Books
Andersson, Lars-Gunnar, & Tore Janson. Languages in Botswana: Language Ecology in Southern Africa Gaborone: Longman Botswana, 1997. 204pp
Benson, Mary. Tshekedi Khama London: Faber & Faber, 1960
Burrett, Rob S. [The Boer War in Botswana] [Zimbabwe, 2006]
Chanock, Martin Unconsummated Union: Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa 1900-1945 [incl. Bechuanaland] Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977. 289pp
Chirenje, Jackson Mutero. A History of Northern Botswana 1850-1910 Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses/ Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1977
Chirenje, Jackson Mutero. Chief Khama and His Times ditto ????, 1978
Crowder, Michael (ed.) Education for Development in Botswana Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1984 [pp.21-45 ‘Education and development in pre-colonial and colonial Botswana to 1965’ by Q.N. Parsons]
Crowder, Michael. The Flogging of Phinehas McIntosh: A Tale of Colonial Folly and Injustice, Bechuanaland 1933 [Gammanwato] New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. 248pp
Dale, Richard. Botswana’s Search for Autonomy in Southern Africa Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995. 256pp
Denbow, James & Phenyo C. Thebe. Culture and Customs of Botswana Westport, Conn.: Grenwood Books (Culture and Customs of Africa series ed. Toyin Falola), 2006. 244pp
Edge, Wayne, & M.H. Lekorwe (eds.) Botswana Politics and Society Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik, 1998. 508pp Chapters:
1. ‘The kgosi in a traditional setting’ by P.T. Mgadla;
2. ‘The nature of Batswana states: towards a theory of Batswana traditional government—the Batawana case’ by T. Tlou;
3. ‘Missionary imperialism—the case of Bechuanaland’ by A.J. Dachs;
4. ‘Land, cattle, and ethnicity: the creation of Linchwe’s Bakgatla 1875-1920’ by F. Morton;
5 ‘The establishment of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1870-1910’ by J. Ramsay;
6 ‘Twentieth century antecedents of decolonising nationalism in Botswana’ by J. Ramsay;
7 ‘The struggle for political freedom and political independence’;
8 ‘The emergence of political parties in Botswana’ by J. Ramsay & N. Parsons;
9 ‘Constitutional development in Botswana’ by B. Othlogile;
& 20 more chapters on post-independence bureaucracy, rural development, urban-industrial development, political participation, & foreign policy]
Edgecombe, Ruth, & Bill Guest (eds.) South Africa’s Environmental History: Cases and Comparisons [includes Kuruman District] Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. 326pp
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears. Her life and Writing Cape Town: David Philip, 1995. 312pp
Fairlie, Michael. No Time Like the Past [autobiography, Molepolole &c. 1940s-50s] Edinburgh: Pentlands Press, 1992.
Fawcus, Peter (with Alan Tilbury) Botswana: The Road to Independence [autobiography of last Resident Commissioner, Mafeking) Gaborone: Pula Press & Botswana Society, 2000. 240pp
Good, Kenneth. Realizing Democracy in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (Africa Institute Research Paper no 59), 1997. 163pp
Grant, Sandy. Etcetera: Events, Issues, Places and People of Botswana. Odi: Leitlho Publications, 1998. 252pp. [‘A wide ranging selection of perceptive, critical essays which appeared in the Botswana Press 1991-1997’]
Grant, Sandy, & Elinah Grant. Decorated Homes in Botswana Mochudi: Phutadikobo Museum, 1995. 134pp
Griffiths, Anne M.O. In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community [Kweneng] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997
Gulbrandsen, Ornulf. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty [Gangwaketse] Bergen: Norse Publication, 1994. 440pp
Hailey, Lord. The Republic of South Africa and the High Commission Territories London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 136pp
Halpern, Jack. South Africa’s Hostages: Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland Harmondsworth: Penguin 1965
Hinchey, M.T. (ed.) Drought in Botswana Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1979. 305pp
Hitchcock, Renée R., & M.R. Smith (eds.) Settlement in Botswana: The Historical Development of a Human Landscape Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1982
Hyam, Ronald. The Failure of South African Expansion 1908-1948 [Swaziland, Basutoland, Bechuanaland] London: Macmillan, 1972. 219pp
