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1.Anonymous, ‘J.K. Mohl: Outstanding African landscape painter’, Bantu World (Johannesburg), 9 October 1943, quoted in Tim Couzens, The New African: A Study of the Life and Work of H.I.E. Dhlomo (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985), p. 254. See also N.C. Manganyi, Gerard Sekoto: ‘I Am an African’ (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2004), p. 59.
2.William Beinart and Peter Coates, Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa (London, 1995), p. 4; John McAleer, Representing Africa: Landscape, Exploration and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780–1870 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010); Jeremy A. Foster, Washed with Sun: Landscape and the Making of White South Africa (Pittsburgh, Penn.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008).
3.Jillian Carman (ed.), Visual Century: South African Art in Context. Volume 1, 1907–1948 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2011), p. 107.
4.Elza Miles, Land and Lives: A Story of Early Black Artists (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau and Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1997), p. 58.
5.Ibid., p. 57.
6.Bantu World, 20 May 1944.
7.Miles, Land and Lives, p. 62; Trevor Huddlestone, Naught for Your Comfort (London: William Collins, 1956).
8.Zonk, July 1962, p. 15: ‘African artists take their place in the sun’ (photo of J.K. Mohl).
9.‘H.E.W.’ (pseud. Teddy Winder), ‘Life in the locations (art shows)’, Rand Daily Mail, Wednesday 4 November 1964, p. 10, cols 6–7.
10.Couzens, The New African, p. 252.
11.Paul-Lambert Breutz, The Tribes of Marico (Pretoria: Union of South Africa, Department of Native Affairs Ethnological Publications No. 30, 1953–54), p. 107, para. 279: Kgotla XIII/5.
12.Andrew Manson and Bernard Mbenga, Land, Chiefs, Mining: South Africa’s North-West Province Since 1840 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2014), Chapter 1.
13.Miles, Land and Lives, p. 58; Couzens, The New African, p. 252.
14.Alfred John Haile, African Bridge-Builders: Tiger Kloof Native Institution, South Africa (London: Livingstone Press, 1937).
15.Tiger Kloof Magazine 9, December 1927, pp. 23, 32; no. 10, December 1928, pp. 5–7, 33; no. 12, December 1930, p. 27.
16.Ibid., p. 24.
17.Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Paul Klee (London: Marlborough Fine Art Limited, 1966), p. 5.
18.Sabine Rewald, Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Harry Abrams for MMoA, 1988), pp. 47–48, 238.
19.Werner Haftmann, The Mind and Work of Paul Klee (London: Faber & Faber, 1954), pp. 183–84.
20.Susan Ronald, Hitler’s Art Thief: Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the Looting of Europe’s Treasures (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2015), pp. 157–58.
21.South African National Gallery Library, Cape Town: Newspaper Cutting Books.
22.Mary Benson, Tshekedi Khama (London: Faber & Faber, 1960), pp. 90–111; Michel Crowder, The Flogging of Phinehas McIntosh: A Tale of Colonial Folly and Injustice, Bechuanaland, 1933 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988).
23.Paintings by John Koenakeefe Mohl are reproduced on a score of websites and may be found under his name and image.
24.Wilf Nussey, ‘Across the border … Next-door Bechuanaland is a world apart’, The Star (Johannesburg), Friday 13 December 1963, p. 14, cols 5–9; p. 15, col. 1 and photo.
25.Leetile Disang Raditladi, in the Legislative Council of the B.P., 1963.
26.Miles, Land and Lives, p. 57; Gasebalwe Seretse, ‘Art-collector declines thousands of pula offer for painting’, Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone), 2 March 1988, available at www.mmegi.bw/index (accessed 29 May 2018).
27.Neil Parsons, Thomas Tlou & Willie Henderson, Seretse Khama 1921–1988 (Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Macmillan & Gaborone: Botswana Society, 1998); Susan Williams, Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation (London: Penguin Books, 2006).
28.Botswana National Archives and Record Services, Gaborone: S.109/1/1: ‘Royal Visit to Lobatsi 1947’; National Archives of the United Kingdom/ Public Record Office, Kew, London: DO 119/1429–DO 119/1439: ‘Royal visit to South[ern] Africa/ Visit [of] their majesties the King, the Queen and 2 Princesses 1947’.
29.The Royal Visit to Bechuanaland, made for the Bechuanaland administration by Lewis (‘Bill’) Lewis, 16 mm colour silent, 20 min., master copy held by Botswana Television.
30.ICS 123 Michael Crowder Papers MCP 34, ‘Tshekedi Khama to Monna-Kgosi Rasebolai Kgamane’, 29 December 1953.
31.Steven Sack, The Neglected Tradition: Towards a New History of South African Art (1930–1988) (Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art Gallery, 1988), pp. 13, 116.
