Natalia No 47 (2017)
Natalia Volume 47
Published: 2017
Category: Natalia
Format: PDF – Zip – 5MB
| Contents | Page |
| EDITORIAL | v |
| Joseph Baynes: Race relations pioneer Duncan du Bois | 1 |
| The Zululand journeys of the Woodward brothers 1894–1899 Adrian Koopman | 13 |
| DISCUSSION | |
| Desiccation and rain rockets: Natural disasters and climate change in South Africa Debbie Whelan | 28 |
| NOTES AND QUERIES | |
| An early children’s alphabet book from Nottingham Road Elwyn Jenkins | 33 |
| Henry Francis Fynn: The Long-tailed finch that came from Pondoland? Adrian Koopman | 39 |
| Isithwalandwe: The wearing of the crane feather Adrian Koopman | 43 |
| Whither the wraith?: The Macrorie Collection at Baynesfield Estate Debbie Whelan | 47 |
| BOOK REVIEWS | |
| Portraits of Colonial Natal by Duncan L. du Bois | 49 |
| Hazara: Elegy for an African Farm by John Conyngham | 50 |
| Friends and Enemies: The Natal Campaign in the South African War 1899–1902 by Hugh Rethman | 53 |
| A Handful of Heroes: Rorke’s Drift – Facts, Myths and Legends by Katie Stossel | 54 |
| Stella Aurorae: The History of a South African University: Volume 2: The University of Natal (1949–1976) by Bill Guest | 55 |
| Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Identity and the Material Record in Southern KwaZulu-Natal in the Late Independent and Colonial Periods. Volume I and Volume 2 edited by Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Liebhammer | 57 |
| Welcome to Greater Edendale – Histories of Environment, Health and Gender in an African City by Marc Epprecht | 59 |
| isishweshwe: A History of the Indigenisation of Blueprint in Southern Africa by Juliette Leeb-Du Toit | 61 |
| OBITUARIES | |
| Peter Allan (1930–2016) | 62 |
| Peter Michael Colvile Croeser (1949–2016) | 63 |
| Kenneth Graham Gillings (1947–2016) | 65 |
| Claude Bonganjalo Goba (1943–2016) | 67 |
| Sheila Langden Henderson (1922–2017) | 68 |
| John Robert Landrey Milton (1939–2017) | 70 |
| Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015) | 71 |
| Paul Singer Thompson (1940–2017) | 72 |
| Themistocles ‘Themi’ Venturas (1958–2017) | 73 |
| NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 76 |