to other museums in Kimberley. http://www.museumsnc.co.za
- Melville Village
- A suburb of Johannesburg, one page history
http://www.melvillevillage.org.za/homecontents/history.htm
- Memory
and History, Cape Town, Aug. 9-11, 2000
- 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.fl.ulaval.ca/celat/histoire.memoire/histoire/confcapethm.htm
- Metropolitan Museum of Art. Timeline of Art History
- The African Art section covers different regions (Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Guinea Coast, Southern Africa, Western & Central Sudan, Archaeology & Rock Art). Maps, bibliographies, timeline for the continent. Explanations of features in the works depicted. Covers pre-colonial African empires & kingdoms, Islam in Africa, African leadership, women, Trade among European and African precolonial nations, etc. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
- Mother Jones - Leica
Documentary Photography Exhibition
- 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/
- Museums Online South Africa
- Database directory of museums and related organisations, by South African Province. Includes science and some art museums. http://media1.mweb.co.za/mosa/default.asp
- Natal Museum
- 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/
- National
Geographic - First Footprints Found of Modern Man
- Press release of the August 1997 discovery in South Africa. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/society/ngo/events/97/footprints/index.html
- National
Geographic - In Search of Human Origins
- 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/
- National Library
of Canada. Theses Canada
- In English and French. "Search AMICUS, Canada's national online
catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in the National Library
of Canada theses collection, which was established in 1965;
Access for free the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses
and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August
31, 2002;..." http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/
Has over 50 full text titles, from various subject areas, relating to South
Africa.
- National Security
Archive, (George Washington University)
- 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. Sold by Proquest). 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/
- The database, Digital National
Security Archive, licensed by Proquest, has full text documents,
mainly one page each, in Adobe PDF format, on U.S. foreign relations.
Some libraries subscribe to this database for their students, faculty. 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/
- Nobel Peace Prize
- List of all winners including
four from South Africa. Official site. http://www.nobel.no/listvien.html
- Nordic Africa Institute - Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa
- Documents on the "late 20th century history of national liberation in Southern Africa and the role of the Nordic countries..... primary source material available in government, NGO and personal archives..... mainly in the Nordic languages, but when possible, English is indicated.....interviews with important actors, photographs, publications, posters and scanned newspaper clips from the period 1960-1996."Personal stories (such as Diary from Somafco 1986-1988 [on Solomon Mahalngo Freedom School in Tanzania] and I worked as a nurse at Somafco 1988-1991). The Nordic Africa Institute is based in Uppsala, Sweden. [KF] http://www.liberationafrica.se/
- North-East Workshop on Southern Africa,
Burlington, Vermont, April 19-21, 2002
- Has abstracts of all papers. http://www.newsa.org/
- Northwestern
University. Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies - African
Posters
- 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.northwestern.edu/africana/collections/posters/index.html
- Ntantala,
Phyllis. A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
- Full text of the book. Phyllis Ntantala is the wife of
A.C. Jordan and the mother of Nandi, Ninzi, Lindi and Pallo Jordan. Berkeley
: University of California Press, 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4f59n98r/
- 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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In the message area put: signoff nuafrica
- Old Wynberg Village, Cape Town, South Africa
- History of the Cape area, photographs, maps. The Khoisan, Dutch Reform Church, transport history, related sites. [KF] http://www.oldwynberg.co.za/
- O'Malley, Padraig - Heart of Hope: South Africa's Transition from Apartheid to Democracy
- Very extensive site. "interviews conducted between 1985 and 2005 with....key personalities, who influenced South Africa's political history." Facts about events from 1902 to date. Short biographies of significant people. Full text of the annual South Africa Survey, 1934-2000, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations. Chronology of events from 1950s-1980s. Bibliography. O'Malley is Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, University of Massachusetts Boston, MA. [KF] http://www.omalley.co.za/
- Online Archive of California
- "...a searchable online union database of finding aids to
archival collections." Search the entire database by
keyword (Malawi, Mandela, etc.) to retrieve inventories. Includes some of
the finding aids from the Hoover Institution Archives 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 1997 finding aid for the
South African Subject Collection, one of the South Africa related collections
in the Hoover Archives, Stanford University. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
- Parliamentary Millennium Project
- Site works only in Microsoft's browser. Antiquarian Western maps
(from South Africa's Parliament) and their view of Africa are contrasted
with African history from an African perspective. Uses photographs of archaeological
discoveries to illustrate Africa's history before Europeans arrived. Lukasa
memory boards and "map" staffs are seen vis a vis Western
maps. Different historical experiences influence "the way we make policy
decisions and how we see our future society." Has audio files of speeches
about the project by Frene Ginwala and Naledi Pandor. From South Africa's
Parliament, Cape Town. http://www.pmpsa.gov.za/
- Pfister,
Roger - "South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy Towards Africa"
- 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
- Philately
News - Channel Africa (SABC)
- Articles by Neville Gomm on South African philatelic history. http://www.channelafrica.org/philately/philately.shtml
- PictureNET Africa
(Houghton, South Africa)
- 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
- Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho
- Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and
the Boer Rebellion
- 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." Also at Project Gutenberg (Fourth Edition.
