Natalia No. 55 (2025)
Natalia Cover 55.1
Natalia 55 (2025), Natal Society Foundation
Natalia Volume
Published: 2025
Category: Natalia
Format: PDF – Zip – 5.5MB
| Contents | Page |
| 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 |