The South Africa reader: history, culture, politics

A story is like the wind and the sun is thrown into the sky / Kabbo

On God and ancestors / Ndukwana ka Mbenwana

The Black people and whence they came / Magema Fuze Mhudi, Solomon T. Plaatje

An African woman at the Cape : Krotoa / Julia Wells

The necessity of slavery / W.S. van Ryneveld

A rebel slave / Galant

Unconfessed / Yvette Christiansë

Bobotie recipe / Clifton Crais

The subjugation of the Eastern Cape Khoekhoe / John Barrow

The treatment of indentured laborers / R.J. Van der Riet

Protesting the Vagrancy Ordinance / Various

Manifesto / Piet Retief

The history of the Afrikaans people / C.P. Bezuidenhout

Biltong recipe / Clifton Crais

Among the Xhosa / Dr. Johannes Theodorus Vanderkemp

The problem of God / Robert Moffat

Visit to a mission community in Natal / John William Colenso

Nkosi Sikelel? iAfrika (God Bless Africa) / Enoch Sontonga and Samuel E. Mqhayi

Dingane's killing of Retief / Reverend F. Owen

Mpande seeks an alliance with the Boers in Natal / Various

Statement of the prophetess Nonkosi / Nonkosi

Heart of redness / Zakes Mda

The diamond fields / Anthony Trollope

The trial of Langalibalele / Various

The coming of the Anglo-Zulu War / Cetshwayo kaMpande

Industrial Johannesburg / Violet Markham

A model compound manager / Douglas Blackburn

Building a nation from words / Isabel Hofmeyr

A century of wrong / Francis William Reitz

A Boer commando / Deneys Reitz

Concentration camps / Emily Hobhouse

Africans in the South African war / Dr. S.M. Molema

The 1913 Natives' Land Act / Solomon T. Plaatje

The Bhambatha rebellion / Msime ka Beje

The Bulhoek massacre / Anonymous

Mine workers' songs / Anonymous

Women's labour / Olive Schreiner

"Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa" / Captain William Urquhart

The persecution of Indians / Mohandas K. Gandhi

The journey to Pretoria / Naboth Mokgatle

Township life, Marabastad, Pretoria / Es'kia Mphahlele

Everyday life in Soweto : the photography of Santu Mofokeng / Patricia Hayes

Requiem for Sophiatown / Can Themba

Mr. Drum goes to jail / Henry Nxumalo

Repeal the Pass Laws! / ANC Women's League and the Federation of South African Women

Programme of action / ANC Youth League

Women's charter / Federation of South African Women

My spirit is not banned / Frances Baard

Freedom charter / Congress of the People

The manifesto of paramount Chief K.D. Matanzima

The Peasant's revolt / Govan Mbeki

The discarded people / Father Cosmas Desmond

The Pan Africanist Congress / R.M. Sobukwe

Statement from the dock / Nelson Mandela

White racism and Black consciousness / Steven Biko

Reporting from Soweto / Rand Daily Mail

Grand apartheid and the Soweto uprising / Khotso Seatlholo

The United Democratic Front / Allan Boesak

Sanctions and the armed struggle / Oliver Tambo

The church and the struggle / Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Crossing the Rubicon / P.W. Botha

Never give in / Andries Treurnicht

The future of South Africa / Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi

Violent times / Emma Mashinini

The funeral of ANC guerrilla Thanduxola Mbethe

Struggle songs / Various

"Reforms" and revolution in South Africa / Joe Slovo

Politics and violence / Rian Malan

Preparing ourselves for freedom / Albie Sachs

Release from prison / Nelson Mandela

White referendum / F.W. DeKlerk

Record of understanding / F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela

Inaugural address / Nelson Mandela

I am an African / Thabo Mbeki

Mass struggle, negotiations and the 1994 elections / Alex Callinicos

The rape of women / Antjie Krog

The Cradock Four / Testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Amnesty or impunity? / Mahmood Mamdani

Repeal the Black Authorities Act / Rural People's Movement

The myth of timeless Africa in the game parks / Shirley Brooks

AIDS and poverty / Thabo Mbeki

Global Day of Action / Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)

Zuma's rape trial / Steven Robins

Lessons learned / Sonke Gender Justice Project

Murder of Noxola Nogwaza / Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee (EPOC)

Ghosts of Sara Baartman / Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully

David's story / Zoe Wicomb

Witchcraft in Soweto / Adam Ashforth

Nationalize the mines / Julius Malema

Xenophobic violence / Nathan Geffen

Welcome to our Hillbrow / Phaswane Mpe

The World Cup / Christopher Merrett.