[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: Frida Kunene was from Noodsberg, Natal and was a prospective schoolteacher. Her father was from Swaziland and her mother was from Tongaland. She was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. She was about 18 years old when she was recorded by Mayr.]
Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson
[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: Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson was the son of MP for Stepney, Frederick Wootton Isaacson, and Elizabeth Isaacson, well-known milliner who operated under the trade-name 'Madame Elise', and the brother of Lady Violet Beaumont. Frederick F. J. Wootton Isaacson lived in Slindon with his sister, living in Slindon House as Lord of the Manor. 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 Frans Roodt's online CV: Frans Roodt was born in April 1954. He is an archaeologist and heritage practitioner, who currently works at the University of Limpopo as a lecturer. He received his master's degree in archaeology at the University of Pretoria in 1993. He was in charge of the archaeological research and Site Museum reconstruction and development of the uMgungundlovu site. He worked as the curator of the Polokwane Museums & Heritage in Limpopo from 1996 to 2005.]
Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA)
[Source - Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative website, 2017: Research and enquiries into aspects of the southern African past in the periods predating the existence of European imperial and colonial archives have been complicated by the absence of contemporary written sources. One crucial move to address this apparent obstacle has been to make use of physical objects and sonic items. Yet much of the material concerning the remote southern African past – including artefacts in daily use, objects that testify to trade activities and creative works is misidentified, often undated, lost or dispersed in institutions across the world or held in settings that are largely inaccessible private and/or not recognizably archival. By archival we mean made available for use in such a way that their origins and provenance, and multiple histories across time, are foregrounded. A second concern lies in the ways this material, as well as the written documents that refer to earlier independent periods, was shaped by colonial and later apartheid knowledge practices.
The aim of this project, The Five Hundred-Year Archive (FHYA), a name provided by an earlier initiative (see Swanepoel N., Esterhuysen, A and Bonner, P (eds.), 500 Years Rediscovered: Southern African Precedents and Prospects (Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 2008)- is to develop and promote understandings of the archival possibilities of materials located both within and outside of formal archives and to facilitate their engagement. It does this in order to stimulate interest, research and enquiries into the southern African past.
An initial move in this endeavour is the creation of an accessible online exemplar, which is capable of convening, in a virtual format, visual, textual and sonic materials pertinent to these periods. The exemplar aims to be a conceptually innovative intervention geared to engaging, in a critical manner, inherited forms of knowledge organization. It is being constructed to work across multiple institutions and to incorporate a variety of media formats, be capable of handling diverse objects, and provide context, by taking into account, most notably, the provenance and spatial and temporal locations of the various materials, as well as their multiple histories. The exemplar is designed in such a way as to facilitate recognition and understanding of the ways in which disciplinary conventions and colonial and apartheid knowledge practices have shaped the materials concerned. In some cases, it unpicks aspects of that shaping, notably the forms of classification to which such materials were subjected historically.
The project is a feasibility exercise that explores the possibilities of new ways of thinking about, and stimulating activity in relation to, archives for a region long denied an archive; a region that was offered instead ideas of timeless traditional culture. It does not aim to create an authoritative, stand-alone digital archive that will exist in perpetuity. It is, instead, a catalytic intervention that seeks to activate new kinds of archival energies.
The Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative (APC), based at the University of Cape Town, with the support of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Wits Historical Papers and the Killie Campbell Africana Library, and with expressions of interest from a number of overseas institutions, took the lead in raising the funds for an initial three-year project, which directly addresses both the conceptual and technical aspects of such an endeavour. The initial feasibility study is made in relation to one area (what is today southern Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and the north Eastern Cape region of Southern Africa), but is designed in such a way that its regional coverage could be readily extended in an aggregative way to a much wider geographic area. The feasibility study has two phases: an initial consultation and preparation stage (July 2013 – June 2014) and a second implementation stage (July 2014 – June 2017).]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Falaza. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1898.]
eThembeni Cultural Heritage Management
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using Len van Schalkwyk's LinkedIn profile: eThembeni Cultural Heritage Management is a commercial heritage management organisation that provides advice and guidance concerning heritage landscapes, places and activities, particularly in the context of development.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using "Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume 2" by John Vern, published in 1947; as well as using MAA and CUL materials, 2017: Ernest Balfour Haddon was the son of Alfred Cort Haddon. He was Assistant District Commissioner in Gondokoro in the southern Sudan, then worked in Uganda. During WWI he was an Honourable Captain in the Uganda Carrier Corps. He worked as the Postal Censor in Uganda from 1935-1945. Some of the items of anthropological importance collected by E.B. Haddon are housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using Elize Becker's LinkedIn account: Elize Becker is a South African archaeologist and anthropologist who worked as a Heritage Officer at Amafa KZN Heritage between 2005 and 2007.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Dunjwa kaMabedhla. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1912.]
