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[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Mtshebwe kaMagaye was born at eMdhlazi. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Mtshodo was a policeman with the Ingwavuma magistracy. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1897.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Mzukele kaKuni was a member of the aba kwa Ndhlovu people. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1921. He was roughly 40 years old when he was interviewed by Stuart.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Ndukwana kaMbengwana was a member of the Masondo people of the Mtetwa people. He herded calves, and then later cattle, as a child at his uncle's kraal, Ekukumbuleni. He also carried mats for Gijimi. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1897, 1900, 1901, 1902, and 1903. He was interviewed many times, at least one of these interviews took place at Impendhle, at least another of these interviews took place in Durban and many of them took place in Ladysmith.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Ndunua kaManqina was born in either 1879 or 1880. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Ngidi (alias Magambukazi) kaMcikaziswa lived near Bellair station. He was a member of the Mngunyana people, which is a section of the Qwabe people. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1904 and 1905.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Nkantolo. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1906.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Ntazini. He was probably an employee of the Stuart household in Pietermaritzburg. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Ntulizwe kaMaqubandaba was born in roughly 1882. He was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment with hard labour for allegedly taking part in the Bambata rebellion. He maintained that he was not a rebel, and was the victim of a conspiracy. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1920 at High Brae (Stuart's home in Hilton, near Pietermaritzburg).]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about John Ogle. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1914.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Arthur Jesse Shepstone was the son of Theophilus Shepstone and was the secretary for Native Affairs in Natal from 1909 to 1910. From 1910 to his death in 1912 he was the Chief Commissioner in Natal. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Sojuba was the chief of the amaKholwa at the Mzumbe Mission Station. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1905.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Mary Stuart was James Stuart's mother. She was interviewed by James Stuart in 1903.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Teteleku kaNobanda was a member of the abakwaMpumuza people and was a chief with adherents in the Umgeni Division and seven other Divisions. He lived in the Swartkop Location. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Tshingana kaMpande was a senior leader of the uSuthu royalist party, and was a major figure in the politics of Zululand in the 1800s. He was involved in the Zululand rebellion of 1888, and was later exiled to St Helena from early in 1890 until the end of 1897. In 1909 he was banished to the Amanzimtoti area of the south coast by the Natal government. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1907. He was interviewed multiple times and at least one of these interviews took place at Gingindhlovu. He died in 1911.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Weli kaNsangwana. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1914.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Zibokwana kaNyamayenja. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1899.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Zulu lived near Marwaqa, then near Stuartstown, then in the Eshowe District. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898. He was roughly 34 years old when he was interviewed by Stuart.]

[Source - FHYA, 2016: Prof Bonner was Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand and held the NRF Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities. He was also the Chair of the History Workshop and was principal organizer of conferences and open days in 1990, 1994 and co-organizer of the 1999 History Workshop on the Truth and Reconciliation Report entitled “Commissioning the Past” the two History Workshop Conferences that were staged in 2001:“Aids in Context” and “The Burden of Race” and the History Workshop Conference on ‘Rethinking Worlds of Labour’, held in July 2006. Each of these has been a landmark intellectual event. Phil Bonner also organized/participated in various teachers’ workshops in Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North-West Province. He was on the editorial committee of the South African Democratic Education Trust and helped supervise the production of Vol.1 of The Road to Democracy in South Africa. He was historical consultant and executive producer to a six part documentary television series entitled Soweto: A History, which embodied a large amount of original historical and film archival research. It was screened on Channel 4 in Britain, on SBS in Australia and was shown on SABC TV 1 to considerable critical acclaim. Phil Bonner was the co-curator of the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. He entered a partnership between History Workshop and the Robben Island Museum and supervised a pilot project interviewing ex Robben Island prisoners.]

[Source - Carolyn Hamilton on the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative website, 2016: In the 1980s, at the beginning of my academic life, I attempted a thesis on power and authority in the Zulu kingdom under Shaka. It was well received, but I came away from the exercise concerned about my sources and the complex entanglements in which they were involved.

I spent the next ten years of my research life probing those entanglements and published Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Invention (Harvard University Press) in 1998. At the time South African Marxist historian reviewers rued what they regarded as my turn to ‘postmodernism’. This surprised me since the book was an attempt to understand the complex interplay over time of political, academic and public discourses and practices that shaped, and were shaped, by the archives used in my original thesis. Terrific Majesty was an enquiry into the making of the archive of Shakan times. I regarded it as a prudent methodological prerequisite to trying to write about the early Zulu kingdom. It was, if anything, a bit prissy and conservative in its historical concern, rather than redolent in postmodern excess.

I felt reasonably sure that I knew enough about political and academic discourses and practices to explore those aspects of my concern. After all, I had a large body of research by other scholars to help me there. But the notions of 'archive' and 'public' were, at the time, less well served by existing scholarly analysis. They became increasingly strange to me and I became uncertain about them, in the way that anthropologists do about such things. (And by then I had come to value anthropological perspectives on the taken-for-granted.) 'Archive' and 'public' thus became the focus of the next series of projects which I initiated: the five year-long Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Research Project, its ongoing successor forum, the Public Life of Ideas Network, the Refiguring the Archive exercise, and its yet ongoing successor, the Research Initiative in Archive & Public Culture.

Sometime shortly I hope to feel sure enough about what has happened to 'the sources' to launch into public life those bits of the original thesis from the 1980s which yet remain unpublished. Scholarly work can be a slow business!

I have had the good fortune to worry about sources, archives, the public life of ideas and many other things in the company of boldly inquiring and imaginative graduate students, from across a range of disciplines. The challenges they offer me, and that they face in pursuit of their ideas, have prompted me to think a great deal about the nature of research development, especially in a transitional context like contemporary South Africa. Issues concerning research development and post-graduate pedagogy are increasingly of as much concern to me as the troublesome entanglements that I have researched.

I first entered university in 1976, baptized into the world of politics in a time of student and worker activism, Yeoville communes, and the dangerous lives of exiles in places like Swaziland. An activist disposition developed then remains with me, realized in the APC Research Initiative most obviously through my nurturing of the Archival Platform intervention, in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation.]