trines which had gained some currency make the response of the 'believers' to the prophecy even more explicable. Indeed, Peires argues that 'the cattle-killing was a logical and rational response, perhaps even an inevirable respon-se, by a nation driven to desperation by pressures that people today can barely imagine' (p.x). It is a persuasive argument, demonstrated with an empathetic sensitivity to belief systems, with an awareness of the nuances of language, and with due recognition of the material roots.
For this reviewer the secoond half of the book was less powerful than the first. Much of the later chapters is taken up with a hard-hitring atrack on the colonial order, as embodied in the persons of Grey, Maclean.and Gawler. This is a necessary component of the account because, as Peires shows, if Grey did not actually orchestrate the cattle-killing, he cetrainly exploited it ruthlessly to his own advantage. In these later sections, however, some of the coherence of the account is lost. The narrative thread, in the first half so well sustained and neatly interwoven with the analytical sections, tends to break up.
Trying to siruate Peires's book historiographically makes for an interesting exercise. The relatively large narrative component sets it apart from most of the work produced in recent years by South Mricanist scholars who can be loosely labelled as revisionist. Although Peires's analysis is sensitive to the material base, the book is almost entirely free of Marxist concepts and jargon. When was a book last writren by a radical scholar about a pre-capita-list Mrican society without any mention of the term 'mode of production'? Some ctitics might be inclined to place the book firmly in an earlier Afri-canist historiographical tradition, marked by a deep affinity for Africans, and sympathy for Mrican victims of the evils of colonialism.
The dead will arise has ingredients that make it a most readable book. The style is ofren vivid, never pedestrian. There are touches of satire and humour -necessary, perhaps for light relief? Some readers may leave with the impression that Peires has an undue fascination for the'goty and the macabre. Cetrainly there are detailed accounts of atrocities and tonure,
and gruesome descriptions of catrle dying from lungsickness and people from starvation. There are the finely drawn ponraits of the major actors: Maclean and Gawler. There is Peires's own genuine moral outrage at the horrors of colonialism. Most of all there is the fine historical reconstrucrion and sensitive, nuanced analysis of a tragic event.
rend: Kaaps-Hollandse gewels uit die einde van die 18de eeu word 'neo-classical' genoem en die tweede beursgebou in Johannesburg 'n eeu later 'classical'.
Nietemin hied die hoek 'n deeglike oorsig van bestaande voorbeelde van vera! die blanke argitektUurskat. Dit is volgens die vier provinsies verdeel met 'n deels willekeurige rangskikking van stede en dorpe in elke provinsie. Kassies waarin verder op interessanthede soos sosiale figure, argitekte, bou-onderdele en -tegnieke, gebeurtenisse en boustyle ingegaan word, onder-breek die teks op 'n onderhoudende wyse. .
Die talryke volkleurfoto's is een van die bates van die hoek; tog gee die doelbewuste, byna algehele afwesigheid van die menslike figuur aan die geboue 'n onwerklik~ en lewelose voorkoms war die leser ook sonder 'n skaalaanduiding laat. Op een fqto na (p.183) is ook geen historiese foro's of tekeninge van gebo~e opgeneem nie.
Dit is bemoedigend dat uitgewers bereidis om boeke van sulke uitstaande produksiegehalte die lig te laat sien. Die hoek is in groot formaat en hanteer maklik omdat dit geplastifiseer is. Daarby is dit gedtUk op swaar papier en goed gebind.
Ten slotteontstaan die vraag of die hoek werklik 'n nuwe bydrae tot die populere literatUur oor die Suid-Afrikaanse boukuns maak. Weinig nuwe inligting of insigte kom in die publikasie voor en die waarde daarvan Ie waarskynlilr.eerder in die voortreflike wyse waarop dit uitgegee is.
