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Makers and Shapers
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Sambane Dlamini

  • Person
  • [19-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Sambane Dlamini. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Maphalaleni area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Ruth Ndlela

  • Person
  • Ruth Ndlela

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Ruth Ndlela was a translator and transcriber who worked on the interviews conducted by Carolyn Hamilton in Swaziland in the 1980s.]

Ruth Muller

  • Person
  • 1951 - present

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using the Wits Historical Papers Research Archive: Ruth Muller is a librarian, archivist, researcher, former ANC member (1990-2005) and activist. She was born in the UK in 1951. In 1979, she moved to Mozambique to live and work for 9 years. In 1988, she moved to South Africa, after which she worked at a number of entities including TML, the SABC, the IBA, the University of Cape Town, and the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a Social Science degree, a Post Graduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Studies, and a Masters degree in History.]

Ruth Mavimbela

  • Person
  • [19-] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Ruth Mavimbela was a translator and transcriber who worked on the interviews undertaken by the Royal House of Dlamini by Isaac Dlamini, Mahlaba, and Maboya Fakudze.]

Royston, JR

  • Person
  • 1860 - 1942

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Brigadier-General J. R. Royston grew up in Natal and fought in the South African War, the Natal rebellion of 1906, and WWI. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1921.]

Rotter Sicheme Mamba

  • Person
  • [19-] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Rotter Sicheme Mamba was a translator and transcriber who worked on the interviews conducted by Philip Bonner in Swaziland in the 1970s.]

Rotter Sicheme Mamba?

  • Person
  • [19-] - YYYY

Does this need editing? [Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Rotter Sicheme Mamba was possibly a translator and transcriber who worked on the interviews undertaken by the Royal House of Dlamini by Isaac Dlamini, Mahlaba, and Maboya Fakudze.]

Ronette Engela

  • Person
  • [19-] - present

[Source - FHYA, 2017: Ronette Engela, a graduate of Archaeology, assisted Carolyn Hamilton with the experimentation of the possibility of editing the translation of the Swazi interviews, undertaken by Hamilton in the 1980s, for publication. This lead to the production of a large sample of typescripts based on the recordings (identified by the FHYA as 'rejected edited typescripts').]

Rob Rawlinson

  • Person
  • [19-?] - August 1997

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KZNM materials: Robert J. C. Rawlinson was an archaeologist who worked in South Africa, particularly in the Natal regions of uMgungundlovu and oNdini. He died in a car accident in August 1997.]

Riddell, Mr

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Mr. Riddell was was a tailor who lived in Ladysmith. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900.]

Richard Patrick

  • Person
  • [195-] - August 2008

Richard Patrick

Rhe Carstens

  • Person
  • Unknown

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Rhe Carstens.]

Reverend P. Stander

  • Person
  • Unknown

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using material provided by Len van Schalkwyk: Reverend P. P. Stander was the resident curate of the Dutch Reformed Mission at Dinganstadt. He was responsible for setting up a small, private museum next to the Mission Station, which he called the NG Sendingkerk Museum. The museum contained various artifacts, memorabilia, ethnographic material and bric a brac which he had personally collected during his tenure between 1949 and 1974. After his retirement, the collection remained on public view but was later reclaimed by Stander due to inadequate security and curation. On his passing his family bequeathed the collection to the Msunduzi-Voortrekker Museum.]

Reverend George Champion

  • Person
  • 1810 - 1841

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using SA History Online: Reverend George Champion was born in the United States in 1810. I 1834 was appointed to undertake missionary work in South Africa. On the 20th of December 1835, he went to Mgungundhlovu to obtain King Dingane's permission to work among his subjects. In August 1936, Dingane allowed Champion and Grout to open a mission station, on a site chosen by Dingane himself, on the Umsunduzi River. The station was subsequently named “Nginani” (I am with thee). Following the destruction of the mission station at Nginani, Champion returned to the United States in 1839. He died in 1841.]

Reverend Father Franz Mayr

  • Person
  • 1865 - 15 October 1914

[Source - Rosemary Lombard for FHYA, 2017, using material written by Clemens Gütl: Reverend Father Franz Mayr was an Austrian missionary and collector active in southern Africa at the turn of the twentieth century. Born in the Tyrol in 1865, Mayr arrived in the British colony of Natal in 1890. On his arrival, he lived for several months at St Michael’s, an outstation of the Mariannhill Monastery, from whence he moved to the colony’s capital, Pietermaritzburg, where he served under Bishop Charles Constant Jolivet. Mayr quickly became proficient in both English and isiZulu, and the Bishop acknowledged his dedication by putting him in charge of the first Catholic Zulu Mission in Pietermaritzburg. Mayr taught his mission choir hymns in Latin, isiZulu and English, accompanied by himself on the reed organ. At the behest of the Mariannhill Trappists, Mayr left Natal in 1909, to reopen a mission field in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and then a final mission at St Joseph’s, near Bremersdorp, then the capital of Swaziland. According to missionary sources, he was mugged and murdered at the age of 49, on October 15, 1914, while travelling in his mule cart near Bremersdorp.

While living in southern Africa, Mayr was a proficient collector, amassing a wide range of different items, including examples of local medicinal plants, minerals, animals and ethnological artefacts, such as tools, clothing and weapons. His interest in music and languages also led to his recording isiZulu speakers performing local musical genres as well as mission hymns, with a phonograph given to him for this commissioned purpose by the Austrian Academy of Science’s Phonogrammarchiv. He collected a substantial quantity of material objects – including items such as local beadwork and household goods – at the request of Dr Ernest Warren, director of the Natal Government Museum. Mayr wrote several educational and religious books, including isiZulu language manuals and scholarly articles on aspects of what was regarded as Zulu culture related to his collections. The articles were published in the European journal Anthropos and the Annals of the Natal Government Museum . His publications allow for the gleaning of additional contextual information pertaining to the recordings and collected material.

Mayr’s collections are presently held in geographically dispersed locales. He sent many ethnological items to the Slovenian countess and donor, Maria Teresa Ledóchowska – founder of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to service in Africa – for use in her travelling exhibitions.
Original sound recordings by Mayr are housed in the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (AAS) in Vienna and have been published as a CD collection with booklet. In Pietermaritzburg, the KwaZulu-Natal Museum holds approximately 47 cultural artefacts from Kwa-Zulu Natal which may be Mayr-related – some definitely collected by him, and others attributed to him with questionable certainty – and the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Bews Herbarium, founded in 1910, is the custodian of his ethnobotanical collection, which runs to approximately 240 specimens.

Clemens Gütl’s 2004 publication, ‘Adieu ihr lieben Schwarzen’: Gesammelte Schriften des Tiroler Afrikamissionars Franz Mayr (1865-1914), makes much of Mayr’s correspondence and biographical detail available.]

Rangu ka Notshiya

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Rangu kaNotshiya. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899 at Stanger.]

R. J. van Reenen

  • Person
  • Unknown

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about R. J. van Reenen. He may have worked with the National Monuments Council in South Africa in the 1920s.]

R. B. Hulley

  • Person
  • Unknown

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about R. B. Hulley.]

Quinton Reissman

  • Person
  • [19-] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using information provided by Bob Forrester: Quinton Reissman was a friend of Richard Patrick, who digitised some of Richard Patrick's work following Patrick's death. He might have been a teacher at Waterford Science in Swaziland.]

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