Preface
Editorial advisory board
A
Abdurahman, Abdullah (1872-1940)
Achmat, Abdurazzack (Zackie) (1962-)
Adams College
Affirmative Action
African National Congress
African National Congress Women's League
African National Congress Youth League
African renaissance
African Union
Afrikaner(s)
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
AIDS
All-African Convention
Anglo-Boer War
Anglo-Zulu War
Apartheid
Armed Struggle
Azania
B
Baartman, Sara/Saartjie (1770s-1815)
Bambatha Rebellion
Bantu Education
Bantustan(s)
Battle of Blood River
Biko, Steve Bantu (1946-1977)
Bill of Rights
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Economic Empowerment
Bloemfontein
Boer Republics
Boesak, Allan Aubrey (1945-)
Breytenbach, Breyten (1939-)
British Imperialism and Settler Colonialism (1795-1870)
British Imperialism and Settler Colonialism (1870-1910)
British South Africa Company
Broederbond
Brutus, Dennis Vincent (1924-2009)
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha (1928-)
C
Cape Colony
Cape Dutch Architecture
Cape Franchise
Cape Malay
Cape Town
Carnegie Commission
Cetshwayo (1826-1884)
Champion, Allison Wessels George (A.W.G.) (1893-1975)
Christianity
Cinema
Civic Associations
Civil Society
Clegg, Johnny (1953-)
Coetzee, John Maxwell (1940-)
Coloured People
Congress of South African Trade Unions
Congress of the People
Constitution
Convention for a Democratic South Africa
Customary Law
D
Dadoo, Yusuf (1909-1983)
Defiance Campaigns
De Klerk, F. W. (Frederik Willem) (1936-)
De Lille, Patricia (1951-)
Democratic Alliance
Democratic Politics Since 1994
Democratic Transition/ Negotiations, 1990-1994
District Six
D'Oliveira, Basil (1931-)
Drum
Dube, John Langalibalele (1871-1946)
Durban
Durban Strikes
Dutch East India Company
Dutch Reformed Church
E
Early Colonial Period: The Dutch at the Cape
Economy
Education
Elections: 1994 to 2009
Emigration
F
Fanagalo
Fassie, Brenda (1964-2004)
First Heloise Ruth (1925-1982)
Fischer, Abraham Louis (1908-1975)
Freedom Charter
Frontier Wars
Frontline States
Fugard, Athol (1932-)
G
Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma) (1869-1948)
Garveyism
Ginwala, Frene Noshir (1931-)
Global Antiapartheid Movement
Gold and Diamond Mining
Goniwe, Matthew (1947-1985)
Gordimer, Nadine (1923-)
Great Trek
Griqua
Growth, Employment, and Redistribution Strategy
H
Hani, Martin Thembisile (Chris) (1942-1993)
Head, Bessie (1937-1986)
Health
Hertzog, James Barry Munnik (1866-1942)
Holomisa, Bantubonke Harrington (Bantu) (1955-)
Huguenots
I
Ibrahim, Abdullah (1934-)
Immigration
Indentured labor(ers)
Indian South Africans
Indigenous forms of government
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
Inkatha Freedom Party
Isicathamiya
Islam
J
Jabavu, Davidson Don Tengo (1885-1959)
Jabavu, John Tengo (1859-1921)
Johannesburg
Joseph, Helen (1905-1992)
Judaism
K
Kadalie, Clements (1896-1951)
Krotoa (1643-1674)
Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paul (1825-1904)
Kuruman
Kwaito
Kwela
L
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
La Guma, Alex (1925-1985)
Land Tenure and Dispossession
Language/Language Policy
Law and Society
Lembede, Anton Muziwakhe (1914-1947)
Leon, Anthony James (Tony) (1956-)
Lesotho
Literature
Lovedale
Luthuli, Albert (1898-1967)


M
Makeba, Miriam Zenzi (1932-2008)
Malan, Daniel Francois (D. F.) (1874-1959)
Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918-2013)
Mandela, Winifred Nomzamo (Winnie) Madikizela (1934-)
Mapungubwe
Masekela, Hugh (1939-)
Matthews, Zachariah Keodirelang (Z. K.) (1901-1968)
Mbaqanga
Mbeki, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa (1910-2001)
Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa (1942-)
Mda, Zakes (1948-)
Media
Meyer, Roelof (Roelf) Petrus (1947-)
Mfecane
Mfengu
Migrant Labor
Moeketsi, Kippie Morolong (1925-1983)
Moshoeshoe (1786-1870)
Motlanthe, Kgalema Petrus (1949-)
Mozambique
Music
Mzilikazi (1790-1868)
N
Namibia
Natal
National Education Crisis/Coordinating Committee
National Forum
National Party "Natives" Land Act of 1913
Natives Representative Council
Ndebele
New Social Movements
Ngoni
Ngoyi, Lillian (1911-1980)
Ngqika (1775-1829)
Non-European Unity Movement
Nongqawuse (ca. 1841-?)
O
Ohlange Institute
P
Paleoanthropology
Pan Africanist Congress
Pass Laws
Pedi
Plaatje, Solomon (Sol) Thsekisho (1876-1932)
Political cultures and ideologies
Political Economy
Political Violence in South Africa
Popular politics
Port Elizabeth
Precolonial period
R
Racial Classification
Ramaphosa, Matamela Cyril (1952-)
Rand Revolt
Reconstruction and Development Program
Retief, Pieter (Piet) Mauritz (1780-1838)
Rhodes, Cecil John (1853-1902)
Rivonia Trial
Robben Island
S
San
Sangoma
Schreiner, Olive Emile Albertina (1855-1920)
Shaka Zulu (1787-1828)
Sharpeville massacre
Sisulu, Albertina Nontsikelelo (1918-2011)
Sisulu, Walter Max Ulyate (1912-2003)
Slavery
Slovo, Joseph (Joe) (1917-1995)
Smuts, Jan Christiaan (1870-1950)
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso (1924-1978)
Soga, Tiyo (1829-1871)
Sophiatown
Sotho
South Africa Act of 1909
South African Coloured People's Organization
South African Communist Party
South African Council of Churches
South African Indian Congress
Soweto
Soweto Student Uprising of 1976
Sports
Squatter Settlements
Stellenbosch
Stokvel(s)
Suzman, Helen (1917-2009)
Swazi
Swaziland
T
Tambo, Oliver Reginald (1917-1993)
Terre Blanche, Eugene (1941-2010)
Theater and Performance
Treason Trial (1956-1961)
Treatment Action Campaign
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Tshwane
Tsonga
Tsotsi
Tswana
Tutu, Reverend Desmond Mpilo (1931-)
U
Union of South Africa (1910-1948)
United Democratic Front
University of Fort Hare
V
Van Riebeeck, Johan Anthoniszoon (Jan) (1619-1677)
Venda
Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch (H. F.) (1901-1966)
Vigilantism
W
Women and Politics
World Council of Churches
X
Xhosa
Z
Zimbabwe
Zulu
Zuma, Jacob (Gedleyihlekisa) (1942-)
Appendix 1. Chronology
Appendix 2. Heads of state since 1910
Appendix 3. Government structures
Appendix 4. Provinces and major cities
Appendix 5. Political parties in the April 2009 national elections
Appendix 6. Key racial and apartheid legislation, 1856-1967
List of acronyms
The contributors.