South Africa for beginners
Copyright 1986, 1993 by Srikanthan V. Pillay.

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Major references

[1] Richard Elphick and Herman Giliomee, Editors, The Shaping of South African society, 1652-1840 (Wesleyan University Press, 1989), p. 3.

[2] Donald Denoon and Balam Nyeko, Southern Africa since 1800 (Longman, 1984), pp. 1-13.

[3] The "brass cannon incident" is described by Peter Kolbe in Cape of Good Hope (Johnson Reprint, 1968).

[4] Elphick, Shaping, p.8.

[5] Elphick, Shaping, p.11.

[6] Elphick, Shaping, p.12.

[7] Christopher Danziger, A History of Southern Africa, (Oxford University Press, 1983), p.36.

[8] Danziger, A History..., pp.37-39.

[9] Text from picture reproduced in Peder Gouwenius, Power to the People! South Africa in Struggle: A Pictorial History, (Zed Press, London, 1981).

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