Showing 371 results

Makers and Shapers
Person

Qalizwe ka Dhlozi

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Qalizwe kaDhlozi was of the Chunu people, and his father Dlozi worked for the Stuart family. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1908. He was interviewed multiple times, and at least six of these interviews took place in Pietermaritzburg, at least four of these interviews took place at Umzinto, at least one took place in Durban, at least four took place in Ladysmith, and at least two took place at Howick.]

Prof. Roderick Urwick Sayce

  • Person
  • 1890 - 1970

[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017, using archivewales.org: Professor Roderick Urwick Sayce was a social anthropologist and the editor of Montgomeryshire Collections. He received a Master's in Geography from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. From 1921 to 1927 he was the head of the Department of Geography and Geology at the University College of Natal in South Africa. He then lectured in Physical Anthropology and Material Culture at Cambridge University and from 1935 to 1957 was Keeper of the Victoria Museum at Manchester University as well as being an Honorary Lecturer in Anthropology. Sayce was editor of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain's Anthropological Journal, 1934-1936. He joined the Powysland Club in 1920 and edited its journal the Montgomeryshire Collections between 1930 and 1966. He was then elected vice-president of the Powysland Club and died in Welshpool in 1970.]

Pindulimi ka Matshekana

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Pindulimi kaMatshekana He was a member of the Nzuza people and a part of the Felapakati regiment. He worked for a time for a builder, Macalister, in Pietermaritzburg. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1918.]

Pieter W. Grobbelaar

  • Person
  • 25 December 1930 - 19 January 2013

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using wikipedia: Pieter Willem Grobbelaar was a South African author primarily known for his children's and youth stories. He started his career as a journalist at Die Burger and continued it at Die Volksblad in Bloemfontein. He became director of the South African Broadcasting Corporation in 1956. In 1984 he became a professor in the Department of African Culture at the University of Stellenbosch. He died in 2013.]

Phuhlaphi Nsibandze

  • 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 Phuhlaphi Nsibandze. He was interviewed by Isaac Dlamini on behalf of the Royal House of Dlamini at the Embo State House in Swaziland in 1968.]

Philip Bonner

  • Person
  • 31 March 1945 - 24 September 2017

[Source - FHYA, 2016: Prof Bonner was Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand and held the NRF Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities. He was also the Chair of the History Workshop and was principal organizer of conferences and open days in 1990, 1994 and co-organizer of the 1999 History Workshop on the Truth and Reconciliation Report entitled “Commissioning the Past” the two History Workshop Conferences that were staged in 2001:“Aids in Context” and “The Burden of Race” and the History Workshop Conference on ‘Rethinking Worlds of Labour’, held in July 2006. Each of these has been a landmark intellectual event. Phil Bonner also organized/participated in various teachers’ workshops in Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North-West Province. He was on the editorial committee of the South African Democratic Education Trust and helped supervise the production of Vol.1 of The Road to Democracy in South Africa. He was historical consultant and executive producer to a six part documentary television series entitled Soweto: A History, which embodied a large amount of original historical and film archival research. It was screened on Channel 4 in Britain, on SBS in Australia and was shown on SABC TV 1 to considerable critical acclaim. Phil Bonner was the co-curator of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. He entered a partnership between History Workshop and the Robben Island Museum and supervised a pilot project interviewing ex Robben Island prisoners.]

Phica Magagula

  • 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 Phica Magagula. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Kutsimuleni area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Percival Robson Kirby

  • Person
  • 17 April 1887 - 7 February 1970

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using encyclodedia.com: Professor Percival Robson Kirby was a Scottish-born South African musicologist, conductor, and composer. In 1914, he emigrated to South Africa and became the music organizer of the Natal Education Department. In 1921, he founded the music college at the University of Witwatersrand (then known as University College. He is best known for his scholarly work on South African music.]

Pakati

  • Person
  • c.1853 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: Pakati was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. He was about 55 years old at the time of recording.]

P. Khumalo

  • Person
  • [19-] - YYYY

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

Owen Coetzer

  • Person
  • 1938 - 2003

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using www.iol.co.za: Owen Coetzee was a South African journalist and author. He worked for several newspapers in South Africa and wrote three books, the best known of which was an account of the burning of Boer farms during the Anglo-Boer War, "Fire In The Sky". After starting his career as a journalist in the late 1950s at the Diamond Fields Advertiser in Kimberley, Coetzer moved to The Friend in Bloemfontein. He worked at the Daily News in Durban until 1979 when he then moved to Cape Town where he worked for The Argus. Later he worked as the editor of Navy News as well as the editor of Getaway magazine. In Durban, he served as chairman of the Natal Folk Music Association, and in the 1970s started his own music magazine in Durban, Trend.]

Oliver Davies

  • Person
  • 7 May 1905 - 26 August 1986

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using material written by Val Ward of KZNM, and the obituary of Oliver Davies in the Natalia journal: Oliver Davies was born in Chelsea, London in 1905. He studied Classics at the University of Oxford. He worked as a lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient History at Queen’s University in 1930, and was appointed secretary of a committee of the British Association in 1935. In 1948 he moved to South Africa and took up the Chair of Classics at the University of Natal Pietermaritzburg. He left Natal in 1951, but returned in 1966 following his retirement from the University of the Gold Coast in Ghana. He started the Natal Branch of the South African Archaeological Society in 1949, and did voluntary work at the Natal Museum during his time in Natal, curating both his own and earlier collections. He became Keeper of Antiquities at Natal Museum in 1968 and in 1978 was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by the University of Natal. He also looked after the archaeological collections and site records at the Natal Museum, until the appointment of Tim Maggs in 1971. For his services to archaeology in Natal he was made Life Patron of the Natal Branch of the South African Archaeological Society in 1986. Oliver Davies was murdered in his home on 26 August 1986.]

Ogle, John

  • 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 John Ogle. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1914.]

Nyandza Nhlabatsi

  • 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 Nyandza Nhlabatsi. He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the Kazameya area of Swaziland in the 1980s.]

Nungu ka Matshobana

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Nungu kaMatshobana was a member of Ntshingwayo's people, Zululand (Eshowe). He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1903.]

Nukani

  • 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 Nukani. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900 in Ladysmith.]

Ntulizwe ka Maqubandaba

  • Person
  • c.1882 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Ntulizwe kaMaqubandaba was born in roughly 1882. He was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment with hard labour for allegedly taking part in the Bambata rebellion. He maintained that he was not a rebel, and was the victim of a conspiracy. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1920 at High Brae (Stuart's home in Hilton, near Pietermaritzburg).]

Ntshelele ka Godide

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Ntshelele kaGodide (alias Nkobe) was a member of the Ntuli people and a part of the Uve regiment. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1918 and 1922. He was interviewed multiple times, and at least one of these interviews took place at Pietermaritzburg.]

Ntazini

  • 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 Ntazini. He was probably an employee of the Stuart household in Pietermaritzburg. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910.]

Nsuze ka Mfelafuti

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Nsuze kaMfelafuti was born in the Nsuze district of Zululand and was a member of the Felapakati regiment and a part of the Ngcobo people. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]

Results 81 to 100 of 371