Jackson, Ashley. Botswana 1939-1945: An African Country at War Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. 281pp
Jacobs, Nancy. Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History [Kuruman District] Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 300pp
Janson, Tore, & Joseph Tsonope. Birth of a National Language: The History of Setswana Gaborone: Heinemann Botswana, 1991
Keitseng, Fish (with Jeff Ramsay & Barry Morton) Comrade Fish: Memories of a Motswana in the ANC Underground Gaborone: Pula Press, 1999. 138pp
Landau, Paul S. The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender and Christianity in an African Kingdom [Tswapong] Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995
Lane, Paul, Andrew Reid, & Alinah Segobye (eds.) Ditswa Mmung: The Archaeology of Botswana Gaborone: Botswana Society & Pula Press, 1998. 263pp
Livingston, Julie. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana [History of health and medical practices in Kgatleng etc.] Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 310pp
Livingstone, David. Missionary Travels (1857), available on-line from link on <www.thuto.org/ubh>
Lloyd, Edwin. Three Great African Chiefs: Khậmé, Sebele and Bathoeng London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895
Main, Michael. Kalahari: Life’s Variety in Dune and Delta Johannesburg: Southern Books, 1987. 265pp
Makgala, Christian John. Elite Conflict in Botswana: A History Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2006. 228pp
Masire, Quett Ketumile Johnnie. & Stephen J. Lewis, Masire: Memoirs of an African Diplomat : Very Brave or Very Foolish? Gaborone: Macmillan, 2006 & London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 334pp. ISBN 9991240438
Maylam, Paul. Rhodes, the Tswana, and the British: Colonialism, Collaboration, and Conflict in the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1885-1899 Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies number 4), 1980. 245pp
Mazonde, Isaac. Ranching and Enterprise in Eastern Botswana: A Case Study of Black and White Farmers [Tuli Block, using pseudonyms for farmers] Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994
Mbanga, Wilf, & Trish Mbanga. Seretse and Ruth Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2005. 374pp [‘One of the great love stories of our times.’]
Merriweather, Alfred. Desert Doctor Remembers: The Autobiography of Alfred Merriweather Gaborone: Pula Press, 1999. 221pp [Kweneng etc.]
Mgadla, P.T. A History of Education in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to 1965 Latham, NY: University Press of America, 2003. 231pp
Mgadla, Part T. & Stephen C. Volz (transl. & eds.) Words of Batswana: Letters to Mahoko a Becwana 1883-1896 Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Historical Documents (Second Series no 37), 2006. 374pp.
Millard, John. Never a Dull Moment: The Autobiography of John Millard, Administrator, Soldier & farmer [Divisional Commissioner, Francistown 1950s] Swavesey, Cambridge UK: Silent Books, 1996. 232pp
Molefi, Rodgers Kereng K. A Medical History of Botswana 1885-1966 Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1996. 204pp
Molema, Silas Modiri. The Bantu Past and Present Edinburgh: Green & Son, 1920
Molema, Silas Modiri. Chief Moroka: His Life, His Times, His Country and His People Cape Town: Methodist Publishing House and Book Depot, 1951. 210pp
Molema, Silas Modiri. Montshiwa, Barolong Chief and Patriot Cape Town: Struik, 1966
Morton, Barry, & Jeff Ramsay. The Making of a President: Sir Ketumile Masire’s Early Years Gaborone: Pula Press, 1994. 83pp
Morton, Fred & Jeff Ramsay (eds.) The Birth of Botswana: A History of the Bechuanaland Protectorate 1910 to 1966 Gaborone: Longman, 1st edn. 1987. 206pp
Morton, Fred, Jeff Ramsay & Barry Morton (comps.) Historical Dictionary of Botswana Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press, 3rd edn. 1996. 321pp
Nteta, Doreen & Janet Hermans (eds.) Sustainable Rural Development Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1992. 280pp
The Okavango Delta Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1976. 349pp
Okihiro, Gary Yukio. A Social History of the Bakwena and Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century [Kweneng] Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. ISBN 077347839-6
