Issue number 41
December 2011
Contents
Page
EDITORIAL
v
PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED ARTICLE
Mandela’s undelivered letter to Alan Paton, 1979
1
A visit to uSitaku
Nellie Fincher
5
ARTICLES
Emergency of the State: Detention Without Trial
in Pietermaritzburg and the Natal Midlands, 1986–90
Christopher Merrett
10
World War Two Flying-boats over the Zululand Coast
Jeff Gaisford
34
Lightning Birds and Thunder Trees
Adrian Koopman
40
Doctors, Scholars and Liberals:
120 Years on the King’s School Grounds
Rupert Denham
61
Colonial riverport shipping on the South Coast
Duncan du Bois
71
Early days with the Natal Parks Board: Some personal
reminiscences by a former Principal Scientific Officer
Bob Crass
82
NOTES AND QUERIES
90
OBITUARIES
Victor Bredenkamp
99
Bob Crass
103
Qedusizi Herbert Msimang
105
James Mervyn (“Skonk”) Nicholson
107
George Quicke
109
Patricia Rainie
r
115
BOOK REVIEWS AND NOTICES
118
SELECT LIST OF RECENT KWAZULU-NATAL
PUBLICATIONS
137
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
140
