Journal of Natal and Zulu history最新文献

{"title":"Voices of Liberation: Fatima Meer, a Free Mind","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2022.2031025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2022.2031025","url":null,"abstract":"Working with Veena Das’s Textures of the Ordinary: Anthropology after Wittgenstein By Lotte Buch SegalRepairing the World: Ordinary Ethics and the Shadows of Moralism By Emilija ZabiliūtėThe Text’s Texture By Marco MottaThe Residues of Kinship By Resto CruzUncertain Relations with People, Practice, and Ethnographic Knowledge By Andrew M. JeffersonThe Moon Shadows: When Arguments Rest By Veena Das","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49372970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Indenture in Language: The Words the Workers Made","authors":"R. Mesthrie","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.1952892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.1952892","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper affords an overview of the linguistic resources that indentured labourers (1860–1911) brought with them from different parts of India, as well as of the linguistic adaptations evident in the South African forms of Tamil, Bhojpuri-Hindi, Urdu and Telugu. These changes pertain to the coalescence of different but closely related Indian dialects to form distinct plantation varieties of each of these, as well as to the adoption of words from each other and other languages of South Africa (Afrikaans, English, Zulu). Although Indian languages are no longer widely spoken, it is argued that documentation of their resources and the resourcefulness of their speakers is an important sociolinguistic and historical activity. Furthermore, some of the words have consciously and sometimes unwittingly passed into the colloquial English of Indian communities in KwaZulu-Natal.","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"142 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45016556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"T. Waetjen, Nafisa Essop Sheik, Prinisha Badassy, S. Swart","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.2019463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.2019463","url":null,"abstract":"The complicated wealth of human history associated with the eastern coastal region of southern Africa, currently the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), seems impossible to exhaust. Diverse and integrated historiographies have demonstrated the region to be an enduring theatre of local and global processes of change, its distinctive aspects evoked by key words like Mfecane, Empire, indirect rule, amakholwa and indenture, among others. Here in KZN, local traditions of oral stories, history-telling, academic history writing, and both public and scholarly debates about the past stand out for their complexity, their passion and their relevance to the politics of the present. That relevance has been notable during this year, 2021, with a series of acute and unfolding events in KZN: contentions – with violence and assassinations – over tenders and resource extraction, and elite and international corporate interests driving them; the death of the Zulu King in March and the succession crisis; the reinvigoration of traditions; a spurious but energetic ‘diamond’ rush, fueled by COVID-19-related economic downturn; and – perhaps most spectacularly – the civic mobilisation, insurrection and violent strife that followed (former) President Jacob Zuma’s incarceration for contempt of court during corruption hearings. Such dramas demonstrate how patterns of social, economic and political reality in KZN remain crucial in driving broader trends in South Africa, with legacies that are the product of (and also pre-date) colonialism and apartheid. Historical narratives also constitute a resource in newly brokered identity politics within the new relations and economies of change. Given these realities, it is ironic, as well as sorrowful, to announce the effective end of an academic journal that has been dedicated to exploring the region’s histories. This double issue of the Journal of Natal and Zulu History (JNZH) represents the final volume in a run of annual issues that began in 1978. In another sense, it may be that this is simply a new phase in the life of the journal. Happily, the full archive of JNZH will remain available on the Taylor & Francis (T&F) website, found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rnzh20. The South African Historical Journal (SAHJ) archive will include a link to this page, and all members who have SAHJ access will have access to JNZH also. Thanks to the generous sponsorship of the Southern African Historical Society, the SAHJ plans to preserve the legacy of the JNZH project also by continuing to consider submissions in the subject area, and perhaps publishing themed special issues in future (as the most recent SAHJ has. And the next SAHJ includes a roundtable on the recent crises in KZN as well as Gauteng).","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44862890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing in the Twenty-First Century about Indian South Africans: Revisiting Agendas and Reflecting on Foundational Writings","authors":"Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.1952891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.1952891","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"166 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46396667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Daughters of Africa and the Gender Politics of Urban Segregation in Durban, 1935–1937","authors":"Marijke du Toit","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2022.2039438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2022.2039438","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1935 the Durban Town Council announced a policy that would require all ‘Native women’ to apply for permission to come to town as part of a system of compulsory registration, which also required proof of legitimate residency for those African women who already lived within municipal boundaries. This article considers how organised African women from the local kholwa (mission-educated Christian) elite asserted themselves as participants in the public sphere of local government. Tensions about the new plans to enforce a system of passes for African women came to a head in 1937 when police conducted raids on homes in the city. In their response, African women's welfare societies organised as part of Daughters of Africa pushed the boundaries of the politics of petitioning through vocal and public protest. I consider the gendered politics of urban segregation through the prism of official, municipal documentation; through reportage in the public forum that constituted Ilanga lase Natal – a newspaper still dominated by men who often expressed ambivalence about ‘their’ women's presence in town – and also through life history interviews conducted many years later with a key organiser of the protests, Bertha Mkhize.","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"99 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47164116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Racial and Generational Issues in Competitive Cycle Racing in Durban in the Closing Decades of the Twentieth Century: A Case Study of the Triangle Cycling Club","authors":"Geoff Waters","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.2010914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.2010914","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Segregated sport was a source of bitter conflict in apartheid South Africa. This paper focuses on cycle sport in apartheid-era Natal, concentrating on the circumstances which led to the rise and ultimately to the demise of one specific multiracial Durban cycling club: the ‘Triangle Cycling Club.’ Based on a mixed research methodology, it explores the impact on the micro-level of the state’s changing sports policies on local cycle sport over the last quarter of the twentieth century. It examines the effects which these had as they coincided with the sudden unanticipated influx into cycle sport of veteran competitors from endurance sports. It explores the philosophy on which Triangle CC was founded, identifies the sporting achievements of the club’s leading members and details the great ‘Adventure Tour’ to Cape Town in 1991. Finally, it reflects on the demise of the club and of traditional cycle sport in the 1990s as enthusiasm for new forms of cycling such as ‘mountain biking’ and mass-participation ‘sportives’ reached new heights.","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"151 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44329511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neglected Archive: Museum Collections of Locally Forged Hoes as Evidence of Contributions by Women to the Agricultural Economy of the Phongolo-Mzimkhulu Region Prior to the Twentieth Century","authors":"Steven Kotze","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.1935306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.1935306","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A 2018 survey conducted in eight KwaZulu-Natal museums determined that field-hoes, called amageja in Zulu, constitute less than one-fifth of locally forged metallurgical items in those archives, while the rest are weapons. Crucially, only two displays related to either Iron Age history or the Zulu Kingdom in the museums that were evaluated provide contextual information on field-hoes. In this article I contend that gender-based divisions of labour in nineteenth-century African communities of this region have affected attitudes towards the tools they used. As groups of objects are generally assembled within collections in relation to other categories, Bourdieu suggested that the value of an artefact can only be established after investigation of the ‘history of the procedure of canonisation and hierarchisation’ of any particular object type. Investigating the place of amageja in museums, this research considers the largely overlooked cultural and economic significance of such items, including evidence of attitudes towards agriculture preserved in oral testimony from African sources and Zulu-language idioms. The article argues that museum collections of hoes form a neglected archive of ‘hoe cultivation’, or subsistence crop production based on the use of manual implements, within the Phongolo-Mzimkhulu geographic region that roughly approximates to the modern territory of KwaZulu-Natal.","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"4 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02590123.2021.1935306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43310914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Buffalo on the Banks of the Mzimvubu: The Zulu Invasions of Mpondoland, 1824 and 1828","authors":"J. Peires","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.1994749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.1994749","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The conventional wisdom concerning Shaka’s invasions of Mpondoland in 1824 and 1828 tends to dismiss these as cattle raids. It likewise dismisses the alignment between the 1828 invasion and Shaka’s embassy to King George of Britain as nothing more than an unfortunate coincidence. Drawing in part on hitherto ignored isiXhosa-language sources, this article seeks to explain Shaka’s invasion of 1828, partly in terms of his long-contemplated revenge for the failed invasion of 1824, and partly as a means to subjugate every African kingdom between himself and the Cape Colony, so that there might be only two kings in the world: King George, the king of the whites, and himself, Shaka, the king of the blacks. Only the abrupt failure of his diplomatic initiatives can explain Shaka’s adverse reaction to the generally successful campaign of 1828 triggering, as it did, the near-insane and utterly disastrous northern campaign against Soshangane which directly provoked his assassination. Fully sensitive to the dangers of a ‘great man’ interpretation of history, the article attempts to differentiate, in Lefebvre’s terms, between the ‘temperament’ of Shaka and the ‘inner necessity’ driving the evolution of the Zulu state.","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"56 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45049731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"White and Black Women under the Same Roof? The Early History of Montebello’s Black Sisterhood (1922–1939)","authors":"P. Denis","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2021.2065078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2021.2065078","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1922 four young Zulu women expressed the desire to join the Oakford Dominican Sisters, a congregation of mostly German Catholic religious women based in Natal. They were accepted to the novitiate in 1926 and subsequently took vows. This raised the issue of whether they should be fully part of the Oakford congregation or form a separate congregation for black sisters only under the guidance, at least for a while, of white sisters. In other words, should the Oakford congregation follow the segregation model in use in other Catholic religious congregations and most Protestant churches in southern Africa? The paper describes the battle that opposed, on this issue, the black sisters and their novice mistress, Sr Euphemia Ruf, on one side, and Archbishop Jordan Gijlswijk, the envoy from Rome, who wanted to maintain the unity of the congregation, on the other side. In the end, the argument that Zulu people were ‘too different’ from white people to live with them prevailed and a separate congregation of diocesan right, based in Montebello, where the black novitiate for black sisters had been established, was created in 1939.","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"127 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48427161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"JNZH Final Issue – Reflections / Commentaries","authors":"G. Vahed, Ian Macqueen, Cynthia Kros, M. Hunter, T. J. Tallie, Meghan Healy-Clancy","doi":"10.1080/02590123.2022.2031023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02590123.2022.2031023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88545,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natal and Zulu history","volume":"34 1","pages":"178 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48819351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}