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African Newspapers, Series 2

African Newspapers, Series 1

FBIS: Sub-Saharan Africa

Access South Africa

Rand Daily Mail Archive

Overview South African News Archive is an unmatched resource for researching centuries of African politics, culture and daily life, making it avital collection for students of African history, government and political science. As the world’s largest repository of current and historicalAfrican newspapers and other news sources from 1798 to present, this comprehensive resource is a suite of four fully searchable databases, each acting as an essential complement to the others:

Access South Africa Designed specifically for libraries in South Africa, this full text news database features more than 120 current South African newspapers, from 1996 to today. Many of these sources have never before been available and can only be found in Access South Africa, including titles in English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa. Includes titles such as Beeld, City Press, Daily Sun, Hermanus Times, Kouga Express, Ons Stad, Potchfstroom Herald, Stellenbosch Gazette, Vaal Weekblad and Volksblad, as well as Cape Argus, Mercury, The Star and Sowetan, Athlone News, Bolander and Isolezwe ngeSonto.

African Newspapers, Series 1, 1800-1922This groundbreaking online collection provides more than 40 African newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries, with 20 from South Africa alone. Features English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xosha, Dutch, Guajarati, Hindi, Tamil and Sotho titles from South Africa, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

African Newspapers, Series 2, 1798-1900 (forthcoming)This second series includes nearly 80 newspapers from across Africa, with an emphasis on prominent titles from Cape Town, Kimberley, King William’s Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Bloemfontein, Krugersdorp, Potchefstroom, Pretoria, and Zoutpansbergdorp. Includes valuable titles such as Cape Argus, Cape Times, Diamond Fields Advertiser, Pretoria News and The Friend.

Rand Daily Mail Archive, 1902-1985For the first time, researchers will have easy online access to one of the most important newspapers in South Africa’s history, the Rand Daily Mail (1905-1985). This critically important, yet controversial title pioneered popular journalism and is renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall. Now, decades later, this title is being offered as a fully searchable online resource of great value to scholars.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996: Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Derived from the greater FBIS Daily Reports, this subset includes all Reports from Sub-Saharan Africa, and provides national and local perspectives through a wealth of original political broadcasts and newspaper articles. Translated into English as needed, these materials constitute a daily historical record of key events in South Africa’s history as they happened.