If you need some bibliography to fill the last page of your future book, here is some which I have culled from the 105 entries in "South Africa Bibliography of Adoption and Child Welfare," which is on my computer as part of the data base of the Adoption Bibliography Center.
A Cape Town Directory of Social Welfare. [Cape Town]: Board of Sociological Research, Univ. of Cape Town, 1959. 142 p., tables. Cape Town was then in the Union of South Africa; after 1961 in the Republic of South Africa. (Charities--South Africa--Cape Town--Directories) (Public welfare--South Africa--Cape Town--Directories). (Public welfare--Directories) (Helm, Brunhilde [A.]) (LC 63027358)
Child Welfare Conference, 1st, Cape Town, 1917. Report of the Proceedings of the First Annual Conference Held on March 27th, 28th, 29th and 39th [sic] 1917 . . . Cape Town. Cape Town: W. Thornley and Co., 1917. xii, 202 p. At head of title: "Child Welfare Conference, under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of Child Life, Cape Town, and the Children's Aid Society [of] Johannesburg." A collection of proceedings, for the 1st-6th conferences, is in the U.S. Dept. of Labor Library.
De KOCK, Chris Paul. Buite-egtelikheid by kleurlinge in die Kaapse Skiereiland / C.P. de Kock. Pretoria, South Africa: Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike Navorsing, Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut vir Sosiologiese, Demografiese en Kriminologiese Navorsing, 1980. iv, 94 p. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 87-93. (Illegitimate children--South Africa--Cape Town) (Colored people {South Africa}--South Africa--Cape Town) (LC 81139103)
KNOX, Catherine. The Buxton Babies, 1917-1987: The Story of the Struben Memorial and Lady Buxton Homes. Cape Town, South Africa: M. Venter, c1988. 95 p. : illus. (Buxton, Mildred, Countess of, d. 1955) (Lady Buxton Home--History) (Harry and Mary Struben Memorial Home--History) (Child welfare--South Africa--Cape Town--History) (Orphanages--South Africa--Cape Town--History) (LC 90214448)
THERON, Erika (ed.) Inrigtingsversorging. Stellenbosch: Universiteitsuitgewers en -Boekhandelaars, 1948. 263 p. (Series: Stellenbosch, Cape of Good Hope. University. Sosiologiese en maatskaplike werk-reeks). Cape of Good Hope (Cape Province) was then in the Union of South Africa. In 1994 it was split into three new provinces. (Children--Institutional care) (Children--Institutional care--Africa, South) (LC 52028063)
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