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...
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...
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...
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...
Portraits of Colonial Natal by duncan DuBois is a collection of twelve thoroughly researched articles by the author of Labourer or Settler? Colonial Natal’s Indian dilemma (2011) and Sugar and Settlers: A history of the Natal South Coast...
Remembering Louis Botha – South Africa’s First Prime Minister A century ago this week on August 27, 1919, General Louis Botha, South Africa’s first Prime Minister, passed away at the age of 57. In the Preface to his recent biography...
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