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...
Towards a New Dispensation: Background to the Arrival of Indians in Natal in 1860,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 40, 2010, pp. 12–19. ‘Colonial river port shipping on the South Coast, Natalia: Journal of the Natal Society,’ No. 41...
The fully indexed second edition of this 124 page book, published in 2020, had its origins in a series of columns I produced for the weekly Caxton paper, the Southlands Sun, during the years 2017-2018. Following the success of the first edition...
Too few people appreciate the fact that references to “critical theory” and “political correctness” are Marxist in origin and are central to the process of transforming Western Judeo-Christian society into hemispheres of Orwellian socialism. How...
The name South Africa became official in 1910 when four British colonies united to form the Union of South Africa. Prior to that, ‘South Africa’ was a geographical reference to a region. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1652. In 1820...
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