Nigel Penn is professor of history in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town. He has published extensively in the field of Cape and Khoisan history. His most recent book is Murderers, Miscreants and Mutineers: Early Colonial Cape Lives (Jacana, 2015).
Brian Willan is currently a senior research associate at Rhodes University. He received a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, and went on to have a successful career in academic publishing, founding and running his own company. He has written on Sol T. Plaatje, brother-in-law and close friend of Isaiah Bud-M’belle. His major new biography, Sol Plaatje: A Life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876–1932, was published by Jacana in 2018.
Bill Nasson is emeritus professor of history at Stellenbosch University. He has published widely on the historical experiences of war in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa and on a variety of other aspects of modern South African history. His most recent book is History Matters: Selected Writings, 1970–2016 (Penguin, 2016). His interest in the life of fighter pilots may be a compensation for his fear of heights.
Neil Parsons is a former professor of history at the University of Botswana. He is the author of Black and White Bioscope: Movies Made in Africa 1899 to 1925 (Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press and Protea Boekhandel, 2018) and (with Alois S. Mlambo) A History of Southern Africa (Palgrave Macmillan Education, 2018).
Martha Evans is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town, where she teaches journalism and media studies. She is the author of Broadcasting the End of Apartheid: Live Television and the Birth of a New South Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and Speeches that Shaped South Africa: From Malan to Malema (Penguin, 2017).
Jackie May has been working in media organisations for over twenty-five years, producing content for print, digital and television. Most recently, she edited the international fashion magazine Marie Claire in South Africa, and she was the Cape editor of the daily national newspaper The Times. Currently, she creates content for her online platform, Twyg, about modern, sustainable living, in addition to freelancing for the Sunday Times, The Times and Wanted magazine, and writing memoirs. Jackie holds an MA in philosophy from the University of London. She lives in Cape Town with her partner and three children.
Albert Grundlingh is a graduate of the University of the Free State and was appointed at the University of South Africa in 1973, where he obtained MA and DLitt et Phil degrees. In 2001, he moved to Stellenbosch University as head of the History Department and served in that capacity until 2015. He is currently a professor in the department.
Luke Alfred is a journalist and writer. He lives in Johannesburg with his wife, Lisa, son, Thomas, and a dog called Toby. His most recent book is Early One Sunday Morning I Decided to Step Out and Find South Africa (Tafelberg, 2016). He is presently hard at work, with co-author Ian Hawkey, on a book commemorating twenty-five years of sport in a democratic South Africa, which will be published in 2019. He is also slogging through a novel, about which he prefers to remain silent.
Christopher Hope’s novels include A Separate Development, which won the David Higham Award; Kruger’s Alp, which won the Whitbread Prize for Fiction; Serenity House, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize; and My Mother’s Lovers. His memoir, White Boy Running, appeared in 1988 and won the CNA Award. He has published most recently The Café de Move-on Blues (2018), an account of travels in post-apartheid South Africa. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sindiwe Magona is writer-in-residence at the University of the Western Cape. She has written over 130 children’s books, the most recent of which is The Skin We Are In (David Philip, 2018). Her latest novel, Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle (Seriti sa Sechaba) was published in 2015. She has won numerous awards, including the national Order of Ikhamanga in 2011, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Rhodes University in 2018.
