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- AFRILEX: African Association for Lexicography (via University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- African Film Library (M-Net, Cape Town, South Africa)
An online reference directory of African films, with synopsis, film excerpts, commentaries, and film-related news. "The library consists of award-winning works from more than 80 producers including Senegalese Ousmane Sembene and Djibril Mambety, Yousef Chahine from Egypt and Haile Gerima from Ethiopia."
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African National Congress: Historical Documents (South Africa)
An extensive archive of online speeches, complete books, biographical summaries, photographs, and other documents by leading and historical
figures from the ANC archives and from those in South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle in general, as well as selected speeches by prominent
world leaders in support of the struggle.
- AFROPOP Worldwide on South African Popular Music (Brooklyn, New York)
- ARISA: Annual review of Islam in South Africa. (Online) -- Archive -- Cape Town: Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, 1998-2005.
- Artthrob: Contemporary Art in South Africa (Cape Town ; Johannesburg ; Durban, South Africa)
A web-zine offering articles and reviews on art trends in South Africa, links to news on current and recent exhibitions; plus related websites.
"ArtThrob is South Africa's leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world."
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Athol Fugard, Playwright (Iain Fisher, The Netherlands)
A brief biographical sketch of this well-known South African writer-director, commentaries on Fugard's plays, and a host of links to related
web pages and sites.
- Stephen Biko on the Internet
- Brenda Fassie, 1964-2004
- Cape Town Book Fair, South Africa, 30 July--2 August 2010--plus 2009 Book Fair Releases & News. Sponsored by PASA--Publishers' Association of South Africa, Goethe Institute, and Frankfurter Buchmesse.
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Children's Literature Research Unit, University of South Africa:
South African Children's and Young Adult Books in English,
compiled by Elwyn Jenkins (Pretoria, South Africa)
"A select bibliography of history, criticism and bibliography."
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Chimurenga. (Online) --Cape Town, South Africa: Chimurenga Magazine, RedhotMoondog
Media, 2002-
This publication is the electronic version of a quarterly magazine on music and popular culture in South Africa and global Africa.
"CHIMURENGA magazine is. streets villages pages. & sometimes even pagers. It's an advertising-free revue of arts.culture.politics and
the relations that these enjoy around Africa. It is another kicking initiative by the Pan African Market aka Kalakuta Republique."
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Church of the Province of Southern Africa (CPSA Publishing Committee, Cape Town, South
Africa)
This is the official site of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, with general information about the church's activities, a directory of
dioceses, and an archive of discussions.
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"Claiming Art / Reclaiming Space : Post-Apartheid Art from South
Africa" - Exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
The exhibition is open from June 20 to September 26, 1999. See also the NMAfA Home Page.
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Columbia University: "Oral History Office Is Commissioned by Carnegie
Corp to Document Anti-Apartheid Work" by A. Dunlap Smith. Excerpt from "Columbia News", December 1, 1999, Columbia
University in the City of New York (Online).
Feature story on a project in South Africa of the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University.
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de arte. (Online): journal of the Department of Art History
and Fine Arts: 1994-2002. -- Pretoria : Unisa Press, published for the Department of Art History and Fine Arts, University of South Africa, 1994-2002.
"de arte" is part of a library of "Unisa Press Online Academic Journals." Selected full articles and tables of
contents only.
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Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo: South Africa's Freedom Struggle - Statements,
Speeches, and Articles. Ed. by E.S. Reddy. (1990). -- New Delhi : Namedia Foundation and Sterling Publishers ; London : Kliptown Books
; South Africa : South African Communist Party.
A collection of online texts by one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
- A Decade of Democracy: Witnessing South Africa, April-November 2004 Exhibition (via National Center for Afro-American Artists, Boston, Massachusetts)
- DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
- District Six Museum Online (Cape Town, South Africa)
This site offers general information about the museum and its collections. "In 1989 ex-residents of
District Six envisaged a museum to commemorate the area and honour the people who fought against the forced removals and Group Areas Act. On 10
December 1994, the District Six Museum opened with its first exhibition 'Streets - Retracing the Past'. The Museum provides a space for
the community to come together and share their experiences and retrace their memories."
