Issue number 29
December 1999

Contents Page EDITORIAL iv PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED PIECE   Mary Moore writes of war Sylvia Vietzen 6 REPRINT   The Battle of Talana Hill, as described in the campaign journal of Lt. R. Ernest Reade, DSO 16 ARTICLES   'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times': Natal and the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 Bill Guest 23 A glimpse into Bushman presence in the Anglo-Boer War F. E. Prins 50 Maritzburg during the siege of Natal, as reflected in The Natal Witness October 1899 to March 1900 W H. Bizley 61 OBITUARIES   Daphne Child 91 Dr Johan Colenbrander 91 Professor Jeffrey Horton 92 Professor Donald Hunter OBE 94 Peter Kerchhoff 95 Lorraine Kettley 98 Bonakele Ntshalintshali 99 Professor Patrick Smythe 99 Col. Jack Vincent MBE 101 Hubert von Klemperer 102 NOTES AND QUERIES 106 BOOK REVIEWS 117 SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL PUBLICATIONS 125 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 128