Browsing Research Articles (History) by Issue Date
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Power without knowledge: three nineteenth century colonialisms in South Africa.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2008)Over the last three decades, scholars of empire have established a very intimate connection between archival knowledge and colonial rule. The works of Franz Fanon on the psychological effects of colonial rule, Michel ... -
The establishment of a faculty of agriculture in Pietermaritzburg, 1934-1949.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2008)The limited but expanding literature on the history of scientific research and the conquest of livestock and crop diseases in South Africa has hitherto been characterised by a pronounced emphasis on developments in the ... -
Bhambatha and the Zulu Rebellion 1906.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2008)In 1906 there occurred a rebellion among a part of the indigenous people against the settler government of the British colony of Natal, ostensibly against the collection of a poll (capitation) tax on adult males. It is ... -
Review of Allison Drew, Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting 1873–1936 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2007; Pretoria: Unisa Press).
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The historiography of the KwaMachi people: a frontier community between amaZulu and amaMpondo in the ninteenth century.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2009)This article examines the establishment of the KwaMachi chieftaincy in Harding, on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal in the early nineteenth century. This province is often associated with popular notions of ethnic history ... -
Land disputes, social identities and the state in the izimpi zemibango in the Umzinto district, 1930–1935.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2009)This article challenges the widespread tendency to label and dismiss all manner of violent conflicts involving rural African communities as “faction fights”, “tribal disturbances” or “native unrest” primarily because ... -
H.I.E Dhlomo’s brilliance as a writer, dramatist, poet and politician knew no bounds : a reappraisal.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)When Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo, commonly known as H.I.E. Dhlomo, died during a heart operation on 23 October 1956, the South African literary firmament lost one of its brightest stars. He was only fifty-three and seemed ... -
History and Heritage: Socio-economic profiles of six former American Board Mission Stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)This paper is based on a questionnaire that a team of researchers at the University of KwZulu-Natal (Howard Campus) in collaboration with community activists conducted between February 2007 and May 2008 in six former ... -
History and heritage: a special issue on former American Board mission stations in southern KwaZulu-Natal.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)The editorial provides a historical context to this Special Issue on Mission Stations in Southern KwaZulu-Natal. -
“The struggle for survival” : last years of Adams College, 1953-1956.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)No abstract available. -
Cultural Heritage Tourism Potential at Six former American Board Mission Stations.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)This initial assessment of the cultural heritage tourism potential is a component of a broader project aimed at conducting research and revitalizing selected former American Zulu Mission Stations in southern parts of ... -
The economic experimentation of Nembula Duze/Ira Adams Nembula, 1845 – 1886.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)This paper gives a short biography of Ira Adams Nembula, the Natal sugarcane manufacturer. Nembula's business and his family have been often mentioned but not fully described before in accounts of Natal's nineteenth-century ... -
Defying the moulds of patriarchy: Nomambotwe Khawula of Umzumbe in Natal, 1860 – 1927.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2010)The Umzumbe mission station is probably one of the most beautiful and inspiring stations belonging to the American Board Mission. It is situated in the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal and surrounded by rolling hills, endlessly ... -
A fire that blazed in the ocean – Gandhi and the poems of Satyagraha in South Africa, 1909 -1911 by Surendra Bhana and Neelima Shukla-Bhatt.
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Learning about controversial issues in school history: the experiences of learners in KwaZulu-Natal schools.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2011)Under Apartheid, History was taught according to a positivist model in which it was claimed that “objective truthful History” was passed on to learners. Consequently, since both learners and teachers were expected to ... -
The Natal Militia: Defence of the Colony, 1893-1910.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2011)Natal was a small British colony of settlement in southern Africa which was the scene of fighting in the Anglo-Zulu War, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1881 and 1899-1902, and the Zulu rebellions in 1888 and 1906. The British ... -
“Colours Do Not Mix”: segregated classes at the University of Natal, 1936-1959.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2011)This paper examines segregation in university education with special reference to the circumstances around which separate classes were introduced for Blacks in 1936 at the NUC and continued until 1959, some nine years after ... -
Political violence – disrupting ways of ‘doing’ politics: an exploration of organisational and political life in Mpumalanga Township, 1970s-1980s.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2011)The political violence, between supporters of the Zulu ethnic movement, Inkatha, on the one hand, and those of the African National Congress (ANC) – aligned United Democratic Front (UDF), on the other, that tore apart the ... -
Practices of naming and the possibilities of home on American Zulu mission stations in Colonial Natal.
(University of KwaZulu-Natal., 2011)From the 1840s, the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal included a number of converts who took on Christian names after missionaries within the circle of the AZM, and after those missionaries’ American friends and relations. ... -
Leslie McCracken and Charles Bethune Horsbrugh: collecting birds’ eggs in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and early 1930s.
(Edinburgh University Press for The Society for the History of Natural History., 2012)This paper is a case-study of a school-boy’s egg collection in Northern Ireland in the 1920s and early 1930s. The collection and Leslie McCracken’s friendship with Charles Bethune Horsbrugh, an established naturalist, ...