Introduction, by Neil Parsons.) [KF] http://www.anc.org.za/books/nlife.htm
- Reitz,
Deneys - Commando
- 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
- Research Institute on Christianity
in South Africa (Univ. of Cape Town)
- 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
- Rhodesia
and South Africa: Military History - Richard Allport
- Allport, based in the Netherlands, has a book business. His site contains
his? reviews of books on "Rhodesia" and South Africa military history
and vexillology (the study of flags). One can obtain a catalog of the books
for sale. There are articles and links to other Rhodesia and South Africa
pages. Has information on an Aug. 1997 South African Defence Force Symposium
and Reunion, most of the text of a 1979 report by a Conservative Party (UK)
election observer team to the first one man one vote elections, Ministry
of Information pamphlets published during the civil war, articles on the
wars in Angola and Namibia. http://www.rhodesia.nl/
Has the Report on the 1980s Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands. Compiled by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe, March 1997. 106 pages in PDF.
- Robben Island - Freedom.co.za
- 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 Museum
- 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/
- Roll of Honour -
Boer War
- http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Boer/
- Rootsweb
- "Our intention is to create a comprehensive database of records
and information relating to Jewish immigration to South Africa."
The database used passenger arrival lists, naturalization lists, community
records, records of marriages, births and deaths, family trees, etc. Based
at the Kaplan Centre, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.
[KF] http://grub.its.uct.ac.za/cgi/cgi_RootWeb.exe
- Sachs,
Albie - Suffering, Survival, and Transformation. Conversation with Albie
Sachs
- 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
- SA-HISTORY-L
- E-mail list "for anyone interested in South African genealogy."
Past messages are available. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/ZAF/SA-HISTORY.html
- Saunders, Christopher
- "Cape Town and New Orleans: Some Comparisons"
- In the e-magazine, USA-SA.com. Dr. Saunders is Professor of History,
University of Cape Town. http://www.usa-sa.com/contributors/saunders/
- Secrets of the Dead - Day of the Zulu
- "In December 1878, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, the British High Commissioner in South Africa, issued an ultimatum to the Zulu ruler, Cetshwayo kaMpande, to disband his army and hand over control of his nation to a British representative." Questions for students. Interview with Ian Knight. Related web sites. Produced by Thirteen/WNET New York, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Educational Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_zulu/index.html
- Skotnes, Andor - People's
History and the South African Struggle
- 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
- Slavery @ the Cape
of Good Hope in both Dutch and British South Africa
- 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/
- Slovo,
Gillian - Revealing is Healing
- "Her mother, Ruth First, was assassinated by a parcel bomb sent by
the South African security forces. Her father, Joe Slovo, helped create
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And the commission let her mother’s
assassin go free. Gillian Slovo confronts the contradictions." Full
text article in the Spring issue (Vol 118 No 1) of the New
Humanist print magazine. Based in London. [KF] http://www.newhumanist.org.uk/issues/0303/slovo.htm
- soc.genealogy.african
- 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.
