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Natalia No. 45 (2015)
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Natalia Volume 45

Published: 2015

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REPUBLISHED PIECE
The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm
Nellie Fincher, extracts edited by Elwyn Jenkins.		1
ARTICLES
A sketch of colonial Umkomaas
Duncan Du Bois		26
A sketch of colonial Umkomaas
Duncan Du Bois		39
The Tamil heritage in Pietermaritzburg
Alleyn Diesel		53
Transforming our townscapes: the Pietermaritzburg experience
Robert F. Haswell		60
NOTES AND QUERIES69
OBITUARIES
Kenneth Paul Elliott90
John D’Urban Godlonton92
Jefferson John Guy94
Penelope Anne Haswell96
Michael Menne Martin98
Norman Stewart Middleton100
Ian Cedric Audley Player104
Robert Arthur Preston-Whyte110
Joshua Meyiwa Radebe112
John Martin Sellers113
Gilbert Peter Torlage114
Barbara Tyrrell117
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES120
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PUBLICATIONS		137
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS143
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Natalia No. 44 (2014)
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Natalia Volume 44

Published: 2014

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PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
Early proposed roads in the KwaZulu-Natal Drakensberg
Compiled by Val Ward		1
ARTICLES
The outbreak of the Great War: How Pietermaritzburg reacted
Paul Thompson		9
Sydney Powell’s adventures in Natal
Stephen Coan		19
A sketch of colonial Umzinto
Duncan Du Bois		33
UMahlekehlathini, uMehlomane, and uMbokodo:
Zulu Names for Whites in Colonial Natal
Adrian Koopman		48
William Winstanley Pearson: The Natal Experience
Anil Nauriya		70
NOTES AND QUERIES79
OBITUARIES
Herby Sylvister Govinden85
Frank Jolles87
John Morrison89
Geoffrey Soni90
Gunther Hermann Wittenberg92
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES94
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PUBLICATIONS		116
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS123
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Natalia No. 43 (2013)
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Natalia Volume 43

Published: 2013

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A refugee orphan in Kwazulu-Natal
Jan Heronim Zacharewicz		1
ARTICLES
A small civil war: political conflict in the Pietermaritzburg region
in the 1980s and early 1990s
Christopher Merrett		19
The Edendale Welfare Society
Joy Roberts (ed. Jean Hey)		37
Thomas Reynolds, South Coast MLC 1880–1885: A profile
Duncan Du Bois		55
Snow in, or on the outskirts of, Pietermaritzburg (1851–2013)
P.G. Alcock		73
The Bhengu Gallery renovation at Centocow mission
Stephen Kotze		84
Restraint and richness in the ceramic work of Juliet Armstrong
Terence King		101
Sioux/Zulu – the Battle for Identity in the Age of Progress
W.H. Bizley		110
NOTES AND QUERIES137
OBITUARIES
Raymond Gershom Gilkes Aitchison156
Colin Oxenham Gardner157
Timothy Patrick McNally159
Khoza Elliot Mvuyise Mgojo162
Philip Welsford Richmond Russell166
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES 169
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PUBLICATIONS		174
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS179
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Natalia No. 42 (2012)
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Natalia Volume 42

Published: 2012

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ARTICLES
Barbara Tyrrell’s Caravan Verse
Elwyn Jenkins		1
A jubilee in a turbulent year
Vertrees C. Malherbe		9
Sugar and settlers: early Isipingo
Duncan Du Bois		19
A tale of two phoenixes: The Colonial Building and its architect Willliam Powell
Stephen Coan		33
Gandhi and some contemporary African leaders from KwaZulu-Natal
Anil Nauriya		45
“A setback to the harmonious race relations in this charming city of scented flowers” : the August 1959 riouts in Petermaritzburg
Sibongiseni Mkhize		65
Gun accidents in early KwaZulu-Natal
Roger Ingle		80
NOTES AND QUERIES87
OBITUARIES
Radclyffe Macbeth Cadman108
June Farrer111
Edmond Hall113
Kader Hassim116
Winton Arthur (Wog) Hawksworth122
Kathleen Gordon-Gray125
Huw Jones126
Joy Roberts127
Laurence Schlemmer129
Louis Sennett135
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES136
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PUBLICATIONS		155
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS160
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Natalia No. 41 (2011)
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Natalia Volume 41

Published: 2011

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PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
Mandela’s undelivered letter to Alan Paton, 19791
A visit to uSitaku
Nellie Fincher		5
ARTICLES
Emergency of the State: Detention Without Trial
in Pietermaritzburg and the Natal Midlands, 1986–90
Christopher Merrett		10
World War Two Flying-boats over the Zululand Coast
Jeff Gaisford		34
Lightning Birds and Thunder Trees
Adrian Koopman		40
Doctors, Scholars and Liberals:
120 Years on the King’s School Grounds
Rupert Denham		61
Colonial riverport shipping on the South Coast
Duncan du Bois		71
Early days with the Natal Parks Board: Some personal reminiscences by a former Principal Scientific Officer
Bob Crass		82
NOTES AND QUERIES90
OBITUARIES
Victor Bredenkamp99
Bob Crass103
Qedusizi Herbert Msimang105
James Mervyn (“Skonk”) Nicholson107
George Quicke109
Patricia Rainier115
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES118
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PUBLICATIONS		137
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS  140
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Natalia No. 40 (2010)
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Natalia Volume 40

