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| The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840. R Elphick, H Giliomee Wesleyan University Press, 2014 | 215 | 2014 |
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| Halfway to the Holocaust: The economic, demographic and social implications of the AIDS pandemic to the year 2010 in the Southern African region R Shell HIV/AIDS: A threat to the African renaissance, 19-20, 2000 | 39 | 2000 |
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| Intergroup Relations: Khoikhoi, settlers, slaves and free blacks R Elphick, R Shell The shaping of South African society, 1652-1820, 1989 | 29 | 1989 |
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