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/Xam Bushmen 194, 196–197
33 Squadron, RAF 80–84
40th Regiment, British Army 37
52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot, British Army 35
64th Regiment, British Army 36–37
80 Squadron, RAF 74–80
Ackerman, Hylton 176
Adams, Paul 179–180
Adrien (ship) 37
Advisory Boards Congress 64
African Club 62
African National Congress see ANC
‘African Painters and Sculptors from Johannesburg’ exhibition 92
Afrikaner Broederbond 157–158
Afrikaner nationalism 132–133, 154
agricultural innovation 14
Albert, Prince Consort 13
Alexander, Ray 118, 119–120
Alfred, Prince 13, 26
All African Convention 64
Allan, Belinda 110, 126–129
America see United States
Amnesty International 109–110, 126–128
ANC
banning of 105, 125
Isaiah Bud-M’belle and 64, 65
Danie Craven and 163–164
FEDSAW and 119
Abram Moiloa and 106
Lilian Ngoyi and 115–117
Tiyo Soga and 12–13
in Stellenbosch 134
and Richard Turner’s murder 147
unbanning 163–164
Women’s League 109, 117–119, 123
ANC Today 12
ANC Women’s League 109, 117–119, 124
Anderson, William 16–17, 22, 25
Anglo-Boer War see South African War of 1899–1902
Ansell, Gwen 107
Anti-Convict Association 31, 44–46
Antony, Sophie 144, 145–147
apartheid 90, 99, 103–108, 110, 122–124, 137–138, 145, 199–202, 207–215
Apollo Art Gallery 91
Arab Revolt (1936–1939) 75
architecture 193
Arthur, George 37–40, 47
Arthur, Major 48
‘Artists Under the Sun’ 90–91
Arts Society Room 89
Ashbey’s Galleries, Cape Town 90
Assignment System 37–38, 41
Aster Fielding Galleries 92
Auden, W.H. 185
Australia
John Montagu’s impact in 34, 36, 37–43
1963–64 cricket tour 169–172
Australian Cricket Association 170
Avalon Cemetery, Soweto 129
aviation, popularity of 72
Ayliffe, Rev. John 59
Bacher, Ali 167, 177
Bahurutshe Association 104
Bahurutshe people 92–94, 104–105
Bakwena (Bakoena) people 92–93
Bamangwato Development Association 105
Bambatha Rebellion 68
Bangwato people 99, 100–102, 105
Banner, Lois 2–3
Bantu Authorities Act (1951) 104
Bantu Education 104, 128, 215
see also education
Bantu Education Act (1953) 104
Bantu World 65, 90, 113
Bapedi people 105
Barlow, Cally 173
Barlow, Dorothy 169–170
Barlow, Eddie 167–181
family 169
childhood years 169, 172–173
at Wits 173–174
at Western Province 167–168, 175–180
cricket tours 169–172
at Derbyshire 177, 178–179
as coach 179–180
political career 174–175
in later years 180–181
death 181
Barlow, John 169–170
Barlow, Norman 169, 173
Barnato Memorial Trophy 53–54
Barnett, Kim 179
Barolong Wesleyan school, Mafeking 88, 94
Battle of Greece 80–85
Battle of Seringapatam 35
Battle of Waterloo 35–36
Beating Back a Bush Fire in a Bechuanaland
Village (painting) 106
Benaud, Richie 170, 172
Berlin Missionary Society 95
Bernstein, Hilda 129
Best, Mr 26–27
Biebow, Hendrik 133
Biko, Steve 128
Bing, Fritz 168, 174–178, 180
biographical narratives 2–7
Birkby, Carel 68
Bizos, George 104
Black nationalism 21–25
Black War 39
Black Watch regiment 76
Bleek, W.H. 194
Blyden, Edward 21, 22
Bophuthatswana 106
Boswell, James 25
Botha, Louis 58
boycotts see sporting boycott of South Africa
Bradman, Don 170–171
Brailsford, Edith see Pattle, Edith
