African Activists Project - Links

A Documentary History of Hampshire College, 1975-1985 Chapter 6 Divestment: Documents related to the Hampshire College Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (HCCLSA) and the struggle for divestment from companies doing business in South Africa.
African Media Program: The African Media Program (AMP) offers an online, comprehensive database of films, videos, and other audio-visual materials concerning Africa as well as education services about African media. AMP is a project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. The AMP began in 1978 with four years of work to develop a print compendium, Africa on Film and Videotape, 1982. The compendium lists several thousand productions and provides reviews of more than 700 films and videos, reviewed systematically by African graduate students and American specialists on each country. In 2002 the African Media Program offers an on-line comprehensive reference guide to approximately 10,000 films, videos, and other audiovisual materials concerning Africa (both Sub-Saharan and North Africa). It includes film and video productions made in Africa and around the world. This new database incorporates and updates material contained in the 1982 print compendium, adds many new reviews, and provides as complete a citation as possible from a wide variety of sources.
African National Congress - Archives at University of Fort Hare Library: The archives of the African National Congress of South Africa are at the University of Fort Hare Library. The bulk of the collection consists of the records of the ANC Foreign Missions. The missions operated in 33 countries around the world. Among the records are the correspondence of each mission, press-cuttings, anti-apartheid posters, photographs, and audio-visual records of mission activities. Also included in the ANC Archives are the records from SOMAFCO - the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College.
African National Congress - Books: This site contains online books that were written by or about ANC members. They are provided on this website in full.
African National Congress - Historical Documents: This section of the ANC's web site contains documents that were either produced by the ANC, about the role of the ANC and its allies in the struggle for liberation or directly concerned with the ANC. New documents are constantly being added to this section as they become available.
African Posters, Center for History and New Media at George Mason University: This site contains images of 366 posters, the majority of which come from South Africa and concern the struggle against apartheid. About 50 relate to anti-colonial struggles in Portuguese Africa, with Mozambique especially well-represented. One theme that emerges clearly is the international quality of the anti-apartheid movement. The collection focuses on posters produced within South Africa, but it also includes posters from Angola, Cuba, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Spain, and the United States. Some posters represent specific elements of the international campaign to pressure the South African government through arms and sports boycotts as well as trade and financial sanctions (including divestment).
Alan Paton and Struggle Archives: Alan Stuart Paton (1903-1988), famed author of Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), was also a founding member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (1953). Paton continued to write novels and poetry throughout his life, but he also wrote extensively on matters of a political nature. The Alan Paton Centre and Struggle Archives therefore holds not only Alan Paton’s literary works and related documents and manuscripts, but also papers pertaining to the Liberal Party and other institutions and organizations who contributed to the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa.
Aluka: Aluka is building a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. One of the content areas is the struggles for freedom in Southern Africa. This includes documentation of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa, beginning with Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, including archival materials, periodicals, oral histories, books, and photographs. The majority of content on this website is only available to subscribing organizations. In Africa, Aluka will be made available at no charge to appropriate educational and cultural institutions. Outside of Africa, educational and cultural organizations contribute a fee, scaled to the size of the organization, in order to join the international 'Aluka network'. By joining Aluka they will both gain access to an initial (and growing) set of high-quality collections as well as the opportunity to contribute their own scholarly materials. In the short- or even medium-term, we do not expect these fees to cover all of Aluka’s operating costs. (The cost of developing the initial collections is being funded by external sources, and will not be recovered through participation fees.)
Amistad Research Center: The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans has a number of collections including the archives of the American Committee on Africa and its associate organization The Africa Fund.
Anti-Apartheid Movement: A 40-Year Perspective: The report reproduces the papers presented at a symposium held to mark the 40th Anniversary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Apartheid Museum: Located in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Apartheid Museum is the story of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The Apartheid Museum illustrates the rise and fall of apartheid: The exhibits are from film footages, photographs, text panels and artifacts illustrating the events and human stories that are part of the epic saga, known as apartheid. A series of 22 individual exhibition areas takes the visitor through a dramatic emotional journey that tells a story of a state sanctioned system based solely on racial discrimination. The website includes an online educational resource “Understanding Apartheid.”
Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane: Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (Historical archive of Moçambique, University Eduardo Mondlane), Avenida Filipe Samuel Magaia no. 715, R/C, C.P. 2033, Maputo, Mozambique Tel: (258-1) 431-296 or 421-177 Fax: (258-1) 423-428
Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City Album on Little Steven's Website: The Sun City resort complex, located in Bophuthatswana bantustan in South Africa, attracted international performers. The cultural boycott urged artists not to go perform in South Africa. In 1985 Little Steven Van Zandt co-founded Artists United Against Apartheid (AUAA). That same year AAUA released an album SUN CITY produced by Little Steven and Arthur Baker featuring some 50 artists. The lyrics include the phase "I ain't gonna play Sun City." There was also an award winning video. Monies raised from this album went through The Africa Fund to education for South African exiles; political prisoners, detainees and their families inside South Africa; and anti-apartheid education in the U.S.
Basler Afrika Bibliographien / Namibia Resource Centre - Southern Africa Library: The Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in Basel, Switzerland comprises a specialist library and archives on southern Africa. It also includes a publishing house and an Africa antiquarian bookshop. The BAB was founded in 1971 by Carl Schlettwein with the goal of offering access to bibliographic information on Africa in general, with a particular focus on Namibia. The establishment of a Namibia library and numerous special collections was accompanied by a broad range of publishing activities. Since 1995, the BAB has also been known as the 'Namibia Resource Centre – Southern Africa Library'. The archives also include collections from the Swiss anti-apartheid and solidarity movements. Among these are, for example, the archive of the organisation "Medic' Angola/Kämpfendes Afrika" (Inventory AA.5), dossiers of the Swiss anti-apartheid movement (AAB) and of the "Nachrichtenstelle Südliches Afrika" (NaSA). Another collection in these archives relates to the liberation organisation "SWAPO of Namibia" (Inventory AA.3). The SWAPO archive mainly comprises material published by the organisation in exile from the late 1960s onwards, e.g. numerous magazine articles, press releases, circulars, flyers and posters. The collection continues to gather material related to today's governing party "SWAPO of Namibia". All material must be used at the centre.
Canada and the Fight Against Apartheid: This site of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation contains a series of radio and television reports on South Africa broadcast from the 1960s through the first democratic elections in 1994. It also includes a report on the first ten years of democracy and a curriculum link for teachers.
Celebrating the Role of the International Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa's Freedom Struggle: As part of the national celebrations to mark the decade of freedom, the Documentation Centre and the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal will jointly host a conference A Decade of Democracy: Celebrating the Role of the International Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa’s Freedom Struggle in Durban from October 10-12, 2004. The conference will seek to bring together, for the first time, activists who have been involved in the anti-apartheid struggle from countries such as the UK, USA, India, Australia, Japan, Germany, France, New Zealand, the Nordic countries and the African continent to South Africa. The conference will take place around a myriad of related activities in the city such as exhibitions from different countries, film launches and book launches. Invitees to the conference will include members of the international anti-apartheid movement, stalwarts of South Africa's liberation struggle, members of the South African government, representatives of foreign governments and academics.
Centre for Popular Memory: The Centre is based at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town in South Africa. It focuses its activities both on and off campus and is committed to using oral history, visual history and digital archiving to contribute to social development and democratization.
Clarity Films: Clarity Educational Productions, Inc. (dba Clarity Films) is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation formed in 1979 to produce and distribute films of historical and social value. They are in the process of producing a six part documentary series “Have You Heard from Johannesburg?” chronicling the history of the global anti-apartheid movement that took on South Africa’s entrenched apartheid regime and its international supporters who considered South Africa an ally in the Cold War. The fourth in the series “Apartheid and the Club of the West” [1977 - 1986] is now available.
Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP): The Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP), founded in 1963, is a joint effort by research libraries throughout the world and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) to promote the preservation of publications and archives concerning the nearly fifty nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and to make these materials in microform available to researchers.
