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Richard Patrick

[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 - 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.]

[Source - http://www.jacarandatribal.com/index.php?section=item_details&id=1801, 2017: Reverend A. A. Jaques was a Swiss missionary who arrived in South Africa in the 1920s and field collected in the Limpopo region. He formed the finest known collection of southern African headrests, which was acquired by the Oppenheimer family and is on permanent display at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.]

[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.]

[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, 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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[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, 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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[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, 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.]

[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.]