Packard, Randall M. White Plague, Black Labour: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 389pp
Parsons, Neil. King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes [Khama, Sebele, Bathoen, in Britain 1895] Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998
Parsons, Q.N. Report on the Botswana Brigades 1965-83 Gaborone: National Institute for Research, Oct.1983
Picard, Louis. The Politics [and Administration] of Development in Botswana ….1987
Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho. Native Life in South Africa London:….1916 [full text on-line via <www.thuto.org/ubh>]
Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho, Mhudi [novel on Barolong history] Lovedale: Lovedale Press, 1st edn 1932
Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho (ed. John Camaroff). The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje …1st edn 1973
Rey, Charles Fernand (Michael Crowder & Neil Parsons, eds.). Monarch of All I Survey: Bechuanaland Diaries 1929-1937 Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1988
Salkin, Jay S., et al. (eds.) Aspects of the Botswana Economy: Selected Papers Gaborone: lentswe la Lesedi & Oxford: James Currey, 1997. 579pp
Schapera, Isaac, ed. Ditirafalo tsa Merafe ya Batswana ba Lefatshe la Tshireletso (Traditional Histories of the Native Tribes of the Bechuanaland Protectorate) Lovedale, Cape: Lovedale Press, 1940
Schapera, Isaac. Married Life in an African Tribe London: Faber & Faber, 1940
Schapera, Isaac, ed. Mekgwa le Melao ya Batswana (Customs and Laws of the Batswana) Lovedale: Lovedale Press, n.d.[c.1940]
Schapera, Isaac. The Ethnic Composition of Tswana Tribes London; London School of Economics & Political Science (Monographs in Social Anthropology), 1952
Schapera, Isaac. Praise-Poems of Tswana Chiefs Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965
Schapera, Isaac. Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Chang 1795-1940 London: University of London Athlone Press, 1970
Schlosser, Katesa. At the Edge of the Kalahari: Historical Colour Photographs of Tswana Chiefdoms and Hereros in Exile Kiel, Germany: Museum für Völkerkunde der Universität Kiel, 2001. 44pp + 74 plates
Schmitt, Deborah Ann (née Shackleton). The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners [in World War II] Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2006. 265pp
Seager, Alan. The Shadow of a Great Rock [Tlhatlaganyane rock, Serowe] Connah’s Quay, Flintshire, England: I & D Books/ The Author, 2004. 168pp [1940s-60s missionary memoirs]
Selelo-Kupe, Serara. An Uneasy Walk to Quality: A History of the Evolution of Black Nursing Education in the Republic of Botswana, 1922-1980 Battle Creek, Mich.: W.K. Kellog Foundation, 1993. 257pp
Selepeñ, Mokgalo. Tshekedi Khama ke mo Itsileng Gaborone: Pula Press, 1999. 95pp
Seretse, Gasebalwe. Tshekedi Khama: The Master Whose Dogs Barked At: A Critical Look at Ngwato Politics Gaborone: The Apostle, 2004. 154pp
Setiloane, Gabriel M. The Image of God among the Sotho-Tswana Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1976
Sillery, Anthony. Bechuanaland Protectorate Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1952
Sillery, Anthony. Founding a Protectorate: History of Bechuanaland 1885-1895 [i.e. colonial administration] The Hague: Mouton, 1965
Sillery, Anthony. Botswana:A Short Political History London: Methuen, 1974
Sinclair, David (ed.) The White Tide Gweru: Modern Press, 2002. 212pp [autobiography of Alfred Musson, Shoshong 1870s-80s]
Slaughter, Carolyn. Before the Knife: Memoirs of an African Childhood New York: Doubleday & London: Black Swan/ Transworld Publishers, 2002. 253pp [daughter of 1950s Gaberones district commissioner]
Spinage, Clive. History and Evolution of the Fauna Conservation Laws of Botswana Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1991. 118pp
Staugard, Frans. Traditional Healers: Traditional Medicine in Botswana Gaborone: Ipelegeng Publishers, 1985
Stedman, Stephen John (ed.). Botswana: The Political Economy of Democratic Development Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers (SAIS African Studies Library, ed. William Zartman), 1993. 213pp [incl. late colonial development, bureaucracy & democracy, relations with South Africa and Zimbabwe, by Stephen R. Lewis, J. Stephen Morrison, Patrick P. Molutsi, Jack Parson, John D. Holm, Gloria Somolekae, James J. Zaffiro, Richard Dale, etc.]
