Natalia No. 54 (2024)

Natalia 54 (2024), Natal Society Foundation
Natalia Volume 54
Published: 2024
Category: Natalia
Format: PDF – Zip – 4MB
| Contents | Page |
| 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 |
