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Issue numbeR 52
2022
Natalia 52 (2022) CC-BY-NC cc Natal Society Foundation 2022
Contents
Page
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
A Gradual creep of change: Modernist infiltration of municipal infrastructure in Pietermaritzburg, 1930-1960
Debbie Whelan
1
‘The best missionary the Society has’: Arentz Tönnesen’s role in the Colenso controversy and Matshana inquiry
Milner Snell
13
‘We are the university’: The University of KwaZulu-Natal strike of February 2006
Christopher Merrett
24
DISCUSSION
Bishop Colenso: Pietermaritzburg’s first human rights activist?
Christopher Merrett
34
NOTES AND QUERIES
Pavements and power: Spatial aspects of colonial Pietermaritzburg
Christopher Merrett
38
Sarnia
Arthur Gammage
43
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and conflict in Pietermaritzburg in the 1980s
Christopher Merrett
44
BOOK REVIEWS
Clare: The Killing of a Gentle Activis
t
by Christopher Clark
50
The Royal Agricultural Society of Natal, 1984-2021
by Bill Guest
52
Polygyny and Gender: The Gendered Narratives of Adults Raised in Polygynous Families
by Zamambo V. Mkhize
54
From Memory to Marble: The Historical Frieze of the Voortrekker Monument, Part I, The Frieze
by Elizabeth Rankin and Rolf Michael Schneider
56
Bahlabelelelani - Why do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women’s Songsa
by Nompumelelo Zondi
58
Zulu Names, Polygyny and Gender Politics in Traditional Societie
by Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu
60
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
62