The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) was created in 2006 as a direct response to the needs of the taxonomic community for access to early literature. Designed with meeting these needs, the BHL was grant-funded and quickly ...

The Government is beaten, because even the Government of England could not stop the people from squatting. The Government was like a man who has a cornfield which is invaded by birds. He chases the birds from one part ...

The cool, and apparently dispassionate analysis of a phenomenon like Black Consciousness cannot forget, that hundred have died for it, thousands were injured, thousands went to jail for it, many are still languishing in ...

States under siege do not necessarily use only force to achieve their aims of staying in power. An alternative may be to look back into their historical past and find ways in which they perceive that they have handled ...

The magazine Drum began in March, 1951, and it has become deservedly famous since: partly for the ethos it created, partly for the writers that it fostered - writers such as Nat Nakasa, Can Themba, Casey Motsisi, Ezekiel ...

The students' uprising of 1976 hardly features in stories by black South African writers. In this respect, the short story is noticeably different from novels, plays and poems by black writers in which these events are ...

This paper outlines the contents of two 'manuscripts of modernity' produced in defence of the Afrikaner Boerestand in the late 1950's. My reconstruction of these 'manuscripts' is both incomplete and sketchy. I hope that ...