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Zwayi ka Mbombo

  • 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 Zwayi kaMbombo. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910.]

Zulu

  • Person
  • c.1864 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Zulu lived near Marwaqa, then near Stuartstown, then in the Eshowe District. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898. He was roughly 34 years old when he was interviewed by Stuart.]

Zibokwana ka Nyamayenja

  • 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 Zibokwana kaNyamayenja. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899.]

Yenza ka Mcitshana

  • 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 Zibokwana kaNyamayenja. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899.]

Xubu ka Luduzo

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Xubu kaLuduzo was a member of the Radeba people. He was one of Someswu's messengers - Soweswu was Theophilus Shepstone. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]

William Wood

  • Person
  • 1824 - YYYY

[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.]

Willem Johannes De Kock

  • Person
  • 1917 - 1970

[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".]

Wendy E. Cubbin

  • Person
  • [19-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using information provided by Gavin Whitelaw: Wendy E. Cubbin wrote the paper 'A physical reconstruction of Mgungundlovu, Dingane's umuzi circa 1837, based on eye witness accounts and supported by authoritative studies' for the Pietermaritzburg Girls' High School Natal Senior Certificate in 1983. This was later published in ‘Yesterday and Today’ journal number 15, April 1988. At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate any further biographical information about Wendy Cubbin.]

Weli ka Nsangwana

  • 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 Weli kaNsangwana. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1914.]

W. C. Holden

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using Tim Keegan's "Colonial South Africa:Origins Racial Order" : Reverend William C. Holden was a Methodist who arrived in Port Natal in 1847 to serve as a 'settler scribe' to J. C. Chase. He published "The History of the Colony of Natal" in 1855.]

Violet Elise Marie Louise Stapleton (Lady Beaumont)

  • Person
  • April 1861 - 1949

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA , 2017, using The Complete Peerage by George Edward Cokayne; the St Mary's Slindon website (www.stmarysslindon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Beaumont-Lady-Violet.doc); and the Slindon Village website, 2017: Violet Elise Marie Louise Stapleton (neé Isaacson), also known as Lady Beaumont, was the daughter of MP for Stepney, Frederick Wootton Isaacson, and Elizabeth Isaacson, well-known milliner who operated under the trade-name 'Madame Elise'. Violet Isaacson married Henry Stapleton, Lord Beaumont, in 1888. Lord Beaumont died in 1892. Lady Beaumont then moved to Slindon with her brother, Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson, living in Slindon House. In 1917, Slindon House became a Convalescent Hospital, overseen by Lady Beaumont. Post war the house was cleared, and Lady Beaumont and Wootton Isaacson were able to resume normal life. Lady Beaumont donated material collected by her brother to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. This material was accessioned in 1948.]

Vezi

  • 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 Vezi. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900 or early 1901, probably in Ladysmith.]

Velamuva Hlatshwayo

  • 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 Velamuva Hlatshwayo. He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the Hlatshwako chiefdom near Gege in Swaziland in the 1980s.]

Various other correspondents

  • Person
  • YYYY - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018: Various correspondents have written letters to John Parkington - these letters are gathered together in John Parkington's Research Material.]

Udo Horstmann

  • Person
  • [19-] - present

[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017, using Sandra Klopper, ‘South Africa’s Culture of Collecting: The Unofficial History’, in African Arts: Udo Horstmann is a private collector now living in Switzerland. As a businessman he lived in South Africa from 1970 to 1980. Horstmann bought in a focused way building up collections of African material including southern Africa. These he sourced from private collectors, dealers, auctions and curio shops in South Africa, Britain, Europe and the USA.]

Tshonkweni ka Mntungwana

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Tshonkweni kaMntungwana was a member of the Cele people, and was the chief in the Alexandra Division. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899 and 1905.]

Tshisa ka Msingizana

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Tshisa kaMsingizana was a part of the abakwaMagcaba people, who were an offshoot of the abakwaMkhize or abaseMbo people. He interviewed by James Stuart in 1907 in Pietermaritzburg. He was roughly 37 years old when he was interviewed by Stuart.]

Tshingwayo

  • Person
  • c.1938 - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: Tshingwayo was from Greytown, Natal. He was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. He was about 70 years old at the time of recording.]

Tshingana ka Mpande

  • Person
  • [18-?] - 1911

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Tshingana kaMpande was a senior leader of the uSuthu royalist party, and was a major figure in the politics of Zululand in the 1800s. He was involved in the Zululand rebellion of 1888, and was later exiled to St Helena from early in 1890 until the end of 1897. In 1909 he was banished to the Amanzimtoti area of the south coast by the Natal government. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1907. He was interviewed multiple times and at least one of these interviews took place at Gingindhlovu. He died in 1911.]

Tritton, Dr

  • Person
  • [18-?] - YYYY

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Dr Tritton was a Medical Officer in the Umzinto region. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900 and 1899.]

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