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[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2020, using the Wits Historical Papers Research Archive: Ruth Muller is a librarian, archivist, researcher, former ANC member (1990-2005) and activist. She was born in the UK in 1951. In 1979, she moved to Mozambique to live and work for 9 years. In 1988, she moved to South Africa, after which she worked at a number of entities including TML, the SABC, the IBA, the University of Cape Town, and the University of the Witwatersrand. She has a Social Science degree, a Post Graduate Diploma in Librarianship and Information Studies, and a Masters degree in History.]

[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.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: Nogwaja was from Greytown, Natal, and was the chieftain of the Makabela people. He was recoded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. He was about 40 years old at the time of recording.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: M. A. Msane was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2018, using The Collection of Father Franz Mayr Zulu Recordings 1908, CD booklet: Mbonambi Kanyile was a traditional healer. He was recorded by Father Franz Mayr in around 1908. He was about 55 years old at the time of recording.]

[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2016, using JAG materials: Jonathan Lowen is a judge, originally from South Africa, now living in London. He sourced items from a wide range of places including antique dealers, markets such as Portobello Road, auction sales, etc. Because the Johannesburg Art Gallery was unable to raise the money to buy Lowen’s collection, it was purchased by wealthy businessman and philanthropist Harry Oppenheimer and placed on long-term loan at JAG. Subsequent to the Brenthurst Collection being sold to the Oppenheimer family Lowen has continued to assemble collections of southern African material. A large part of the Maritz collection was bought by Maritz from Lowen.]

[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2016, using materials from Ruth Gordon and John Wright: These figures were possibly made by the carver Mhlophekazi. Originally from Swaziland, Mhlophekazi worked as a head attendant for Theophilus Shepstone from 1859. At the time of his death in 1897 at the age of 80, he was still in the family’s employ. The author Rider Haggard must have met him in 1870 at the same time that he met Shepstone. He became the inspiration for the fictional character Umslopogaas in Haggard’s books about the adventures of Alan Quartermain.]

[Source - Nessa Leibhammer for FHYA, 2017, using materials from JAG and Brodie: Mordechai Brodie was an avid collector of objects of material culture from southern Africa. Starting in 1979, he began traveling in Swaziland and Natal, and later in the whole of southern Africa, collecting 'traditional' pieces. He owned a shop called African Magic, which opened in 1982, and operated in the 1980s and early 1990s, where he sold these items, many of which he collected himself. His intent was to find, appreciate, and value the producers of all types of art and craft in southern Africa, attempting to move away from the idea of African craft as 'curios', and ensuring that significant items of material culture stayed in southern Africa, and were made available to the public. To this end he supplied many pieces from his collection to a number of public institutions and public collections, such as the University of Witwatersrand, the Afrikaner Museum, the National Gallery in Cape Town, the Johannesburg National Gallery, and the Killie Campbell Africana Library.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Simbimba Ndlela. He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the eTibondzeni area of Swaziland in the 1980s, and again by Isaac Dlamini on behalf of the Royal House of Dlamini at the Embo State House in Swaziland in 1982.]

[Source - FHYA, 2017: Michael Westcott, a graduate of York University, who had a research interest in oral history, assisted in the transcription and translation of a selection of the Swazi recordings of interviews done by Carolyn Hamilton and Philip Bonner in the 1970s and 1980s.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Mkhonto Ndwandwe. He was interviewed by Isaac Dlamini on behalf of the Royal House of Dlamini at the Zitkhotheni area of Swaziland in 1970.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Nkonzo Hlatshwayo (Hlatshwako) worked as an interviewer who worked on behalf of Carolyn Hamilton in Swaziland in the 1980s. He also worked as a transcriber and translator during for Hamilton's other interviews.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Ruth Ndlela was a translator and transcriber who worked on the interviews conducted by Carolyn Hamilton in Swaziland in the 1980s.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Samuel Mhawukelwa Mkhonto (Mkhonta). He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the eTunzini area of Swaziland in the 1980s.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Nyandza Nhlabatsi. He was interviewed by Carolyn Hamilton in the Kazameya area of Swaziland in the 1980s.]

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: Mr. Ndlangamandla conducted some interviews with Carolyn Hamilton in Swaziland in the 1980s, as a part of her research into Swazi history.]

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

[Source - Chloe Rushovich for FHYA, 2017, using WITS materials: At this time the FHYA has not been able to locate biographical information about Mvandasi Dlamini. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Luhlendlweni 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 Sambane Dlamini. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in the Maphalaleni 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 Siphikoleli Dlamini. He was interviewed by Philip Bonner in Swaziland in the 1970s.]