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Collection comprises three provincial ballots (8.5"x17"), from the South African provinces of Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, and the Western Cape. Instructions on how to fill out the form are provided in…
The collection consists of edited transcripts of oral history interviews that were collected by the Forced Migration Studies Programme from victims of xenophobic violence in May 2008. A programme of…
The van Warmelo Collection, donated to the University after the doctor’s death, comprises 540 manuscripts in 97 boxes, concerning different South African indigenous groups and collected whilst he was in…
A newspaper focused on the native peoples of South Africa from the 1930s - Light: Ku Vonakala ka Va Tonga, previously known as Valdezia Bulletin
The collection includes intersting papers such as a Bantu Eisteddfod certificate, cenus of the Union of South Africa, publications, photographs commemorating the completion and translation of the Tsonga Bible, etc