Dr. Everitt George Dunne Murray
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA , 2017, using the Obituary Notice for Murray written in the Journal of General Microbiology, 1967 Vol. 46, and the McGill University Department of Microbiology and Immunology website, 2017: Dr. Everitt G.D. Murray, known as 'Jo'burg' to his friends and colleagues, was born in Johannesburg in 1890. At age 15 he was sent to Downside School in England, and then went on to study at the University of Cambridge, where he developed a particular interest in zoology. He later underwent medical training at Bart's. In 1916 he qualified as a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. In the same year, he was sent Mesopotamia to work on dysentery, until he fell ill and was sent to India to recover. After India, he returned to Johannesburg to see his father, and worked as Medical Officer in charge of troopships on both the east and west coasts of Africa. He married Winifred Woods in December 1917. In 1919 Murray was appointed Demonstrator in Pathology at Bart’s and in 1920 he became an M.R.C. Research Bacteriologist, at first working in the Field Laboratories in Milton Road, Cambridge. Murray became the first chairman of the Department of Bacteriology at McGill University in 1931. In addition to his various academic posts, Murray actively served McGill’s teaching hospitals. Until 1955 he was Bacteriologist-in-Chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital including the closely affiliated Montreal Maternity Hospital and the Montreal Neurological Institute, and an Honorary Consultant to the Royal Victoria, Montreal General, Children’s Memorial, Jewish General, and Royal Edward Laurentian Hospitals. He was also Honorary Consultant to the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada and a member of the Board of Governors of the Alexandra Hospital. Murray collected ethnographic and biological material from southern Africa, some of which is housed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using African Studies, 1963, Volume 22, Issue 1: Dr. Daniel "Danny" McK. Malcolm was chief inspector of Bantu education from 1920 to 1944, following which, he became the first lecturer in Zulu at the University of Natal, a position he held until his death. He was a leading authority on Zulu literature. He published "A Zulu Manual for Beginners" in 1947, and translated into English two volumes of verse by Zulu poet D.B. Vilakazi. At the time of his death, he was involved in translating and annotating James Stuart's collection of Zulu praise poems.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Dlelankulu Masilela. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Enhlambeni area of Swaziland in 1970.]
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly the Transvaal Museum
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using wikipedia and the Ditsong Museums of South Africa website: The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, South Africa. The museum was initially established in 1892 as the Staatsmuseum (State Museum) of the former South African Republic. The Transvaal Museum became a part of the Northern Flagship Institution (the NFI) in April 1999. The NFI was officially renamed Ditsong Museums of South Africa in April 2010 and the Transvaal Museum was renamed Ditsong National Museum of Natural History at the same time. The Museum’s collections and exhibits include hominid fossils from the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site and associated fauna, including Mrs Ples (the nickname attributed to a fossil skull believed to represent a distant relative of all humankind); fossils, skeletons, skins and mounted specimens of amphibians, fish, invertebrates, reptiles and mammals.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Dinya kaZokozwayo came from the Ifafa mission station and was born at Mhlali circa 1827. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1905.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: Dhlozi kaLanga was born circa 1838, and was the son of Langa kaGobizembe. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1902. He was interviewed multiple times, and at least one of these interviews occurred in Durban.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about George R. Deare. He was a sub-inspector of the police in 'Zululand' from about 1889 to 1890. He was interviewed by James Stuart in 1902.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using wikipedia: Daily News is a daily newspaper owned by Independent News & Media SA and published every weekday afternoon in Durban, South Africa. Between 1936 and 1962 the newspaper was called Natal Daily News. Prior to 1936 (dating back into the 19th century) it was called The Natal (Mercantile) Advertiser.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using KCAL materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Dabula kaMgingqiyizana of the Dunge people. He worked as a rickshaw pulle and was interviewed by James Stuart in 1916.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using wikipedia: DA Thieme was a prominent Dutch publisher in the 1800s. A prize, known as the DA Thiemeprijs, was founded in 1879 by friends of DA Thieme, to be given to a person or organization that has performed exceptionally in or around the Dutch book trade.]
[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: D. Mdhalose was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. She was about 17 years old and a school pupil at the time of recording.]