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)
- University of Natal Libraries
(Durban)
- Has a web
catalog. http://www.library.und.ac.za/
- University of Natal. Campbell
Collections (Durban)
- The Collections are comprised of The Mashu Museum of Ethnology, The William
Campbell Furniture Museum, Killie
Campbell Africana Library. The library, containing rare books, manuscripts,
maps, photographs, concerns the social and cultural heritage of the KwaZulu
Natal region. It has the John William Colenso (1814-1883) Collection. Colenso
was Bishop of the Church of England and "a noted biblical scholar and
an outstanding figure in Zulu linguistic and literary work." There
is an online Inventory [with
photographs] of the Historic Photograph Album Collection , c.1865 - 1965.
http://khozi2.nu.ac.za
Finding aids include - Guide
to the Manuscripts Collection, 1762 - 2000, the Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
Papers, 1905 - 1988, the Alfred County Farmers' Association /Records, c1921
- 1954, and others.
- University
of Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
- Access their library
catalog. Is home to the Alan
Paton Centre which "focuses on collections of organizations associated
with conflict and conciliation with particular reference to KwaZulu-Natal."
http://www.unp.ac.za/UNPDepartments/Library/base.htm
- University of Pretoria. Academic
Information Service (University Library)
- Access the library
catalog thru telnet. http://www.ais.up.ac.za/
- University
of South Africa Library
- http://www.unisa.ac.za/library/index.html
- University of Stellenbosh.
Department of Information Science (Matieland, South Africa)
- http://www.sun.ac.za/infoscience/
- University of Stellenbosch,
J. S. Gericke Library
- http://www.sun.ac.za/library/
- University of
the Free State Library (Bloemfontein)
- Has an Africana Collection with emphasis on the Orange Free State and
the Anglo-Boer War. No photocopies may be made from the Collection. Theses
by UFS students are held in Special Collections; photocopies may be made
of theses. http://www.uovs.ac.za/faculties/index.php?FCode=12&DCode=431
Its web site has databases providing citations to journal
articles, many from South African journals:
Community Health
Information Database (CHID)- KovsiAgric
- citations to agricultural literature
The Library hosts the Archive
for Contemporary Affairs (formerly Institute for Contemporary
History). "It houses more than 900 private document collections. This
includes the collections of South African politicians ([Botha, P.W., De
Klerk, F.W., Verwoerd, H.F., Vorster, B.J.] Prime Ministers, State Presidents,
Ministers), economists, church, cultural and community leaders etc. The
Archive also has a fully equipped Sound Archive at its disposal, for recording
the memoirs of individuals. Hundreds of audio cassettes containing precious
research material have already been processed and are available to researchers."
- University of the Western Cape. Library.
- One can access their online
catalog; javascript must be enabled. http://www.uwc.ac.za/
- University of the Western
Cape. Robben Island Mayibuye Archives - Art Collections
- An archive and museum documenting South Africa's liberation struggle.
Included are guides
to collections, their newspaper and journal holdings, the Centre's publications,
online poster exhibit, selection of photos online, art collections.
http://www.robben-island.org.za/departments/heritage/mayibuye/mayibuye.asp
- University of the
Witwatersrand Libraries (Johannesburg)
- Libraries include the William Cullen Library which houses special collections
including the wealth of information in the Historical
and Literary Papers section. Historical Papers has over 2,400
collections of organization records such as the Robert
Sobukwe Papers, Helen Suzman Papers, Dr.
A. B. Xuma papers the End Conscription Campaign Records, trade union
records, the Gay and Lesbian Archives, many personal papers and political
trial records. A list of inventories sold by Historical Records is available.
http://www.wits.ac.za/histp/home.htm
Historical Papers houses the South
African History Archive Trust (SAHA). SAHA was formed in 1988 by the
UDF and COSATU to collect the documents of the resistance movement against
apartheid, from the 1980s to the 1990s. They hold the records of the UDF,
JODAC, SAYCO, Five Freedoms Forum, Transvaal Indian Congress, the Julie
Frederikse Collection and others. http://www.wits.ac.za/saha/home.htm
The online
catalog is at: http://innopac.wits.ac.za/screens/opacmenu.html
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