32.Jacobus Adriaan du Pisani, The Last Frontier War: Braklaagte and the Battle for Land Before, During and After Apartheid (Pretoria: Rozenberg Publishers/ UNISA Press, 2010).
33.Manson and Mbenga, Land, Chiefs, Mining, Chapter 5.
34.Botswana National Archives: DivComNorth 9/7, ‘Ngwato District Intelligence Report for January 1959’.
35.Ibid., OP I/8/3037: Abram P. Moilwa (P.O. Box 6, Pitsani) to Minister of State, 11 June 1968; Neil Parsons, ‘The Pipeline: Botswana’s reception of refugees 1956–1968’, Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies 34 (1), March 2008, pp. 17–32.
36.Elza Miles, Selby Mvusi: To Fly with the North Bird South (Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2015).
37.‘Wayfarer’ (pseud. R.V. Selope Thema), ‘A historic gathering’, Umteteli wa Bantu, 13 September 1924.
38.Peregrine of the Crossroads (pseud. H.I.E. Dhlomo), ‘Durban letter … National music’, Inkundla ya Bantu/Bantu Forum 7 (80), 17 June 1944, p. 6, cols 1–2.
39.Couzens, The New African, p. 33.
40.Ntongela Masilela, ‘African intellectual and literary responses to colonial modernity in South Africa’, in Peter Limb, Norman Etherington and Peter Midgley (eds.), Grappling with the Beast: Indigenous Southern African Responses to Colonialism, 1840–1930 (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
41.Gwen Ansell, ‘Uncovered: the hidden history record sleeves tell us about South African music’, 14 September 2016, available at www.theconversation.com (accessed 14 May 2018).
LILIAN NGOYI
1.Rob Nixon, Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (New York: Routledge, 1994), p. 20.
2.Ezekiel Mphahlele, ‘Guts and Granite – Masterpiece in Bronze’, Drum, March 1956.
3.Beyers Naudé, Letter/report to Hedi Meinhold-Vielhaber, 12 May 1977. The text is reprinted in M.J. Daymond, Everyday Matters: Selected Letters of Dora Taylor, Bessie Head & Lilian Ngoyi (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2015).
4.Unless otherwise referenced, all of Ngoyi’s quotes in this chapter are taken from her autobiographical letter written to Belinda Allan in 1972. A copy of the handwritten letter is available at the Wits Historical Papers Archive in the Lilian Masediba Ngoyi collection, inventory number A2551.
5.Cited in Mphahlele, ‘Guts and Granite’.
6.Union of South Africa, The British Medical Journal 2 (3476), 1927, pp. 322–324.
7.Department of Native Affairs, 1916. Cited in Shula Marks, ‘“We were men nursing men” Male nursing on the mines in twentieth-century South Africa’, in Wendy Woodard, Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley (eds.), Deep Histories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa (New York: Rodopi, 2002), p. 185.
8.Government Native Labour Bureau, 1922. Cited in Marks, ‘“We were men nursing men”’, p. 189.
9.Bantu World, ‘Mr G. Motsieloa, the Famous Bantu Artist, Gives a Grand Show’, Bantu World, 2 July 1932, p. 9.
10.Cited in FEDSAW, ‘Report of the Conference on Increased Rentals in Municipal Sub-Economic Housing Schemes’, 14 November 1954, Wits Historical Papers Archives, AD1137, Ba414.
11.Khaya Sibeko, ‘Lilian Ngoyi’, Consciousness Magazine, 14 August 2009, no page number (available at http://consciousness.co.za/lillian-ngoyi/ – accessed 7 June 2018). Benjamin Pogrund also mentions Ngoyi’s two sons, ‘boys of 16 and 10’ in a 1962 article (see ‘The little world of Mrs. Ngoyi – by Govt. order’,
Rand Daily Mail, 3 March 1962). These were likely her grandsons.
12.Staff reporter, ‘Eye-witnesses tell of “ferocious attack” by police’, Rand Daily Mail, 12 May 1952, p. 1.
13.Mphahlele, ‘Guts and Granite’.
14.Winnie Mandela, ‘Winnie Mandela: A Leader in Her Own Right’, in Diana E.H. Russell (ed.), Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1989), p. 101.
15.Description based on Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1994).
16.Cited in David James Smith, Young Mandela (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010), p. 98.
17.Helen Joseph, Side by Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph (Johannesburg: Ad Donker Publishers, 1986), p. 4.
18.Nelson Mandela, Conversations with Myself (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) p. 274.
19.Joseph, Side by Side, p. 4.
20.FEDSAW, Report of the First National Conference of Women, 17 April 1974, Wits Historical Papers Archives, FEDSAW Collection, AD1137, AC162.
