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Natalia No. 55 (2025)

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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Divided facilities: early cottage hospitals and the provision of health care services in Natal Nontobeko Ngubane	1
The Little Church at Van Reenen Neil Bloy	8
‘To live on the face of the earth’: Fodo kaNombewu and the politics of southern KwaZulu-Natal Milner Snell	14
Turning nature into art: Marianne North in Natal Stephen Coan	25
The historian of Victorian Natal: A.F. Hattersley and a provincial historical tradition Milner Snell	35
A year’s housekeeping in Pietermaritzburg Stephen Coan	40
Colin, the constant Gardner Nalini Naidoo	50
A surfeit of irony: University of Natal (Durban) in the 1960s Dan Remenyi	54
Studying at the University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg) in the 1970s Adrian Furnham	60
Yusuf Bhamjee: the ‘always there’ politician, 1950-2025 Yunus Carrim	66
Terence Howard King, 1947-2025 Anton van der Hoven	68
John Paul Clow Laband, 1947-2025 Graham Dominy	70
Peter Mansfield, 1941-2025 R.W. Johnson	73
ColleenVietzen, 1940-2025	75
Pessa Weinberg, 1927-2025 Mary Kleinenberg	77
BOOK REVIEWS
Attacking the Heart of Apartheid: The ANC’s MK Special Operations Unit by Yunus Carrim (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	79
The Buried Man: A Life of H. Rider Haggard by Stephen Coan (reviewed by John Conyngham)	81
Challenges in a Colonial County by Duncan du Bois (reviewed by Mabel Dalby)	83
The Natal Parks Board: A Conservation Adventure by George Hughes (reviewed by Anthony Stidolph)	84
Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	86
I Will Not be Silenced by Karyn Maughan (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	88

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Natalia No. 54 (2024)

Natalia 54 (2024), Natal Society Foundation

Natalia Volume 54

Published: 2024

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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
‘The more responsible of our critics’: Colin Webb’s contributions to the study of African history Milner Snell	1
Africa, Africans and masculinity in the work of Robert Keable, 1912-1927: the limits of liberalism Marc Epprecht	8
‘A vast, deep, lonely feeling’: Helen Keller in South Africa, 1951 Stephen Coan	20
Stability within duality: a case study of African and settler relations, Natal South Coast, 1864-1910 Duncan du Bois	26
A gift from their sister Mary: Mary Stainbank’s church commissions Milner Snell	36
Conservation and censorship in the KwaZulu bantustan Christopher Merrett	41
Escaping apartheid Adrian Furnham	46
Horwood the vindictive: an absurd fracas Dan Remenyi	50
Press Reflections on immigration to Natal, 1847-1853 Duncan du Bois	55
Born in Eshowe Stephen Coan	59
Louis van Loon, 1935-2024 Stephen Coan	62
Martin Wittenberg, 1962-2024	64
BOOK REVIEWS
The First Black Dominican Sisters in Natal (1922-39): At the Crossroads of Race and Gender by Philippe Denis (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	66
Liaisons: Life in a Colonial County by Duncan du Bois (reviewed by Gladys Forbes)	67
Prisoners of Jan Smuts: Italian Prisoners of War in South Africa in WWII by Karen Horn (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	69
Clément Sénèque 1896–1930: A Private Collection of his Paintings by Nigel Hughes (reviewed by Heather Gourlay-Conyngham)	71
Durban in the 1920s and 1930s by Nigel Hughes (reviewed by Heather Gourlay-Conyngham)	73
Eavesdropping on Victorian Natal: From Durban to Pietermaritzburg and Eavesdropping Behind the Frontlines of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by Carol MacCullum (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	75
Saving South Africa: Lessons from the Umngeni Municipality Success Story by Chris Pappas and Sandile Mnikathi (reviewed by Christopher Merrett)	77
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	79

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Natalia No. 53 (2023)

Natalia 53 (2023), Natal Society Foundation

Natalia Volume 53

Published: 2023

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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Language, power and politics in colonial Natal: John Colenso, Magema Fuze and the Matshana Inquiry Milner Snell	1
‘A Contentious merger: The creation of the University of KwaZulu- Natal Christopher Merrett	17
NOTES AND QUERIES
A South African boy’s year at Hermannsburg, 1871 Milner Snell	31
Aurora Cricket Club: Shifting the geography of apartheid Christopher Merrett	34
JASA: The radicalisation of a university staff association, 1983-1984 Christopher Merrett	37
BOOK REVIEWS
Beyond Fear: Reflections of a Freedom Fighter by Ebrahim Ebrahim	45
Standing up for Science: A Voice of Reason: South Africa’s Chief Covid-19 Advisor at the Frontlines of the Pandemic by Salim S. Abdool Karim	47
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	52
FURTHER INFORMATION

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Natalia No. 52 (2022)

