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[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using Henriette Ridley's Master's thesis "The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Museum Service, 1974-1999, A Brief History": In 1973, The Natal Provincial Museum Ordinance, No. 26, made provision for the establishment, control, and management of museums and art galleries in KwaZulu-Natal by the Provincial Administration. A museum service was created to provide technical and professional assistance to those museums which are affiliated to the Service. The Museum Service provides financial, technical and professional assistance to its affiliated museums throughout KwaZulu-Natal.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using an extract from Dictionary South African Biography Vol 5: William Wood was a Zulu interpreter, ivory trader and hunter, born in the Cape Colony in 1824. In 1836 he began to attend the Rev. G. Champion's school at the Umlazi mission. He worked as an interpreter for the Reverend F. Owen at uMgungundlovu where he witnessed the murder of Piet Retief.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about William Crofts. They appear to have been a publisher in the nineteenth century.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using www.librarything.com: Willem Johannes (W. J.) De Kock was a South African historian and author who wrote "History of South Africa" and the "Dictionary of South African Biography".]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using material provided by eThembeni Cultural Heritage: Tomu Sibiya was the son of Dazukile Sibiya, who served as one of King Mpande's household. Tomu Sibiya was born in the Nkandhla District and belonged to the Mbokodebomvu regiment.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using Len van Schalkwyk's LinkedIn profile: eThembeni Cultural Heritage Management is a commercial heritage management organisation that provides advice and guidance concerning heritage landscapes, places and activities, particularly in the context of development.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA using the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press website, 2017: The Killie Campbell Africana Library and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press are the joint publishers of 6 volumes of the James Stuart Archives, edited by Colin de B. Webb and John Wright, in 1976, 1979, 1982, 1986, 2001 and 2014 successively. Volume 7, which will carry the praises that were omitted from the previous six volumes, is in preparation. The Killie Campbell Africana Library (KCAL), located at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, is well known for its comprehensive collection of books, manuscripts and photographs, covering a broad sweep of information about the south east African region and its population. The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Press is a quality publisher of scholarship and general expertise books for both academic and general readers. Their range is wide and includes social, political, economic and military history, gender, natural sciences, African literature and selected novels.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using the UKZN website: The University of KwaZulu-Natal was formed on 1 January 2004 as a result of the merger between the University of Durban-Westville and the University of Natal. The University of Durban-Westville was established in the 1960s as the University College for Indians on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay. Founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, the University of Natal was granted independent university status in 1949 owing to its rapid growth in numbers, its wide range of courses and its achievements in and opportunities for research.]

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

[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.]

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

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

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

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using the Historia, volume 56, number 2, published in Durban in November 2011: Helperus Johannes Hofstede wrote the book "Geschiedenis van den Oranje-Vrijstaat, in Verband met eene Korte Geschiedenis der Aangrenzende Kolonien, Vooral der Kaapkolonie, Volgens Bezworen Verklaringen der Voortrekkers, en de Archieven, Documenten en Proclamatien, met Schetsen en Kaarten Opgeluisterd", which was published by DA Thieme in 1876. At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate any further biographical information about Helperus Johannes Hofstede.]

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Logwaja Mamba. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Mamba area of Swaziland in 1970 and again by Carolyn Hamilton in the Ngudzeni area of Swaziland in the 1980s.]