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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.