Digital Imaging Project of South Africa: DISA is digitalizing and placing on the web South African anti-apartheid publications from 1950-1994 representing a wide spectrum of political views published during these years, but also a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion, health, culture, and gender.
District Six Museum, Cape Town, South Africa: The Group Areas act forcibly relocated millions of South Africans from their homes. District Six is the most famous example of this forced relocation policy under the Apartheid government. District Six in Cape Town, South Africa, was named the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Originally established as a mixed community of freed slaves, merchants, artisans, laborers and immigrants, District Six was a vibrant centre with close links to the city and the port. In 1966, it was declared a white area under the Group Areas Act of 1950, and by 1982, the life of the community was over. 60 000 people were forcibly removed to barren outlying areas aptly known as the Cape Flats, and their houses in District Six were flattened by bulldozers. The District Six Museum, established in December 1994, works with the memories of these experiences and with the history of forced removals more generally. The museum and website serves as a place of remembrance to all who lost so much during those years of state oppression.
Documentation Centre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: Located at the University of KwaZulu Natal (Westville campus) in South Africa, the archives have a very large Indian collection. Its extended scope includes a repository on Kwa-Zulu-Natal regional history, the history of resistance to apartheid in the Province including the records of individuals, families, organizations and institutions. The Centre actively records and documents, student, faculty and alumni material which is of particular interest to the academic community. A faithful record of contemporary events and the many facets such as health, welfare, education, housing etc. which are embodied in the Reconstruction and Development Program is documented as well.
Freedom Park: Freedom Park, with its Garden of Remembrance, is located on a 52-hectare site on Salvokop hill opposite Voortrekker Monument – to juxtapose the past with the processes of moving forward. The project is narrating the story of South Africa’s pre-colonial, colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid history. The Freedom Park is a National Legacy Project legislated by the National Heritage Resources Act No. 25 of 1999 to … “provide a pioneering and empowering heritage destination that challenges visitors to reflect upon our past, improve our present and build on our future as a unified nation.” The chief executive officer is poet Dr Mongane Wally Serote.
Gideon's Gang Marches Again: The Gulf Boycott: In 1970 the Ohio Conference of the United Church of Christ passed a resolution calling for the boycott of Gulf Oil Corporation because of its exploitation of oil in Angola, then a colony of Portugal. In 1971 the Congregation for Reconciliation in Dayton, Ohio formed the Gulf Boycott Coalition. A history of the Gulf Boycott Coalition can be found in Chapter 6 of Gideon's Gang: A Case Study Of The Church In Social Action by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Charles F. Longino, Jr. (United Church Press, 1974). It is available online from Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam) - Collections on African Labour and Social History: The Institute for Social History in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, includes the archives of international trade union secretariats and international human rights organizations. The Institute houses collections of material on solidarity organizations including, Angola Comité, (1962 – 1979), Defense and Aid Fund Nederland (1957 – 1991) , Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika (1872 – 1986) and Werkgroep Kairos (Utrecht) (1971 – 1993). The collection also includes photos, posters, sound recordings and videos. An extensive online Guide to Africa Collections is available.
Liberation Archive at the University of Fort Hare: In 1990 when the liberation organizations of South Africa were unbanned it was not surprising that the leaders of all the resistance movements in South Africa decided that the University of Fort Hare should be earmarked as the repository of the "struggle history" of South Africa. As a result in 1992 the University of Fort Hare was declared custodian to an immensely valuable collection of records and artifacts relating to the fight against apartheid. The signatories to this agreement were the African National Congress (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC), Azanian Peoples' Organisation (AZAPO), Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) and the New Unity Movement (NUM).
Mandela Page: The Mandela Page is a section of the ANC website that contains speeches, statements writings of Nelson Mandela from the 1950s up to today. It also contains other information on Mandela.
Michigan State University - African Studies Center: The African Studies Center at Michigan State University (MSU) is the sponsor of the African Activist Archive Project. The Center’s web site has links to other projects including the Africa media program and the Africa e-Journal Project.
