International Institute of Social History
The African Skies Foundation was established in 1995 in Amsterdam to preserve and manage the extensive video footage and edited productions made between 1982 and 1994 by the video unit of the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement (Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland), which disbanded at the end of 1994. In 2004 a copy of the collection (in the form of analogue Betacam tapes) was donated to the National Film, Video and Sound Archive in Pretoria and the African National Congress archives at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. In 2015, the African Skies Foundation was abolished and the video collection was transferred to the International Institute of Social History (IISH).
Ahmed Kathrada Foundation
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation was formed in 2008 to continue the legacy of anti-apartheid stalwart Ahmed Kathrada and his generation. The Foundation is an independent, non-partisan entity. Kathrada, a former Robben Island prisoner, served 26 years in jail alongside his fellow Rivonia Trialists for their stance against the apartheid government. The objective of the Foundation is to deepen non-racialism in post-apartheid South Africa. The Publications portion of the website includes documents that can be downloaded. South Africa
This website is related to the book Airlift to America: How Barack Obama. Sr., John F. Kennedy, Tom Mboya, and 800 East African Students Changed Their World and Ours by Tom Shachtman. The book and website tell the saga of how a handful of Americans and Kenyans fought the British colonial government, the U.S. State Department, and segregation to "airlift" to U.S. universities, between 1959 and 1963, nearly 800 young East African men and women who would go on to change the world. United States
Alan Paton Centre 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 wrote novels and poetry throughout his life and also wrote extensively on political matters. The archives hold not only Paton’s literary works and related documents and manuscripts, but also papers about the Liberal Party and other institutions and organizations that contributed to the struggle against apartheid. This website contains finding aids to collections held at the Centre. The Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) website contains more than 7,600 digital files of individual items from the Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives. (See: .) South Africa
African National Congress
The website has consisted of material from archives of the African National Congress (ANC). South Africa
Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa, International Institute of Social History
In 2003-2004, the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) commissioned the writing of a web dossier on the history of the Southern Africa solidarity movement from which it sprang. NiZA was formed in 1997 from the merger of the former Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement (Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland, AABN), the Eduardo Mondlane Foundation (EMS), and the Holland Committee on Southern Africa (Komitee Zuidelijk Afrika, KZA). This dossier was written in 2004 (Dutch version only) and revised in 2009 by Richard Hengeveld, Amsterdam and is in the website of the International Institute of Social History. It is available in English and Dutch. Netherlands
Southern Methodist University
This website documents the anti-apartheid movement North Texas–in Dallas and Fort Worth and on the campus of Southern Methodist University–where activists urged local institutions to divest from companies doing business in South Africa and to implement sanctions. The site was built by Dr. Jill E. Kelly, Assistant Professor of African History at Southern Methodist University (SMU), and her students Hope Anderson, Kyle Carpenter, Camille Davis, Lindsay Grossman, Brianna "Bri" Hogg, Jaqueline Lara, Kathryn Lope, Claiborne Lord, Braunshay Pertile, and Alyssa Sheraden. The students conducted interviews with activists, including Ehi Agboaye, Reverend Bob Cooper, Gary Gilley, Clarence Glover, Jr., Rick Halperin, Reverend Peter Johnson, Anthony Lyons, Judge Eric Moyé, Don Payton, Diane Ragsdale, Baba Ifayomi (Arthur Riggins), Bob Ray Sanders, Reverend Charles Stovall, and Bert Williams. Kelly conducted the interview of Marvin Crenshaw. The audio interviews, along with written explanatory material, are available on the website. United States
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." South Africa
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
The Avoice (African American Voices in Congress) website, developed by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation with the University of Texas Libraries, is designed to capture and preserve the rich history of political and legislative contributions of black Americans. An Anti-Apartheid Exhibit focuses on the role the Congressional Black Caucus played in the anti-apartheid movement. The Exhibit includes galleries of photographs and more than 400 documents. All or most of these documents appear to be from the "Records of the House Sub-Committee on Africa in the Charles Diggs Papers" at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. United States
Barack Obama
Barack Obama message at the launch of the Dear Mr Mandela..,.Dear Mrs Parks: Children's Letters, Global Lessons exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu. The exhibition was designed by Oryx Multimedia, Cape Town. United States
Basler Afrika Bibliographien
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 organization "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 organization "SWAPO of Namibia" (Inventory AA.3). The SWAPO archive mainly comprises material published by the organization in exile from the late 1960s onwards, e.g. numerous magazine articles, press releases, circulars, flyers and posters. All material must be used at the centre. Switzerland
Nordic Africa Institute
Link to PDF of the a book edited by Douglas Anglin, Timothy Shaw and Carl Widstrand published by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, 1978. Sweden
Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, died on October 15, 2019 in Montclair, NJ, surrounded by her family. She was 85. Her love, curiosity, honesty, and insistent focus on building movements to fight for social justice influenced and inspired countless activists and organizers.
