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Issue number 40
December 2010
Contents
Page
EDITORIAL
iv
PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
Old Maritzburg
An address to the Twenty Club by
Mary Carlyle Mitchell
1
ARTICLES
Towards a new labour dispensation: Background to the
arrival of Indians in Natal in 1860
Duncan du Bois
12
The first public railway in South Africa:
The Point to Durban railway of 1860
Michael Cottrell
20
Natal Afrikaners as loyalists during the
Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902)
Johan Wassermann
32
Pietermaritzburg Concentration Camp
Elizabeth van Heyningen
62
A war crime in Pietermaritzburg
Stephen Coan
77
‘I see you’ – Two marches and the fall of a Champion
W.H. Bizley
85
Making the man, keeping the boy:
Van de Ruit’s Spud phenomenon in context
Janice Robertson
110
NOTES AND QUERIES
121
OBITUARIES
Steve de Gruchy
146
Warwick Dorning
147
Deanne Lawrance
149
Fatima Meer
150
Graeme Pope-Ellis
154
Simon Roberts
156
Leslie Weinberg
158
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES
160
SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL
PUBLICATIONS
166
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
170