Research Notes Special Collection: the Cold War in Southern Africa

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Notes

¹ Sue Onslow, ‘Republic of South Africa Archives’, Cold War History 5, no. 3 (2006): 369–75.

² Ronel Jansen van Vuuren to author, October 25, 2021.

³ Sue Onslow, ‘Republic of South Africa Archives’, Cold War History 5, no. 3 (2005): 369–75.

⁴ Jamie Miller, An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 340.

⁵ Tertit von Hanno Aasland, ‘The Nordic Countries and the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa’, Forum for Development Studies 29, no. 1 (2002): 211–35.

⁶ http://www.liberationafrica.se (accessed May 25, 2022).

⁷ In addition to primary material, the collection also contains grey material and secondary material. The focus of this article, however, is on the former.

⁸ Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor, and Blessing-Miles Tendi, ‘The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements: An Introduction’, Journal of Southern African Studies 43, no. 1 (2017): 1–12.

⁹ George Roberts, Revolutionary State-Making in Dar Es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974, African Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

¹⁰ And Zambia was ruled by UNIP in the first 27 years of independence.

¹¹ Henning Melber, ‘From Liberation Movements to Governments: On Political Culture in Southern Africa’, African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie 6, no. 1 (2002): 161–72.

¹² T. J. Stapleton and M. Maamoe, ‘An Overview of the African National Congress Archives at the University of Fort Hare’, History in Africa 25 (1998): 413–22; and M. C. Musambachime, ‘The Archives of Zambia’s United National Independence Party’, History in Africa 18 (1991): 291–6.

¹³ Alexander, McGregor, and Tendi, ‘The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements’.

¹⁴ Terence Ranger, ‘Nationalist Historiography, Patriotic History and the History of the Nation: The Struggle over the Past in Zimbabwe’, Journal of Southern African Studies 30, no. 2 (2004): 215–34.

¹⁵ Gerald Chikozho Mazarire, ‘Rescuing Zimbabwe’s “Other” Liberation Archives’, in Documenting Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa, by Chris Saunders (Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2010), 95–106.

¹⁶ Chris Saunders, ‘Namibian Diplomacy Before Independence’, n.d., https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=d58cea79-6a30-8fff-600d-4e17742f7c7d&groupId=252038.

¹⁷ W. Martin James, A Political History of the Civil War in Angola: 1974–1990 (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2011).

¹⁸ Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Allies in Adversity: The Frontline States in Southern African Security 1975–1993 (Lanham: University Press of America, 2007).

¹⁹ https://nai.uu.se/news-and-events/news/2017-08-24-unesco-project-documenting-liberation-struggle.html. (accessed May 30, 2022).

²⁰ Robben Island first opened to the public on 1 January 1997; André Odendaal, ‘Prologue’, in Robben Island Rainbow Dreams: The Making of Democratic South Africa’s First National Heritage Institution, ed. Neo Lekgotla Iaga Ramoupi et al. (Cape Town: BestRed, an imprint of HSRC Press, 2021), 1.

²¹ Robben Island Museum, ‘Integrated Conservation Management Plan 2013–2018’. Available online: https://www.robbenisland.org.za/files/publications/Integrated%20conservation%20management%20plan%202/3%20Visitor%20Managment%20Plan%20DRAFT%2016jan13.pdf

²² André Odendaal, ‘UWC’s Mayibuye Centre: The Conceptual Base for RIM’, in Robben Island Rainbow Dreams, 19.

²³ Sue Onslow, ‘Republic of South Africa Archives’, Cold War History 5, no. 3 (2005): 369–75; Robin Möser, ‘Researching the Global Cold War in South Africa’s Archives’, Sources & Methods (2017). Available online: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/researching-the-global-cold-war-south-africas-archives

²⁴ Rheina Epstein, ‘UWC-Robben Island Mayibuye Archives’, Cape Librarian, Mar/Apr 2005, 44.

²⁵ André Odendaal, ‘UWC’s Mayibuye Centre: The Conceptual Base for RIM’, in Robben Island Rainbow Dreams,26.

²⁶ Anthea Josias, ‘From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives’, in Robben Island Rainbow Dreams, 154.

²⁷ The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Papers detail his work in and outside of South Africa.

²⁸ Correspondence with André Mohammed, 5 April 2022.

²⁹ Sound and Oral History Catalogue provided to author.

³⁰ Anthea Josias, ‘From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives’, in Robben Island Rainbow Dreams, 177.

³¹ See Chris Saunders and Sue Onslow, ‘The Cold War in Southern Africa 1975–1990’, in The Cambridge History of the Cold War, vol. III, ed. M. Leffler and O.A. Westad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

³² See my forthcoming R. Clarke, ‘NGOs and Strategic Resettlement during the Zimbabwean Liberation War 1972–1980’ (Doctoral dissertation, University of Essex, forthcoming).

³³ See http://www.rcz.ac.zw/research-registration/ accessed 30 April 2022.

³⁴ http://www.archives.gov.zw/index.php/contact-us/2018-09-17-14-14-08, accessed 29 April 2022.