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Shepstone And Milner Provided The Basis Of What Became Apartheid

Shepstone And Milner Provided The Basis Of What Became Apartheid

The feeling amongst British officials when they commenced control of Natal after 1843 was that Africans should not be able to wander around and settle anywhere they chose. Henry Cloete suggested the establishment of reserves or locations...

30 March 2025 Duncan Du Bois Apartheid Policies, Land Dispossession, Native Affairs Commission, Racial Segregation South Africa, Shepstone And Milner 0 Comments
Reflections On The First White Settlement In KZN

Reflections On The First White Settlement In KZN

Before the year recedes, it seems timely to reflect on the historical footprint of the arrival of a small, white settler presence around the Durban Bay area 200 years ago in 1824. Of the three main settlers, the lives of the two ex-officers of...

16 December 2024 Duncan Du Bois Durban History, Early Trade, KZN Settlement, white settlers, Zulu Diplomacy 0 Comments
The Illovo Chronicles: A History of Illovo and the Pearce Family

The Illovo Chronicles: A History of Illovo and the Pearce Family

This lavishly illustrated, privately published, coffee-table volume was the initiative of Warren Taylor of Kent in England. Having read my book, Sugar and Settlers, on the history of the Natal South Coast, he asked me to research and to...

3 March 2022 Duncan Du Bois book, Illovo 2 Comments
Labourer or Settler – Colonial Natal’s  Indian Dilemma 1860 – 1897

Labourer or Settler – Colonial Natal’s Indian Dilemma 1860 – 1897

DuBois addresses the question of how, neither by accident nor design, Natal became home to over 50,000 Indian immigrants during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Duncan Du Bois recounts how, from 1860, at the request of fewer than 50...

28 February 2022 Duncan Du Bois Immigrants, Indian, labourer, settler 0 Comments
RACE RELATIONS PIONEER – The legacy of Joseph Baynes

RACE RELATIONS PIONEER – The legacy of Joseph Baynes

Commissioned and published by the Baynesfield Trust in 2016, this 56 page booklet reveals that not all Natal’s colonial figures were indifferent to the plight of Africans and Indians. Contact the Baynesfield Trust for...

28 February 2022 Duncan Du Bois History, race relations 0 Comments
Sugar and Settlers: A History of the Natal South Coast

Sugar and Settlers: A History of the Natal South Coast

From a wealth of archival sources, Du eruditely narrates what is arguably the seminal chronicle of the South Coast’s development. He comprehensively unravels the kaleidoscope of personalities and unpacks the various interests that impact...

28 February 2022 Duncan Du Bois History, sugar and settlers 0 Comments
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