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Editors: F.A. Mouton and Elizabeth van HeyningenVolume:III-5 (2023)Print Status:In Print and eBook will be available shortlyThis volume, F.S. Malan: A former journalist looks back, provide a popular personal account of his education and subsequent career as a journalist and politician from the I880s to the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, a time when a distinct Afrikaner identity began to burgeon in the Cape Colony, especially under the impact of the Jameson... -
Editors: David Johnson and Henry DeeVolume:III-4 (2022)Print Status:In Print and eBook availableThe Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU) and its charismatic leader, Clements Kadalie, dominated the southern African political landscape of the 1920s. The movement demonstrated a wide spectrum of opposition to the established order. From humble beginnings in Cape Town in 1919, the ICU...
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Translated with an Introduction and Notes by D.J. CulpinVolume:III-3 (2021)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)This volume of Le Vaillant’s Travels continues the narrative of his journey, begun in Volume 1, from the time of his arrival at Kok’s Kraal on the banks of the Great Fish River, where he pitched camp and remained from 12 October until 4 December 1782. This sojourn of two months was the longest time that Le Vaillant remained in...
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Edited by Brian Willan and Sabata-mpho MokaeVolume:III-2 (2020)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)Sol Plaatje (1876–1932) was one of the best known political and literary figures of his generation – as journalist, writer and spokesman for his people. He spoke out against the oppressive policies of the South African government in the early decades of the twentieth century, and he is remembered for a number of important books – one of which is the...
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Indoda Ebisithanda ("The Man Who Loved Us") - The Reverend James Laing among the amaXhosa, 1831-1836Edited by Sandra Rowoldt ShellVolume:III-1 (2019)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)This study is a critical edition of a section of the journals of the Reverend James Laing of the Glasgow Missionary Society. The first scholarly study of the Laing journals, this thesis seeks to contribute towards a new understanding of the early days of transcultural interchange on the Eastern Cape frontier. The only previous published work on Laing is William Govan's hagiographical Memorials...
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Collected and Edited by Howard PhillipsVolume:II-50 (2018)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)The so-called “Spanish” influenza epidemic of 1918 (tellingly dubbed “Black October” by contemporaries in South Africa) was the worst disease episode ever to hit the country. Part of the global pandemic which killed about 3% of the world’s inhabitants in little over a year, in hard-hit South Africa it claimed some 350,000 lives (or 5% of the population) in six...
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Edited by Gerrit SchutteVolume:II-49 (2018)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)Hendrik Swellengrebel was born at the Cape on 26 November 1734, the fifth child of Hendrik Swellengrebel Snr, at the time the Secretary of the Council of Policy, but from 1739 Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Helena Wilhelmina ten Damme. After bidding farewell to his parents on 25 March 1746, Hendrik Jr travelled as an eleven-year-old...
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Edited by Con de Wet, Elizabeth van Heyningen, Chris van der MerweVolume:II-48 (2017)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)President M.T. Steyn is one of the heroes Afrikaner history, leading the guerrilla war against the British from 1899-1902, and fiercely resisting submission. He was struck down by a neural disease in 1902 and was unable to participate in the negotiations that ended the war. In 1902 he went to Europe for treatment and, after a partial recovery, he returned...
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Edited and introduced by Alan CobleyVolume:II-47 (2016)Print Status:In PrintRichard Victor Selope Thema (1886 - 1955) was one of the most influential black figures in South Africa in the twentieth century - yet little has been published about him until now. 'RV' - as he was known to his friends - was a leading member of the ANC for almost forty years from 1912, serving for many years on...
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Edited by Boris GorelikVolume:II-46 (2015)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)The Russian view of the Cape as represented in this volume may be unique. During the period in question, Russia had no cultural, political or economic ties with South Africa. Russians saw the Cape only as a convenient stopover en route to the Far East, to their country’s distant domains that could not be reached by sea otherwise. The Cape was...
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Edited by Liz Stanley and Andrea SalterVolume:II-45 (2014)Print Status:In PrintThe World’s Great Question features over 300 of Olive Schreiner’s key letters on South African people, politics and its racial order. They are often prophetic and can still send shivers down the spine. Immensely readable and insightful, her South African letters bring home Schreiner’s importance as one of the world’s most famous women and a foundational figure in South African...
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Translated by Thea Toussaint van Hove and Michael Wilson. Edited and Introduced by Hazel Crampton, Jeff Peires and Carl VernonVolume:II-44 (2013)Print Status:In PrintBy 1752, the lands beyond Mossel Bay were officially unknown. The Beutler expedition, was tasked by Governor Rijk Tulbagh to obtain a thorough knowledge of the hitherto unknown condition of these interior lands. The reader of the Journal will meet the fauna and flora of the region, as well as the indigenous peoples of the Eastern Cape.
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Edited by Peter LimbVolume:II-43 (2012)Print Status:Out of Print (eBook available)Alfred Bitini Xuma (1893-1962) is best known as the president who revived the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and was then defeated for office by the Congress Youth League. Less known is his important public career as a medical doctor and social reformer, or the continuity of his thought over three decades of writings and speeches, in which...
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Edited and introduced by Randolph VigneVolume:II-42 (2011)Print Status:In PrintThomas Pringle (1789–1834) is remembered as ‘the father of English poetry’ in this country, as leader of the only Scottish settler party in 1820 and as a champion of the freedom of the press. He had an earlier career as founding editor of Blackwood’s Magazine in Edinburgh and a later one as man of letters in London and secretary of...