University of Kwazulu-Natal
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 jointly hosted 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 10-13, 2004. The conference brought together 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. Invitees to the conference included 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. The website includes many of the papers presented by participants. South Africa
University of Cape Town
Centre for Popular Memory online archive. The Centre was based at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town in South Africa. It focused 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. South Africa
Youth Leadership Support Network
The Youth Leadership Support Network website page on the DC Student Coalition against Apartheid and Racism (DC SCAR). DC SCAR had chapters at area colleges, universities and high schools between 1983 and 1998. The website has photos, an article DC SCAR Foundations & South Africa: A Brief Sketch of Solidarity & Struggles by Doug Calvin and other material on the student movement. United States
Digital Innovation South Africa
Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA) is a freely accessible online scholarly resource that includes digital content from the Campbell Collections, Alan Paton Centre & Struggle Archives, Gandhi Luthuli Documentation Centre, and the Centre for African Literary Studies, as well as resources about Steve Biko. Also, DISA digitized South African anti-apartheid publications from 1950-1994 representing a wide spectrum of political views and focused on a diversity of subjects such as trade unions, religion, health, culture, and gender. (See: .) The site also hosts the South African Music Archive Project (SAMAP), which contains 13,000 brief audio samples from five collections. South Africaa
David Larsen, Africa Media Online
This video tells the story of the digitisation of the archives of the African National Congress. This was a talk given by David Larsen at the International Liberation Archives Conference held at the ICC in East London, South Africa from October 31 to November 2, 2012. The theme of the conference was "Archives Deepening Democracy." South Africa
District Six Museum, Webfactory
District Six is the most famous example of forced relocation carried out by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act. District Six 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 center 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, 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. South Africa
University of Michigan
Michigan in the World features exhibitions of research conducted by undergraduate students about the history of the University of Michigan and its relationships beyond its borders. United States
Joel Saxe, Hampshire College
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. United States
AAM Archives Committee
Forward to Freedom tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. It also campaigned for freedom for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola, and against South Africa's attacks on its neighbors. On this website you can find out how hundreds of thousands of people all over Britain got involved in anti-apartheid campaigns. You can read documents, watch demonstrations and concerts, and hear from some of those involved. United Kingdom
Freedom Park Trust
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. South Africa
University of KwaZulu-Natal
The archives have a large Indian collection. The history of the KwaZulu-Natal region includes resistance to apartheid, with records of individuals, families, organizations, and institutions. The Centre records and documents student, faculty, and alumni material of particular interest to the academic community. The archives also include records of contemporary events and many facets such as health, welfare, education, and housing which are embodied in the Reconstruction and Development Program. South Africa
University of Virginia Library, Jr. Charles F. Longino, Jeffrey K. Hadden
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 is recounted 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). United States
Swarthmore College
Includes descriptions of 18 campaigns on colleges and universities for divestment from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa and hundreds of campaign on other issues including U.S. civil rights, sweatshops, nuclear power, fossil fuels, and more. The website provides free access to information about cases of nonviolent action for learning and for citizen action of campaigns that have reached a point of completion. The cases are drawn from all continents and most countries. The website is a project of Swarthmore College, including Peace and Conflict Studies, the Peace Collection, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility. United States
Inc. Clarity Educational Productions
This seven-part documentary stories, produced and directed by Connie Field, chronicles "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." United States
Detroit Public Television
This special episode of the "Detroit Black Journal" is a 53-minute video report of Nelson Mandela's trip to the United States in June 1990. There is a special focus on Mandela’s trip to Detroit, including Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela being greeted by leaders of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW). There is also footage from Mandela’s visit to New York and Boston. The show is hosted by Trudy Gallant. She interviews organizers of Mandela’s trip to Detroit, including Margaret Baylor, president of the Detroit chapter of TransAfrica, and Paul Hubbard, former president of New Detroit Inc. Gallant also talks with two prominent Detroit journalists: Susan Watson, a columnist with the Detroit Free Press, and Emery King, an anchor for WDIV-TV, who reported on Mandela’s tour. This discussion intersperses their reflections with video clips of Mandela's appearances. United States