Thomas, David S.G., & Paul Shaw. The Kalahari Environment Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 284pp
Tlou, Thomas. A History of Ngamiland Gaborone: Macmillan Botswana, 1984
van Driel, Francien. Poor and Powerful: Female-Headed Households and Unmarried Motherhood in Botswana [Paje, Central District] Saarbrucken: Nijmegen Studies, 1994
van Rensburg, Patrick Report from Swaneng Hill: Education and Employment in an African Country Uppsala, The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, I974.
van Rensburg, Patrick. Looking Forward from Serowe Gaborone: Foundation for Education with Production, 1983
Vanqa, Themba P. The Development of Education in Botswana: The Role of Teachers’ Organisations (1937-1987) Gaborone: Lightbooks/ Lentswe la Lesedi, 1999. 220pp
Vaughan, Olufemi. Chiefs, Power, and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1880s-1990s Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003. 209pp
Werbner, Richard. Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Political Anthropology of Kalanga Elites . Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 2004. 254pp
Williams, Ralph Champneys. How I Became a Governor [autobiography, Bechuanaland 1900s] London: John Murray, 1913
Williams, Susan. Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation London: Penguin Books/ Allen Lane, 2006. 408pp
Winstanley, George. Under Two Flags in Africa: Recollections of a British Administrator in Bechuanaland and Botswana 1954 to 1972 Kelvedon, Colchester UK: Blackwater Books, 2000. 254pp
Wookey, A.J., ed. Dicò tsa Secwana: Liñwao le Leha e le Dipolelo Kaga (History of the Becwana) Kuruman: London Missionary Society, 1st edn. 1913
Official Publications
Basutoland, The Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland: History of Discussion with the Union of South Africa 1909-1939 London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (British Parliamentary Papers/ ‘Blue Book’, Cmd. 8707 of Dec. 1952), reprinted 1962. 136pp [at request of South African government, omits 1939-52 material that might damage its case to take over BBS]
Bent, R.A.R. Ten Thousand Men of Africa: The Story of the Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners 1941-1946 London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office for Bechuanaland Government, 1952. 128pp
Knothe, ed. Short History of the Native Tribes of the Transvaal London: War Office & Pretoria: Transvaal Native Affairs Department, 1904-05
Book Chapters & Periodical Articles
Murray, Andrew, & Neil Parsons ‘The modern economic history of Botswana’ in K.A. Konczacki et al. (eds.) Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa. Volume One: The Front Line States London: Frank Cass, 1990, pp.159-99
Ndlovu, Sifiso Mxolisi. ‘The ANC in exile, 1960-1970’ [includes Botswana] in SADET (South African Democracy Education Trust) The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 1 (1960-1970) Cape Town: Zebra Press/ Struik, 2004, pp.411-78
Sebina, Peter Mazebe. ‘Makalaka’ African Studies (Johannesburg), vol.5, no.2 (1947), pp. - .
Newspapers & Periodicals
Botswana Daily News (Gaborone, title varies Daily News/ Dikgang tsa Gompieno etc.) 1964-, government daily newspaper
Botswana Notes and Records (Gaborone, The Botswana Society), 1968/69+ annual volumes [indexes up to 1999 published separately, & Internet site to be completed early 2007 on <http://www.botsoc.org.bw/gallery_index.htm>]
Bulawayo Chronicle / Chronicle (Bulwayo), 1894+, real copies available in Bulawayo City Library
Diamond Fields Advertiser (Kimberley), real copies available in Kimberley Public Library
Koranta ea Becoana (Mafikeng: published by Silas Molema, edited by Sol T. Plaatje), semi-monthly newspaper 1901-08 [incomplete run, only a few individual copies in archives etc., but articles sometime reproduced or reported on in Mafeking Mail and Pretoria News ]
Kutlwano (Lobatse, subsequently Gaborone), 1961+, monthly government magazine
Mafeking Mail (Mafeking), 1899-1970s [microfiche in University of Botswana Library, Botswana Documentation & Special Collections]??