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Edited and introduced by Deborah LavinVolume:II-41 (2010)Print Status:In PrintThis volume, published a century after Union in 1910, tells the story of the first decades of the new state. The narrative unfolds through letters exchanged weekly by two interested commentators: Scottish-born Patrick Duncan, who was initially a member of Milner’s famous ‘Kindergarten’ of young British civil servants, and who became a respected politician in the new Union. His career...
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Edited and with an introduction by Peter AlexanderVolume:II-40 (2009)Print Status:In PrintAlan Paton was a dedicated letter-writer whose letters are almost like a series of vigorous conversations, displaying his capacity for friendship, his lively personality and his principled commitment to South African society. This collection of 350 previously unpublished letters are a major aspect of his writings. They range from those written as a brilliant student of 18 to his old...
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Edited and translated by Jeff Opland and Abner Nyamende with an introduction and notes by Jeff OplandVolume:II-39 (2008)Print Status:In PrintIsaac Williams Wauchope (1852-1917) was a prominent member of the Eastern Cape African elite in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a Congregational minister, political activist, historian, poet and, ultimately, legendary hero in the Mendi disaster. A Lovedale student, he was instrumental in founding one of the first political organisations for Africans, an enthusiastic campaigner for the establishment of...
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Translated and edited by Ian Glenn with the assistance of Catherine Lauga du Plessis and Ian FarlamVolume:II-38 (2007)Print Status:In Print (eBook available)In 1780 the young Francois Vaillant set out from Holland for the Cape to collect specimens of birds and animals. His account of his travels, which was published widely during the revolutionary period, became an influential piece of writing about South Africa, popular throughout Europe and reflected many Enlightenment attitudes.I t was the first highly critical account of Dutch colonialism...
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Translated and edited by Part T. Mgadla and Stephen C. VolzVolume:II-37 (2006)Print Status:In PrintWords of Batswanapresents a selection of letters that were written by Batswana to Mahoko a Becwana (News/Words of Batswana), a Setswana-language newspaper published by missionaries of the London Missionary Society at Kuruman between 1883 and 1896. The majority of the writers were members of congregations in what are today South Africa’s Northern Cape Province and North West Province, but many...
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Edited by Nigel Worden and Gerald GroenewaldVolume:II-36 (2005)Print Status:In Print and eBook availableTrials of Slavery is a first in South African historiography, a collection of 87 verbatim records of trials involving slaves at the Cape during the 18th century. The cases are drawn from the exceptionally rich archives of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope under the rule of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), and illuminate not...
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Translated by F.R. Baudert, edited by T. KeeganVolume:II-35 (2004)Print Status:In PrintThe four missionary texts which make up this volume reveal the little-known range of Moravian missionary work in the Eastern Cape, from its inception in 1828 to 1928. Vivid and subjective in character, they illuminate this field of Moravian mission activity in South Africa, which extended to the Xhosa the pioneering work done at Genadendal and its family of stations...
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Documents from the Swellengrebel Archive, edited and introduced by G J Schutte. English translation by N O van Gylswyk and D.Sleigh. (2003)Volume:II-34 (2003)Print Status:In PrintHendrik Cloete, the owner of Groot Constantia from 1778, extended the manor house and improved and marketed the celebrated Constantia wines. This volume, the correspondence between Cloete and Hendrik Swellengrebel jr follows his attempt o obtain the concession from the Dutch East India Company to freely trade and market his famous wines. This material enables the reader to take a...
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Edited by Deryck Schreuder and Jeffrey Butler.Volume:II-33 (2002)Print Status:In PrintGraham Bower's 'Secret History' is a personal insider's account of the great imperial scandal of the Jameson Raid. Bower adhered to a rigid Victorian code of honour. Although he was the official secretary to the British high commission in South Africa, he chose to keep silent and play the role of scapegoat rather than 'blow the whistle' to the high...
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Edited by William LaneVolume:II-32 (2001)Print Status:In PrintJohn (Jack) Moody Lane, born an Ulsterman, sought his fortune in the South African Republic where he became a storekeeper in the hamlet of Hartbeesfontein in the Western Transvaal. Although he accepted Republican citizenship, he remained loyal to the British cause, and was reluctant to bear arms against his mother country when he was called up to join a commando...
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Edited and annotated by A.G. MorrisVolume:II-31 (2000)Print Status:In PrintAlbert Edward Hilder was determined to join the British and Allied forces in the Anglo-Boer War. After immigrating to Canada, he joined the Militia of the Royal Canadian Dragoons and volunteered for service when war was declared in October 1899, serving two tours of duty in South Africa in 1900 and 1902. Hilder's writings are rare accounts of the Canadian...
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Edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur.Volume:II-30 (1999)Print Status:Out of PrintThis second volume of the Cape diaries, dealing with 1800, further develop this rich and entertaining account of life at the Cape in the early years of British rule. Politically the Diaries lay bare the dynamics of the conflicts among senior office-holders, not only in the civil administration, but also in and between the army and navy. Lady Anne's independence...
