Resources: Academic Articles

Published Academic Articles: The ones published in Natalia can be read online and freely downloaded.

[Other sources require university access codes.]

• ‘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, 2011, pp. 71–81.
• ‘Sugar and Settlers: Early Isipingo,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 42, 2012, pp. 19–32.
• ‘The ‘‘Coolie Curse:’’ The evolution of white colonial attitudes towards the Indian question, 1860–1900,’ Historia, Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, Vol. 57, No. 2, November 2012, pp. 31–67.
• ‘Thomas Reynolds, South Coast MLC 1880–1885,’ Natalia: Journal of the Natal Society, No. 43, 2013, pp. 55–72.
• ‘A sketch of colonial Umzinto,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 44, 2014, pp. 33–47.
• ‘Settler security, insecurity and solidarity in colonial Natal with particular reference to the South Coast 1850–1910,’ New Contree, Journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa, No. 70, November 2014, pp. 1–20.
• ‘Indian settlers on the South Coast 1874–1910: Work, trade and the Rise of a Racial Order,’ Nidan—International Journal for Hindu Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, December 2014, pp. 83–101.
• ‘A sketch of colonial Umkomaas,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 45, 2015, pp. 26–38.
• ‘Collusion and conspiracy in colonial Natal: A case study of Reynolds Bros. and indentured abuses 1884–1908,’ Historia: Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, Vol. 60, No. 1, May 2015, pp. 92-109.
• ‘A glimpse at colonial Alfred County and Port Shepstone,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 46, 2016, pp. 104–113.
• ‘Appraising Louis Botha’s award of a knighthood to Frank Reynolds in 1916,’ South African Journal of Cultural History, Vol. 30, No. 2, December 2016, pp. 42–57.
• ‘Joseph Baynes: Race relations pioneer,’ Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 47, December 2017, pp. 1–12.
• “Hazardous to health?” Sugar mills and river pollution in Natal 1869–1901, Historia – Journal of the Historical Association of South Africa, Vol. 63, No. 1, May 2018, pp. 24-44.
• Smallpox and vaccination in colonial Natal, 1850–1894, Natalia, Journal of the Natal Society, No. 51, December 2021, pp. 37–52.