WWW-VL History Index: South Africa

WWW-VL: HISTORY: SOUTH AFRICA (This site is not anymore maintained and is looking for an editor, April 2008.)

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Research Tools
- Geography
  - Maps
    - Shaded Relief
    - Political Divisions
    - National Map [highly detailed urban maps. magnifications to 10 meters]
    - National Map. Demographic Data [several magnifications. 1996 census.]
    - Historical Maps
    - Black Homeslands
    - Marion and Prince Edward Islands
    - Johannesburg
  - Gazetteers
    - cities and Towns
- Language
- Bibliography
  - Bibliography, Including On-Line Gateways and Indexes
    - Bibliography of Dutch Colonial History 1500-1800
    - Bibliography of South African History
  - Archives
  - Libraries
  - Online Materials
    - Books
    - South African War Virtual Library
    - Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion, by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
    - South Africa. A Country Study
    - From the Jameson Raid to Bloemfontein: Debating the Origins of the Boer War, by Garett Moritz
    - The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune, by Stanley Portal Hyatt
    - The Great Boer War, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1901)
    - The Northward Trek, by Stanley Portal Hyatt
    - Real Soldiers of Fortune, By Richard Harding Davis
    - The Relief of Ladsmith, by Richard Harding Davis
    - The Siege of Ladysmith, by Richard Harding Davis
    - The Story of the Boers narrated by their own leaders, compiled by C.W. Van Der Hoogt (1900)
    - The Three Year's War, by C.R. de Wet
    - The Diary of a Soldier of Fortune. By Stanley Portal Hyatt
    - Trader Horn, His Life and Works, by Alfred A."Trader" Horn (1861-1931), published 1927.
    - With Buller's Column, by Richard Harding Davis
  - Documents
- Journals
  - History Journals Guide
  - Military History Journal
- Research Centers
  - The Genealogical Institute of South Africa
  - Tha Alan Paton Centre of the University of Natal
- Museums
- Associations and Foundations
- Universities
- Biography
  - Individual Biography
    - Shaka 1787-1836
    - C.R. de Wet
  - Collected Biographies
  - Demography and Genealogy
Timelines

Instruction

South African Politics. An Introduction Using Internet Resources [on-line course preepared by Allison Drew]

Chronological

General
- South African Social History [Gateway to selected museum sites]
Before the Europeans
Portuguese Settlement
- The Cannibals of KwaZulu Natal. Fact or Fable?
Dutch Settlement
The Voortrek
Anglo-Zulu War
- A Propensity for Sitting on Stones: a Dialog on Shaka Zulu
- Some Tactical Notes on the British Army 1837-1901, With Particular Reference to the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, by Ted Brown
- The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
- The Anglo-Zulu War
- Battlefields of the Anglo-Zulu War: Index
- Ultimatum Tree 11 December 1878
- Zulu Mountain Trap Sprung 22 January 1879
- Battle of Isandlwana 22 January 1879
- Fugitives' Drift 22 January 1879
- Battle of Rorke's Drift 22-23 January 1879, by Graeme Smythe
- Battle of Rorke's Drift. Sequence of Events, 22-23 January 1879, by Major P.R. Naish (retd)
- Battle of Rorke's Drift 22-23 January 1879, Collated by the KZN Battlefields Route Committee
- Battle of Inyezane 22 January 1879
- Siege of Eshowe 23 January to 3 April 1879
- The Battle of Intombi River 12 March 1879, by Ron Locke
- The Battle of Intombi River 12 March 1879, by Fred Duke
- Dramatic Zulu Reversal at Khambula 29 March 1879
- Battle of Gingindlovu 2 April 1879
- The Battle of Ulundi - 4 July 1879
The Northward Trek
- The Northward Trek, by Stanley Portal Hyatt [1911]
The First Anglo-Boer War
- South African War Virtual Library
- The Anglo-Boer War from 1899-1902
- From the Jameson Raid to Bloemfontein: Debating the Origins of the Boer War, by Garett Moritz
- Chronology of the Anglo-Boer War
- Perspective. The Anglo-Boer War in Original and Comptemporary Sources
- The Battle of Majuba Hill 26 February 1881
- With Buller's Column, by Richard Harding Davis
- The Siege of Ladysmith, by Richard Harding Davis
- The Relief of Ladsmith, by Richard Harding Davis
- The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith 1899-1900
- The Great Boer War, by Arthur Conan Doyle (1901)
- The Story of the Boers, by C. W. van der Hoogt [1900]
- The South African War and the Act of Union
- The Bambatha Rebellion February-August 1906
A White-Run State. 1910-1960
- The Union of South Africa 1910-1960: a white-run state
- Separate Worlds [the institutional foundations of apartheid, 1912-1936]
- Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion, by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
- Honourable Trusteeship [growth of nationalism and swartgewaar in the 1920's]
- Apartheid Legislation - and the Responses [the Malan Nationalist government, 1948-1952
- The African Miners' Strike of 1946
- 40th Anniversary of the Miners' Strike of 1946
- The System of Apartheit
- Consolidation and Suppression [establishment of the "bantustans"]
- Isolation [Veervoort's government of the 1960's]
- South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt ["Self Government" and "Self-Development"]
- Total Onslaught, Total Strategy [growth of the policy of a "fortress state"]
- The General Strike May 1961
- The Peasants' Revolt, by Govan Mbeki
End of Apartheit
- The Consequences of Apartheit [Soweto (1973), etc.]
- The 1980s and the State of Emergency
- The Beginnings of Change [1980-]
- The Overthrow of Apartheit
- Transition
A Multi-National State

Topics

Military History
- Military forces of Britain, the Empire, and Commonwealth. South Africa
Urban History
- History of Durban
- Local Histories
  - Hout Bay
  - Mosell Bay

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