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South Africa  

For resources from the Bryn Mawr Library, click on Bibliography.  A great resource for this project would be The Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, REF 967 E.  Other links on our website that include information on South Africa: Africa

  

African Studies: South Africa   extensive information from the WWW Virtual Library

Background Notes: South Africa from the U.S. Department of State; includes people, history, government, economy, etc.

Map of South Africa from the Perry-Castaneda Map Collection 

CIA World Factbook

Eldis Country Profiles 

Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Studies

Lonely Planet - SubWWWay to Africa

Yahoo Directory - Countries and Regions of Africa

Internet African History Source Book

African National Congress  "The Majority Party in South Africa's Government"

Museums Online: South Africa
    A guide to cultural, artistic, and scientific museums in South Africa

For additional Internet sites on African art, see ART entries on this website

PBS - HOPES | South Africa  basic facts and a transcript of the PBS video

South Africa   general information

South African Government Online  thoroughly discusses all aspects of South Africa's government   

The Story of Africa| BBC World Service   extensive information about the history of Southern Africa

An Introduction to South Africa  from Geographia.com; covers geography, climate, history and people.

PBS: AFRICA - Africa for Kids - My World  not necessarily for research, but an interesting site where students in South Africa take the viewer on a "tour" of their home.

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Books from the Edith Hamilton Library

370.968 E   Education, race, and social change in South Africa.   Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c1982.  
916.8 G   Lifetimes under apartheid.   New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1986.   Extracts from the writings of Nadine Gordimer and photographs by David Goldblatt.  
Ref 968 R   Reader's digest illustrated history of South Africa: the real story.   Pleasantville, N.Y.: Reader's Digest Association, c1989.  
301.24 A Alverson, Hoyt Mind in the heart of darkness: value and self-identity among the Tswana of southern Africa.   New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978.  
968.06 C Carter, Gwendolen Margaret Which way is South Africa going?  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1980.  
967 D Davidson, Basil The search for Africa: history, culture, politics.   New York: Times Books, c1994.  
968.4 D Dodds, Glen Lyndon. The Zulus and Matabele: warrior nations.   London: Arms and Armour, c1998.  
305.8 E Eades, Lindsay Michie The end of apartheid in South Africa.   Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.   Chronology of events--The end of apartheid in South Africa explained-- Historical background--Racial separation--The parties and the process of transition--Internal and external pressure-- Challenges of a new democracy--Biographies: the personalities behind apartheid and its end--Primary documents of the end of apartheid in South Africa--Glossary of selected terms-- Annotated bibliography.  
FIC Fre Freed, Lynn. The mirror: a novel.   New York: Crown Publishers, c1997.  
960 H Halpern, Jack. South Africa 's hostages: Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland.   Baltimore, Md.: Penguin, 1965.  
320.56 H Hepple, Alex South Africa: workers under Apartheid.   London: Christian Action Publications, 1972.  
301.45 H Hoagland, Jim. South Africa; civilizations in conflict.   Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1972.  
968 H Hull , Richard W. Southern Africa : civilizations in turmoil.   New York: New York University Press, c1981.  
968.06 L Lelyveld, Joseph. Move your shadow: South Africa Black and White.   New York: Time Books, c1985.   Provides a look at the South African way of life and racial policy.  
968.063 L Levine, Janet Inside apartheid: one woman's struggle in South Africa.   Chicago: Contemporary Books, c1988.   Janet Levine describes the struggles against the minority white government's system of repression from the perspective of a white woman attempting to transform it.  
921 Luthuli Luthuli, A. J. Let my people go.   New York, McGraw-Hill [1962]  
306.0968 M Magubane, Peter. Vanishing cultures of South Africa: changing customs in a changing world.   New York: Rizzoli, 1998.   The Xhosa--The Zulu--The Ndebele--The Venda--The Tsonga--The Basotho--The Tswana--The Pedi--The Ntwana--The San.  
921 Mandela Mandela, Nelson Long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.   Boston: Little, Brown, c1994.  
968 M Marquard, Leopold A short history of South Africa.   New York, Praeger [1968]  
921 Matha Mathabane, Mark. Kaffir boy in America: an encounter with apartheid.   New York: Scribner's, c1989.   Mathabane recounts his new life in America and provides a fascinating explanation on Americans mores
968.063 M Meredith, Martin. In the name of apartheid: South Africa in the postwar period.   New York: Harper and Row, c1988.  
FIC Mic Michener, James A. The covenant.   New York: Random House, c1980.   A historical novel covering over 15,000 years of history in South Africa and which focuses on three principal families who settled in the region throughout the centuries. The family of Nxumalo; the van Doorns, a Dutch family; and the Saltwoods of England.  
342.68 O Omond, Roger The apartheid handbook.   Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; New York, N.Y., U.S.A. Penguin Books, 1986.   On cover: A guide to South Africa's everyday racial policies. Question and answer format provides detailed information about South Africa's apartheid policy.  
968 P Paton, Alan. South Africa, in transition.   Scribner, 1956.  
320.9 P Potholm, Christian P. Southern Africa in perspective: essays in regional politics.   New York: Free Press, [1972]  
Sc Roc Rochman, Hazel Somehow tenderness survives: stories of southern Africa.   New York: Harper & Row, c1988.   A collection of ten short stories and autobiographical accounts by authors of various races expose the conditions of racism in South Africa.  
320.56 R Rogers, Barbara. South Africa: the "Bantu Homelands".   London: Christian Action Publications, 1972.  
320.56 S Sachs, A. South Africa: the violence of Apartheid.   London: Christian Action, 1970.  
329.9 S Strangwayes-Booth, Joanna. A cricket in the thorn tree: Helen Suzman and the Progressive Party of South Africa.   Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1976.  
968.3 T Taylor, Stephen Shaka's children: a history of the Zulu people.   London: HarperCollins, 1995, 1994.
968 T Thompson, Leonard Monteath. A history of South Africa.   New Haven: Yale University Press, c1990.   A history of South Africa focusing on the experiences of the black inhabitants.  
309.168 V Van den Berghe, Pierre L. South Africa, a study in conflict.   Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press [1965]  
305.8 W Wilson , Francis South Africa: the cordoned heart.   Cape Town: Gallery Press; New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c1986.   Prepared for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. 28 photographic essays with text.  
968 W Wilson, Monica (Hunter) The Oxford history of South Africa.   New York, Oxford University Press, 1969-71.   1. South Africa to 1870.--2. South Africa, 1870-1966.  
921 Biko Woods, Donald Biko.   New York: H. Holt, c1987.   Details the arrest, torture, and killing of Bantu Stephen Biko, a black South African leader, and the persecution of his white journalist friend, Donald Woods.  

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