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Edited by Margaret Lenta and Basil le Cordeur.Volume:II-29 (1998)Print Status:In PrintThe Cape Diaries are the private and unrevised records on which Lady Anne based her Journals. Consequently they express Lady Anne's uncensored views on a wide variety of topics, social and political. The diaries are not only illuminating but also vastly entertaining because of her brilliant command of language and the pleasure she took in the act of writing itself....
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Translated from the original Swedish and edited by Ione & Jalmar RudnerVolume:II-28 (1997)Print Status:In PrintGustav de Vylder, a Swedish naturalist, journeyed through Namibia from 1873 to 1875, collecting insects and other natural-history specimens for institutions in his home country. His travels were undertaken some years before the German colonial occupation when the European presence was slight. De Vylder's journal is a record of an adventurous journey, personal encounters and conditions in what was then...
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Edited by Frederick HaleVolume:II-27 (1996)Print Status:In PrintThe Norwegian Missionary Society established its first permanent stations north of the Tugela in the 1840s. The Zulu Lutheran Church which developed from conversions in the 1860s only really developed after the conquest of Zululand in 1879. The Norwegian missionaries were strategically located to view changes in Zulu culture and civilisation and their letters and reports comprise a rich and...
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Edited by Jerold Taitz with Ken Gillings and Arthur DaveyVolume:II-26 (1995)Print Status:In PrintIn 1899 Ludwig Krause left his legal practice in the Transvaal to fight on behalf of the Boers. At first an ordinary burgher, later he became an officer, waging war in the Northern Transvaal. Educated partly at Cambridge, Krause's memoirs are remarkable for their clarity and descriptive power. Their value is enhanced by his outspoken and sometimes pungent opinions, not...
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Original Dutch text with English Translation - Compiled translated and edited by Karel SchoemanVolume:II-25 (1994)Print Status:In PrintIn the Transorange in the early part of the 19th century, there were four small, semi-independent Griqua polities, each ruled by its own Chief or Kaptyn. They of were of considerable importance to the British authorities at the Cape, and to the London Missionary Society. This volume comprises of a collection of official and semi-official documents relating he Captaincy...
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Edited by A.M. Lewin Robinson with Margaret Lenta and Dorothy DriverVolume:II-24 (1993)Print Status:Out of PrintLady Anne's journals were revised from her original diaries and produced for the interest of her immediate family and friends. They were never intended for publication. However, they are invaluable in the light which they cast on 'the interesting domestic particulars of life in Cape Town', dealing with matters which male writers ignored. In addition, her place in society, as...
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Edited and introduced by Chris Hummel and Adrian CraigVolume:II-23 (1992)Print Status:In PrintJohan August Wahlberg (1810-1856), a Swedish naturalist, travelled through much of southern Africa, including Natal and Namibia, before the mid-19th century. He had been chosen by the Swedish Academy of Sciences to collect plants and animals in southern Africa for the Natural History Museum in Stockholm. His account of his travels is often terse and businesslike but his accounts of...
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Edited and introduced by Randolph VigneVolume:II-22 (1991)Print Status:In PrintThe 15-year-old 'French boy' was wrecked on he Ciskei coast in 1687, and spent a year living in the household of a Xhosa chief. The worlds of the Huguenot diaspora, the great days of Indian Ocean trading, the Cape's pivotal position in the struggle for mastery, and the awakening interest of the Dutch in the 'Terra de Natal' form a...
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Edited and introduced by E.L.P. Stals.Volume:II-21 (1990)Print Status:In PrintWilliam Coates Palgrave (1833-1897) was active in South West Africa (Namibia) for 25 years. As Special Commissioner to Hereroland and Namaland, he undertook 5 consecutive commissions to that country on behalf of the Cape government. This volume, containing the official journals, or minutes and reports produced during the commissions, records the life of a country on the brink of colonisation.
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Edited with an introduction by M.D. NashVolume:II-20 (1989)Print Status:In PrintThe voyage of HMS Guardian is unique in naval history. She sailed from Spithead in September 1789 with stores for Britain's new colony in New South Wales. Thirteen days out from the Cape of Good Hope she struck an iceberg that tore away her rudder and most of her keel. Half the ship's company took to the boats, only one...
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Edited and introduced by Chris HummelVolume:II-19 (1988)Print Status:In PrintMajor John North Crealock (1837-1895) fought in a number of colonial wars, including the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Zulu War. This volume is a detailed account of the warfare conducted against the Xhosa in the last phases of the frontier war of 1877-1878. Opinionated and inefficient, Crealock nevertheless gives a sober account of the military situation.
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Edited, with commentary, by Arthur DaveyVolume:II-18 (1987)Print Status:Out of printDrawing on a wide selection of sources, this volume seeks to investigate the controversies surrounding the execution of 'Breaker' Morant and his two Australian compatriots. It explores not only the murders associated with Morant, but looks at the context in which the Bushveldt Carbineers were recruited and operated. It remains one of the most scholarly works on the subject.
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Edited by Emeritus Prof. V.S. Forbes and translated from the Swedish by J and I RudnerVolume:II-17 (1986)Print Status:In PrintCarl Peter Thunberg (1743), a Swede and disciple of the renowned botanist, Linnaeus the elder, was the first university graduate to travel extensively in the Cape interior, preceding the expedition of his compatriot, Anders Sparrman. Apart from recounting his three journeys - two to the Eastern Cape as far as the Sundays River, and one to the Roggeveld - he...
