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Item Item Item The problem of an African mission in a white dominated, multi-racial society : the American Zulu mission in South Africa, 1885-1910.(1971) Switzer, Lester Ernest.; Webb, Colin de Berri.No abstract available.Item The political career of Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, 1895-1906.(1973) Duminy, Andrew Hadley.; Horton, Weldon J.No abstract available.Item The Customs Tariff and the development of secondary industry in South Africa with special reference to the period 1924-1939.(1974) Lumby, Anthony Bernard.; Duminy, Andrew Hadley.; Allan, I. K.No abstract availableItem Sir William H. Beaumont and the Natives Land Commission, 1913-1916.(1976) Flemmer, Marleen.No abstract availableItem The South African Party, 1932-34 : the movement towards fusion.(1977) Turrell, Atholl Denis.; Duminy, Andrew Hadley.No abstract available.Item The opposition to General J.B.M. Hertzog's segregation bills, 1925- 1936 : a study in extra-parliamentary protest.(1978) Haines, Richard John.; Horton, Weldon J.No abstract available.Item The administration of Sir Arthur E. Havelock as Governor of Natal, 1886 - 1889.(1979) Moodley, Manikam.; Heydenrych, Dirk Hendrik.No abstract available.Item The Federal Party, 1953-1962 : an English-speaking reaction to Afrikaner nationalism.(1979) Reid, Brian Lawrence.; Duminy, Andrew Hadley.No abstract available.Item An analytical survey of the political career of Leander Starr Jameson, 1900-1912.(1979) Siepman, Milton Ralph.No abstract available.Item The development of African agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with particular reference to the interwar years.(1979) Punt, Eira.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.No abstract available.Item Frederick Robert Moor and native affairs in the colony of Natal, 1893 to 1903.(1980) Dhupelia, Uma.; Braine, Julia Dawn.This dissertation is concerned with the public life of Frederick Robert Moor during the period 1893 to 1903. Moor served as Secretary for Native Affairs during the first ten years of responsible government in Natal in the ministries of Sir John Robinson (1893 - 1897), Harry Escombe (1897) and Alfred Hime (1899 - 1903). His policy towards the Africans and his handling of specific issues that faced the Native Affairs Department are examined. This study shows that the political nature of his office and his responsibility to the White electorate influenced his determination of policy and its implementation. Control was the key-note of Moor's policy and continuing in the tradition of the Native Affairs Department he believed that the tribal system and customary law were the best means of effecting this control. He therefore opposed anything that threatened this system such as the system of exemption from customary law which freed Africans from tribal control. This desire to protect the traditional system of government as well as his paternalism explains Moor's reluctance to allow Africans to appeal against the decisions of the lower courts to the higher courts or to permit the employment of lawyers by the Africans in the courts that administered customary law. Moor was opposed to granting the franchise to Africans even though he realised that he, as Secretary for Native Affairs, could not adequately represent their interests. He was also against alienating land in freehold to the Africans. Moor's policy made it impossible for him to find a place in his system for those Africans who wanted to shake off traditionalism and he found it difficult to handle the specific problems faced by them. Moor's location policy was motivated primarily by the desire to control the Africans and this was made more urgent with the spread of the Ethiopian movement. Yet he wished also to improve the Africans ability to support themselves and for this reason he initiated irrigation projects. Moor wanted to bring the mission reserves under the control of the government in the same way as the locations and in achieving this he caused tension between the government and the missionaries. No study of the relations between African and White in colonial Natal can exclude the labour issue. Moor had an individual approach to the labour question but was constantly torn between the demands of the colonists for cheap and abundant labour and his obligations to the Africans. He is revealed as being sympathetic to the position of the Africans. His unwillingness to prevent African labour in Natal from going to the Transvaal and his appOintment of J.S. Marwick to see to the interests of these Africans in the Transvaal were controversial. By 1903 Moor had acquired considerable experience as Secretary for Native Affairs and had formulated his policy. Despite his good intentions his policy succeeded in sowing the seeds of dissatisfaction amongst the Africans. The Africans appreciated his honesty but were critical of his failure to deal with specific issues such as the improvement of their educational facilities. Moor did not have to deal with an uprising in this period but three years after he left office the storm broke over Natal and Moor's responsibility for this is briefly discussed. Moor returned to the government in 1906 as Prime Minister and Minister for Native Affairs but this is outside the scope of this dissertation.Item The transfrontiersman : the career of John Dunn in Natal and Zululand 1834-1895.(1980) Ballard, Charles Cameron.; Maylam, Paul.No abstract available.Item The idea of a hermeneutic of history.(1982) Posel, Rosalind.; Horton, Weldon J.; Stofberg, J. A.Constantly confronted by history, man has what may be termed a natural impulse to make sense of the past. And indeed, the past cannot be understood without also understanding the present. Thus that fundamental historical impulse is profoundly philosophical in the Socratic sense. It is because hermeneutics explicitly identifies itself with the Socratic tradition, that my attempt to elucidate the nature of written history as an academic discipline has been located within a hermeneutic point of view. In the course of this thesis I refer to several major debates in social theory. However, I make no pretense at covering these debates fully. They are cited insofar as they bear on issues arising in the development of the idea of a hermeneutic of history.Item Economic rationality or religious idealism : the medieval doctrines of the just price and the prohibition of usury.(1982) Anderson, J. J.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.No abstract available.Item Class, race and gender : the political economy of women in colonial Natal.(1982) Beall, Josephine Dianne.; Lumby, Anthony Bernard.Colonial Natal has become an increasingly popular field of investigation for historians of Southern Africa over the last decade or so. This trend is not premature or " irrelevant for, although not demonstrating" the economic impact of the diamond-mining industry of the Cape, or the gold-mining industry of the Transvaal, the political " economy of nineteenth century Natal played a significant role in forming patterns of South African social and economic development, as well as attitudes towards this, not least of all in terms of labour exploitation. The history of Natal during this period has been lacking by and large in what I consider to be two important aspects. Firstly, the colony, on the whole, has been neglected by Marxist and radical historians; and secondly, the history of women in South Africa, as yet a nascent area of research in itself, has not included an attempt to date, understand the lives of those women who lived along the south-east coastal belt of Southern Africa, between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean. This study strives to be a preliminary step in the direction of redressing this imbalance, by offering an introductory exposition on the political economy of women in colonial Natal.Item The 1949 Durban riots : a community in conflict.(1983) Kirk, S. L.; Warhurst, Philip R.No abstract available.Item The question of 'Indian penetration' in the Durban area and Indian politics, 1940-1946.(1983) Bagwandeen, Dowlat Ramdas.; Warhurst, Philip R.No abstract available.Item