Michigan State University Library - Africana (African Studies): The Africana Collection of the Michigan State University (MSU) Library is one of the largest in the United States, having been built up since 1960 to support broad faculty involvement in research and development projects on the continent. In recent decades, the MSU program about Africa has been consistently rated among the top one or two in the country in both the number of faculty involved and the number of doctoral dissertations produced. The Library's commitment to this world area is reflected in the employment of 2 full-time professional Africana librarians, both of them holding doctorates in African Studies, who built one of the top five collections in the country and who provide reference assistance to a wide range of faculty and students at MSU and elsewhere and who are very involved in national cooperative projects. The Library collection of roughly 200,000 books, pamphlets, maps and microform units covers all areas and disciplines. The African Activist Archive holds collections of U.S. organizations and individuals involved in the solidarity activities toward African freedom struggles, including the anti-apartheid movement. The Library also has a very strong collection of archival materials on microfilm and there are substantial special and audio-visual collections.
Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) - Library, Information and Documentation Centre: The NiZA Library, Information and Documentation Centre (BIDOC) has an extensive collection on various issues in the southern African region. The collection centres on South Africa, and, to a lesser extent, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The special quality of the collection stems from the fact that it originated from the documentation departments of a number of anti-apartheid and solidarity movements which merged into NiZA: Anti-Apartheid Movement Netherlands (AABN) 1961-1994 (including the former Comité Zuid-Afrika), Institute for Southern Africa (IZA) 1994-1996, Holland Committee on Southern Africa (KZA) 1960-1996 (including the former Angola Committee), and Eduardo Mondlane Foundation (EMS) 1974-1996. In addition, the collection contains also the archives of the Dutch support group for the South African Radio Freedom, the Omroep voor Radio Freedom. Parts of the archives of other organizations and private individuals are also stored at NiZA-BIDOC. Among them, a part of the document collection of the (Holland) Shipping Research Bureau.
New Zealand Citizens’ All Black Tour Association (Auckland Branch): New Zealand Citizens’ All Black Tour Association (Auckland Branch) was formed from existing regional branches in September 1959 “to combat racial discrimination in the selection of the 1960 rugby team to tour South Africa...” in particular the exclusion of Maori payers. New Zealand Rugby Football Union announced in 1958 that it had accepted an invitation for the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, to tour South Africa in 1960. In June 1959 the Rugby Union confirmed that the team going to South Africa would be all white and include no Maori players. The New Zealand Citizens’ All Black Tour Association circulated a nation-wide petition to protest the exclusion of Maori players on racial grounds. It also made deputations to the N.Z. Rugby Union, lobbied Members of Parliament and gained the support of leading citizens and organizations. The collection (Records 1959-1960, 30 cm) consists primarily of Auckland Branch material and includes correspondence, minutes, speech extracts, newsletters, newspaper clippings and related ephemera. Associated Materials: The Alexander Turnbull Library holds National Executive and Wellington Branch papers (MS Papers 404) including minutes, correspondence, petition material, newspaper clippings and ephemera.
No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000: This website includes excerpts from the book No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 edited by William Minter, Gail Hovey and Charles Cobb Jr. (Africa World Press, 2008). The book includes a Forward by Nelson Mandela. The book can be ordered from the website.
Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet): The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) in Uppsala was founded in 1962. It serves as a research, documentation and information center on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute also encourages research and studies on Africa in the Nordic countries and co-operation between African and Nordic researchers as well as disseminates information about current African issues. It is financed jointly by the Nordic countries and governed by a Program and Research Council.
Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa: The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, has for a number of years played a role in documenting the Nordic involvement in the National Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa. In 2003 the Nordic Africa Institute initiated a project of identifying archives in the Nordic countries that cover documentation on anti-apartheid resistance and the liberation struggle in Southern Africa, mainly South Africa and Namibia, during the years 1960-1990. At this time there were a large number of organizations in the Nordic countries that took part, e.g. government bodies, youth and church organizations, political parties and solidarity groups. A vast bilateral cooperation emerged and many well documented conferences and meetings were held in the Nordic countries and in Africa during these years. Several visits to refugee camps in Africa and encounters with different leaders are also documented on videos, tapes and in pictures. Organizations in Finland, Norway, Denmark and Sweden have localized, cataloged and organized archives. The material has been indexed in English and is now available in a database that has been created to make the material known and easily accessible for researchers, students and others who are interested in this part of world history. This website includes information on the archives of over 30 organizations.
Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies - Poster Collection: The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University maintains a comprehensive collection of posters published in Africa and elsewhere. The posters generally represent three themes: the 1970's liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies; the Anti-Apartheid groups flourishing outside of South Africa in the 1970's and 1980's; and political campaign posters from the historic South African election of 1994. More than 350 are available for searching and viewing online.
Pan African Congress of Azania, Archives at the University of Fort Hare: The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was formed on 6 April, 1959 by young Black South Africans inspired by the Africanist strain within the African National Congress (ANC). In March, 1960 PAC leader Robert Sobukwe called upon the PAC membership to begin a national, non-violent campaign against the pass laws. Members were instructed to leave their passes at home on March 21 and present themselves at police stations to invite arrest. On the appointed day, crowds gathered in a number of places throughout the country. In Sharpeville, a crowd walking to the police station was fired on by police. Roughly 70 people were killed, and 180 wounded, with women and children among the victims. In April of 1960 the PAC was banned by the South African government. Most of PAC leadership was arrested, including Sobukwe. Others fled the country and continued to operate from exile. The archive includes the records of the PAC missions in London, Zimbabwe and the United Nations.
richardknight.com: Personal web site of Richard Knight, who worked for twenty-six years at the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) and The Africa Fund. He is currently Project Director of the African Activist Archive Project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. This site contains numerous documents on U.S. corporate involvement in apartheid South Africa and on the campaign for sanctions and disinvestment, many of which were originally published by ACOA/Africa Fund. Also contains information on the struggle for self-determination in Western Sahara and current information on Africa, espicially South Africa.
Ripple of Hope in the Land of Apartheid: Robert Kennedy in South Africa, June 1966: In June 1966 Senator Robert Kennedy made an historic visit to South Africa. This site contains, photos, documents, cartoons, newspaper reports related to the trip. It also contains text and audio of his major speeches.
Robben Island Museum: South Africa’s most infamous prison for political prisoners during apartheid is now a museum. For nearly 400 years, Robben Island, 12 kilometers from Cape Town, was a place of banishment, exile, isolation and imprisonment. It was here that rulers sent those they regarded as political troublemakers, social outcasts and the unwanted of society. Those imprisoned on the Island succeeded on a psychological and political level in turning a prison ‘hell-hole’ into a symbol of freedom and personal liberation. Robben Island came to symbolize, not only for South Africa and the African continent, but also for the entire world, the triumph of the human spirit over enormous hardship and adversity.
South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy: South Africa's successful struggle for freedom and democracy is one of the most dramatic stories of our time. The racial tyranny of apartheid ended with a negotiated transition to a non-racial democracy, but not without considerable personal cost to thousands of men, women, and young people who were involved. The South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid, Building Democracy website presents first-hand accounts of this important political movement. Interviews with South African activists, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narrative tell this remarkable story.
South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET): The South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET) was established as a project Trust after President Thabo Mbeki indicated his concern about the paucity of historical material on the arduous and complex road to South Africa's peaceful political settlement after decades of violent conflict. The Road to Democracy project is a chronological analysis of four decades - 1960-1970, 1970-1980, 1980-1990, 1990-1994. SADET's mission is to examine and analyze events leading to the negotiated settlement and democracy in South Africa with a focus on the events leading to the banning of the liberation movements; the various strategies and tactics adopted in pursuit of the democratic struggle; the events leading to the adoption of the negotiation strategy; and the dynamics underpinning the negotiations process between 1990 and 1994. The project management and research team consists of Dr Gregory Houston (Executive Director), Professor Bernard Magubane (Editor-in-Chief), Dr Sifiso Ndlovu (Director of Research) and Mrs Elsa Kruger (Project Administrator).
