Vahed teaches history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published on non-racial cricket, indentured labour, religion and culture, and the anti-apartheid struggle. His forthcoming co-authored book is titled Durban’s Casbah: Bunny Chows, Bolsheviks and Bioscopes (UKZN Press).
RETURN TO THE BATTLEFIELDS
Bridge fails to transcend centuries-old bloodlines that stirred troubled water
A new book on the Boer invasion of the Zulu kingdom shows that South Africa's 21st-century fractures are reopening old wounds, writes GOOLAM VAHED.
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JOHN LABAND, the South African historian who is professor emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, has published widely on Zulu history. His works include The Rise & Fall of the Zulu Nation; The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars; Kingdom in Crisis: the Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879; the Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars; and Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier.
The events leading up to the Battle of Blood River of 1838 remain highly contested. Those who read history in the 1970s were subjected to the diet of Piet Retief's murder by Dingane's warriors and the Boers' heroic defeat of the Zulus. In between, a storyline of a deed of cession of Zulu land was touted as giving the Boers a legal right to a large chunk of it.
In his latest book, The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom: 1837-1840, Laband returns to these battlefields, sifting through the archives and testing the integrity of explanations caught up in the ideological bulwark of what was to become Afrikaner nationalism. He wields his pen to sew a garment of many shades into a beguiling narrative...
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Volgende artikelGoolam Vahed
AcademicVahed teaches history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published on non-racial cricket, indentured labour, religion and culture, and the anti-apartheid struggle. His forthcoming co-authored book is titled Durban’s Casbah: Bunny Chows, Bolsheviks and Bioscopes (UKZN Press).