- Societies After Slavery: A Select Annotated Bibliography of Printed Sources on Cuba, Brazil, British Colonial Africa, South Africa, and the British West Indies
- Edited by Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, and Aims McGuinness. Originally published as a print book - Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002. Full text. Covers British Colonial Africa and South Africa. Each section has an essay and annotated entries. Compilers include Fred Cooper, Pamela Scully, etc. "the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa." Part of the Univ. of Pittsburg Digital Library. http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35413
- South Africa
- Annenberg Foundation / CPB
- 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/
- South Africa.
Embassy. Washington. D.C.
- Has a brief South
African history section from the South Africa Yearbook
(Pretoria: Government Communications (GCIS). http://usaembassy.southafrica.net/YearBook1999/History/history.htm
- South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy
- "video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, original narratives and essays" "interviews with 45 South African activists"; biographies; maps; "designed especially for high school and undergraduate students." Includes Black Consciousness Movement, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, post-apartheid era. Has a 3 minute preview video. An Educators section uses primary materials. Maintained by Michigan State University MATRIX (matrix.msu.edu) and the MSU African Studies Center (africa.msu.edu). http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu
- South Africa Yearbook
- 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 chapters of the book. [KF] http://www.gov.za/sa_overview/
- South African Air Force Museum
- Unofficial site. "dedicated to representing the SAAF Museum and it's activities, as well as the activities of the volunteers and the Friends of the SAAF Museum." History of the museum, events, projects. Links to related sites. Maintained by Cameron Kirk Kinnear. http://www.saafmuseum.org.za/
- South
African Concentration Camps During the Boer War
- "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
- [South African
Defence Force] Unofficial SADF Information Page
- "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
- South African
Genealogy
- Page by C. Mercer on reseaching South African family history. http://home.global.co.za/~mercon/index.htm
- South African Heritage Resource Agency
- "To provide for the identification, conservation, protection and promotion of our heritage for the present and future generations." Sets national policy for heritage resources management. Database of Early Architects in South Africa. Find for ex. Cape Town architect Franklin Kaye Kendall. Full text of the National Heritage Resources Act. South African history facts. Has a page on historical shipwrecks and lists of library holdings. Based in Cape Town. [KF] http://www.sahra.org.za/
- South African
Historical Documents - African National Congress site
- 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/
- South
African Historical Journal (Bloemfontein)
- Bi-annual journal of the South African Historical Society.
SA ePpublications provides paid subscribers access to full text online. Publishes articles on southern African history
and 'A Select Bibliography of South African History. http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/history/sahs/sahj.htm
- South African History Archive
- "an independent archive dedicated to documenting and supporting the
struggles for justice in South Africa." Based at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, South Africa. The collection includes
documents, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, slides, sound recordings,
t-shirts, banners, etc. from anti-apartheid organizations, political, community,
trade unions, active in the 1980s. Its Freedom of Information Programme
has reports, lists of documents released under the Promotion of Access to
Information Act, links to related information access sites. http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/
- South African History Online
- An NGO, people's history online, based in Sunnyside, South Africa. Has
a History of Film in South Africa (including a chronology),
a history classroom section, This Day in History, a chronology
of South African history, biographies, topics (African
independence, Black Consciousness, Black education, Gandhi, Paul Kruger,
Mandela, Umkhonto we Sizwe, passive resistance, the United Nations and apartheid,
etc.). [KF] http://www.sahistory.org.za/
The Online Wall of Remembrance has biographies
/ photographs of anti-apartheid leaders, a list of banned people. "We are inviting you to help us with biographical details,
letters, diaries, articles, photographs and reminiscences on those South
Africans, people in your family communities people who played a leading
role in the struggle."
- South African History Project
(Pretoria)
- Formed to address the crisis in history teaching in South Africa.
"to create forums to initiate discussions on the nature of history
and history teaching in schools and devise strategies on how it can be improved
and strengthened;..." " to establish initiatives that will bring
history researchers and scholars together to review, revise, and (re) write
history textbooks..." Has links to the full text of the History/Archaeology
Report (14 December 2000). See also article, "Reviving South African
History. Academics debate how to represent and teach the nation's past,"
by Sasha Polakow-Suransky, June 14, 2002, Chronicle of Higher Education.
