Natalia Issue Number 47- December 2017

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Issue numbeR 47
December 2017

Cover illustration
Joseph Baynes House – Debby Joubert, 2017

Page design by M.J. Marwick
Printed by CPW Printers
Pietermaritzburg

Natalia 47 (2017) CC-BY-NC cc Natal Society Foundation 2017

Contents	Page
EDITORIAL	v
ARTICLES
Joseph Baynes: Race relations pioneer Duncan du Bois	1
The Zululand journeys of the Woodward brothers 1894–1899 Adrian Koopman	13
DISCUSSION
Desiccation and rain rockets: Natural disasters and climate change in South Africa Debbie Whelan	28
NOTES AND QUERIES
An early children’s alphabet book from Nottingham Road Elwyn Jenkins	33
Henry Francis Fynn: The Long-tailed finch that came from Pondoland? Adrian Koopman	39
Isithwalandwe: The wearing of the crane feather Adrian Koopman	43
Whither the wraith?: The Macrorie Collection at Baynesfield Estate Debbie Whelan	47
BOOK REVIEWS
Portraits of Colonial Natal by Duncan L. du Bois	49
Hazara: Elegy for an African Farm by John Conyngham	50
Friends and Enemies: The Natal Campaign in the South African War 1899–1902 by Hugh Rethman	53
A Handful of Heroes: Rorke’s Drift – Facts, Myths and Legends by Katie Stossel	54
Stella Aurorae: The History of a South African University: Volume 2: The University of Natal (1949–1976) by Bill Guest	55
Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Identity and the Material Record in Southern KwaZulu-Natal in the Late Independent and Colonial Periods. Volume I and Volume 2 edited by Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Liebhammer	57
Welcome to Greater Edendale – Histories of Environment, Health and Gender in an African City by Marc Epprecht	59
isishweshwe: A History of the Indigenisation of Blueprint in Southern Africa by Juliette Leeb-Du Toit	61
OBITUARIES
Peter Allan (1930–2016)	62
Peter Michael Colvile Croeser (1949–2016)	63
Kenneth Graham Gillings (1947–2016)	65
Claude Bonganjalo Goba (1943–2016)	67
Sheila Langden Henderson (1922–2017)	68
John Robert Landrey Milton (1939–2017)	70
Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015)	71
Paul Singer Thompson (1940–2017)	72
Themistocles ‘Themi’ Venturas (1958–2017)	73
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS	76