Mahoko a Becwana (Kuruman: London Missionary Society), 1883-98, semi-monthly newspaper [complete run now being edited by Prof. P.T. Mgadla]
Naledi ya Batswana / African Echo (Johannesburg: Bantu Press), weekly newspaper 1944-60s [microfiche in University of Botswana Library, Botswana Documentation & Special Collections]??
Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies (University of Botswana, Gaborone), bi-annual, 1982+
The Star (Johannesburg), c.1890+, real copies available in Witwatersrand University Library—all Johannesburg newspapers available on (poor quality) microform in Johannesburg Public Library
Tsala ea Becoana , later titled Tsala ea Batho (Kimberley: published & edited by Sol T. Plaatje), 1910-?, sporadically produced [incomplete run, only a few individual copies in archives etc.]
Unpublished Manuscripts & Theses
Bolaane, Maitseo. 'Wildlife Conservation and Local Management: the Establishment of Moremi Park, Okavango, Botswana in the 1950s-60s' St Antony’s College, University of Oxford: DPhil, 2004
Crowder, Michael. ‘The Black Prince’ [unfinished biography of Tshekedi Khama] c.1987 (full text available on-line at < www.thuto.org/schapera/etext/classic/blpr.htm >
Makgala, Christian John. ‘The Policy of Indirect Rule in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1926-57’ University of Cambridge, England: PhD, 2001
Milton, Shaun Nicholas. ‘To Make the Crooked Straight: Settler Colonialism, Imperial Decline, and the South African Beef Industry, 1902-42’[incl. Bechuanaland Protectorate] Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London: PhD, 1996
Morapedi, Wazha Gilbert. ‘Key Aspects of the Agrarian History of Botswana, 1930-1966’
University of Essex, Colchester: PhD, 1998
Ngcongco, Leonard Diniso ‘Some Aspects of Bangwaketse History before 1900’ Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia: PhD, 1977
Parsons, Quentin Neil. ‘Khama III, the Bamangwato, and the British, with Special Reference to 1895-1923’ [Central District] University of Edinburgh: PhD, 1973. 466pp.
Raditladi, Leetile Disang ‘The Destiny of Seretse Khama’ c.1955 (original in possession of Lovedale Press Archives, Rhodes University, Grahamstown; photocopy in Michael Crowder Papers, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London)
Ramsay, Frederick Jeffress (Jnr.) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Bakwena Dynasty of South-Central Botswana, 1820-1940’ Boston University: PhD, 1991. 467pp.
Ratshosa, Simon ‘My Book on Bechuanaland Protectorate’ c.1931 (copies in possession of Botswana National Archives, etc., full text to be made available on-line at <www.thuto.or/ubh>
Seboni, Michael Ontepetse Martinus. ‘The Development of Education in the Bechuanaland Protectorate’ University of South Africa, Pretoria: M.Ed, 1947. 3 vols
Steenkamp, Philip John. ‘A Vision of Order: Development Policy in Bechuanaland, 1929-1937’ Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario: PhD, 1989
Tapela, Henderson M. ‘The Tati District of Botswana, 1866-1869’ [North East District] University of Sussex, Brighton: DPhil, 1976
Thapelo, Teedzani Davis. ‘The Political Economy of Stratified Distribution in Botswana: State, Peasants and Agro-Pastoral Reforms, 1966-1996’ University of London, School of Oriental & African Studies: PhD, 1998
Thema, Benjamin Cogo. ‘The Development of Native Education in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (An Historical Survey) 1840-1946’ University of South Africa, Pretoria: M.Ed, 1947. 118pp
Truschel, Louis W. ‘Accommodation under Imperial Rule: the Tswana of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1895-1920’ Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois: PhD, 1971. 475pp
Archives & Libraries
[ We suggest that you consult telephone directories & Google on the Internet for more details .]