http://education.pwv.gov.za/sahp/
- South
African Jewish Board of Deputies
- "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
- South African Maritime Museum
(Cape Town)
- 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/
- South African Military
History Society (Kengray, South Africa)
- 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/
- South African Museum
(Cape Town)
- 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
- South
African Museums
- Web sites compiled by the South African ZaZoo directory. http://www.mweb.co.za/zazoo/culture/museums.html
- South African Voices
- "oral tales, histories, and poems from among the Nguni peoples: the Xhosa and Zulu in South Africa, the Swati in Swaziland, and the Ndebele in the southern part of Zimbabwe. Collected by Professor Harold Scheub, Department of African Languages and Literature, UW-Madison. From the late 1960s into the 1970s. Text is keyword searchable. Includes audio files. From the University of Wisconsin Library, Madison, Wisconsin. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouAfrVc/
- South African War Virtual
Library
- 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
- Southern Africa and the World: the Local, the Regional and the Global in Historical Perspective. South African Historical Society Biennial Conference, University of Cape Town, 26-29 June, 2005
- Full text papers. Draft copies only. http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/history/sahs/conferences.htm
- Southern Africa Jewish
Genealogy Special Interest Group
- "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
- Southern Africa
Report (Toronto, Canada)
- Long established print magazine, by the editorial collective of the Toronto
Committee for Links Between Southern Africa and Canada. Full text
articles from July 1992 to October 2000. Find articles by author,
country, subject, full text search. Analysis of events in Southern Africa
and the policies of Canada and other western governments relevant to Southern
African countries. http://www.africafiles.org/sar.asp
- Southern African Archaeology
- mloots@medic.up.ac.za
- Academic departments, museums, topics, fieldwork. See his Archaeology
page on the geocities site also. http://members.xoom.com/Maeztro/
- [Speedy] Sarah
Speedy: Daughter of Colonel Squire, Wife of Major Speedy ~ Recollections
1818 to 1859
- Edited by Allan Lawrence Tristram Speedy. Full text account. 33 p. Sarah
Speedy relates her travels in India, Mauritius, South Africa
from 1818-1859, meeting with Robert Moffat, the missionary,
helping Colonel Graham mark out Grahamstown, brief comments on slaves and
other events. Allan Speedy, the great great grandson of Sarah Speedy, lives
in New Zealand. [KF] http://www.speedy.co.nz/recollections/
- Study Abroad in South Africa
- History
- 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
- Sunday Times Heritage Project
- The South African newspaper, Sunday Times, as part of its centenary celebrations, features South African people/events from 1906 - Brenda Fassie (singer) , Duma Nokwe (lawyer), Olive Schreiner (writer), Lilian Ngoyi (first woman member of the ANC's national executive), Raymond Dart (physical anthropologist), Tsietsi Mashinini (student activist), Bulhoek Massacre and more. Photographs. Video history of the newspaper. Slide show on the creation of sculpture memorials to the featured.
[KF] http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Heritage/Index.asp
- Switzer, Les and Donna Switzer - The Black Press in South Africa and Lesotho: a descriptive bibliographic guide of African, Coloured and Indian newspapers, newsletters and magazines 1836-1976
- Full text on-line of the guide (G.K. Hall & Co. Boston, MA. 1979). 327 pages in PDF. Extensive history of the Black Press in South Africa and Lesotho. Lists publications from political parties, trade unions, pressure groups. Descriptions for each title. From the International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) and the Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, Illinois. http://icon.crl.edu/guides/Switzer.pdf
- Thulamela - Excavating
in South Africa
- 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/
- Traces of Truth. Documents Relating to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, TRC
- Selected full text online documents. Full text papers - TRC background, case studies of human rights violations, amnesty debates, reparations, etc. Links to related sites. "The Preservation and Access to Records and Stories relating to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a joint Historical Papers (The Library, University of the Witwatersrand) and the South African History Archives Project." Based at the William Cullen Library, University of the Witwatersrand. [KF] http://truth.wwl.wits.ac.za/index.php
- Transnational
Poster Art: Former East Germany (GDR) and Latin America 1970-1989
- 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
- Trewhela,
Paul - "Inside Quadro"
- 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
- Tugela Books - Boer
and Zulu War Books
- "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
- UNESCO.
