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South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1836-1909

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• South Africa -- Politics and government

• Closer Union: A Letter on the South African Union and the Principles of Government (London: A. C. Fifield, 1909), by Olive Schreiner
  • HTML at Indiana
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Impressions of South Africa (third edition; London: Macmillan and Co., 1899), by James Bryce (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by J. A. Hobson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Political Situation, by Olive Schreiner and Samuel Cron Cronwright-Schreiner (HTML at Indiana)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2011), ed. by Donald Iain Ray, Tim Quinlan, Keshav Sharma, and Tacita Clarke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Armies and Democracy in the New Africa: Lessons from Nigeria and South Africa (1996), by Kent Hughes Butts and Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• Briton and Boer: Both Sides of the South African Question (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), contrib. by James Bryce, Sydney Brooks, F. V. Engelenburg, Karl Blind, Andrew Carnegie, Francis Charmes, Demetrius Charles Boulger, Max Simon Nordau, Hans Delbrück, Vladimir Gol'mstrem, Ė. Ė. Ukhtomskīĭ, and Edmund Gosse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by John Buchan (Gutenberg text)
• Rhodesia and its Government (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1898), by H. C. Thomson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Awakening of a People (first published 1950; this edition 1974), by I. B. Tabata (PDF with commentary at sahistory.org.za)
• Minutes of Proceedings with Annexures (Selected) of the South African national Convention, Held at Durban, Cape Town and Bloemfontein, 12th October, 1908, to 11th May, 1909 (Cape Town: Cape Times Ltd., government printers, 1911), by South African National Convention (1908-1909)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Union of South Africa (reprint; New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969), by R. H. Brand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Syndicalist Conspiracy in South Africa, A Scathing Indictment: Being General J. C. Smuts' Speech in the Union Parliament on the Recent Deportations (Cape Town: Cape Times Ltd., 1914), by Jan Christiaan Smuts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Union of South Africa (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1909), by R. H. Brand
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Notes on the Formation of South African Foreign Policy (Pasadena, CA: G. Dahlstrom, Castle Press, 1965), by Edwin S. Munger (PDF at Caltech)
• The Awakening of a People (first published 1950; this edition 1974), by I. B. Tabata (PDF with commentary at sahistory.org.za)
• The Rise of the South African Reich, by Brian Bunting (HTML at archive.org)

• Ikwezi (full serial archives)

• A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Donald L. Horowitz (HTML at UC Press)

• Dawn: Monthly Journal of Umkhonto we Sizwe, by Umkhonto we Sizwe (South Africa) (partial serial archives)
• Ikwezi (full serial archives)
• Arise! Vukani! (partial serial archives)

• The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley (HTML at UC Press)

• The End of Apartheid? South Africa Moves to the Vote (ACSJC occasional paper #19; North Blackburn, Vic.: CollinsDove, c1994), by Maggie Paterson (PDF in Australia)

• Mayibuye, by African National Congress (partial serial archives)

• Mayibuye, by African National Congress (partial serial archives)
• Parliamentary Bulletin, by African National Congress (partial serial archives)
• Umrabulo, by African National Congress (partial serial archives)
• ANC Today, by African National Congress (full serial archives)

• Workers Solidarity (South African periodical, 1995-1999) (partial serial archives)

• Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Ivan Thomas Evans (HTML at UC Press)
• South Africa's Freedom Struggle: Statements, Speeches, and Articles Including Correspondence With Mahatma Gandhi, by Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, ed. by E. S. Reddy (HTML in South Africa)

• Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (issues more than 2 years old free to read online) (partial serial archives)

• Isizwe: Journal of the United Democratic Front, by United Democratic Front (South Africa) (partial serial archives)
• Frank Talk, by Azanian People's Organization, contrib. by Steve Biko (partial serial archives)

• The Black Homelands of South Africa: The Political and Economic Development of Bophuthtswana and Kwa-Zulu (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotberg, and John Adams (HTML at UC Press)

• South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt, by Govan Mbeki (HTML in South Africa)

• The Black Homelands of South Africa: The Political and Economic Development of Bophuthtswana and Kwa-Zulu (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotberg, and John Adams (HTML at UC Press)

• Reminiscences of an Old 'Un (London: E. Nash, 1911), by Frank Newton Streatfeild
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt, by Govan Mbeki (HTML in South Africa)

• Some South African Recollections (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), by Florence Phillips
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• "I Saw a Nightmare--"; Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 (c2006), by Helena Pohlandt-McCormick (illustrated HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
• South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt, by Govan Mbeki (HTML in South Africa)

• South Africa's Freedom Struggle: Statements, Speeches, and Articles Including Correspondence With Mahatma Gandhi, by Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, ed. by E. S. Reddy (HTML in South Africa)

• Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Ivan Thomas Evans (HTML at UC Press)

• Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2003), by Gideon Shimoni (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

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