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Natalia Volume 52

Published: 2022

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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
A Gradual creep of change: Modernist infiltration of municipal infrastructure in Pietermaritzburg, 1930-1960 Debbie Whelan	1
‘The best missionary the Society has’: Arentz Tönnesen’s role in the Colenso controversy and Matshana inquiry Milner Snell	13
‘We are the university’: The University of KwaZulu-Natal strike of February 2006 Christopher Merrett	24
DISCUSSION
Bishop Colenso: Pietermaritzburg’s first human rights activist? Christopher Merrett	34
NOTES AND QUERIES
Pavements and power: Spatial aspects of colonial Pietermaritzburg Christopher Merrett	38
Sarnia Arthur Gammage	43
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and conflict in Pietermaritzburg in the 1980s Christopher Merrett	44
BOOK REVIEWS
Clare: The Killing of a Gentle Activist by Christopher Clark	50
The Royal Agricultural Society of Natal, 1984-2021 by Bill Guest	52
Polygyny and Gender: The Gendered Narratives of Adults Raised in Polygynous Families by Zamambo V. Mkhize	54
From Memory to Marble: The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument, Part I, The Frieze by Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael Schneider	56
Bahlabelelelani – Why do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songsa by Nompumelelo Zondi	58
Zulu Names, Polygyny and Gender Politics in Traditional Societie by Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu	60
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	62

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Natalia No. 51 (2021)

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Natalia Volume 51

Published: 2021

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EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
The voice of liberalism in peri-urban Natal Marc Epprecht	1
You chiefs are only the eyes of the government’: Msikofeni KaKhukhulela and the Natal Rebellion of 1906 Milner Snell	16
The Natal Society Library from 1977 to 1980: Recollections of a chief librarian : part 2, national and international exposure Tony Hooper	27
Smallpox and vaccination in colonial Natal, 1850-1894 Duncan du Bois	37
DISCUSSION
Pietermaritzburg: A liberal city in the Apartheid Era Christopher Merrett	53
NOTES AND QUERIES
From Ho Kai Kai to Captain Walter Bosman: Race and cultural identity in Hong Kong and Natal Milner Snell	60
Memories of Deneys Schreiner Nithaya Chetty	63
BOOK REVIEWS
An historian’s passage to Africa: an autobiography by Bill Freund	65
Eight Days in July: inside the Zuma unrest that set South Africa alighty by Qaanitah Hunter, Kaveel Singh and Jeff Wicks	67
Violence and Solace: the Natal civil war in late-Apartheid South Africa by Mxolisi R. Mchunu	69
Blue Hills by David Moon	73
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	77

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Natalia No. 50 (2020)

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Natalia Volume 50

Published: 2020

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EDITORIAL
Influenza Reuben Caluza
ARTICLES
‘A source of future trouble’: Sidoyi kaBaleni and the politics of Mzimkhulu Milner Snell	1
Understanding heritage: The grading of Adam Kok III’s laager settlement at Mount Currie Celeste Rossouw and Anton C. van Vollenhoven	14
The Natal Society Library from 1974 to 1980: Recollections of a chief librarian Tony Hooper	32
Trekkersburg, Piemburg, Covenantsburg, Harmersburg: Apartheid-era Pietermaritzburg reflected in fiction Christopher Merrett	44
NOTES AND QUERIES
Natalia at 50: An overview and appreciation Christopher Merrett	59
Moving the goalposts: The changing provincial boundaries of KwaZulu-Natal Arthur Gammage	64
Recognising indentured Indian gravesites as heritage sites Tholsi Mudly	67
Hooligans in uniform: The Pietermaritzburg city hall riot of November 1943 Christopher Merrett	70
Fleur Marie Webb (1930–2019) and the art of translation Michael Lambert	77
BOOK REVIEWS
The Man Behind the Beard: Deneys Schreiner, a South African Liberal Life by Graham Dominy	81
Mlamulankunzi: The Life and Times of Dick King by Jackie Kalley	84
The Blackridge House: A Memoir by Julia Martin	85
Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa by T.J. Tallie	87
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	90

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Natalia No. 49 (2019)

Natalia Volume 49

Published: 2019

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EDITORIAL	v
ARTICLES
Thununu kaNonjiya Gcabashe visits James Stuart in the big smoke to talk about history John Wright	1
Pulled to diversify: Confronting poverty through the beadwork identity of the Durban rickshaw pullers Rowan Gatfield	13
The gabled veranda house: The everyday dwelling of colonial Durban Michele Jacobs	39
Rock art researchers in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Elwyn Jenkins	50
NOTES AND QUERIES
An anthropologist in Maputuland Ilana van Wyk	65
‘Sidla ekhaya: We shall eat at home’: The Pietermaritzburg detainees’ hunger strike of 1989 Christopher Merrett	71
Inkanyiso: The star of hope Debbie Whelan	77
John Churchill Simpson, 1911-1998 Arthur Gammage	79
Once upon a time in Edendale Nosipho Gwala	81
BOOK REVIEWS
The Trappist Missions: KwaZulu Natal’s Forgotten Treasure by Hugh Bland	91
Stella Aurorae: The History of a South African University, Volume 3: The University of Natal (1976-2003) by Bill Guest	92
The Berea style: The Architecture of William Murray-Jones and Arthur Ritchie Mckinley including the Brazilian Journal of Murray-Jones by Michele Jacobs and Brian Kearney	94
To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 by Jill Kelly	96
Voices of Resilience: A Living History of the Kenneth Gardens Municipal Housing Estate in Durban by Monique Marks, Kira Erwin and Tamlynn Fleetwood; with a photo essay by Cedric Nunn	97
The Man who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme by Bongani Ngqulunga	99
OBITUARIES
Rohitash (Roy) Bunwarie (1933-2010)	101
Patrick Campbell George McKenzie(1931–2019)	103
Jennifer Verbeek (1931–2019)	106
Fleur Webb (1930–2019)	107
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	109