Africa Revisited
- 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
- Unesco World Heritage: South Africa
- "information about the various World Heritage sites in South Africa complete with pictures and official documents supporting the descriptions" - Kathy Morgan.
Sites include Robben Island, Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Fossil Hominid Sites, Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, Vredefort Dome, uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park, and the Cape Floral Region Protected Areas. See also the National Heritage Council and the World Heritage in Young Hands kit (with student activities). http://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/za
- United States. Library of Congress - Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
- Find how African topics (including the South African War 1899–1902) were depicted in early 20th century U.S. newspapers (published 1900 to 1910), including U.S. comics, book reviews. Full text online. Searches can be saved. A project of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/
- University of
Botswana. History Department. Boer War Pages - by Neil Parsons
- The story of the war in Botswana. Page 1: The Boer War in Botswana; Page
2: The battle of Derdepoort, 24 November 1899; Page 3: Reports in The
Times. Includes bibliographies, an appendix on British Soldiers' Graves.
[KF] http://www.thuto.org/ubh/afhist/saw/saw0.htm
- University
of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library - A Luta Continua: African Liberation
Movement Posters from the Collection of David H. Anthony
- Posters and background on the African anti-colonial struggle. Posters
mainly from the personal collection of Professor Anthony. [KF] http://library.ucsc.edu/exhibits/ALutaContinua.html
- University of Cape Town.
Centre for Popular Memory
- The Centre's work - Researching projects about popular memories and identities.
Training students in memory studies, oral history and methodology.
Archiving oral, visual and audio-visual forms of memory. Disseminating
memories and stories to various audiences. "has more than 1100 hours
of analogue audio recordings with people in 5 languages crossing
race/class/gender and population lines. Covering topics from forced removals,
life histories, immigration, health and HIV/AIDS to communities, trauma
and contemporary popular culture."
c. 150 hours of "unedited
video footage on topics ranging from people involved with the 1960
Langa March; 1980's pass boycott, political activists such as Cissie Gool;
affects of the 1999 hurricane on Manenberg and the Richtersveld Land Claims
process." Research areas: South African Hip-Hop / Freestying
scene; masculinity in rugby and its rituals; heritage sites in Langa; forest
workers on Table Mountain; stories of 'Cape Malay' cooks; traditional Xhosa
cooking and ingredients; and shebeens, beerhalls and liqour laws in Langa
and Windermere during Apartheid. [KF] http://www.popularmemory.org/
- University of Cape Town
Libraries. Manuscripts and Archives
- The Manuscripts and Archives Department has finding aids for some collections
online - Black Sash (Cape Western Region) Archive, Neil Aggett Papers, Harold
Wolpe Papers, etc. [KF] http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/mss
- University
of Connecticut Libraries. African National Congress Collection. Finding
Aid
- 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
- University
of Durban-Westville. Documentation Centre
- Includes, under the Documentation Centre, information on Indian South
Africans, the text of a Message from Chief Albert J. Luthuli on Centenary
Celebrations of Arrival of Indentured Indians 1860-1960, a biography of
Ahmed Kathrada, an index to Fiat Lux (a publication by the Department
of Indian Affairs), an index to a few obituaries and articles in Sechaba.
http://www.udw.ac.za/udw/documentation/Documentation.htm
- University of Durban - Westville.
Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
- 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.)
and an index to Fiat Lux, a journal published by the Department
of Indian Affairs. [KF] http://scnc.udw.ac.za/
- University of KwaZulu - Natal. Centre for Civil Society - Research Reports
- Full text reports such as -
South Africa’s Resurgent Urban Social Movements. The Case of Johannesburg, 1984, 1994, 2004, by Patrick Bond. Research Report No.22. 34 p. in pdf
Black Consciousness 1977-1987: The Dialectics of Liberation in South Africa, by Nigel Gibson. Research Report 18. 28 p. in pdf.
- University
of London. Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Library. Ruth First Papers
- 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
- University of Natal.
Campbell Historic Photograph Collection
- "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
- University of Natal, Durban.
History Department
- 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
- University
of Texas (Austin), Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- Has South African
maps and links to other map
web sites. The South
African historical maps include the former homelands and an 1885
map of South Africa. [KF] http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa.html
- University
of Virginia. Jackson Davis Collection (1915-1930)
- 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/
