Wyndham Lewis

Literature & Fiction

University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press, University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press

History & Criticism

University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press

Presents a selection of more than 30 of the stories that appeared in Drum during the 1950s. They depict the danger, the poverty and the glamour of Sophiatown, where the New African, the tsotsi, the jazz musician, the journalist and the writer, affirmed identity and style and refused to submit to the government's determination to 'retribalize'.

Drum Decade

History

Africa

Written by twelve historians and two archaeologists, this history of Natal for more than 20 years is edited by two professors of history in the University of Natal. This book deals with a number of myths about the colonial past and unseats the 'old' truths.

Natal and Zululand From Ea

Presents a collection of papers, which was written by the man who is known to history as the boy 'John Ross'. By undertaking the hazardous journey to Delagoa Bay in 1827, to bring back medicines and shipbuilding equipment, he acquired legendary status as the saviour of the tiny community at Port Natal.

Natal Papers John Ross (Killie Campbell Africana Library Publications)

World

After the so-called Langalibalele rebellion of 1873, Colonel Anthony William Durnford was blamed for the loss of three colonists at the Bushmans River Pass. In this book, written under a male pseudonym, the author sought to vindicate the action of the man she loved.

My Chief and I

Features 12 essays on specific topics that explore the development of Natal and Zululand, within the wider South African economy. This title forms a companion volume to Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony.

Receded Tides of Empire

Business & Money

Economics

Much has been written of the drawing of the Africans of Natal into the white settler economy. The destructive effects, however, of that process on the African homestead ecomony in the reserves, on privately-owned land and on mission stations is analyzed in this text. This book concerning dispossession and disintegration is topical in view of the current importance of the landownership question.

Betrayed Trust

Heaton Nicholls presents the case for the abolition of the Cape Native Franchise with logic based on the premises of segregation ideology. He is answered, point for point, by Jabavu, who exposes the fallacies in his argument and makes a case for retaining the right to vote.

Native Views Native Bill

In explaining how developments in the Kruger National Park have been integral to the wider political and socio-economic concerns of South Africa, this text opens an alternative perspective on its history. Nature protection has evolved in response to a variety of stimuli including white self-interest, Afrikaner nationalism, ineffectual legislation, elitism, capitalism and the exploitation of Africans.

Kruger National Park

Petros Lamula and Lymon Maling were influential political figures in Natal and Zululand between 1910 and 1940. This text seeks to capture their complex social identities, without reducing them to ciphers of the larger historical processes.

Restless Identities: "Signatures of Nationalism, Zuluy Ethnicity and His"

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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