Communism

Rivonia – Operation Mayibuye – A review of the Rivonia trial by the Honourable H. H. W. de Villiers

1960s, Law, South Africa

Archival Significance Published the same year as the Rivonia Trial’s conclusion, this account is not a neutral legal review. The book’s own original dust jacket describes the trial’s defendants, Nelson…

Marx – Money – Christ An -illustrated introduction into Capitalism, Marxism and African Socialism – examined in the Light of the Gospel

1980s, Christianity and Socialism, Mambo Press, Zimbabwe

Archival Significance The first title in Mambo Press’s Christianity and Socialism series, this illustrated primer was produced two years after Zimbabwean independence, when reconciling Christian belief with the new government’s…

The Siege of Southern Africa

1970s, Macmillan South Africa, Rhodesia, War

Author Douglas Reed ISBN 086954 014 9 First published 1974 Publisher Macmillan South Africa Johannesburg. Associated companies in London, New York, Dublin, Melbourne and Madras. Printed by Cape and Transvaal…

African Nationalism by Ndabaningi Sithole

1950s, African Nationalism, Oxford University Press, Rhodesia, Sithole

Archival Significance

Ndabaningi Sithole’s foundational 1959 text, part autobiography and part political argument, published four years before he became the founding president of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) in 1963. Sithole went on to lead ZANU largely from prison between 1964 and 1974, and this remains one of the earliest published statements of Zimbabwean nationalist thought by a figure who became central to the liberation movement.

A History Of Southern Africa

1950s, 1970s, Ethnography, General, History, Longman Group

Author Eric A. Walker – Fellow Of St Johns College, and Emeritus Vere Hamsworth Professor Of Imperial And Naval History In The University Of Cambridge; Sometime Professor Of History In…