The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

Tribes and kingdoms by JS Bergh and AP Bergh.

In Southern Africa the 19th century saw the rise and fall of the mighty Zulu empire and the breaking away of Shaka’s warrior Mzilikazi to forge his own powerful Ndebele (Matabele) nation in the interior. A wise chief named Moshweshwe built a new Basotho nation with diplomacy and courage, while in the south the Xhosa speaking tribes who had been the first to come face to face with the Dutch and the British struggled to keep their independence.

Catalogue Access: UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/v2/oclc/13455020

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.