Published: 2010

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PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
Old Maritzburg
An address to the Twenty Club by
Mary Carlyle Mitchell		1
ARTICLES
Towards a new labour dispensation: Background to the arrival of Indians in Natal in 1860
Duncan du Bois		12
The first public railway in South Africa:
The Point to Durban railway of 1860
Michael Cottrell		20
Natal Afrikaners as loyalists during the
Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902)
Johan Wassermann		32
Pietermaritzburg Concentration Camp
Elizabeth van Heyningen		62
A war crime in Pietermaritzburg
Stephen Coan		77
‘I see you’ – Two marches and the fall of a Champion
W.H. Bizley		85
Making the man, keeping the boy:
Van de Ruit’s Spud phenomenon in context
Janice Robertson		110
NOTES AND QUERIES121
OBITUARIES
Steve de Gruchy146
Warwick Dorning147
Deanne Lawrance149
Fatima Meer150
Graeme Pope-Ellis154
Simon Roberts156
Leslie Weinberg158
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES160
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PUBLICATIONS		166
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS  170
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Natalia No. 39 (2009)
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Natalia Volume 39

Published: 2009

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PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
Visits to the dentist – 1873 style
Extracts from the diary of Nelly Shire		1
REPRINT
From metropolis to village7
ARTICLES
The general appearance of things is as of old’:
The Colenso homestead at Bishopstowe
Brian Kearney		9
The causes of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
Damian 0 ‘Connor		28
The war-readiness and military effectiveness of the Zulu forces in the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War
John Laband		37
Social control and communal resistance: African football in Pietermaritzburg, 1920-74
Christopher Merrett.		47
Stella Aurorae: Establishing KwaZulu-Natal’s first university
Bill Guest		65
Memory, identity and inheritance amongst Zululand traders
Debbie Whelan		79
NOTES AND QUERIES94
OBITUARIES
Peter Francis109
Steven Edward Piper111
Brian Roy Stuckenberg113
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES115
SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL PUBLICATIONS125
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS129
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Natalia No. 38 (2008)
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Natalia Volume 38

Published: 2008

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Ruined by a flood – a disastrous flooding of the Mngeni River in 1856
Eliza Whigham Feilden, with Introduction by Shelagh Spencer		1
ARTICLES
Fabian Connections: Bernard Shaw in Natal, 1935
Sylvia Vietzen		8
Indian Family Businesses in Natal. 1870-1950
Kalpana Hiralal		27
A Horse, a Singer and a Prince – two busy months in the life of Pietermaritzburg
Bill Bizley		38
Bhambatha’s Family Tree: Oral Evidence, New And Old
P.S. Thompson		49
NOTES AND QUERIES69
OBITUARIES
Michael Daly75
Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo77
Robert (Robin) Douglas Guy78
Gordon Lindsay Maclean79
Margery (Mobbs) Moberly81
George Deneys Lyndall Schreiner.83
Victor Von Brunn86
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES88
SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL PUBLICATIONS99
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS102
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Natalia No. 36/37 (2007)
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Published: 2007

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PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
My first African excursion
Marianne Faure, edited by Val Ward		1
ARTICLES
Pietermaritzburg Gold
K.N. Greggor		21
Scouting in Pietermaritzburg 1908 to 2007
Graham Harrison		34
Shield, Symbolism and Identity: Post-colonial Heraldry in KwaZulu-Natal
Adrian Koopman		42
NOTES AND QUERIES69
OBITUARIES
David Grey Rattray74
Vishwaprea Suparsad77
Herbert Ian Behrmann79
Susarah Johanna Truter80
John de Villiers82
Ian Frederick Garland85
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES86
SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL PUBLICATIONS106
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS112
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Natalia No. 35 (2005)
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Natalia Volume 35

Published: 2005

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UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES
History of the Natal Native Horse
R. C. Samuelson		1
An account of the Zulu rebellion of 1906
Benjamin Colenbrander		10
ARTICLES
The record of a racist killer?: William Harte
Mark Coghlan		29
From Wesleyan origins to modern times: A history of Verulam
Amber Ramdass and members of the Verulam Historical Society		57
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi: Poet in exile
Adrian Koopman		63
The ‘new’ Grey’s Hospital in an era of transformation
Bill Guest.		75
New names for old: Transformation in the streets of Pietermaritzburg
Adrian Koopman and John Deane		85
NOTES AND QUERIES91
OBITUARIES
Peter Brain92
Mary Ann Ebenezer95
Roy Baring Hindle96
Mahomed Moosa Motala97
Joel Robert Reznek99
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES102
SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL PUBLICATIONS107
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS110
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