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    The World's Great Question. Olive Schreiner's South African Letters 1889-1920
    Edited by Liz Stanley and Andrea Salter
    Volume:
    II-45 (2014)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    The World’s Great Question features over 300 of Olive Schreiner’s key letters on South African people, politics and its racial order. They are often prophetic and can still send shivers down the spine. Immensely readable and insightful, her South African letters bring home Schreiner’s importance as one of the world’s most famous women and a foundational figure in South African...
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  • The war diary of Burgher Jack Lane 16 November 1899 to 27 February 1900
    Edited by William Lane
    Volume:
    II-32 (2001)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    John (Jack) Moody Lane, born an Ulsterman, sought his fortune in the South African Republic where he became a storekeeper in the hamlet of Hartbeesfontein in the Western Transvaal. Although he accepted Republican citizenship, he remained loyal to the British cause, and was reluctant to bear arms against his mother country when he was called up to join a commando...
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  • The war memoirs of Commandant Ludwig Krause 1899-1900
    Edited by Jerold Taitz with Ken Gillings and Arthur Davey
    Volume:
    II-26 (1995)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    In 1899 Ludwig Krause left his legal practice in the Transvaal to fight on behalf of the Boers. At first an ordinary burgher, later he became an officer, waging war in the Northern Transvaal. Educated partly at Cambridge, Krause's memoirs are remarkable for their clarity and descriptive power. Their value is enhanced by his outspoken and sometimes pungent opinions, not...
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  • Breaker Morant and the Bushveldt Carbineers
    Edited, with commentary, by Arthur Davey
    Volume:
    II-18 (1987)
    Print Status:
    Out of print
    Drawing on a wide selection of sources, this volume seeks to investigate the controversies surrounding the execution of 'Breaker' Morant and his two Australian compatriots. It explores not only the murders associated with Morant, but looks at the context in which the Bushveldt Carbineers were recruited and operated. It remains one of the most scholarly works on the subject.
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  • Simmer and Jack
    Johannesburg Pioneer Journals 1888-1909
    Edited by Maryna Fraser
    Volume:
    II-16 (1985)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Produced to commemorate Johannesburg's centenary, this volume explores the social history of the mining town in its pioneer days. The four journals included are C. Du-Val, 'All the World Around!!! with pencil, pen and camera'; T.R. Adlam, 'Sunrise and Advancing Morn: Memories of a South African Boyhood'; E. Bright, 'Letters, 1902-1909; Excerpts from the memoirs of William T. Powell.
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  • Lawrence Richardson. Selected correspondence (1902-1903)
    Edited by Prof. Arthur M. Davey
    Volume:
    II-8 (1977)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Lawrence Richardson (c.1869-1953), a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), was involved in two fact-finding and humanitarian missions to South Africa in the wake of the South African War. His meticulous diaries detail his interviews and draw a perceptive picture of a society devastated by war.
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  • Journal of Residence in Africa, 1842-1853, by Thomas Baines: Vol. II
    Edited by R.F. Kennedy, 1850-1853
    Volume:
    I-45 (1964)
    Print Status:
    Out of Print
    Vol. II covers the Vaal River Expedition of 1850, in which Baines travelled through the Orange Free State and up to Potchefstroom. It concludes with the 8th Frontier War from 1850 to 1851.
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  • Maleo en Sekoekoeni
    Translated from the original German into Afrikaans by J.F.W. Grosskopf and edited by G.P.J. Trümpelmann; with an English summary by A. Ravenscroft
    Volume:
    I-38 (1957)
    Print Status:
    In Print
    Dr Theodor Wangemann was a director of the Berlin Missionary Society who came out to South Africa in 1866 to visit the mission stations throughout the country. This work, one of several which Wangemann wrote and a typical example of nineteenth-century German missionary literature, describes mission work in the Lydenburg district of the northern Transvaal.
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  • The Diary of Dr Andrew Smith, director of the 'Expedition for exploring Central Africa', 1834-6; Vol. I
    Edited by Percival R. Kirby
    Volume:
    I-20 (1939)
    Print Status:
    Reprint and eBook available
    Andrew Smith, an army doctor, arrived in the Cape in 1820, remaining there until 1837. The expedition to Central South Africa was undertaken to find out more about the people living to the north. Smith travelled up to Kuruman and into Ndabele country, and explored the Oori, Mariqua and Limpopo Rivers. The expedition included a number of missionaries, among them...
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