HIST 3377: South Africa: Primary Sources

Please note: This database contains secondary as well as primary sources.

African National Congress (ANC) is the Republic of South Africa's governing social democratic political party.

"This is a collection of individual oral histories .. in South Africa."

oral history interviews with military intelligence operatives active during the apartheid era in South Afric

Please note: Some of the documents digitized here are also available via Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa.

JSTOR: Struggles for Freedom, Southern Africa

This resource contains lists of Indian indentured laborers. To access the lists, click on the "Indians in SA" tab on left side of webpage. Then click the "Find your ROOTS/Ancestry" link (third on the list).

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

The Inanda Seminary is an independent, girls' secondary school situated in Inanda township near Durban, South Africa.

Digitized South African newspapers, posters, and postcards.

A multimedia resource that includes many interviews with participants in the struggle against apartheid.

Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (Faith based NG)

Transcripts of South African political figures talking with O'Malley about the transition of South Africa from apartheid to democracy.

The collected notes and writings of Ruth First, activist, campaigning journalist and scholar.

Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town

Contains both primary source documents and secondary source articles and entries.

A listing of the episodes of the TRC Special Report series that aired every week between 21 April 1996 and 29 March 1998, produced and presented by Max du Preez

Full text transcripts of amnesty and special hearings, press releases, and other important primary documents.

Please note: This database contains secondary as well as primary sources.

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Camp Monographs
Camp Newspapers
Camp Serials

This is the catalog of the Karis-Gerhart Collection.

This is one of several resources available to SMU students, faculty, and staff through CAMP, the Cooperative Africana Materials Project. The link here will take you to the catalog record for Drum. Click on the "Center for Research Libraries" link in the "Available online" box in order to be able to access the PDFs themselves.

Years covered: 1977-Present

Years covered: 1785-1985

Years covered: 1923-Present

Anti apartheid activism in the U. S.
Time span: 1950s through the 1990s.

Columbia College Chicago

An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa.

Full text primary documents (letters, telegrams, memoranda, etc.) regarding U.S. relations with Africa. Additional volumes pertaining to other years are available.

In the search images search box (on top right hand corner) enter you search term, such as "South Africa".

African Online Digital Library (AODL) is a portal to multimedia collections about Africa