NPR
This National Public Radion (NPR) report on the death of Dennis Brutus includes a 13-minute interview with Brutus originally broadcast on April 22, 1986. United States
Oberlin College
This article in the Oberlin College's Alumni News & Notes by Albert J. McQueen and John D. Elder is about Eduardo Mondlane. In the fall of 1951, Mondlane, a 32-year old native of Mozambique, enrolled in Oberlin College as a junior. In 1961 he was elected president of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO). United States
Dina Kellams, Indiana University Libraries
Posted on Blogging Hooser History on September 21, 2021 about the anti-apartheid divestment movement at Indiana University. The post says the active groups included the Student Coalition Against Racism (SCAR), the Bloomington South Africa Committee, and the Black Christian Student Fellowship, though they had the support of several other student organizations on campus, including the Latin Alliance of Midwest America (ALMA). The post says they worked together to collect signatures for a petition demanding IU's divestment. The post mentions the book Born A Crime by Trevor Noah. United States
Lincoln Cushing, Docs Populi
Inkworks Press is a worker-owned offset printshop dedicated to providing affordable, quality printing to community and non-profit organizations. This website includes many of the posters produced by Inkworks Press including many related to supporting African struggles against colonialism and apartheid. This website is part of the Docs Populi - documents for the public website. United States
Thirteen videos related to the African Liberation Support Committee (ALSC). Three videos are from the African Liberation Day events in Washington, D.C. on May 25, 1974 at Malcolm X (Meridian Hill) Park and a march to the White House. The other videos are speeches, panels, and discussion at the African Liberation Day Conference held that weekend at Cramton Auditorium at Howard University. Speakers in the videos include Dawolu Gene Locke, John Warfield, Saladin Muhammad, Brother Sufu Abner Berry, Abdul Alkalimat, Stokely Carmichael aka Kwame Ture, Kwadwo Akpan, Owusu Sadaukai (Howard Fuller), and Imamu Amiri Baraka. Videos are made available on the Digital Howard website with support from Dr. Abdul Alkalimat. United States
Ithaka Harbors Inc.
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. The resource consists of 76 different collections of more than 20,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles. JSTOR is a pay website. The website says "JSTOR offers tiered fees and flexible purchasing options for libraries and organizations. We adjust our fees based on your institution's size, type, and country. Participants include small institutions, large universities, secondary schools, and every type in between." United States
Detroit Public Television
This live episode of the "Detroit Black Journal" features an interview with Bishop Desmond Tutu during a trip to the United States. Charlayne Hunter-Gault is the guest host for this show, which aired on January 15, 1986. In response to questions from Hunter-Gualt, the studio audience, and questioners on the phone, Tutu discusses the Reagan administration policy toward South Africa, the issue of economic sanctions, and the differences and similarities between the struggle in South Africa and the U.S. civil rights struggle. (The video is 1 hour and 4 minutes.) United States
Colin Darch
Mozambique History Net (MHN) was established in April 2008 by Colin Darch who is a documentalist and historian of Mozambique. He worked at the Centro de Estudos Africanos at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane from 1979 to 1987, and is now resident in Cape Town, South Africa. MHN welcomes constructive criticism and suggestions, and actively seeks professional collaboration. South Africa
Nelson Mandela Foundation
The Nelson Mandela Foundation leads the development of a living legacy that captures the vision and values of Nelson Mandela's life and work. Through the creation of strategic networks and partnerships, the Nelson Mandela Foundation directs resources, knowledge and practice to add value and demonstrate new possibilities. The Nelson Mandela Foundation embodies the spirit of reconciliation, ubuntu, and social justice. Our work is a celebration of Mandela's life. The Foundation's Memory Programme resources documenting the life and times of Nelson Mandela are to be found in an extraordinary range of locations, both within South Africa and internationally. These resources are embedded in various legal and other jurisdictions. The Memory Programme provides a unique facility which allows people access to this history. South Africa
Nelson Mandela Museum
The Nelson Mandela Youth and Heritage Centre in Qunu reopened in July 2023 after a renovation, with two exhibits: Unthreading Nelson Mandela and a Robben Island Photographic Exhibition. The Nelson Mandela Museum in the Bhunga Building in Mthatha is also open. South Africa
Zinn Education Project
Page on Nelson Mandela and the struggle against apartheid including in the United States. The page is part of the Zinn Education Project's TEACHING A PEOPLE'S HISTORY website. The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn's best-selling book A People's History of the United States. United States
Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa
The Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa (NiZA) Library, Information and Documentation Centre (BIDOC) has an extensive collection on various issues in the southern African region. The collection centers 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. The collection also contains 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. Netherlands
William Minter, Solidarity Research and Writing LLC
This is the website for 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). All chapters of the book can now be downloaded as PDFs or the book can be ordered on Kindle or as a Google e-book. Transcripts of interviews with 16 U.S. activists also are available on the site. The book includes a Forward by Nelson Mandela. This website also includes Southern Africa Liberation History - Guide to Sources of Liberation Posters United States
Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet)
The Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa Project contains information about national liberation in Southern Africa (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe) and the role of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The website contains list of archives held in Nordic countries, transcripts of interviews with more than 130 people who were involved in the liberation struggle; digitized audio and visual materials as well as print publications; and a list of archives containing primary sources on this topic held in in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Sweden
Northwestern University Library
The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University maintains a comprehensive collection of posters published in Africa and elsewhere. Thee posters represent a variety of social, political, and cultural issues, including public health, education, liberation and independence, liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies, political campaigns, the anti-apartheid movement, Biafra, Darfur, economics, art, publishing, and music. Through these collections, scholars and students can explore how institutions and organizations communicated with African populations from the mid-19th century through the present day. United States
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Video of Shelia D. Collins, author of "Ubuntu: George M. Houser and the Struggle for Peace and Freedom on Two Continents" moderated by Ethan Vesely-Flad. Other people talking on the video include Martie Leys, David Hartsough, Hoda Zaki, Scott Bennett, Anne Stone in Belgium, and Emma Jordan Simpson. The video discusses the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), civil disobedience, young people, Carol Bragg, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Journey of Reconciliation, the Union 8, Western Sahara, anti-colonial struggles, refugee camps, Morocco, and South Africa. United States
Lincoln Cushing, Docs Populi
This website has a series of posters produced by the Organization in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAAL). OSPAAAL is based in Cuba. This website is part of the Docs Populi - documents for the public website. United States
Dr. Pauline H. Baker
Audio recordings of 90 lectures about contemporary events by scholars, journalists, South African government officials, Bantustan leaders, members of Parliament, and members of opposition groups include the African National Congress, United Democratic Front, National Union of Mineworkers, and Pan-Africanist Congress. Lectures were part of a breakfast series in Washington, D.C. hosted first by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and, later, by the Aspen Institute. Particularly prominent speakers included Thabo Mbeki, Chris Hani, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Mosiuoa Patrick "Terror" Lekota. Also, some lectures by Americans, including George Moose, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; these members of the House of Representatives: Howard Wolpe and Harry A. Johnston, Chair of the Africa Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee; and William Minter reporting on RENAMO. United States
University of Chicago
Audio recording of meeting at the University of Chicago featuring Justice Albie Sachs and Prexy Nesbitt on January 18, 2010. The program is moderated by Evalyn Tennant, Associate Director of the Center for International Studies. United States
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. United States
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
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
The Ruth First Papers are the collected notes and writings of Ruth First, South African activist, campaigning journalist and scholar. The project, launched in May 2012, is creating a free online digital archive of a selection of Ruth First’s writings held at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. It will consist of at least 5,000 pages, digitized and presented as academically rigorous clusters of material. The website includes two of her books currently out of print as well as photographs and audio interviews. It also will contain secondary material including conference items and short academic essays about First’s life and work. The resource as a whole will represent a digital version of the Ruth First Resource Centre that was called for in the immediate aftermath of her assassination in 1982. The Ruth First Papers project is based at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, in partnership with the University of the Western Cape-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives and the Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique. United Kingdom
SNCC Legacy Project, Duke University Libraries, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