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Edited by Maryna FraserVolume:II-16 (1985)Print Status:In PrintProduced to commemorate Johannesburg's centenary, this volume explores the social history of the mining town in its pioneer days. The four journals included are C. Du-Val, 'All the World Around!!! with pencil, pen and camera'; T.R. Adlam, 'Sunrise and Advancing Morn: Memories of a South African Boyhood'; E. Bright, 'Letters, 1902-1909; Excerpts from the memoirs of William T. Powell.
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Edited with an introduction by Gerald ShawVolume:II-15 (1984)Print Status:In PrintEdmund Garrett (1865-1907) was a member of the family which produced such leading feminists as Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. In 1895 he was appointed editor of the Cape Times and remained there during the crucial period of the Jameson Raid and the lead-up to the South African War. A staunch imperialist he formed close relationships with...
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Edited by Lucy Bean and Elizabeth B. van Heyningen with an introduction by Elizabeth B. van HeyningenVolume:II-14 (1983)Print Status:In PrintJane Waterston (1843-1932) accompanied the missionary, Dr James Stewart, to the Eastern Cape when he became principal of the Lovedale Institution. There she started the Girls' Institution but her real desire was to work as a doctor amongst women in the interior of Africa. In 1874 she returned to England where she was amongst the first women to train in...
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Uitgegee met inleiding en aantekeninge deur dr. G.J. Schutte. With an English summary by Dr A.J. Böeseken assisted by Prof. H.M. RobertsonVolume:II-13 (1982)Print Status:In PrintHendrik Swellengrebel Jr (1734-1803) was the son of Hendrik Swellengrebel who served as governor for a number of years and retained extensive properties there. The younger Swellengrebel lived a comfortable life in the Netherlands, but visited the Cape between 1776-1777. Thereafter he retained an interest in Cape affairs. He became associated with the rebel Cape Patriot movement and did much...
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Edited by Vivian SolomonVolume:II-12 (1981)Print Status:In PrintPercy Molteno (1861-1937) was a son of Sir John Molteno, first prime minister of the Cape Colony. Trained as a lawyer, he married the daughter of Sir Donald Currie, the shipping magnate, and went to work for his father-in-law in England. He remained passionately interested in the political life of the colony and conducted a wide-ranging correspondence with many of...
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Edited by Brian P. WillanVolume:II-11 (1980)Print Status:Out of printEdward Ross, Mafeking's auctioneer, is best-known for his role in the production of banknotes during the siege. His diary is amongst the finest of the many accounts of the siege, recording the activities of Mafeking's residents as well as the military aspects of the siege.
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Introduction and notes by Edna and Frank BradlowVolume:II-10 (1979)Print Status:Out of printWilliam Somerville, an Edinburgh doctor, accompanied the invading forces of Major-General Craig when the British took the Cape in 1795. He remained at the Cape for some years, accompanying Major-General Dundas to the eastern districts during the height of conflict on the frontier. Subsequently he accompanied an expedition to the Orange River. On both occasions he recorded the cultures...
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Introduction and notes by A.M. Lewin RobinsonVolume:II-9 (1978)Print Status:In PrintThe "Cape Monthly Magazine" was the best-known of the 19th century Cape journals. Edited by Professor Roderick Noble of the South African College, and Alfred Whaley Cole, it attracted contributions from leading Cape intellectuals. This selection deals with travels and historical reminiscences and includes articles by Dr W.G. Atherstone, Charles Brownlee and Robert Godlonton
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Edited by Prof. Arthur M. DaveyVolume:II-8 (1977)Print Status:In PrintLawrence Richardson (c.1869-1953), a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), was involved in two fact-finding and humanitarian missions to South Africa in the wake of the South African War. His meticulous diaries detail his interviews and draw a perceptive picture of a society devastated by war.
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With introduction and editing by Prof. Vernon S. Forbes. Translated from the Swedish by J. and I. Rudner.Volume:II-7 (1976)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)This second volume of Sparrman's travels concerns his account of his journey to the Eastern Cape including a stay at Agter Bruintjies Hoogte. It includes comments on the practices of the Khoi of the eastern districts and of local flora and fauna.
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With introduction and editing by Prof. Vernon S. Forbes. Translated from the Swedish by J. and I. Rudner.Volume:II-6 (1975)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Anders Sparrman (1748-1820), a young Swedish doctor, is noteworthy for his visit to parts of the Cape which were little known at that time. This first volume describes his journey past Mossel Bay and through the Langkloof.
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Edited by I. SchaperaVolume:II-5 (1974)Print Status:Out of printThis volume of Livingstone's writings, which predates his travels, is concerned primarily with South African racial and missionary affairs as well as comments on traders. His bitter prejudice against the Boers emerges clearly, as do his conflicts with other missionaries., but his insights into local societies are nonetheless revealing.
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Edited by Dr. E. H. Raidt with English Translation by Maj. R. Raven-HartVolume:II-4 (1973)Print Status:Out of printThis second part of Valentyn's travels continues with the account of his visit in 1702 and a later visit of 1714. It includes a lengthy account of the customs of the Khoi and their language, the fauna to be encountered and the early history of the settlement.
