New Contree, No. 69, July 2014 New Contree, No. 69, July 2014 New Contree, No. 69, July 2014 New Contree No. 69, July 2014 A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa New Contree, No. 69, July 2014 New Contree is an independent peer-reviewed journal indexed by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. New Contree is a multidisciplinary focussed peer reviewed journal within the Historical and Human Sciences administrated by the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University. To accommodate more articles from a wide variety of Historical and Human Sciences disciplines (that especially reflect a fundamental historical approach), this Journal has slightly altered its name from 2008. Opinions expressed or conclusions arrived at in articles and book reviews are those of the authors and are not to be regarded as those of the North-West University or the Editorial Advisory Committee of New Contree. Two editions of New Contree are annually published (July and December), and one special issue annually as from 2012. The annual special issue (published in November as from 2013) mainly caters for research disseminations related to local and/or regional history in especially Southern Africa (covering any aspect of activity, topic and phenomenon analysis within the context of for example urban, rural, social, cultural, health, environmental and political life). Researchers from any institution are encouraged to communicate with the editor and editorial team if they are interested to act as guest editor for a special issue. Articles appearing in New Contree are abstracted and/or indexed in Index to South African periodicals, Historical Abstracts, and America: History and Life. The Journal is also listed in The Bowker International Serials Database (New York), The Serials Directory(Birmingham, USA), TheInternational African Bibliography (London), Ebsco Host and the Boloka system. For the latter see: Website address to browse in the New Contree archive for already published volumes and articles: http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969 New Contree, A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa, is mainly published in English though all the officially accepted languages in South Africa are accommodated in all editions. Abstracts in English only are required. Notes for contributors Manuscripts, in any of the official languages, not exceeding 15 pages, typed in Arial font (one and a half line spacing, 12 font) and sent via electronic mail to the editor as an attachment in WORD are welcome. An abstract must also be included in English, regardless of the language of the manuscript. Contributors are asked to write in a clear and reader-friendly style. Please note: The language of both the abstract and the manuscript must be professionally edited before submitting the final approved manuscript to New Contree. 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Editorial Advisory Committee Prof. Patrick Furlong (Alma College, USA) [email protected]; Prof. Albert Grundlingh (University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape) [email protected]; Prof. Louis Grundlingh (University of Johannesburg, Aucklandpark) [email protected]; Prof. Karen Harris (University of Pretoria, Pretoria) [email protected]; Prof. Ackson M Kanduza (Zambian Open University, New Foundland Campus) [email protected]; Prof. Bernard K Mbenga (North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Mafikeng) [email protected]; Prof. Noor Nieftagodien (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) [email protected]; Prof. Robert C-H Shell (University of the Western Cape & Commissioner of Truth and Justice for Mauritius) [email protected]; Mr. Nick Southey (University of South Africa, Pretoria) [email protected]. Layout and Publishing Editor Prof. Elize S van Eeden (North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark) [email protected]. 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Layout & Cover Design Yolandi Krone: +27 (0)82 553 6463 / Email: [email protected] New Contree, No. 69, July 2014 Printers Bontshi Business Services Pty (Ltd), Wierda Park, Centurion, Pretoria Tel: +27 (0)12 653 7263 Postal address - New Contree The editorial staff New Contree School of Basic Sciences North-West University PO Box 1174 Vanderbijlpark 1900 Telephone: (016) 910 3466 Email for subscription enquiries and article enquiries: [email protected] (Magdalene Serobane) Email for article presentations: [email protected] Subscription fees for 2013 (A subscription form is available on the last page of this journal) R 300.00 (Individual members - local) R 400.00 (Local institutions) R450.00 (Africa) Overseas subscribers R700.00 (76$ or 48£) ISSN Particulars 0379-9867 New Contree, No. 70, Special Edition, December 2014 Editorial I CONTENTS Articles Duncan Du Bois Settler security, insecurity and solidarity in colonial Natal 1 with particular reference to the South Coast 1850-1910 Mphumeleli A Ngidi The Natal Inter-Race Soccer Tournament (1946-1960) and 21 race identities in KwaZulu-Natal Ashwin Desai The eye of a violent storm: Inanda, 1985 43 Barry Morton Shembe and the Early Zionists: A reappraisal 71 Halim Gencoglu The first Muslim politician of South Africa: 93 Ahmet Ataullah Beg, 1865 – 1903 Izette Bredenkamp & André Wessels ‘n Historiese perspektief op die kapelaansvrou in die 120 Suid-Afrikaanse militêre milieu Book reviews Toby Green The rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in 141 Western Africa, 1300-1589 Michael Charles Reidy Andrew Bank & Leslie J Bank (eds.) Inside African Anthropology: 148 Monica Wilson and her interpreters Randolph Vigne III New Contree, No. 70, Special Edition, December 2014 Chris Schoeman Angels of mercy: Foreign women in the 153 Anglo-Boer War Barend van der Merwe Robert Shell From Diaspora to Diorama. The Old Slave Lodge 155 in Cape Town Elizabeth van Heyningen Guidelines for New Contree book reviewers 157 New Contree info New Contree guidelines for writing an article 159 Footnote reference guidelines for writing an article 161 New Contree subscription for 2013 167 A IV Editorial EDITORIAL Slavery as phenomenon, the Cape Colony as region and religious leadership, with some connections between all, seem to dominate in this issue of the New Contree. Also noticeable is the historical-related contributions from disciplinary experts in economy and religion. The edition departs with “We are free, you are slaves. Come on, let’s run away”: Escape from Constantia, 1712 in which 23 slaves and exiles planned their unsuccessful risky escape to achieve liberty. As there are so many well recorded accounts of slavery in South Africa, the author expresses this historical event as an oversight in slavery history which deserves recording as it accentuates slave captives’ desire to also be free people. In The marriage patterns of European settlers at the Cape, 1652-1910 the authors assert that the Cape Colony may be of the most well documented settler populations in the world. Together with some progress made in digitising data regarding the South African Genealogical Registers, it became possible to study in more depth, amongst others, the settler marriage patterns from European settlement to unification in 1910. The value of marriage patterns is argued against the background of the present-day impact of womens’ agency in Europe as a key determinant of the rise of a market society. Though no direct relatedness of marriage patterns in the former Cape of Good Hope with that of erstwhile European marriage patterns were identified, the authors efficiently engage with statistical results in past literature to determine whether these are reliable in a modern-day context. In Shembe and the Early Zionists a reappraisal is made of Isaiah Shembe’s pioneering role in the founding of the IBandla lamaNazaretha (Nazarites) church in 1913. The author criticises both the believers of Isaiah Shembe (namely that they saw him as a prophet) and the academics (who developed Shembe’s religious ideas in an autochthonous way). Within the Christian religion an article, titled A historical perspective on chaplain wives in the South African military context provides an extensive review of the traditional, but indispensable, gender role displayed by the spouses of Permanent Force chaplains rooted in a typical patriarchal system in which women took a subordinate position. 1I New Contree, No. 69, July 2014 To further follow, is a debate on the pioneering political role of Ahmet Ataullah Beg in South Africa as first Muslim in this capacity during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The focus of his political endeavours was concluded in the Cape Colony though Ataullah Beg also served as a Turkish emissary for the Ottoman State in the last part of the 19th-early 20th century. In the last article of this edition, a deliberation is made on A Decolonial ‘African mode of self-writing’: The case of Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart.