| Callinicos (1990) |
Reader's Digest, Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story (1988) |
1988 publication covering the beginning of time to present |
Treated as an example of commercial popular history, whose omissions on labor struggles and apartheid capitalism are assessed. |
| Davenport (1969) |
J. C. Smuts, Africa and Some World Problems (Rhodes Lectures 1929) |
1929 |
Illustrates the 1920s assumption that migrancy did not detribalise Africans. |
| De Kiewiet (1941) |
Contemporary and earlier commentary: Lichtenstein's Travels, Handbook of the Cape Colony (1875), Imperial dispatches, Carnarvon's cabinet memorandum, Malherbe, Leipoldt, Brand |
1803-1935 |
Quoted as contemporary witness for frontier conditions, Carnarvon's federation case, poor whites and native policy. |
| Evans (1997) |
Memoirs by officials: Rodseth, Ndabazabantu; Carr, Soweto; Grinker, Inside Soweto; Hooper, Brief Authority; van der Byl; Reitz |
1943–1990 |
Used as first-hand accounts of departmental culture, liberals' accommodation, and the Zeerust pass episode. |
| Fine (1992) |
Karl Marx (1871) passage on workers' movements as political movements |
1871 |
Theoretical quotation supporting the claim that the trade union left failed to extend labour initiatives into politics. |
| Gibson (1988) |
Steve Biko, I Write What I Like (London: Heinemann, 1979) |
1970s |
Primary writings of Biko quoted for the philosophy of BC, the new humanity and African communalism. |
| Giliomee (2003) |
Coertze, Language and van Eeden, Die Oplossing van die Naturellevraagstuk in Suid-Afrika (1943); Eiselen; Thom; du Plessis in Koers (1940) |
1940-1949 |
Contemporary academic texts showing the secular intelligentsia's apartheid formulations. |
| Giliomee (2003) |
Keppel-Jones 1947 lecture 'The Political Situation in South Africa' and When Smuts Goes |
1947 |
Shows English-speaking whites shared the determination to maintain white domination. |
| Giliomee (2003) |
N. P. van Wyk Louw, Versamelde Prosa, vol. 1 (1946 and later essays) |
1940s-1960s |
Primary text for the 'liberal nationalism' and 'survival in justice' argument. |
| Greenberg (1983) |
A.D. Wassenaar, Assault on Private Enterprise: Freeway to Communism |
1977 |
Primary text for the Afrikaner business attack on state absorption of the private sector. |
| Greenberg (1987) |
UNISA Native Administration II, Study Guide 6 (1973) |
1973 |
Quoted as an example of official textbook imagery of a complete and coordinated control system. |
| Hirson (1988) |
Alf Stadler, The Political Economy of Modern South Africa (Croom Helm, 1987), the book under review |
Written from 1980; published 1987 |
The reviewed text is the object of the critique. Specific pages (pp. 4, 22, 24, 28, 72, 132, 144-7) are checked for errors, hedging and missing definitions. |
| Hirson (1988) |
Clements Kadalie's own account of the founding of the ICU (Cape branch) |
Early 1920s, as recounted later |
Referred to when disputing Stadler's claim that Kadalie formed the ICU. The reviewer says the account is itself dubious. |
| Iliffe (1999) |
R. J. Gordon's travel accounts (Cape travels, 1777-1786) |
1777-1786 |
Vivid contemporary description of the subjugation of the Khoisan on the frontier. |
| Kerr (1958) |
A Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs (1858) |
1858 |
Presented as the textbook alternative to codification in the Cape. |
| Korf (2010) |
Malan's published works and speeches: Naar Congoland (1913), Socialism (1913), Afrikaner Volkseenheid (1959 memoirs), Glo in U Volk speech collection |
1900s-1959 |
Malan's own writings used as direct evidence of his views on race, poor whites, socialism and political events. |
| Major (2005) |
B. Castle, The Castle Diaries 1964-70 |
1967 |
A diary entry shows Cabinet reluctance to curb arms sales because of job losses. |
| Mazanderani (2012) |
Biographies, autobiographies and correspondence of key decision makers |
1910-2010 |
Planned qualitative material to give narrative context for the data. |
| McCann (2001) |
Audrey Richards, Land, Labour, and Diet in Northern Rhodesia (1939) |
1939 |
Opening testimony of a Bemba man on maize as 'European' food, used as a framing device. |
| McCulloch (2004) |
Published autobiographies of two women teachers (Unterhalter) |
apartheid era |
Used as life-story evidence on women teachers' experience. |
| Miller (2004) |
Nelson Mandela, No Easy Walk to Freedom (Heinemann, 1990) |
1961 |
Cited for the 1961 three-day stay-at-home protest. |
| Suttner (2004) |
Govan Mbeki, South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt (1964/1984) and Sunset at Midday (1996) |
1964, 1996 |
Mbeki's account of Pondoland people's courts used as precedent for people's power; Sunset at Midday used for claim that ANC directed the UDF, which Suttner disputes. |
| Theal (1905) |
Voyage accounts of Dias, Da Gama and other Portuguese expeditions and maps |
1486-1510 |
Narrative of early discovery drawn without citations. |
| Wilson (2011) |
Anthony Trollope, South Africa (1878), travel account |
1877 |
Contemporary observer evidence that racism pre-dated mining competition for jobs. |
| Wilson (2011) |
Frieda Bokwe Matthews, Remembrances (1995) and Lovedale Missionary Institution (1884) |
1824-1990s |
Family memoir used for the Bokwe-Matthews-Pandor case of intergenerational human capital accumulation. |