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Durban Art Gallery (Durban, South Africa)
"The Durban Art Gallery collections include everything from current and historical art and artefacts of KwaZulu-Natal to English
masterpieces, from anonymous carvings, clay pots and beadwork to the works of celebrated South African artists like Andrew Verster and Penny
Siopis. The Gallery celebrated its centenary in 1992."
- 30th Durban International Film Festival, July 22--August 2, 2009...plus highlights from previous festivals. (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
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Eloquent Elegance -- Beadwork In the Zulu Cultural Tradition (Stan and
Hilgard Schoeman; via Marques Systems, Randburg, South Africa)
Hilgard Schoeman, an "expert" in South Africa, explains and displays examples of Zulu beadwork.
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Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations:
"The ANC and South Africa: The Past and Future of Liberation Movements in the
World-System" (1997) by Immanuel Wallerstein (Binghamton University, State University of New York)
Keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the South African Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa, July 7-11, 1996.
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For their triumphs and for their tears: women in apartheid South Africa.
(Online). By Helen Bernstein (1985 ed.). -- London : International Defence and Aid Fund ; South Africa : African National Congress.
The complete online book about South African women's lives and their struggle against apartheid. Originally published in 1978 and revised in
1985.
- Indiana University Libraries: The Nadine Gordimer Papers at the
Lilly Library: a guide to the collections (Bloomington, Indiana)
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H-SAFRICA Discussion Network Home Page (H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences
OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
"H-SAFRICA is the H-Net discussion list dealing with the culture and history of South Africa."
- Howard University: SARAP--South African Research and Archival Project (Washington, DC)
The website includes the online guides to records on deposit at Howard University and to a small selection of collections in South Africa, such as those at the University of Fort Hare. "[In 2001...] 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."
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The indigenous sculptural arts of South Africa. By Herbert E.
Roese. -- United Kingdom: The author; via One.Tel.Net, 2001. [Originally published in 1998 by Bambolse Press, Kumasi, Ghana.]
- South African Jews
- Jomba 2007: 10th Contemporary Dance Experience, August 24--September 1, 2007, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
The site provides information on this annual festival and links to highlights from the previous programmes since 2000.
- Killie Campbell Africana Library, University of Kwa Zulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa)
- Mazizi Kunene, 1930-2006
- Ellen Kuzwayo, 1914-2006
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Labyrinth of East London Lore: East London, a port city in the Eastern Cape. (Keith Tankard, Knowledge4Africa.com, South Africa)
Local history of East London, founded in 1847.
- South Africa -- Libraries, Archives, and Publishers (Compiled
by Columbia University Libraries)
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"The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela": an intimate
portrait of one of the century's greatest leaders. ("Frontline"/WGBH Television and Boston/PBS Online)
The web site contains a synopsis of the television program, photos, interviews, anecdotes, a chronology, and information about ordering the video
and transcripts and the teachers' guide.
- Lucky Dube (1964-2007)
The official web site of the very popular South African reggae music artist, with biography, discography, videography, song lyrics, press cuttings, and a few short audio files.
- Lutuli Speaks: Portrait of Chief Albert Lutuli, ANC President 1952-1967 -
Selected Speeches, Statesments and Writings. Compiled by E.S. Reddy. (1998). -- South Africa: African National Congress.
- Miriam Makeba, 1932-2008
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The Mandela Page (The African National Congress, South Africa)
An archive of electronic documents about and by Nelson Mandela, from the African National Congress and other sources; includes speeches, book
excerpts, and photos.
- Mapungubwe Cultural Sites (Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa)
- John Matshikiza, 1954-2008
- Es'kia Mphahlele, 1919-2008
- Mail and Guardian. (Online): "Leaving the forefront of African lit" (November 1, 2008) -and- "Mphahlele, first black professor at Wits, dead at 88" (October 28, 2008) (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- National Library of South Africa: Tribute to Es'kia Mphahlele, 1919-2008 (Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa)
- The Sowetan. (Online): "The godfather -- Mphahlele taught blind to read a-z in braille" (October 29, 2008) (South Africa)
- Urban spectrum. (Online): "Eye on Africa: the African literary journey of Esk'ia Mphahlele," by James Ainsworth (Jan. 2006) Vol. 19 ; no. 10. (Denver, Colorado)
- Ananzi Search -- South African Museums and
Galleries (South Africa)
- Museums Online South Africa (via MWeb)
A directory portal with links to all major museums and cultural societies in South Africa.