21.Ray Alexander, Letter to Helen Joseph, 4 May 1954. Wits Historical Papers Archives, Federation of South African Women, 1954–1963, AD1137.
22.Ray Alexander, Letter to Helen Joseph, Wits Historical Papers Archives, Federation of South African Women, 1954–1963, AD1137.
23.Cited in FEDSAW, ‘Report of the Conference on Increased Rentals in Municipal Sub-Economic Housing Schemes’, 14 November 1954, Wits Historical Papers Archives, AD1137 Ba414.
24.No author, Sechaba: Official Organ of the African National Congress of South Africa 1 (8), 9 August 1967, p. 1.
25.Julia C. Wells, WE NOW DEMAND! The History of Women’s Resistance to Pass Laws in South Africa (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993), p. 112.
26.Joseph, Side by Side, p. 2.
27.Cited in Pamela E. Brooks, Boycotts, Buses, and Passes: Black Women’s Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa (Cambridge, MS: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008), p. 227.
28.Cited in Cherryl Walker, Women and Resistance in South Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg and New York: David Philip and Monthly Review Press, 1991), p. 195.
29.A stokvel is a kind of fundraising event at which guests contribute funds for the hosts.
30.Transcript from 1956 Treason Trial, Wits Historical Papers Archive, 1956 Treason Trial, AD1812.
31.J.C. van Niekerk, Transcript from 1956 Treason Trial, Wits Historical Papers Archive, 1956 Treason Trial, AD1812.
32.Joseph, Side by Side, p. 100.
33.Staff reporter, ‘59 homes were raided in pre-dawn swoop’, Rand Daily Mail, 4 May 1961, p. 2.
34.Benjamin Pogrund, African affairs reporter, ‘The little world of Mrs. Ngoyi – by Govt. order’, Rand Daily Mail, 3 March 1962.
35.Staff reporter, ‘Second ban placed on woman leader’, Rand Daily Mail, 15 December 1962, p. 2.
36.Pogrund, ‘The little world of Mrs. Ngoyi – by Govt. order’.
37.Staff reporter, ‘23 held on rand in night raid’, Rand Daily Mail, 26 June 1963, p. 12.
38.Amnesty International, No. 10, September 1965, p. 3.
39.Pogrund, ‘The little world of Mrs. Ngoyi’, p. 8.
40.‘Lilian Ngoyi is free’, Drum article reprinted in Sechaba 7 (10/11/12), Oct/Nov/Dec 1973, p. 26.
41.Daymond, Everyday Matters, pp. 253–4.
42.Cited in Mpahlele, ‘Guts and granite’.
43.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 21 April 1972; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 269.
44.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 5 June 1972; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 270.
45.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 24 April 1973; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 287.
46.Cynthia Kros, ‘Prompting reflections: an account of the Sunday Times heritage project from the perspective of an insider historian’, Kronos 34 (1), 2008 (available at http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0259-01902008000100007 – accessed 7 June 2018).
47.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 28 November 1975; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 303.
48.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 5 March 1976; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 307.
49.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 24 July 1974; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 289.
50.Police Surveillance Files, SAPS Archives, Pretoria, 25 August 1973.
51.Staff reporter, ‘Victims of bannings speak on rights’, Rand Daily Mail, 10 December 1974, p. 1.
52.Staff reporter, ‘150 honour Fischer’, Rand Daily Mail, 21 May 1975, p. 5.
53.Letter to Belinda Allan, 7 April 1976; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 310.
54.Letter to Belinda Allan, reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters.
55.Letter to Belinda Allan, 25 October 1978; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 340.
56.Ngoyi, Letter to Belinda Allan, 27 February 1980; reprinted in Daymond, Everyday Matters, p. 345.
57.Cited in Staff reporter, ‘Thousands pay tribute at funeral of a warrior’, Rand Daily Mail, 24 March 1980, p. 4.
JANE TURNER
1.Rand Daily Mail, 9 January 1978.
2.Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1993), pp. 22–23.
3.Ibid., p. 22.
4.Tony Morphet, ‘Introduction’, Rick Turner, The Eye of the Needle: Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan, 1980), p. ix.
5.Jane Turner to her sister Nell, 7 March 1956.
6.Jane Turner to her friend Muriel Meek, 10 December 1956.
7.Ibid.
8.Morphet, ‘Introduction’, The Eye of the Needle.
9.Billy Keniston, Choosing to Be Free: The Life Story of Rick Turner (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2014), p. 13.
10.Ibid., p. 37.
11.Tony Spencer-Smith, quoted in Sunday Tribune, 13 January 1980.
12.Desmond Blow and Helen Zampetaks, Sunday Express, 20 June 1982.
