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Makers and Shapers
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Mabele ka Magidi

  • 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 Mabele kaMagidi. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1894.]

M. A. Msane

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: M. A. Msane was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908.]

Lyle, William

  • 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 William Lyle. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1914.]

Luzipo ka Nomageje

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Luzipo kaNomageje was a member of the Nxumalo people, which, according to Bryant's 'Olden Times' was a sub-clan of the Ndwandwe clan. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1904.]

Lunguza ka Mpukane

  • Person
  • [182-] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Lunguza kaMpukane was a member of the Tembu people and was in the uKokoti regiment (whose name was change to Ndabakawombe by Mpande). He went to Mgungundlovu as a mat-bearer. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1909. The James Stuart Archive indicates that he may have been born in 1822 or 1823.]

Lukhele

  • 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 Lukhele. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Phunga area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Lugubu ka Mangaliso

  • Person
  • [c.1855-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Lugubu kaMangaliso He was a member of the Mbata people. He was an induna. He was roughly 6 foot 2 and was about 61 years old in 1916. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1909 and 1916.]

Ken Karner

  • Person
  • [19-?] - present

[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017, using the ezakwantu.com website: Ken Karner is an art dealer, originally from America, who has lived in Africa and has collected African art for over 30 years. He started the online gallery Ezakwantu, which operated out of Franschoek, South Africa. He has sold work to many national and international galleries, and also sold work from the Ezakwantu site.]

Kumalo, Johannes

  • Person
  • c.1813 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Johannes Kumalo was a herd boy in his childhood. The name given to him by his father was Nhlabati. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900. He was interviewed multiple times, and at least one of these interviews took place at the Royal Hotel in Ladysmith. He was probably over 85 years old when he was interviewed by Stuart.]

Kumalo, John

  • Person
  • c.1838 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: John Kumalo was a headman at Roosboom in the Klip River Division. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900 and 1901. He was interviewed multiple times, and at least three of these interviews took place in Ladysmith. He was roughly 62-64 years old when interviewed by Stuart.]

Kunene, Cleopas

  • 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 Cleopas Kunene. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898.]

Logwaja Mamba

  • 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 Logwaja Mamba. He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the Ngudzeni area of Swaziland in the 1980s.]

Loncayi Hlophe

  • 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 Loncayi Hlophe. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Masotsheni area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Leathern, William

  • Person
  • 3 October 1827 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: William Leathern owned a butcher's shop in Durban. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910. He was 82 when interviewed by Stuart. He was interviewed multiple times and at least one of these interviews took place at Sandringham house.]

Lashongwe

  • 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 Lashongwe. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Esitheni area of Swaziland in 1970.]

Kwili ka Sitshidi

  • 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 Kwili kaSitshidi. He called himself a member 'of the Mkize people'. Mkhize is the address-name of the Mbo people. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1915]

John Parkington

  • Person
  • [19-] - present

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using the UCT Department of Archaeology website: John Parkington is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Archaeology at UCT. He studied at the University of Cambridge for both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Palaeolithic Archaeology. In 1966 he came to the University of Cape Town as a Junior Lecturer and returned during his first university sabbatical year in 1974 to complete the three terms residence requirement for his PhD. His PhD was awarded in 1977, since which time he has been ad hominem promoted to Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and full Professor at the University of Cape Town. He co-wrote the paper “The Size and Layout of Mgungundlovu 1829-1838” with Mike Cronin.]

James Stuart

  • Person
  • 1868 - 1942

[Source - John Wright for FHYA using KCAL materials, 2016: James Stuart was a colonial official and a prolific recorder of oral historical materials in Natal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was born in 1868 in Pietermaritzburg, the capital of the British colony of Natal, and grew up with a good knowledge of isiZulu. He was educated in Natal and at a public school in Sussex, England. In 1888 he was appointed clerk to the resident magistrate in Eshowe in the recently annexed British colony of Zululand, became a magistrate in the colony in 1895, and subsequently served as acting magistrate in a number of centres in Natal. In 1901 he was appointed as assistant magistrate in Durban.

In the Natal rebellion of 1906, Stuart served in the Natal Field Artillery and in the intelligence service of the colonial forces. In 1909 he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in the colony’s Native Affairs Department. After the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, he was transferred to Pretoria. He took early retirement in 1912, and returned to Natal. The following year he published A History of the Zulu Rebellion, 1906, which remained the standard work on the subject until the 1960s. He was in London in 1914-15, and on military service in France with the South African Native Labour Contingent in 1916-17. In 1922 he left Natal with his wife Ellen and two young sons, and settled in London.

In the late 1890s Stuart began devoting much of his spare time to interviewing people – particularly elderly African men – with a knowledge of the history of African societies in Natal (into which Zululand was incorporated in 1897), and, to a lesser extent, in Swaziland. He recorded his conversations with them in detail in a gradually growing collection of written notes. At the same time, he read widely into the history of Natal. His aim was to make himself the leading authority on what he called ‘Zulu’ history and custom, with the larger purpose of being able to inform the making of native policy in the colony, which he saw as based on ignorance and misunderstanding of the historical Zulu system of governance. He pursued his researches until his departure from Natal, ultimately amassing notes of conversations with a total of some 200 interlocutors.

After he moved to London, Stuart used his notes to compile and publish five isiZulu readers for use in schools in Natal. In the late 1920s he was actively engaged in research into Natal and Zulu history in the British Museum. The later years of his life are obscure. He died in London in 1942. In 1949 his widow sold his corpus of papers to Killie Campbell, a noted collector of Africana in Durban. Since 1971, six volumes of Stuart’s notes of his conversations, edited and translated by Colin Webb and John Wright, have been published in the in-progress series, the James Stuart Archive. Wright and fellow editor Mbongiseni Buthelezi are currently working on a seventh volume.]

John Wright

  • Person
  • 08 November 1942 - present

[Source - John Wright, 2016: I was born and brought up the in the shadow of the Natal Drakensberg. I worked for 44 years as a student, archivist, journalist and academic historian in Pietermaritzburg, and, in my youth, for two years as a journalist exiled in Johannesburg. At the end of 2005, I retired from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and in 2007 moved to a new life in the Big Smoke and the bright lights. The Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand provides me with a research base. I continue with long-standing research projects in the precolonial history of the KwaZulu-Natal region, and feel my way into new historical landscapes on the Highveld. I discovered the excitements of doing archival research when working on my master’s thesis in the Natal Archives in the late 1960s. This was published by the University of Natal Press in 1971 with the title ‘Bushman Raiders of the Drakensberg 1840-1870’. More than forty years later, I am chuffed to find that the book has become an active archive in its own right among a new generation of students at the Rock Art Research Institute. I discovered the excitements of consciously giving shape to a documentary archive in the work that I did with Colin Webb from 1971 until his death in 1992, and then alone, on the volumes of what became The James Stuart Archive (the title was thought up by Colin Webb). I have lived with this work for my entire life.]

Johnson Sithole

  • Person
  • [19-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Johnson Sithole was a translator and transcriber who worked on the interviews conducted by Philip Bonner and Carolyn Hamilton in Swaziland in the 1970s and 1980s.]

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