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Illuminating Lives

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by Vivian Bickford-Smith


  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.

  Index

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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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