- National Film and Video Foundation: Gateway to the South African Film and Television Industry (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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National Museum of South Africa, Bloemfontein: Rock Art Department
The website features information about public rock art sites in South Africa, plus information on research, museum-related activities, and
publications. See also: Rock Art Research Institute (University of the Witwatersrand) below.
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Native life in South Africa, before and since the European war and the Boer Rebellion.
(Online). By Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje. (1922 ed.). -- South Africa: African National Congress.
The complete online book by one of the founders of the South African Native Congress, forerunner of the ANC. Originally published in 1916.
- Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden)
The web site features general information about various projects, conference reports, and a searchable catalog of the archives on southern Africa held in Scandinavia.
- PANSALB--Pan South African Language Board (Arcadia, South Africa)
"[Founded in 1995] The purpose of the PANSALB is to promote multilingualism in South Africa." The site includes general information about the Board's activities, annual reports, and events relating to South African languages.
-- See also: SAlanguages.Com & other sites below
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Pelmama -- Johannesburg, South Africa
(via The Haenggi Foundation, Inc., Basel, Switzerland)
A website that celebrates the works of South African contemporary artists, with sample images and background summaries on dozens of artists.
'Pelmama -- is an acronym for the "Pelindaba Museums of African and Modern Art", a project initiated by The Haenggi Foundation Inc.,
Johannesburg, an association not for gain established in 1978, following on the Soweto riots.'
- Poetry Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal--Durban (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
13th Poetry Africa, October 5-10, 2009The site offers information on the upcoming poetry festival and conference; plus highlights, biographies, and bibliographies from previous festivals: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005
| 2004 | 2003 | 2002
- Publishers' Association of South Africa: Writings in Nine Tongues -- Catalogue of Publications: Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho/Sesotho sa laboa, Setswana, Siswati, Venda, Tsonga. (Green Point, South Africa)
Zip files/PDF format
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Robben Island Museum Home Page (South Africa)
A brief history and information about the Robben Island museum; plus related links. [The museum was] "established as a National Monument and
a National Museum by the Cabinet of the South African Government in September 1996. As of January 1997, the Island has been administered by the
Department of Arts & Culture, and the public has been able to participate in tours to historic sites such as the cell where [former President]
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned."
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Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South
Africa)
Information about research programmes, publications, and related links are available on this website.
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Safundi: the journal of South African and American comparative studies. (Online) -- [Cape
Town, South Africa]: Safundi, 1999-
One can read the current issue and back issues since June 1999. "Safundi is a peer-reviewed quarterly publication dedicated to comparing the
histories, cultures, and modern experiences of the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa."
- SAHO--South African History Online
- SAlanguages.com (Jake Olivier, South Africa)
This site provides general information about South Africa's 11 official languages (and several unofficial ones), with brief grammars, pronunciation guides, suggested textbooks, bibliographies on academic research, and links to related web sites for each language.
-- See also: Sesotho on the Web (below) and Xhosa & Zulu
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Sesotho on the Web
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Walter Sisulu (1912-2003):
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Homage to Lucas Sithole: 1931-1994 (The Haenggi Foundation, Inc., Johannesburg,
South Africa and Basel, Switzerland)
This promotional website includes some sample images of the sculptures of Lucas Sithole, information about works for sale, as well as
biographical notes. 'Lucas Sithole was the first black artist in South Africa to have a retrospective show in a public museum and a university
gallery.'
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South Africa's National Anthem
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South Africa: the peasants' revolt. (Online). By Govan Mbeki. (1964).
-- London : Penguin ; South Africa : African National Congress.
The complete online book about the rural conditions of the South African majority and their struggle against apartheid in South Africa during the
1950s and 1960s by one of the historic leaders of the ANC.
- South African Archaeological Society, Trans-Vaal Branch (Craighall, South Africa)
- The South African History Archive (SAHA) (University of the Witwatersrand, Braamfontein, South Africa)
SAHA was formed in 1988 by the United Democratic Front and the Congress of South African Trade Unions to collect & preserve documents from the struggle against apartheid during the 1980s.
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South African History Online (Pretoria, South Africa)
SAHO offers online publications, photo and image exhibitions, brief historical summaries and biographies, and classroom suggestions (under
construction). "SAHO is a peoples' history and internet-based project that consists of an open, non-partisan website linked to a
schools' and community based outreach programme, which sets to build a comprehensive database on South African history and arts." Includes an extensive biographical archive on "People" in SA history and contemporary society.