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Edited by Prof. Harrison M. WrightVolume:II-3 (1972)Print Status:Out of printSir James Rose Innes (1855-1942) was one of South Africa's leading jurists. This volume deals with Rose Innes's political career, initially as a member of Cecil John Rhodes's first ministry in 1890-1893. The political divisions caused by the Jameson Raid forced Rose Innes reluctantly into the loyalist camp. In 1900 he returned to cabinet as attorney-general for the Cape and...
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Edited and annotated by Prof. P. Serton, Dr. W.J. de Kock, Maj. R. Raven-Hart. Final Editor Dr. E.H. Raidt. English translation by R. Raven-Hart and introduction by P. SertonVolume:II-2 (1971)Print Status:Out of printFrançois Valentyn (1666-1727) was sent out to the Dutch East Indies as a young man to work as a minister of religion. His interests extended to the natural world which he encountered in the Moluccas and the Cape. Valentyn visited the Cape several times over a period of almost 30 years and observed the changes occurring in the fledgling colony...
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Uitgegee deur Leo Fouché en hersien deur A.J. Böeseken met bykomende voetnote deur prof. A.M. Hugo. English translation by Dr J. SmutsVolume:II-1 (1970)Print Status:Out of printAdam Tas (1668-1722) was an early Dutch free burgher, farming in the Stellenbosch district. He is best known for the part he played in the free burgher conflicts with the Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, concerning the corruption of Company officials and their misuse of trading monopolies. This diary, the work of an engaging and genial man, describes the...
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Edited by Phyllis LewsenVolume:I-50 (1969)Print Status:In PrintThe final volume of Merriman's correspondence deals with the making of Union, including his views on constitution-making, and his period as prime minister of the Cape Colony. Merriman remained in parliament after Union, participating in events leading up to, and just after World War I.
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Edited by Vernon S. ForbesVolume:I-49 (1968)Print Status:In PrintThis second volume of Thompson's travels covers a journey to the 'country of the bushmen, Korannas, and Namaquas', in the Roggeveld and Namaqualand. The volume concludes with 'observations on the present condition of the Dutch and English inhabitants' and a discussion on the commercial potential of the Cape Colony.
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Edited by Vernon S. ForbesVolume:I-48 (1967)Print Status:Out of PrintGeorge Thompson, who arrived in the Cape about 1818, was a successful merchant in Cape Town. He married a Dutch woman and travelled widely in southern Africa in the early years of the 19th century. Much of this travelling was to expand the business of his company amongst the 1820 settlers of the Eastern Cape. He also travelled up to...
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Edited by Phyllis LewsenVolume:I-47 (1966)Print Status:In PrintVol. III covers the period of the South African War, including Merriman's participation in the pro-Boer Schreiner ministry, and a period in opposition. During this time he fought against the suspension of the Cape constitution and for a fair deal for Cape rebels. It concludes with his participation in the South African Native Affairs Commission and the election which brought...
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Uitgegee en toegelig met inleiding, voetnote, sketskaarte en verkorte weergawe in Engels deur W.J. de KockVolume:I-46 (1965)Print Status:Out of PrintParavicini di Capelli was an artillery-captain at the time of the Batavian Republic and aide-de-camp of the Cape governor, General Jan Willem Janssens. He travelled with the governor into the interior, keeping an official journal as well as his own, and was active in preparations of the Cape against attack by the British, travelling widely during this period. In 1804...
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Edited by R.F. Kennedy, 1850-1853Volume:I-45 (1964)Print Status:Out of PrintVol. II covers the Vaal River Expedition of 1850, in which Baines travelled through the Orange Free State and up to Potchefstroom. It concludes with the 8th Frontier War from 1850 to 1851.
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Edited by Phyllis LewsenVolume:I-44 (1963)Print Status:In PrintVol.II covers the first Rhodes' ministry, of which Merriman was Colonial Treasurer, his break with Rhodes and the period leading up to the South African war, including the Jameson Raid. It was in this latter period that Merriman formed his alliance with the Afrikaner Bond and adopted his pro-Boer stance.
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Edited by J.W. Macquarrie.Volume:I-43 (1962)Print Status:In PrintStanford's second volume of reminiscences records his life in Pondoland as chief magistrate, up to its annexation, the impact of the South African War, the creation of Ndabeni, Cape Town's first location and the Native Affairs Commission of 1904.
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Edited by R.F. KennedyVolume:I-42 (1961)Print Status:Out of PrintThomas Baines was one of South Africa's most notable artists, recording many historical events, which he meticulously recorded both with brush and with pen. This volume covers many of his journeys in the eastern Cape, with the Liddle expedition and on his own.
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Edited by Phyllis LewsenVolume:I-41 (1960)Print Status:In PrintJohn X. Merriman, son of Archdeacon Merriman, was one of the most brilliant politicians at the Cape. His long political career spanned most of the major political events of the late-19th and early 20th-century, culminating in the prime minister's office just before Union in 1910. Politically Merriman was a liberal, working closely with Rhodes when the latter first became prime...
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Edited by B.A. TindallVolume:I-40 (1959)Print Status:In PrintJoseph Tindall, a Wesleyan missionary, worked in South-West Africa, initially with Jonker Afrikaner in Damaraland. His journal includes much information about local customs and conflicts between Damara groups. This work lacks the usual historical introduction.
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Edited by J.W. Macquarrie.Volume:I-39 (1958)Print Status:In PrintSir Walter Stanford served for many years in the Native Affairs Department of the Cape Colony, retiring in 1907, when he began to write his memoirs. This first volume describes his youth, education at Lovedale College and his work in the Native Affairs Department during the 1870s, concluding with the Cape Native Laws and Customs Commission in 1881-3.
