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...
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...
Following its call for mandatory Covid vaccination, The Mercury’s assertion that “curbing civil liberties is for the greater good,” (December 13) reminds one of the adages that those who ignore the lessons of the past are condemned to relive...
History has an unerring way of repeating itself. In parts of the US between the 1830s and 1850s, anti-slave and abolition movements were subjected to violence, discord and the perversion of civil liberties by those who opposed emancipation and...
The only conclusion that can be drawn from Benjamin Roberts’ effusive praise of the Freedom Charter (The Mercury, June 29) is that such articles serve to prosper deceit. The claim that the Freedom Charter was “not drawn up by a small group of...
Statues and monuments provide not the only reference to times past, but more importantly, they provide context to history and to the march of change. The measure of change depends on precedents. If those are erased or removed, then by what means...
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