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South African Military History Society (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
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South African politics: an introduction using internet resources
(Dr. Allison Drew, Department of Politics, University of York, UK)
The site offers historical summaries, illustrations, maps, photographs, bibliographical sources, and exercises. "This course provides a brief
introduction to South African politics and political history using internet-based resources. It introduces students both to the types of internet
resources that are available on this topic and to their use. Students can develop research skills using the web through simple web-based
exercises."
- South African Voices University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (Madison, Wisconsin)
"South African Voices is a three-volume work that includes: A Long Time Passed, Created in Olden Times, and The Way We Travelled: Oral History and Poetry. This work consists of electronic audio files and transcribed written texts of oral traditions and histories, poetry, folktales, and stories in Xhosa, Zulu, and Siswati collected, transcribed, and edited by Professor Harold Scheub.
- "South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy towards
Africa" by Roger Pfister (Centre for International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
Electronic journal of Africana bibliograpy. (Online) ; vol. 6 (2000).
- Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD) (Braamfontein, South Africa)
- The story of the Boers: narrated by their own leaders, prepared under the authority of the South African Republics (1900) By C.W. Van der Hoogt. (via Internet Archive, San Francisco, California)
A full-text electronic version of the 1900 book in plain text, HTML files, or PDF format.
- Southern Africa report. (Online): Archive, 1992-2000 and Index -- Toronto, Canada: Toronto Committee for the Liberation of Southern Africa, via AfricaFiles.
'The full text --without photos or illustrations-- of all articles published during the last eight years of the magazine - from July 1992 to October 2000. In addition, three indexes produced in 1996 — covering June 1985 to November 1995 - are available as a research tool.'
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Oliver Tambo: Speeches, Writings, Statements, and Other Documents, 1960-1993.
Compiled by E.S. Reddy. (1998). (African National Congress, South Africa)
A collection of online texts, plus biographical information on Oliver Reginald Tambo, the former leader of the ANC for 30 years.
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Thulamela: an archæological discovery in South Africa, 1996-97:
Part 1 |
Part 2 (Univ. of Pretoria, Dept. of Anatomy; via GeoCities)
Thulamela is situated in the Pafuri area of the Kruger National Park in South Africa, the north-eastern part of South Africa near its border with
Zimbabwe and Mozambique. At Thulamela, a Venda word meaning "place of birth," excavations since 1993 have yielded a royal grave,
complete skeletal remains, gold jewelry, potsherds, and other articles of archæological significance, dating back to the 13th century AD.
This Web site contains an archæologist's field diary, a map, and images of some of the dig and of the material recovered thus far; plus
links to related sites on the Net.
- Thulamela: computational tools for modeling, visualizing & analyzing historic and archaeological sites (Department of Art and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York ; Kruger National Park, South Africa)
"The multi-phase project will document, present and interpret key aspects of the archaeological and cultural heritage of Kruger National Park." The site features especially:
-- Visual resources -- interviews --and-- online texts (plus short list of books)
- Time of the Writer = Le Temps des Ecrivains, International Festival of Writers, University of KwaZulu-Natal--Durban (Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa)
12th Time of the Writer Festival, 9-14 March 2009
This site provides information about the programme, the participants, festivals from previous years, and related links.
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Official and unofficial sites.
- United Nations Struggle Against Apartheid -- Selected Documents, 1946-1994 (African
National Congress, South Africa)
Documents, chronologies, speeches by the chairs of the "UN Special Committee against Apartheid", and articles by E.S. Reddy about the UN
and the international anti-apartheid movement.
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University of California Press eScholarship Editions (Berkeley and Los Angeles, California)
- The black homelands of South Africa: the political and economic development of
Bophuthatswana and Kwa-Zulu. By Jeffrey Butler, Robert I. Rotbert, John Adams. -- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press ; California
Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1991).
- Bureaucracy and race : native administration in South Africa. By Ivan Thomas Evans.
-- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1997).
- The creation of tribalism in southern Africa. Edited by Leroy Vail. -- Berkeley and
Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1989).
- A life's mosaic: the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala. By Phyllis Ntantala. --
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1993).
