Primary Sources: Africa: South Africa

"Cuban documents about Havana's policy toward Southern Africa in the final fifteen years of the Cold War. Obtained by Piero Gleijeses for his book "Visions of Freedom." See his introduction to the collection for more information. (Image, Poster of President Agostinho Neto and Fidel Castro after Angolan independence celebration)"

David Livingstone was born in Scotland, received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow, and was sent to South Africa by the London Missionary Society. Circumstances led him to try to meet the material needs as well as the spiritual needs of the people he went to, and while promoting trade and trying to end slavery, he became the first European to cross the continent of Africa, which story is related in this book. Description from Project Gutenberg

A report of a public meeting, jointly convened by the Aborigines protective society and the British and foreign anti-slavery society, which was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 29th April, 1903.

Provides access to materials such as speeches, photographs, videos, etc. related to Nelson Mandela.

"This collection provides a look at nearly twenty-five years of South African nuclear policy. These documents shed new light on the country’s unique nuclear history, from early uranium supply arrangements under the United States-South Africa Atomic Energy Bilateral to the South African response to the September 1979 Vela incident, through the early 1990s when it announced the existence and subsequent destruction of its nuclear program."

"The feminist and socialist writer and social theorist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was one of the most important - and radical - social commentators of her day."