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Translated from the original German into Afrikaans by J.F.W. Grosskopf and edited by G.P.J. Trümpelmann; with an English summary by A. RavenscroftVolume:I-38 (1957)Print Status:In PrintDr Theodor Wangemann was a director of the Berlin Missionary Society who came out to South Africa in 1866 to visit the mission stations throughout the country. This work, one of several which Wangemann wrote and a typical example of nineteenth-century German missionary literature, describes mission work in the Lydenburg district of the northern Transvaal.
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Edited by D.H. Varley and H.M. MatthewVolume:I-37 (1957 for 1956)Print Status:In PrintArchdeacon Merriman was appointed Archdeacon of Grahamstown by Bishop Robert Gray in 1848. his instructions were to expand the church in the Eastern Cape by establishing new congregations and building churches in the small townships. He was to 'awaken 'religious instincts long dormant through lack of opportunity' and to 'preach to barbarous people the saving grace of Christianity.' In accomplishing...
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Selected, edited and annotated by Percival R. KirbyVolume:I-36 (1955)Print Status:In PrintAndrew Smith, a British doctor, journeyed to Natal in 1832, ostensibly for scientific purposes, but almost certainly operating under instructions. The text includes an account of his visit to Dingane and notes on the different tribal groups which he encountered, the Cape Town Merchants' Memorial of 1835 and some of the records of the South African Land and Emigration Association
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Edited by P. SertonVolume:I-35 (1954)Print Status:Out of PrintGerald McKiernan was an American trader, operating in South West Africa in the last decade before German colonial rule. The manuscript consists of a narrative of 5 years' travel in Africa, from 1875 to 1879, and a diary which he kept from 1877 to 1879. The author travelled widely, probably reaching well into Angola.
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Compiled and edited by Percival R. KirbyVolume:I-34 (1953)Print Status:In PrintThis volume is a companion to The Wreck of the Grosvenor, published by the VRS in 1927. It includes various accounts of the wreck, the journal of William Hubberly, a survivor of the wreck, as well as some Dutch material on the event. The volume concludes with a full list of the ship's company and passengers.
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Edited and introduced in Afrikaans by F.J. du T. Spies; with a summary in English by N.G. SabbaghaVolume:I-33 (1952)Print Status:In PrintH.A.L. Hamelberg was a Hollander who visited the Cape in 1855, remaining there for six months. Subsequently he undertook a journey from Cape Town to Bloemfontein where he spent about seven years. The journal covers the earlier events in more detail
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Edited by Johann F. Preller; with an English translation by A.J. de VilliersVolume:I-32 (1951)Print Status:In PrintF.S. Malan, at one time editor of 'Ons Land', was a Cape delegate to the National Convention in Durban, which negotiated the terms of the Union of South Africa. Malan himself noted that the journal had a dual purpose: '1 To give a short summary of the proceedings of the Conference and 2. To put on record what my own...
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Edited by D.J. KotzéVolume:I-31 (1951 for 1950)Print Status:Out of PrintThe American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was one of the last missionary societies to begin work in South Africa. Since the Cape Colony was well-populated with missionaries, the Americans concentrated initially on the Matabele in the Transvaal, and on Natal. Their arrival coincided with the Great Trek and Boer expansion north and east so they were well placed...
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Edited by Una LongVolume:I-29 (1949 for 1948)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)In the second volume of his journal, Goldswain described the increasing tension between black and white on the frontier, his experiences as a trader, and his relations with his own family, including their medical treatment. His journal is most attractive for its naïve frankness.
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Edited by Margaret Hermina ListerVolume:I-30 (1949)Print Status:Out of PrintAndrew Geddes Bain is best known for his building of Cape roads and passes. His diaries, from 1826 to the 1840s, were both working journals and accounts of his experiences and descriptions of the people he encountered in the course of his work. This volume includes his chronicle of his journey in 1826 to the northern Cape.
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Transcribed, translated and edited by E.E. MossopVolume:I-28 (1947)Print Status:Out of printHendrik Hop was a Stellenbosch farmer who led a pioneering journey into Namaqualand. The account of the journey is told by the Cape surveyor and map-maker, Carel Brink. Accompanying this record is the brief journal of the trading journey of Johannes Rhenius of Berlin, made nearly 40 years before that of Hop. His account is of particular interest because of...
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Edited by Una LongVolume:I-27 (1946)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Jeremiah Goldswain's journals, written phonetically in his mid-English dialect, have been a source of interest to linguists as well as historians. A sawyer from Buckinghamshire, Goldswain migrated to the Eastern Cape in 1820. The first part of his journal describes the early difficulties of the settlers on the frontier
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Edited by A.F. HattersleyVolume:I-26 (1945)Print Status:Out of printAfter emigrating to Australia twice, where he had acquired experience in sheep farming, in 1862 Dobie emigrated to Natal, intending to bring sheep farming to Natal. He had little success and left Natal in 1866 for South America. The diary describes his attempts at pastoral farming and his experiences in Natal.