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Natalia No. 48 (2018)

Natalia Volume 48

Published: 2018

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EDITORIAL	v
ARTICLES
Pioneering women: Memories of Pietermaritzburg (Pmb) Rape Crisis Mary Kleinenberg	1
Masters and servants: African trade unionism in Pietermaritzburg and the Natal Midlands before the early 1980s Christopher Merrett	13
DISCUSSION
Zulu, a dying language? Chris Ellis, with responses from Adrian Koopman, Mark Hunter, Debbie Whelan and Phindi Dlamini	35
NOTES AND QUERIES
Has the law failed? Land claims investigations in KwaZulu-Natal Debbie Whelan	44
A San child of the Drakensberg and other child exiles Elwyn Jenkins	49
Bushman versus San (extract from Lucie Möller, Of the Same Breath: Indigenous Animal and Place Names)	55
Peter Rainier: From Weston schoolboy to engineer and author Elwyn Jenkins	56
Shri Vishnu Temple, Pietermaritzburg Alleyn Diesel	59
Isimanje emagameni ezinyoni Adrian Koopman	61
BOOK REVIEWS
The Assassination of King Shaka: Zulu History’s Dramatic Moment by John Laband	64
The Sugar Farmer’s Son: The Life and Times of Gerard de Rauville by Greg Ardé	69
The Freedom Struggle: An Exhibition on the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands by Peter Croeser	71
The Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison by Graham Dominy	72
The French Prince: From Tragedy to Transformation by Glenn Flanagan	73
Farmhouses of Old Natal edited by Jacqueline Kalley	75
Africa Calling: A Cultural-History of the Hermannsburg Mission and its Descendants in South Africa compiled by Udo Küsel	77
A Literary Guide to Kwazulu-Natal by Niall McNulty and Lindy Stiebel	79
The People’s Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble	80
Chota Motala: A Biography of Political Activism in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands by Goolam Vahed	81
Hostels in South Africa: Spaces of Perplexity by Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama	83
OBITUARIES
C.D. Moodley (1933–2018)	86
Mfaniseni Ndwandwe (1928–2018)	88
Govin Reddy (1943–2017)	90
Else Schreiner (1922–2018)	92
Julian von Klemperer (1946–2018)	95
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	97

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Natalia No 47 (2017)

Natalia Volume 47

Published: 2017

Category: Natalia

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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

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Natalia No. 46 (2016)

Natalia Volume 46

Published: 2016

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EDITORIAL	v
REPUBLISHED PIECE
Albert Kimmerling in Natal David Lee	1
Dress and fashion one hundred years ago in colonial Natal Adrian Koopman	8
ARTICLES
Scottish iron works and memorial drinking fountains Moray Comrie and Adrian Koopman	20
Representing Indian toilers in Natal: Some explorations with Gandhi Anil Nauriya	31
The Sufi presence in Pietermaritzburg Alleyn Diesel	54
Under the State’s emergency: Memories of Pietermaritzburg 1986 Christopher Merrett	63
Significant sisters: Pietermaritzburg Women’s Coalition Mary Kleinenberg	80
No fences: Bad neighbours – A glimpse of rural relationships and the law in early colonial Natal Robin Lamplough	94
Angus Wilson’s Union reunions Stephen Gray	99
A glimpse at colonial Alfred County and Port Shepstone Duncan du Bois	104
NOTES AND QUERIES
Berg Street swimming pool Christopher Merrett	114
Henry Adams and the first Natal Society library building Peter Croeser	117
Of birds and bombs Adrian Koopman	119
The Road to Ulundi revisited Stephen Coan	122
What is a “Turkey Buzzard”? Adrian Koopman	126
OBITUARIES
William Henry Bizley	129
Manas Buthelezi	130
Omar Latiff	132
Valerie Fay O’Hagan Ward	133
Edwin Athol Webster	134
BOOK REVIEWS
Sugar and Settlers: A history of the Natal South Coast 1850 – 1910 by Duncan L du Bois Wendy Vineall	135
Harry Mac by Russell Eldridge Moira Lovell	136
Stella Aurorae: The History of a South African University. Volume 1: Natal University College (1909 – 1049) by Bill Guest Paul Maylam	137
SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS LINKED TO KWAZULU-NATAL Compiled by Jewel Koopman	170
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	146
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