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Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980
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Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 [electronic resource].
Published
Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2014-
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Notes
Complete with Section III (Mar. 2015)
Title from home page (viewed 4 Dec. 2014)
At head of title: Archives Direct, sources from the National Archives, UK.
Includes relevant material from the following files: FO 371, FCO 29, FCO 38, FCO 45, FCO 61, FCO 65, FCO 105; and the following specific files on South Africa: CO 1048, DO 35, DO 119, DO 157, DO 161, DO 165, DO 180, DO 193, DO 212, DO 216, FO 924, FO 953, FO 1110, FO 1117.
Includes material relating to the following people and organisations: P.W. Botha, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Ruth First, Abram Fischer, Edward Heath, Leabua Jonathan, Helen Joseph, Kenneth Kaunda, Sir Seretse Khama, Potlako Leballo, Albert John Luthuli, Harold Macmillan, Daniel Malan, Nelson Mandela, Kaizer Matanzima, Sir John Maud, Thabo Mbeki, John Nicholls, Walter Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Arthur Snelling, Robert Sobukwe, Johannes Strijdom, Helen Suzman, Oliver Tambo, Hendrik Verwoerd, John Vorster, Harold Wilson, United Nations, African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Amnesty International, Anti-apartheid Movement, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), National Union of South African Students.
Includes documents concerning political and diplomatic activity in relation to the following topics: Apartheid legislation, international relations, trade and commerce, withdrawal from the Commonwealth, Sharpeville massacre, Harold Macmillan's visit (1960), ANC and PAC, police and security services, Black Sash movement, sabotage and defiance campaign, treason trials, Rivonia trial, assassination of H.F. Verwoerd, forced removals, Bantustans, political refugees in Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Swaziland and Mozambique, United Nations resolutions on apartheid and sanctions, apartheid and sport, British arms exports and reactions to apartheid, United States' arms exports and reactions to apartheid.
National Archives, UK
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Summary
The collection contains the main British Government files on South Africa from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion, and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices during the apartheid era. The documents include diplomatic despatches, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, economic and military reports, statistical analyses, maps, minutes of meetings, leaflets and other ephemera. The main themes covered are South Africa's relationship with the international community, internal civil unrest, the growth of anti-apartheid organisations, forced removals and black 'self-government'.
Format
Databases / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 08, 2015
Incomplete contents
pt. 1. 1948-1966
pt. 2. 1967-1975
pt. 3. 1976-1980
Subjects
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Great Britain. Foreign Office.
Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Great Britain. Dominion Office.
Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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