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Translated from the German by G.V. Marais and J. Hoge; revised and edited by H.J. MandelbroteVolume:I-25 (1944)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)In this third volume of Mentzel's account of life at the Cape he travelled into the interior, to Stellenbosch and Swellendam. He comments on agriculture and viticulture, as well as hunting. The final chapters discuss the Khoi inhabitants.
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Introduction by F.C.L. Bosman and a linguistic view by Prof. Dr. J.L.M. Franken; with a summary in English by P.J. SmutsVolume:I-24 (1943)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)M.D. Teenstra was a Dutch gentleman-farmer, who visited the Cape in 1825. During the course of his stay he went for a cure at the Caledon baths, and visited Genadendal and Cape Agulhas, returning to Cape Town via Franschhoek and Stellenbosch. His observations are acute and full and he made full use of statistics and other official information available to...
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Uitgegee en toegelig deur H.B. Thom; with an English translation by I.M. Murray and J.L.M. FrankenVolume:I-23 (1942)Print Status:Out of printThis volume touches on one of the most important aspects of South African economic history before the discovery of diamonds and gold. It is an early study of the livestock industry at the Cape, especially the development of the merino sheep industry. The author was a colonial-born Company official, who found favour with the British authorities when they took the...
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Edited by A. Gordon-BrownVolume:I-22 (1941)Print Status:Out of printAn unusual account of military life on the Eastern Frontier from the perspective of a common soldier. Adams wrote his account in 1884, forty years after his service in South Africa. The editor observes that 'His improbable tales have proved substantially true on investigation'. He served in the War of the Axe and the action at Zwart Koppies in the...
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Edited by Percival R. KirbyVolume:I-21 (1940)Print Status:Reprint and eBook availableThe second volume of Smith's diary picks up the expedition with descriptions of Baralong social life. The party travelled through the northern Cape to Mafeking and onto Mosega. Subsequently they trekked east and then returned to Cape Town, via Mzilikazi whom they visited for the second time. The diary includes extended accounts of wild life as well as the customs...
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Edited by Percival R. KirbyVolume:I-20 (1939)Print Status:Reprint and eBook availableAndrew Smith, an army doctor, arrived in the Cape in 1820, remaining there until 1837. The expedition to Central South Africa was undertaken to find out more about the people living to the north. Smith travelled up to Kuruman and into Ndabele country, and explored the Oori, Mariqua and Limpopo Rivers. The expedition included a number of missionaries, among them...
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Edited by Prof. J.L.M. FrankenVolume:I-19 (1938)Print Status:Reprint and eBook availableThe Duminy diaries consist of the diary of Johanna Margareta Duminy (1797), the journal of François Duminy of his visit to the Caledon Baths and the Bok river (9 November 1810 to 4 March 1811), the journal of François Duminy's expedition to Walfish Bay in 1793 and Sebastian Valentyn van Reenen's journal of the same expedition. An English translation of...
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Uitgegee deur wyle prof. dr. W. Blommaert en prof. J.A. Wiid. With an English translation by J.L.M. Franken and Ian M. MurrayVolume:I-18 (1937)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint available)This is an account of a journey in to the Eastern Cape undertaken by the Governor of the Cape, J.W. Janssens and Capt Paravicini de Capelli, recorded by D.G. van Reenen. Van Reenen was a prominent burger at the Cape, a winemaker, reputed to make the best wine in the Cape, and he held the wine and meat contracts...
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Edited by Louis HerrmanVolume:I-17 (1936)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Isaac’s journal is one of the first reports of a European on Natal and the kingdom of the Zulus. The first volume begins in 1825 when Isaacs went to Natal for the first time. The major portion of the text consists of a detailed description of Shaka, his society and culture. In 1830 Isaacs returned to Natal when Dingaan reigned...
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Edited by Louis HerrmanVolume:I-16 (1935)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Isaacs' journal is one of the earliest European accounts of Natal and the Zulu kingdom. The first volume opens in 1825 when Isaacs first went to Natal. Most of the volume is devoted to an extended description of Shaka and his society and culture.
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Translated and edited by Dr E.E. MossopVolume:I-15 (1935)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)These journals were published originally in Molsbergen's Reizen in Zuid Afrika. Wikar's report is an account of the daily life and adventures of the first European who is known to have journeyed along the Orange River, while that of Jansz records the first European crossing of the Orange River into South-West Africa . Van Reenen crossed the Orange River into...
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The original texts, with translations into English by I. Schapera and B. Farrington, edited by I SchaperaVolume:I-14 (1933)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Most early travellers to the Cape included some account of the local Khoisan societies. The three works published here are more comprehensive than most, giving a reasonable idea of the state of knowledge about indigenous peoples in the Western Cape by the end of the 17th century. These are the accounts of travellers rather than scientists but the more readily...
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By Clause Fuller; edited by prof. Leo FouchéVolume:I-13 (1932)Print Status:Out of printThis volume reconstructs Trigardt's journey into Natal, using his diary as the basis for this journey. It also records his comments about the people he encountered en route.
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Transcribed and translated into English and edited by Dr E.E. MossopVolume:I-12 (1931)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)The Swede, Olof Bergh, was one of the earliest travellers to undertake the journey up to Namaqualand. The purpose of his journeys was to negotiate with the 'Sousequase and Gourisse Hottentots' , to trade and to familiarise himself with the region up the Cape west coast. Isaq Schrijver of Leiden was also sent north by Governor Simon van der...