Breitenbach, J.J. 34
Bright, Dr 47
Britain 10, 23–27, 54, 58, 62
rugby tour to, 1969–70 158–159
Broederbond see Afrikaner Broederbond
Bruce, Steven 177
Bruyns, Andre 175
Bud-M’belle, Horatio 61, 65
Bud-M’belle, Isaiah 49–66
qualifications 49–52, 63
as interpreter for Griqualand West High Court 51–52, 57–58
community involvement 52–53
marriage 53
as sports administrator 53–54
race relations 54, 64, 66
South African War of 1899–1902 54–55
on education 55–57
as interpreter in Special Treason Court 55
on Mfengu identity 58–59
to Johannesburg 60–62
as general secretary of SANNC 60–62
at Native Affairs Department 62–64
All African Convention 64
Natives Representative Council 64–65
death 65
recognition 65–66
Bud-M’belle, Maria 53
‘Buiten Street’ (short story) 195
Bulhoek massacre 63
Burnside, Janet see Soga, Janet
Butler, Guy 188
Camus, Albert 195
Cape Argus 26
Cape Times 123
Cape Town 191–192, 193
Cardus, Neville 168
Carey, Peter 39
Carlstein, Peter 170
Carman, Jillian 88
Cathcart, Sir George 32
‘cattle-killing’ movement of 1856–57 10, 17–18, 19
Central Flying School, Prestwick 74
Centre for Creative Writing 197
Chalmers, John 4, 11, 16–17, 20, 22, 25–28
Chalmers, William 14
Chevalier, Grahame 176
chiefs, role of 58–59
Chumie mission station 14, 17
Churchill, Winston 85
Church of Christ the King, Sophiatown 90, 103–104
Church of the Bangwato Nation (Kereke ya Morafe waga Mangwato) (painting) 103
circumcision rituals (ulwaluko) 14, 17
City Deep Native Hospital 112
civil service, black people in 50–51, 58
Civil Service Law examination 63
Clare, John 138, 140–141
Clouts, Sydney 187–188
Clutton-Brock, Guy and Molly 105
Coetzee, J.M. 197
convict labour system 31–32, 34, 37–39, 41–46
Corbett, John and Peter 173
Corder, Hugh 183
court interpreters 51–52
Couzens, Tim 88, 92, 107
Craven, Danie 151–166
family 152
childhood years 152–153
as Springbok rugby captain 155
at Stellenbosch University 153–157
in Union Defence Force 155
at SARB 157–166
political views 152, 157–166
health 152–153
statue 151–152
Craven, James 152
Craven, John 152
Craven, Maria (née Hartman) 152
cricket 53–54, 65
see also Barlow, Eddie
Cricket South Africa 172, 181
Criminal Law Amendment Bill 116
Cronje, Hansie 179
Currie Cup (cricket) 175, 177
dagga 19, 146
Dahl, Roald 67–68, 83–84
Dale, Langham 27
Dance in the Sun, A 191
Dancing the Skies 68
Dawn at Lobatsi (painting) 102
De Beers company 53–54
Defiance Campaign 115–117
De Havilland Gypsy Moth biplane 70, 72
De Klerk, F.W. 163–164
Derby-Lewis, Clive 132
Derwent Bank of Hobart 39
De Uitkyk (farm) 142
De Villiers, Dan 158
DFC 77, 80, 82
Dhlomo, H.I.E. 107
diamond fields of Kimberley 94, 95, 193
Dinokana (town) 88, 93, 104–105
Distinguished Flying Cross see DFC
Dolfo, farm manager 140
Dolinschek, Martin 147
Dorkay House 92
‘Dream Deferred, A’ (poem) 200
Drum 109
Dube, John 60
Dube YMCA, Soweto 92
Du Pont, Mary 88
Düsseldorf 96–97
Eccentrics C.C. (cricket team) 53
Eddie Barlow: The Autobiography 178
education 55–57, 94–95, 104, 128, 205–206, 214–215
Education Extension Act (1959) 214
Education Policy for Africa (1925) 94
Edward, Prince of Wales 63
Eighth Frontier War (Mlanjeni’s War) 17, 32, 46