Anglican Church Archives : Kimberley/ Bloemfontein & Harare/ Bulawayo? Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) Archives, London, papers available on microform [South African National Archives in Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Durban]
Botswana, Department of Surveys & Lands : Papers relating to farm ownership & land deeds
Botswana, Ministry of Labour & Home Affairs : Papers relating to births, marriages, and deaths
Botswana National Archives
Series for which an extensive Subject Catalogue is available (but from which, tragically, transcripts of court records have been weeded and destroyed by the Archives, preserving only the judgments) :
HC [High Commissioner’s Office] series, c.1870s-1910
RC [Resident Commissioner’s Office] series, c.1904+
S. [Secretariat] series, c.1904-60s [this was the main series for central colonial record keeping]
Series for which only a simple Accession Register is available:
DC [District Commissioner] series, by district 1930s+, incorporating previous BP [Bechuanaland Protectorate] series relating to Assistant Commissioners & Resident Magistrates 1890s-1930s
Department/ Ministry series, i.e. AGRIC(ulture), POL(ice), VET(erinary), etc.
DivCom [Divisional Commissioner] series, i.e. DivComNorth (F/town) & DivComSouth (Lobatse) c.1952-62
OP [Office of the President] series, incorporating Office of Prime Minister 1964+
TA [Tribal Administration] series, e.g. Bangwato Tribal Administration (BTA) post-1930s
For other BNA series, ask to see the relevant Accessions List for a numerical list of its files (with abbreviated titles) organized into archival boxes.
Botswana, Registrar of Companies : papers relating to ownership & transfer of companies
British Parliamentary Papers , (Printed Correspondence Relating to Africa) c.1830s-c.1900 [Irish University Press Reprints in approx. 50 volumes available in University of Botswana Library, Botswana Documentation & Special Collections]
Bulawayo City Library : full run in hard copy of Bulawayo Chronicle etc
Council for World Mission Archives (former Congregational Council for World Mission & London Missionary Society), Africa South: Incoming Correspondence [from Southern African mission stations], c.1840s-1910 [microfiche in University of Botswana Library, Botswana Documentation & Special Collections] [Cape Town office papers?]
David Livingstone, Correspondence & Journals 1840s-60s , available in published volumes edited by Isaac Schapera [in Botswana National Archives Library & University of Botswana Library]
Jesuit Mission Archives , for printed papers see Zambezi Mission Record [copy in SANA Pretoria?]
Kimberley City Library : full run in hard copy of Diamond Fields Advertiser etc.
McGregor Memorial Museum , Kimberley: incl. Duggan-Cronin Photo Library
Oblates of Mary Immaculate , Archives in Pretoria?
Roan Selection Trust Archives (still existing, with name changed?), Ndola
Seventh Day Adventist Mission, Archives?
South African National Archives [catalogue search on-line via Google],
Cape Town Archives Repository: Papers relating to British Bechuanaland c.1884-1895
Transvaal Archives Depository, Pretoria: Papers relating to Bechuanaland border areas c.1870s+
South African Land Registry , Vryburg office: Papers relating to farm ownership & land deeds of Northern Cape Province/ North-West Province
University of Cape Town Jagger Library : special collection of Setswana publications, papers of former colonial officials
University of Witwatersrand Library : full run in hard copy of The Star , The Times , etc.
Wesleyan Methodist Mission Archives : South African papers at Rhodes University, Grahamstown; London papers available on microform in South African National Archives
Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines Archive , Roodepoort, Gauteng: includes papers of KwaTheba/ Manpower Recruiting Organisation of Africa, NLA (Native Recruiting Corporation, south of 22 0 S) and WNLA (Witwatersrand Native Labour Association, north of 22 0 S)
Zion Christian Church , Moria, Limpopo Province SA, Archives?