The SNCC Digital Gateway is a digital resource about the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The website links to online collections and educational resources created by institutions across the country. SNCC recognized the need to stand in solidarity with their African comrades. In July 1967, Jim Forman, SNCC's executive secretary from 1961-1966, spoke at the International Seminar on Apartheid, Racial Discrimination, and Colonialism in South Africa in Kitwe, Zambia. This speech and a small number of other materials about SNCC's international activities, are available. United States
Michigan State University
South Africa's successful struggle for freedom and democracy is one of the most dramatic stories of our time. This website presents first-hand accounts of the political movement that brought this about in more than 45 video and audio interviews, along with many clips from these interviews. In addition, raw video footage documenting mass resistance and police repression, historical documents, rare photographs, and original narrative tell this remarkable story. Educational activities for high school and undergraduate students are included that use primary materials on the site. Created by three Michigan State University units: the African Studies Center; MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online; and the Department of History. United States
South African Democracy Education Trust
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 producing a series of books of that title that are 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 books are available online at the website. 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 Africa
Michigan State University
The South Africa Film and Video Project (SAFVP) is a collaboration of Michigan State University with several institutions in South Africa to broaden access to film and videotape media about South Africa. One on these partnerships – with the Community Video Education Trust (CVET) in Cape Town – resulted in preservation of hundreds of hours of documentary footage of resistance to apartheid during the 1980s and 1990s and an online archive of these materials (see: http://www.cvet.org.za). Information about more than 2500 productions about South Africa appears in the African Media Program database (see: www.africanmedia.msu.edu), and a collection of South African films and videos can be borrowed from the Michigan State University Library. Digitizing and training in digitization at several South African organizations continues. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education. United States
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. It is located at Constitution Hill, within the Nursery Section of the Women's Jail, on 1 Kotze Street, Braamfontein. South Africa
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 Africa
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. United States
National Library
Digitized articles, photographs and other images, audio, video, research papers, and polling data about the controversy over the South African Springbok rugby team’s almost two-month-long tour of New Zealand in 1981. The “Stop the Tour” campaign engaged more than 150,000 people in over 200 demonstrations in 28 centers, and 1,500 were charged with offenses stemming from these protests, many of which included civil disobedience. New Zealand
Max Elbaum (Interviewer), Prexy Nesbitt (Interviewee)
Interview of Prexy Nesbitt on August 26, 2020. Nesbitt has spent more than 50 years fighting white supremacy on three continents. He worked with liberation movements in southern Africa in the 1960s and built U.S and European solidarity with Africa in the 1970s. United States
South African History Archive, South African Broadcasting Corporation
The South African History Archive (SAHA), in conjunction with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has created this website that documents the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It includes streaming video of the 87 episodes of the Truth Commission Special Report television series that was broadcast by SABC in 1996-1998. The video episodes have been catalogued, transcribed, and indexed. The site also includes the text of the TRC Final Report, transcripts from TRC hearings, amnesty decisions, submissions made to the TRC, and other related resources. The video episodes are linked to relevant sections of the TRC documents, which is very helpful to users. The website was released in 2012 to mark Human Rights Month. It was funded by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. South Africa
United Nations
Photos from the United Nations photo archive collection. United Nations
Barbara Brown, Boston University African Studies Center
A curriculum on the U.S. response to apartheid South Africa that focuses on the role of the Polaroid Corporation. The curriculum uses historical documents from Polaroid and activists criticizing the company and three video selections. Discussion questions include: What is the responsibility of corporations to apartheid? What is the responsibility of individual Americans? United States
University of the Witwatersrand
This institution houses the Historical Papers Research Archive (HPRA) and the South African History Archive (SAHA) as well as the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Museum & Learning Centre and the projects AFRAPIX and MEDU. On the website, these archives can be searched and browsed individually or together. A number of collections relate 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), and the Human Rights Commission (later called Human Rights Committee). Some collections have digital content online.