Eliot, T.S. 184
Elizabeth, Princess 102
Elysia Gallery 92
Empire Exhibition (1936) 89, 98–99
Engelbrecht, Jannie 154
Euryalus (warship) 26
Evans, E.K.G.R. 99
Eye of the Needle, The 134
Fairbairn, John 45, 46
Fanon, Frantz 192
Fatal Shore, The 41
Fawbert, Jean 135–136, 139, 148
Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) 118–120, 123
Ferrasse, Albert 160
Few Days after Rain in the Bush, B.P., A (painting) 103
Fiat fighter aircraft 77–78, 80
Fingo History Fund 58
Fingo National Day 59, 60
First World War 69, 95, 112
Fischer, Bram 128
Fleetwood, Barbara see Montagu, Barbara
Fletcher, Duncan 179
Follett, Barbara (née Hubbard) 139, 143–145, 147
forced removals 90, 99, 103–104, 137, 211–213
Fort Hare University College 57, 95
Fortune, Charles 169
franchise 24, 44–47, 64, 161, 164–165
Franklin, Lady Jane 40–43
Franklin, Sir John 36, 40–43
Freemasons 138
Frontier Wars 10, 14–15, 17, 24, 32, 46
Gaika, Andiswa see Mazoko, Andiswa
Galeshewe, Kgosi 52
Garment Workers Union 115
General Law Amendment Act 125
George IV, King 35
George VI, King 101
Germany 95–98
Gibbon, Edward 25
Gladiator aircraft see Gloster Gladiators
Glasgow 10, 11, 15–16
Gloster Gladiators 75–79, 85
Goddard, Trevor 170, 171–172
Goebbels, Joseph 96, 98
Going Solo 67
gold mining 71, 193
Govan, William 15
Great Depression 71, 73, 96
Grey, Sir George 26
Griffiths, Edward 178
Griqualand West Coloured Cricket Union 53
Griqualand West High Court 51, 58
Gropius, Walter 96–97
Gugulethu see Nyanga West
Gumede, J.T. 63
GWU 115
Haile, Rev. Alfred John 88, 94–95
Hain, Peter 4, 158, 160
Hall, Glen 173
Hampton Institute, Virginia 49–50
Handlin, Oscar 1–2
Hani, Chris 132
Harris, Arthur 75
Harris, David 53
Hartman, Maria see Craven, Maria
Hawker Hurricanes 77, 80–85
Healdtown Institution 50, 206–209, 217
‘Heart of Albert Camus, The’ 195
Hely-Hutchinson, Sir Walter 60
Hendrick, Mike 179
Herbert Evans Art Gallery 90
Hermannsburg Missionary Society 93
Hertzog, J.B.M. 64, 133
Hillary, Richard 84
History of England 25
History of the Abambo (Fingos) 59
Hitler, Adolf 82, 83, 96, 98, 187
Hobson, Denys 176
Holmes, Neville 173
‘home’, question of 190–191, 193–194
Hooper, Charles and Sheila 104
Hubbard, Barbara see Follett, Barbara
Huddlestone, Trevor 90, 103–104
Hughes, Langston 200
Hughes, Robert 41
Hugo, Petrus Hendrik (‘Dutch’, ‘Khaki’) 86
Hurricane aircraft see Hawker Hurricanes
Hussain, Nasser 179
Hutchinson, Helen 173–174
Ibali lama Mfengu 59
identity 2, 8
I.F. Stone’s Weekly 141
Imvo Zabantsundu 51, 54
Indaba 20
Independent Industrial and Commercial Workers Union 107
Industrial Conciliation Amendment Bill 119
International Defence and Aid Fund 124
International Rugby Board see IRB
International Socialist League 61
interpreters see court interpreters
Inter-State Native College 57
IRB 160, 162–163
Irving, Walter 25
‘Israelites’ sect 63
Italy 77–82
Jabavu, John Tengo 54, 57
Jackman, Robin 168, 175–178, 180
Jack, Steven 179
Jacobson, Dan 190–191
Johannesburg Art Gallery 87, 90–91, 108
Johannesburg Star 72
Johnston, Robert 15–16
Joint Councils 64
Jones, Stephen 176
Joseph, Helen 119–120, 123–124, 128
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