[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Padraig O'Malley's SA transition website

[Patrick Bond]

Peter Limb wrote:
> Date: 18 May 2007
> From: Peter Limb
>
> For those who have not seen this rich site by Padraig O'Malley:
>
> http://www.omalley.co.za/
>
> "An extensive collection of Padraig O'Malley's interviews conducted 
> between 1985 and 2005 with many key personalities, who influenced 
> South Africa's political history. The collection presents a broad 
> range of perspectives on events in South Africa during and after the 
> Apartheid period. There are also summaries of historical events by 
> year as well as descriptions of the historical background to place 
> events in context."
>
> Valuable for transition period. Includes PDFs of sections of SAIRR 
> annuals, biographies etc. University of Massachusetts/University of 
> the Western Cape/Robben Island Museum.
>
> It does have a lot of data. His interviews over many years look 
> particularly valuable for the transition period. Some content (e.g. 
> Howard Barrell PhD) is also available from SAHO 
> (http://www.sahistory.org.za/), but the two sites biography lists are 
> not the same: each has some the other doesn't have. O'Malley only 
> seems to have *sections* of SAIRR annual surveys in PDF, perhaps to 
> keep to the 10% rule? Some organizational "documents" might strike 
> some as a bid odd, as he uses SAIRR extracts in some cases, and at 
> times this is not very apparent--for example, one or two docs. can 
> even be a little misleading (e.g. in a file on the ANC "as it sees 
> itself," in fact this is from the SAIRR...)
>
> But on the whole, a rich resource.