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Ukrainian–South African Solidarity Archive
Anti-apartheid histories & liberation solidarity

Preserving the shared history of Ukraine and South Africa in the struggle against apartheid

A digital archive of documents, periodicals, photographs and oral histories — making rare primary sources open to researchers, educators and the public.

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1958–1978
21 items · periodicals · articles · photographs

Soviet-Ukrainian Press on South Africa & Apartheid

How Ukrainian-language publications of the Soviet era reported on apartheid South Africa, racism, the pass laws and African decolonisation — from literary journals to first-hand reportage by sailors who docked in Cape Town.

ApartheidDecolonisation Eyewitness accountsVsesvitKomunist Ukrainy
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Periodical scan

In South Africa — additional page (Zmina, July 1955)

Cape Townracism
Magazine article

In South Africa (В Південній Африці)

No. 7 (28), July 1955, pp. 22–23
1955-07
South AfricaCape Town
Magazine article

Livingstone and the Heirs of Rhodes (Лівінгстон і нащадки Родса)

No. 7 (181), July 1973 (16th year of publication), pp. 222–226
1973-07
ApartheidSouth Africa
Magazine article

The Sun Rises Over Africa (Над Африкою сходить сонце)

Published c. 1961 (journey February–March 1961); section “A tourist’s notes” — issue number to confirm
1961
AfricaDecolonisation
Curated

Exhibitions

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Exhibition

Solidarity Across Continents

How a distant struggle echoed in the Ukrainian press.
Exhibition

Voices from Cape Town

First-hand accounts of life under the pass laws.
Exhibition

The Word “Apartheid”

Tracing a term through two decades of print.
Spanning two decades

A timeline of the collection

1955
Zmina (Зміна) — literary-artistic and socio-political journal of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine / LKSMU (Ukrainian SSR)
1958
Vsesvit (Всесвіт) — literary, arts and world-affairs monthly of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)
1959
Vsesvit (Всесвіт) — literary, arts and world-affairs monthly of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)
1961
Voiovnychyi Ateist (Войовничий атеїст) — popular-science journal of the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge of the Ukrainian SSR
1966
Radianske Pravo (Радянське право) — law journal, Kyiv (Ukrainian SSR)
1967
Khliborob Ukrainy (Хлібороб України) — agricultural magazine (Ukrainian SSR)
1970
Vsesvit (Всесвіт) — literary, arts and world-affairs monthly of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)
1971
Vsesvit (Всесвіт) — literary, arts and world-affairs monthly (Ukrainian SSR)
1973
Vsesvit (Всесвіт) — literary, arts and world-affairs monthly of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR)
1977
Start (Старт) — sports magazine (Ukrainian SSR)
1978
Vsesvit (Всесвіт) — literary, arts and world-affairs monthly (Ukrainian SSR)
About the archive

A living record, growing through ongoing research

This archive is built and maintained by the Ukrainian Association of South Africa as part of a year-long research project. New documents, photographs and oral histories are added as they are located, catalogued to international archival standards, and made freely available.

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21
items catalogued so far
1955–78
years covered
10+
publications represented
Open
free public access
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Partners & supporters

This archive is made possible with the support of our partners and contributors.

Ukrainian Association of South Africa (UAZA)
Ukrainian Institute
University of Pretoria
University of Cape Town

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