Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

Speak Magazine Speak Magazine
Publisher: SPEAKYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 38Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: Women for Equal Rights- The Transvaal Rural Women\'s Movement; R50 a month is not enough!- More rights for domestic workers?; Child support- How to claim this right; A women not afriad to say no- Writer Nawal El Sadaawi. Also: Short Story; Taxi Talk; Health Advice; PAC on Women.
Speak Magazine Speak Magazine
Publisher: SPEAKYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 39 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: NoThembi: Domestic Worker, Single Parent and Star Musician; Coping with stress; Women at CODESA; Surviving as a Single; The Hands-on Dad- Unionist Mtutuzeli Tom
Speak Magazine Speak Magazine
Publisher: SPEAKYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 40 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: Women\'s National Coalition: A New Fighting Force?; Rape in Marriage- a woman takes her husband to court; AIDS Tests- are you thinking of having one?; Women in Peru- organising communal kitchens; News about the pill; Union women move ahead
Speak Magazine Speak Magazine
Publisher: SPEAKYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 42 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: Ellen Kuzwayo: On Her Life, Feminism and Political Tolerance; A Man says Yes to Abortion; Should Health Workers Strike?; Vukuzenzele- Hawkers Succeed; Buying on HP- beware of dangers; Breast Cancer- what every woman should know
Speak Magazine Speak Magazine
Publisher: SPEAKYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 43 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: Sibongile Khumalo- Music Makes my World Go Round; Beauty Contests- who are the winners?; Ten Years of Beatings- an abused wife talks; Mass Action- the power of people; Are you Depressed?- how to cope
Speak Magazine Speak Magazine
Publisher: SPEAKYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 45 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Inside this Issue: I am HIV Positive: A Woman Tells Her Story; End Water Apartheid!- Moutse Women on the March; Teenage Moms- Where are the Dads?; Babalaas Babies- what alcohal does to an unborn baby