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Translated from the original German by Anne Plumptre. London, 1812-15Volume:I-11 (1928-30)Print Status:Out of printIn this second volume Lichtenstein returned to Cape Town via Graaff Reinet and the Karroo. Subsequently he returned to the Swellendam district. His last journey took him north to Kuruman where he encountered the Koranna and the Bechuana.
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Translated from the original German by Anne Plumptre. London, 1812-15Volume:I-10 (1928-30)Print Status:Out of printLichtenstein was a German doctor who travelled widely through the Cape, commenting on the landscape and economy of the people whom he encountered. His first journey, in the western and northern parts of the colony, took him to Saldanha Bay, the Bokkeveld and into the Great Karroo. From there he visited Swellendam and travelled along the southern coast to Algoa...
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Compiled from the original documents in the Government Archives, Windhoek. Introduction by Gustav Voigts and published in collaboration with the SWA Scientific Society.Volume:I-9 (1929)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint available)Hendrik Witbooi, who had been born at Pella, south of the Orange River, was trained as an evangelist. Subsequently he moved north to Gibeon in Namibia where he established himself as a powerful figure, conducting campaigns against the Herero, many of whom were subordinated to him. The diary, which he kept from 1884 to 1894 , is in Dutch,...
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A narrative of the loss of the Grosvernor by John Hynes, one of the survivors, written by George Carter and a translation of the Journal of Jacob van Reenen about the search for the wreck and any survivors by Capt. Edward RiouVolume:I-8 (1927)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Containing a narrative of the loss of the Grosvenor, East Indiaman, wrecked on the Coast of Caffraria, 1782; compiled by Mr George Carter, from the examination of John Hynes, one of the survivors, London, 1791; and Journal of a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope in 1790 and 1791, undertaken by J. van Reenen and others in search of...
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Edited by Sir Geo. E. CoryVolume:I-7 (1926)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Owen produced one of the best-known descriptions of life in Dingaan's kraal, including an account of the Retief massacre, of which he was the only white witness. This was the first time that the diary had been published in its entirety, apart from the Bechuanaland portion 'which had been re-written to include the history but to exclude the theology'.
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Translated from the German by H.J. MandelbroteVolume:I-6 (1924)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)The second part of Mentzel's account of life at the Cape ranges widely, from revenues available to the Cape government, to the daily life of the burghers, public auctions and the treatment of slaves.
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A collection of various documents relating to the Cape and Natal (1695-1710). With a preface by C. Graham BothaVolume:I-5 (1922)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)A collection of various documents relating to the Cape and Natal (1695-1710)
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Translated from the German by H.J. MandelbroteVolume:I-4 (1921)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)The first of three volumes by Mentzel on conditions at the Cape as he found them in the mid-18th century. Mentzel intended to correct the errors perpetrated by such earlier travellers as Kolb. This volume contains an historical background, a description of the physical features of the Cape and accounts of the administration and finances of the colony.
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Original Dutch text with an English version by M.K. Jeffreys and Preface by S.F.N. GieVolume:I-3 (1920)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)This report by De Mist, prepared and completed in January 1802 in Amsterdam, recommends changes to be made to the government of the Cape during the critical years between the two British occupations. It also ranges widely over social, economic and political conditions of the Cape at the end of the 18th century.
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Translated from the German by M. Greenlees; Notes by Kathleen M JeffreysVolume:I-2 (1919)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)This 'biography' of Allemann is, in fact, an entertaining account of social life at the Cape during the mid-18th century. The topics range from the structure of the military forces to the life of slaves, and the revolt of Etienne Barbier to shipwrecks and the financial prospects of young women.
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Direct transcripts of the original documents, made by Margaret Ralling and introduced by John X. MerrimanVolume:I-1 (1918)Print Status:Out of print (Softbound reprint and eBook available)Written in Dutch, with translations in English, according to John X Merriman, one of the founders of the society, these documents deal 'with matters that Dr Theal characterized as, probably, of the greatest importance to the European Settlement in this country'. They are official reports on conditions at the Cape.
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Edited and with Introduction and Footnotes by H B Thom, Professor of History University of StellenboschVolume:JvR - 3Print Status:Out of Print (eBook available)Jan van Riebeeck was born on 21 April 1619. He was descended from a prominent old family from the region of Culemborg, where the three provinces South Holland, Utrecht and Gelderland converged. His father, Anthony, had by way of a surgeon’s qualification entered paid service with the Dutch East India Company, without having to begin his career on the lowest...
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Edited and with Introduction and Footnotes by H B Thom, Professor of History University of StellenboschVolume:JvR - 2Print Status:Out of Print (eBook available)Jan van Riebeeck was born on 21 April 1619. He was descended from a prominent old family from the region of Culemborg, where the three provinces South Holland, Utrecht and Gelderland converged. His father, Anthony, had by way of a surgeon’s qualification entered paid service with the Dutch East India Company, without having to begin his career on the lowest...
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Edited and with Introduction and Footnotes by H B Thom, Professor of History University of StellenboschVolume:JvR - 1Print Status:Out of Print (eBook available)Jan van Riebeeck was born on 21 April 1619. He was descended from a prominent old family from the region of Culemborg, where the three provinces South Holland, Utrecht and Gelderland converged. His father, Anthony, had by way of a surgeon’s qualification entered paid service with the Dutch East India Company, without having to begin his career on the lowest...