The Lionel Forman Collection

The Lionel Foreman Collection

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The Lionel Forman Collection includes valuable material on the early history of white occupation and colonisation of South Africa, the growth of black political organisations, the first black newspapers, early publications, a unique Zulu diary of Cetywayo's visit to Queen Victoria, work on the National Question, student politics, Nusas, Wits and the IUS, and bound volumes of the Guardian, and New Age newspapers, and the politics of the 'fifties.