13.Jann Turner, Mail and Guardian, 29 August 1997 – 4 September 1997.
DANIE CRAVEN
1.Paul Dobson, The Life of Danie Craven (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1994), p. 10.
2.Dobson, The Life of Danie Craven, p. 8.
3.Robert Archer and Antoine Bouillon, The South African Game: Sport and Racism (London: Zed Press, 1982), p. 69.
4.Rugby, June 1974, p. 39 (quotation translated).
5.Danie Craven, ‘’n Eeu van Sport’, in H. Thom (ed.), Stellenbosch (Stellenbosch: US Press, 1966), p. 431 (quotation translated).
6.Die Suiderstem, 10 February 1942 (translated).
7.Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, The Last White Parliament (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985), p. 20.
8.Stellenbosch University, SA Rugby Archives, Box 1.9, D. Craven to M. Myers, 13 September 1977.
9.George Gerber, Dok Craven: Agter die Kap van die Byl (Stellenbosch: US Press, 2000), p. 75 (translation).
10.Quoted in Gerber Dok Craven, p. 183 (translation).
11.Stellenbosch University, South African Rugby Board Minutes, Vol. 11, Presidential report, 1973.
12.Joan Brickhill, Race Against Race: South Africa’s ‘Multinational’ Sports Fraud (London: International Defence and Aid Fund, 1976), p. 4.
13.Peter Hain, Outside In (London: Biteback Publishing, 2012), p. 74.
14.Chris Laidlaw, Mud in Your Eye: A Worm’s Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby (Cape Town: Timmins, 1974), p. 192.
15.Quoted in Ted Partridge, A Life in Rugby (Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers, 1991), p. 114.
16.Die Burger, 5 February 1990 (translation).
17.Die Burger, 5 February 1990 (translation).
18.Sunday Star, 18 February 1990.
19.Business Day, 28 January 1991.
20.New Nation, 8 November 1990.
EDDIE BARLOW
1.Neville Cardus, ‘W.G’, in W.E. Williams (ed.), A Book of English Essays (London: Pelican, 1952), p. 329.
2.Fritz Bing, interview in Fish Hoek, 19 September 2017
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3.Robin Jackman, interview in Newlands, 20 September 2017.
4.Tiger Lance, interview in Parkmore, 24 February 2002.
5.Dick Whitington, Rand Daily Mail, 12 June 1963.
6.Don Bradman, quoted in Whitington, Rand Daily Mail, 15 November 1963.
7.Edward Griffiths, Eddie Barlow: The Autobiography (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2006), pp. 14–15.
8.Helen Hutchinson, email interview with author, 21 September 2017.
9.Bing, interview in Fish Hoek.
10.Hutchinson, email interview with author.
11.Jackman, interview in Newlands.
12.Bing, interview in Fish Hoek.
13.Jackman, interview in Newlands.
14.Bing, interview in Fish Hoek.
15.Ibid.
16.Jackman, interview in Newlands.
17.Griffiths, Eddie Barlow, p. 116.
18.Kim Barnett, email interview with author, 26 May 2017.
19.Gordon Parsons, interview in Illovo, 10 April 2017.
20.Jackman, interview in Newlands.
STEPHEN WATSON
1.T.S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’, from Four Quartets (London: Faber, 1960).
2.W.H. Auden, ‘In Memory of WB Yeats’ (1940).
3.Stephen Watson, Selected Essays, 1980–1990 (Cape Town: Carrefour Press, 1990).
4.Ibid.
5.Watson, ‘Sydney Clouts and the Limits of Romanticism’, in Selected Essays.
6.Ibid.
7.Ibid.
8.Stephen Watson, ‘The Rhetoric of Violence in South African Poetry’, in The Music in the Ice: On Writers, Writing and Other Things (Johannesburg: Penguin, 2010).
9.Stephen Watson, Cape Town: A City Imagined (Johannesburg: Penguin Books, 2005).
10.Watson, ‘A Version of Melancholy’, in Selected Essays.
11.Ibid.
12.Ibid.
13.Watson, ‘Poetry and Absence’, in The Music in the Ice.
14.Watson, ‘Bitter Pastoral’, in The Music in the Ice.
15.Watson, The Music in the Ice.
16.Ibid.
17.Boris Pasternak, ‘Lofty Malady’ (Moscow, 1923).
18.Watson, The Music in the Ice.
About the authors
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Vivian Bickford-Smith is an extraordinary professor in the History Department at Stellenbosch University. He has published extensively in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African history, especially in the area of urban history and social identities. His publications include three books on the history of Cape Town; Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen; and, most recently, The Emergence of the South African Metropolis: Cities and Identities in the Twentieth Century (2016).