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Online Books
- Women in South African History, edited by Nomboniso Gasa
- I Remember: Reminiscences of the Struggle for Liberation and the Role of Indian South Africans, 1924 - 1958
- Forging Freedom: Landmarks in A Century of Struggle 1906 - 2006
- It's Never Too Early: African Art and Craft in KwaZulu-Natal 1960 - 1990 by Jo Thorpe
- Karis & Carter Collection: From Protest to Challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South Africa 1882-1964, Volume 2
- South Africa's Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume one 1907 – 1950, Edited by Alison Drew
- South Africa's Radical Tradition: A documentary history, Volume two 1943 – 1964. Edited by Alison Drew.
- A Crime Against Humanity: Analysing the repression of the apartheid state - Max Coleman
- A Place in the City - Luli Callinicos
- Amulets & Dreams - War, Youth and Change in Africa - Photographs by Guy Tillim and Omar Badsha
- A Documentary History of South African Indians - Surendra Bhana & Bridglal Pachai (editors)
- Black Student Politics: From SASO to SANSCO 1968 - 1990 - By Saleem Badat
- The All-African Convention: The Awakening of a people - By I.B. Tabata
- The Broken String - Emilia Potenza
- Commemorating the Centenary of Phoenix Settlement 1904 - 2004
- Cape Flats Details - Life and Culture in the Townships of Cape Town - Chris Ledochowski
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
- My Spirit Is Not Banned - Frances Baard as told to Barbie Schreiner
- Working Life - Luli Callinicos
- Married To The Struggle - ‘Nanna' Liz Abrahams Tells her Life Story
- A.I. Kajee - His Work For The South African Indian Community
- Wilfrid H. Harrison - Memoirs of a Socialist in South Africa 1903 - 1947
- Say It out Loud
- From Gqogqora To Liberation:The Struggle was my life
- Side by side
- The Soul of a Nation
- In search of ‘Feedom, Fair Play and Justice’
- The Rôle of the Missionaries in conquest
- Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents
- A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
- Extracts from the book 'A long walk to Freedom'. Nelson Mandela's autobiography
- Representation & Reality: Portraits of women's lives in the Western Cape 1948 - 1976 by Helen Scanlon
- Freedom In Our Life Time: The collected writings of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede
- Celebrating 50 years of Freedom Charter: June 26 1955 - 2005
- Karis & Carter Collection:
Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964,
Volume 1 - Black Viewpoint - edited by Steve Biko
- The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of South African Art (1930 - 1988)
- Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo - South Africa's Freedom Struggle
- Kleio - articles
- Culture in another South Africa
- Women and gender in Southern Africa to 1945
- The Diary of Maria Tholo
- B.J. Vorster - Select Speeches
- A Life's Mosaic - The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
- Le Rona Rebatho - An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre
- No46 - Steve Biko
- Robert McBride, A Coloured Life - Gomolemo Mokae
- Sita, Memoirs of Sita Gandhi - Edited by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
- The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign - Ismail Vadi
- Turning Points Books 1 - 6
- Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents: E.S. Reddy and F. Meer
- With Our Own Hands: Poverty Alleviation
- The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - By D.D.T. Jabavu
- Organise... or starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
- The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 - by Eddy Maloka
- History of the Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology - Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
- Johnny Gomas: Voice of the Working Class
- Labour Struggles in South Africa: The Forgotten Pages - A book by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
- The Eye of the Needle - Toward Participatory Democracy in South Africa - Richard Turner
- Gold and Workers - Luli Callinicos
- All That Glitters - Emilia Potenza