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

[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 - 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: 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: Xubu kaLuduzo was a member of the Radeba people. He was one of Someswu's messengers - Soweswu was Theophilus Shepstone. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Lazarus Xaba arrived in Natal from Swaziland with Reverend Albert Allison in 1846. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1910 in Pietermaritzburg. He was 72 years old when he was interviewed by Stuart.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Wondi was of Zuma isibongo, which was a part of the Basuto race. He lived at Byrnetown. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1907 in Pietermaritzburg.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using an extract from Dictionary South African Biography Vol 5: William Wood was a Zulu interpreter, ivory trader and hunter, born in the Cape Colony in 1824. In 1836 he began to attend the Rev. G. Champion's school at the Umlazi mission. He worked as an interpreter for the Reverend F. Owen at uMgungundlovu where he witnessed the murder of Piet Retief.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about William Crofts. They appear to have been a publisher in the nineteenth century.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using www.librarything.com: Willem Johannes (W. J.) De Kock was a South African historian and author who wrote "History of South Africa" and the "Dictionary of South African Biography".]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using information provided by Gavin Whitelaw: Wendy E. Cubbin wrote the paper 'A physical reconstruction of Mgungundlovu, Dingane's umuzi circa 1837, based on eye witness accounts and supported by authoritative studies' for the Pietermaritzburg Girls' High School Natal Senior Certificate in 1983. This was later published in ‘Yesterday and Today’ journal number 15, April 1988. At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate any further biographical information about Wendy Cubbin.]

[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, 2020, using Tim Keegan's "Colonial South Africa:Origins Racial Order" : Reverend William C. Holden was a Methodist who arrived in Port Natal in 1847 to serve as a 'settler scribe' to J. C. Chase. He published "The History of the Colony of Natal" in 1855.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA , 2017, using The Complete Peerage by George Edward Cokayne; the St Mary's Slindon website (www.stmarysslindon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Beaumont-Lady-Violet.doc); and the Slindon Village website, 2017: Violet Elise Marie Louise Stapleton (neé Isaacson), also known as Lady Beaumont, was the daughter of MP for Stepney, Frederick Wootton Isaacson, and Elizabeth Isaacson, well-known milliner who operated under the trade-name 'Madame Elise'. Violet Isaacson married Henry Stapleton, Lord Beaumont, in 1888. Lord Beaumont died in 1892. Lady Beaumont then moved to Slindon with her brother, Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson, living in Slindon House. In 1917, Slindon House became a Convalescent Hospital, overseen by Lady Beaumont. Post war the house was cleared, and Lady Beaumont and Wootton Isaacson were able to resume normal life. Lady Beaumont donated material collected by her brother to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. This material was accessioned in 1948.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Vezi. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1900 or early 1901, probably in Ladysmith.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Velamuva Malinga, Induna of Chief Magcolo Mabuza. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Mgofelweni area of Swaziland in 1970.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Velamuva Hlatshwayo. He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the Hlatshwako chiefdom near Gege in Swaziland in the 1980s.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018: Various correspondents have written letters to John Parkington - these letters are gathered together in John Parkington's Research Material.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using the UKZN website: The University of KwaZulu-Natal was formed on 1 January 2004 as a result of the merger between the University of Durban-Westville and the University of Natal. The University of Durban-Westville was established in the 1960s as the University College for Indians on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay. Founded in 1910 as the Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg, the University of Natal was granted independent university status in 1949 owing to its rapid growth in numbers, its wide range of courses and its achievements in and opportunities for research.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA using the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press website, 2017: The Killie Campbell Africana Library and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Press are the joint publishers of 6 volumes of the James Stuart Archives, edited by Colin de B. Webb and John Wright, in 1976, 1979, 1982, 1986, 2001 and 2014 successively. Volume 7, which will carry the praises that were omitted from the previous six volumes, is in preparation. The Killie Campbell Africana Library (KCAL), located at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, is well known for its comprehensive collection of books, manuscripts and photographs, covering a broad sweep of information about the south east African region and its population. The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) Press is a quality publisher of scholarship and general expertise books for both academic and general readers. Their range is wide and includes social, political, economic and military history, gender, natural sciences, African literature and selected novels.]