South African Film & Video Project: The South Africa Film and Video Project (SAFVP) is a collaboration of seven institutions in South Africa and the U.S. - to create a definitive multinational database of the “moving pictures” of film and videotape media about South Africa - and to contribute to saving important deteriorating videotape and film resources on South Africa and making those images more widely available. The database provides access for the public, schools and teachers, scholars, and professionals to the broad and deep heritage of the film and video that recorded the panoply of the world’s most extraordinary history of political and racial transition of the twentieth century – from colonialism, to the apartheid state, to the coming of majority rule in South Africa and other countries of the Southern Africa region. The archive collection provides U.S. scholars with research access to selected single copies of key South African films and videos on deposit at the Michigan State University Library.
South African History Archive: The South African History Archive (SAHA) is an independent archive dedicated to documenting and supporting the struggles for justice in South Africa located at the University of the Witwatersrand.
South African History Online: South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people’s history project. It was established in 1999 as a not-for-profit organization, to promote research; to popularize South African history and to address the biased way in which the history and cultural heritage of Black South Africans has been represented. SAHO’s website is one of the most comprehensive resources on South African history and culture.
South African Research and Archival Project: South African Research and Archival Project (SARAP) is located on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. It works closely with the Moorland Spingarn Research Center, also at Howard University, and has established relationships with other archives in the United States and South Africa. This project began as an effort to identify, locate and describe documentation about the diasporic relationship between blacks in South Africa and the United States.
Southern Africa Report: Southern Africa Report (ISSN 0820-5582), was published by the Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa (TCLSAC) that later became the Toronto Committee for Links between Southern Africa and Canada (TCLSAC). Volume 1 Number 1 was published in June 1985. 15 years and 68 issues later, in October 2000, the magazine closed with Volume 15 Number 4.
Springbok Rugby Tour 1981: At the conclusion of the Springbok's Rugby tour of New Zealand in July-September 1981 members of the English Department of the University of Canterbury placed advertisements in a number of newspapers and periodicals throughout New Zealand asking for people's comments and experiences. The collection includes both pro-tour and anti-tour contributions. The responses have been deposited in the Library. In order to preserve anonymity, typescript copies, omitting the names and addresses of contributors, have been made; these are available for consultation. The originals have also been deposited: access to these is totally restricted. The material (0.5 meters) is deposited in the Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8020, New Zealand. Reference Phone: 364-2753 Reference Fax: 364-2816. A digitized version of this is available via Digital Library. To locate the online catalogue information type Springbok in the search feature of the library website.
The history of the Africa Groups of Sweden and the Swedish anti-apartheid movement: This brief history includes information on Swedish South Africa Committee, the Africa Groups of Sweden, the Africa Groups Recruitment Organisation, and the Isolate South Africa Committee (ISAC).
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Videotape Collection at the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Library: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Videotape Collection features over 80 hours of news broadcasts assembled by journalist Max Du Preez, covering the history and activities of the Commission. The site features finding aids to the collection, summaries of each tape, and a short RealMedia presentation highlighting portions of several of the tapes.
The South West Africa People's Organisation 1961-1991: a guide to archival resources and special collections in the Western Cape, South Africa: Compiled by Sarah Sadie M. Wilcox, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2001 and Massachusetts, USA, July 2003. The aim of this catalog is to provide a reference guide to archival resources and special collections in the Western Cape, South Africa, that house materials pertaining to the national liberation movement in Namibia. The catalog is specifically focused on materials by and about the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), dating from 1960 to1991.The document, available from this link, is 186 pages.
United Nations in the Struggle Against Apartheid: This page is an extensive source for documentation on UN action against apartheid. In includes a chronology, documents, speeches, a list of major conferences and more. This site is housed on the ANC’s website.
United Nations: Historical images of Apartheid in South Africa: Photos from the United Nations photo archive collection.
University of Connecticut - African National Congress Partnership: The University of Connecticut (UConn) and the African National Congress (ANC) have formed a partnership to archive and share with scholars materials from the ANC’s struggle for human rights in South Africa, to chronicle the struggle through an oral history, and to link UConn and the University of Fort Hare on the Eastern Cape of South Africa to focus on comparative human rights.
