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Literature on Robben Island

Alexander, N. Robben Island Dossier 1964-1974: Report to the International Community (Cape Town, 1994).

Anderson, R.H. 'The Island Breeding Station', Die S.A. Bye Tydskrif, (Sept./Okt. 1965) 9-11.

Anon., 'Robben Island retold', Staffrider, 10(3) (1992), pp.35-36.

Babenia, N. Memoirs of a Saboteur: Reflections on my Political Activity in India and South Africa (Cape Town, 1995).

Balie, I. Die geskiedenis van Genadendal 1738-1988 (Cape Town, 1988).

Berens, P. et al Dreaming of Freedom: the Story of Robben Island (Cape Town, 1995).

Cook, A. South Africa: the imprisoned society (London: International Defence and Aid Fund, 1974).

Crawford, R.J.M. and Boonstra, H.G.v.D. 'Counts of Moulting and Breeding Jackass Penguins Spheniscus Demursus: a comparison at Robben Island, 1988-1993', Marine Ornithology, 22(2) (1994), 213-219.

Crawford, R.J.M. and Boonstra, H.G.v.D. et al 'Recolonization of Robben Island by African Penguins' in P. Dann, I. Norman and P. Reilly (eds) The Penguin Chapter 17 333-363 (Surrey, 1995).

Crawford, R.J.M. and Dyer, B.M. 'Responses by Four Seabird Species to a Fluctuating Availability of Cape Anchovy Engraulis capensis off South Africa', Ibis, 137 (1994) 329-339.

Crawford, R.J.M., Dyer, B.M. and Brooke, R.K. 'Breeding Nomadism in Southern African Seabirds - Constraints, Causes and Conservation', Ostrich, 65 (1994) 231-246.

Crawford, R.J.M. et al 'Trends of African Penguin Spheniscus Demersus Populations in the 20th Century', South African Journal of Marine Science, 16 (1995).

Daniels, E. There and Back: Robben Island, 1964-1979 (Cape Town, 1998).

Davids, A. 'The History of the Karamats: the Karamat on Robben Island', Boorhaanol Newsletter 26(2), n.d.

De Villiers, S. Robben Island: out of reach, out of mind (Cape Town, 1971).

Deacon, H.J. (ed.) The Island: a History of Robben Island, 1488-1992 (David Philip and Mayibuye Books, 1996).

Deacon, H.J. 'Remembering Tragedy, Constructing Modernity: Robben Island as a national monument' in C. Coetzee and S. Nuttall (eds.) Negotiating the Past: the Making of Memory in South Africa (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Deacon, H.J. The Essential Robben Island (David Philip and Mayibuye Books, 1997).

Dingake, M. 'Comrade Madiba' in N. Mandela The Struggle is My Life (London, 1986).

Dingake, M. My Fight against Apartheid, (London, 1987).

Dlamini, M. Hell-hole Robben Island (Nottingham, 1984).

Fish, J.W. Robben Island: an account of thirty-four years gospel work amongst lepers of South Africa (Kilmarnock, c.1924).

Gregory, J. Goodbye Bafana, my Prisoner, my Friend (London, 1995).

Huigen, S. 'Jarige Meisjes, 'Hottentotten, en het zand van Robben Eijland: Pieter de Neyn aan de Kaap (1672-74)', De Zeventiende Eeuw, 7(2) (1991).

Hutton, B. Robben Island: Symbol of Resistance (Bellville, 1994).

Jacobs, J.H. 'Narrating the Island: Robben Island in South African literature', Current Writing, 4 (1992), 73-84.

Kathrada, A.M., Deacon, H.J. et al. The Robben Island Exhibition: Esiqithini (Cape Town, 1996).

Kruger, B. The pear tree blossoms: a history of the Moravian Mission Stations in South Africa 1737-1869 (Genadendal, 1966).

Laidler, P. and Gelfand, M. South Africa: its medical history (Cape Town, 1971).

Lekota, 'Terror', Letters to a Daughter, (Johannesburg, c1990).

Lubbe, G. 'Robben Island: the early years of Muslim resistance', Kronos, 12 (1987), 49-56.

Maharaj, S.R.'Mac' 'Robben Island' in N. Mandela The Struggle is My Life (London, 1986).

Malherbe, V.C. 'David Stuurman: last Chief of the 'Hottentots', African Studies 39(1) (1980).

Malherbe, V.C. Krotoa, called Eva: a Woman Between (Cape Town, 1990).

Mandela, N. Long Walk to Freedom (London, 1994).

Mandela, N. and Kathrada, A.M. Robben Island: the Reunion (Cape Town, 1996).

Mbeki, G. Learning from Robben Island (Cape Town, 1991).

Mgxashe, Mxolisi, 'A Long Limping Walk', (unpublished manuscript), n.d.

Meer, F. Higher than Hope (London, 1990).

Mostert, N. Frontiers: an Epic of South Africa's creation and the Tragedy of the Xhosa people (London, 1992).

Naidoo, I. Island in chains: ten years on Robben Island (Harmondsworth, 1982).

Nankivell, J.W., Botha, G. and Adamson, R.S., 'Robben Island', S.A. Geographical Society, 17 (1934).

Ntloedibe, E.L. Here is a Tree: a Political Biography of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (Botswana, 1995).

Penn, N., Deacon H. and Alexander, N. Robben Island: the politics of rock and sand (Cape Town, 1992).

Pogrund, B. Sobukwe and Apartheid (Johannesburg, 1990).

Pogrund, B. No Man Shall Die Better, (Johannesburg, 199?).

Prisoners of Apartheid: A Biographical List of Political Prisoners and Banned Persons in South Africa (London and New York, 1978).

Ross, N. 'Robben Island: 500 years of South African History' (unpublished mss.).

Rioufol, V. 'The making of a new past for a new South Africa: the commemoration of Robben Island' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, UCT, 1999).

Schadeberg, J. Voices from Robben Island (Johannesburg, 1994).

Shityuwete, H. Never Follow the Wolf (London, 1980).

Smith, C. Robben Island (Cape Town, 1997).

Stapleton, T.J. 'Reluctant slaughter: rethinking Maqoma's role in the Cattle Killing', International Journal of African Historical Studies, 26(2) (1993).

Stapleton, T.J. 'The memory of Maqoma: an assessment of Jingqi oral tradition in Ciskei and Transkei', History in Africa, 20 (1993).

Tambo, O. Preparing for Power (Oxford, 1987).

Theron, H. and Hill, R. 'Ekskursie na Robbeneiland: 6 Oktober 1990', Geological Society of South Africa, W.P. Branch, (1990).

Venter, P.J. 'Melaatsheid in die Kaapkolonie, 1756-1892', SAMJ, 10(1) (1936), 1-5.

Villa-Vicencio, C. The Spirit of Freedom (London, 1996).

Weideman, M. Robben Island 1939-45 (MA thesis, Wits).

Williamson, S. (ed.) Thirty Minutes: Multi-media Installations in the Visitors Block on Robben Island by Nine Cape Artists (Cape Town, 1997).

Woodson, D. Robben Island Archives (Cape Town, 1996).

Zwelonke, D.M. Robben Island (Oxford, 1973).

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