- The opening of the apartheid mind : options for the new South Africa. By Heribert
Adam. -- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press ; California Digital Library eScholarship program, 2003 (1993).
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University of Fort Hare, Howard Pim Library (Alice, South Africa)
- Established in 1918: "The valuable Africana collection ... houses rare books and unique collections such as the
Steve Biko Letters, and the Lennox Papers. Significant landmarks in the growth of the Library include the reincorporation of the Federal Seminary
Library into the main campus Library, as well as the integration of important liberation movement archives such as those of the African National
Congress.
- Liberation Movement Archives: Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College Records; UFH Records; Personal
records of Oliver Tambo, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu, Lionel Forman, and others.
- UFHL Home Page
- University of Kwa Zulu-Natal: The Campbell Collections -- Guides to Collections and Catalogs (Durban, South Africa)
The web site for various historic manuscript collections and libraries....including The Killie Campbell Africana Library.
- University of the Witwatersrand Library--Historical Papers Department (Johannesburg, South Africa)
"The University established Historical Papers in 1966 in order to retrieve the rich historical heritage belonging to all South Africans. Today we house over 3000 separate collections of historical, political and cultural importance." The web site includes information about its collections, including: Papers of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924-1977) and the Pan Africanist Congress ; and the Records of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
--See also: Traces of Truth--Documents relating to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In association with the South African History Archive project.
- Xhosa -- Web Resources for African Languages (Jouni F. Maho, Partille, Sweden)
A collection of links to sites with e-books, full text journal articles, theses, and working papers, and other resources...especially on Xhosa linguistics.
- ZA News Co-sponsored by the Mail & Guardian and Kulula.Com (Cape Town, South Africa)
Launched on October 6, 2009, this web site features daily political satire videos, with puppet characters, created by Thierry Cassuto and Zapiro [Jonathan Shapiro], produced and directed by Thierry Cassuto, written by Thierry Cassuto, Ben Trovato, and Steve Francis.
- Zapiro's Official Website (ePartners4, Caterham, UK?)
"Jonathan Shapiro...was editorial cartoonist for Sowetan from 1994-2005 and appeared in the Cape Argus 1996-1997. He has been editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994, the Sunday Times since 1998 and since September 2005 also appears three times a week in Cape Times, The Star, The Mercury and Pretoria News."
- Zulu Language on the Internet
- Columbia University: Zulu Language Acquisitions at Columbia University Libraries (June 2009)
(New York)
- Google Books -- Historical Zulu
-- First steps in Zulu: being an elementary grammar of the Zulu language (1903) by Rt. Rev. J. W. Colenso (Pietermaritzburg & Durban: Vause, Slatter & Co., 1903)
-- The IsiZulu: a revised edition of a grammar of the Zulu language (1893) by Rev. Lewis Grout (Boston: American Board Commissioners for Foreign Mission, 1893)
-- A Zulu-English dictionary, with notes on prononciation...a synopsis of Zulu grammar and a concise history of the Zulu people from the most ancient times (1905) by Alfred T. Bryant (Pietermaritzburg & Durban: P. Davis & Sons ; Cape Town, Johannesburg, & Durban: J.C. Juta, 1905)
-- A Zulu manual, or Vade-mecum (1900) by Rev. Charles Roberts (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1900)
- Google.Com -- IsiZulu (USA)
Search the web using Google web search engine in IsiZulu!
- isiZulu.net: Zulu-English/English-Zulu online dictionary (via Schlund & Partner, Karlsruhe, Germany)
An online dictionary, with some sample audio files, based on African Voices publications from South Africa, and compiled with TshwaneLex software.
- Isolezwe. (Online) -- Cape Town ; Johannesburg: Independent Online Ltd., 2006-
A subscription is required for this online version of a daily newspaper in the Zulu language from South Africa.
- Jason Wolfe's English to Zulu Medical Dictionary (1998) (London, UK)
- South African Voices. University of Wisconsin Digital Collections. (See above)
- United Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Umbhalo ogcwele wogunyazo lwamalungelo Oluntu jikelele Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 (Geneva, Switzerland)
- Web Resources for African Languages -- Zulu (Jouni F. Maho, Partille, Sweden)
A collection of links to sites with e-books, full text documents, and other web sites...especially on Zulu linguistics.
- Wordgumbo: English-Zulu/Zulu-English lexicons (USA)
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