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South African Reference Books of 1965

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Reuben Musiker*
Affiliation:
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Extract

The present review continues the series of annual surveys of South African reference literature and in general follows the pattern of the previous review.

An atlas not confined to South Africa but rather covering the whole of Africa has now been completed in ten parts. Africa: Maps and Statistics (Pretoria, Africa Institute; R9-50; overseas R12-50 including binder) presents a statistical survey of Pan-African territories in map form with an explanatory text. Subjects covered include population, vital and medical aspects, culture and education, and political development.

The reviewer's Guide to South African Reference Books (Cape Town, Balkema; R2-50) was published in an extensively revised fourth edition in 1965. This edition has an innovation in the inclusion of guides to reference material about four territories which are much in the news, namely, South-West Africa and the High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuana-land, and Swaziland. An important bibliography concerning Bechuanaland also appeared in the year under review. This is C. Middleton's Bechuanaland: A Bibliography (Cape Town, University School of Librarianship). It has 155 entries covering administration, development, history, missions, native races, and other topics and complements an earlier bibliography by P. E. Stevens published by the same university in 1949. Further progress was made with the publication of South Africa's union list of serials. Letters J and K of Periodicals in South African Libraries (Pretoria, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) were published in 1965.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1966

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References

* See African Studies Bulletin, VIII, No. 1 (1965), 6973 Google Scholar.

** One rand (R1) = 1.4 U.S. dollars.