University of the Western Cape Robben Island Mayibuye Archives: Located at the University of the Western Cape, the Robben Island Mayibuye Archives includes more than 300 collections of personal and organizational documents reflecting the struggle for national liberation in South Africa. These papers and publications, many of which were banned under apartheid, document the major political events and turning points that culminated in the unbanning of political organizations and the release of Nelson Mandela and other leaders in February 1990, and the country's first democratic election in April 1994.
University of Witwatersrand - Historical Papers: Houses a number of collections related to the struggle against apartheid including the Black Sash, the Federation of South African Women, the South African Council of Churches, E. S. Reddy (former Assistant General of the United Nations and Head of its Centre against Apartheid), SPRO-CAS (Study Project On Christianity In An Apartheid Society), the Human Rights Commission (later called Human Rights Committee), Robert Sobukwe, the first president-general of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the Kairos Collection (papers of the Kairos Foundation, 1970-2002, Steve Biko, and the Natal Indian Congress. A 400 page guide can be downloaded.
Video Clip from WGBH Archives: Apartheid protesters at shantytown on Tufts University campus: Tufts students speak out against the university's investments in companies doing business in South Africa. This video is an excerpt. From the WGBH Ten O’Clock News [Boston] archive. Original Airdate: November 8, 1985.
Video Clip from WGBH Archives: Brandeis chaplains fast for divestment: Brandeis University chaplains and students protest university investments in South Africa. Christy George reports on the end of a two-week fast by chaplains at Brandeis University. Father Maurice Loiselle, Rabbi Albert Axelrad and Reverend Diane Moore discuss their fast and the university's policy regarding South Africa. From the WGBH Ten O’Clock News [Boston] archive. Original Airdate: February 13, 1987.
Video Clip from WGBH Archives: Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid: Jan von Mehren reports that a small band of Harvard Alumni have announced the candidacy of Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South African for the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Von Mehren notes that the Board of Overseers is elected by university alumni to make policy recommendations. She adds that Tutu is on a slate of candidates nominated by the Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid organization. Von Mehren's report includes footage of Alumni Against Apartheid members Robert Wolff, Robert Zevin, and Linda Davidoff addressing a small crowd on the Harvard Campus. From the WGBH Ten O’Clock News [Boston] archive. Original Airdate: March 9, 1989.
Video Clip from WGBH Archives: Interview with Dennis Brutus: This video clip is an excerpt from an interview with South African poet Dennis Brutus, who reads a poem on the Sharpeville Massacre. From the WGBH Ten O’Clock News [Boston] archive. Original Airdate: March 26, 1982.
Video Clip from WGBH Archives: Protest at the South African Consulate, Boston: This video is an excerpt. Willard Johnson demands the resignation of the South African Consul in Boston. Anti-Apartheid protesters gather in front of the South African Consulate at 100 Charles River Plaza in Boston. Willard Johnson announces that the protestors will ask for South African Consul Blankstein's resignation from his post. From the WGBH Ten O’Clock News [Boston] archive. Original Airdate: December 4, 1984.
Video Clip from WGBH Archives: Reverend Allan Boesak: Reverend Allan Boesak calls for sanctions against South Africa at Harvard University. This video is an excerpt. From the WGBH Ten O'Clock News [Boston] archive. Original Airdate: January 17, 1989.
Villon Films: Villon Films has been independently producing and distributing award-winning films since 1970. With a strong focus on socio-political documentary, the collection spans such issues as government, history, ecology, culture, health and science, women's issues, biography, and the apartheid period of South African history. Villon Films has been independently producing and distributing award-winning films since 1970. With a strong focus on socio-political documentary, the collection spans such issues as government, history, ecology, culture, health and science, women's issues, biography, and the apartheid period of South African history. Anti-apartheid films available include South Africa: the White Laager (1977), a history of Afrikaner nationalism; Generations of Resistance (1980), documenting the long history of African rebellion against white rule up to the student uprising of 1976; and The Nuclear Axis, an exposé of South Africa's move towards the acquisition of nuclear weapons' capability.