G-M. VAN DER WAAL
Raad vir Geesteswetenskaplike
Navorsing
~
PAUL MAYLAM
University of Nata! (Durban)
D. PICWN-SEYMOUR. Historical buildt..ngs in South AftJ"ca. Struikhof: Kaapstad, 1989. 192 pp. Gell1. R49,95 (eksklusief).
ISBN 0 947458 01 8.
Met die toename in omgewingsbewustheid kan srudies oar boukuns begrip vir die verhou-ding tussen die mens en sy omgewing vergroot -jets wat besig is om oak in Suid-Afrika pas te vat. Bewys hiervan is die publikasie Historical buildings in South Afiica. Dit is gerig op die algemene kulruur-gelnteresseerde publiek en sowel in die aanbieding as in die gehalte van die teks is dit 'n aansienlike verbetering op die auteur se Victorian butlings in South AftJ"ca (1977).
In laasgenoemde het die massa gegewens die werk grotendeels ontoegank-lik vir die algemene publiek gemaak. Oak vir die vakman was dit mindel bruikbaar vanwee ongekontroleerde gegewens en ontbrekende bronver-wysings. Met Histon"cal buildings het die auteur klaarblyklik uitstekende redaksionele hulp onrvang -inkonsekwenthede soos in haar vorige boek is afwesig. Die keuse van geboue in die nuwe boek is -behalwe die van nasionale belang -bloat persoonlik, saGs sy in haar inleiding skryf, en op sigself kan niemand daarteen beswaar inbring Die. Dit relativeer wel die waarde van 'n boek met 'n titel soos hierdie.
Sowel die citel as die omvangryke dekking van geboue suggereer gesagheb-bendheid en objektiwiteit. Maar daarin skiet die boek vel tekort. In die eerste plek verwag 'n mens vandag in Suid-Afrika 'n meeT inklusiewe visie en respek vir die kulture wat Die 'n Westerse herkoms het Die. 'n Mens soek verniet na verwysings na die bouskatte van die swart kulture in die land. Wel gee die auteur aandag aan die boukuns van die Bo-Kaap (p. 27) en enkele moskees en tempels in Natal (pp. 130-132), maar in sy geheel is die boek blanksentries en gerig op die blanke elite-mark.
Tweedens dra die 19de-eeuse benadering weiDig by tot 'n verstaan van die bree problematiek condom omgewingsbewaring. Die verouderde opvat-ting blyk veral uit die isolasie waarin geboue bespreek word, sowel wat hul fisiese as nie-fisiese omgewing betTer.
Verder moet die boek Die sander meeT as betroubare bran oar die Suid-Afrikaanse boukuns gebruik word Die. Die eerste stasiegebou in)ohannes-burg was byvoorbeeld Die 'n ingevoerde uitstalsaal uit Amsterdam rue, maar is spesiaal deur).F. Klinkhamer ontwerp (p. 150). Verder is Die aile NZASM-stasiegeboue in Nederland ontwerp Die, maar die meeste plaaslik deur V.A.H.C. van Lissa (p. 179). Oak die srylaanduidings is misleidend en
verwar-C.C. SAUNDERS et aI. (reds.). Studies in' the history of Cape 1Own. Volume 6. History Depanment and Centre for_African Studies, Universiry of Cape Town: Kaapstad, 1988. R8,OO
(eksklusief).
ISBN 0799211516.
In die reeds bekende reeks oar die geskiede-nis van die 'moedersrad' na 1800 is hierdie me deel deur personeel en srudente van die Univer-siteit van Kaapsrad 'n verdere welkome bydrae. Die nege anikels het 'n bykans eenvormige tema, naamlik die belewenisse van die Kaapse mindergegoedes in die grater wordendestede-like gebied.
Katherine Elks ontleed misdaad en pogings om dit. te bekamp in die tydperk tussen 1830 en 1850. Sy wys onder meer op die groor getal drink-plekke wat in die Kaap bestaan het en beskryf oak die euwels wat daarmee gepaard gegaan het. Die opkoms van 'n groor grondbesittersklas word -vir bykans dieselfde periode as in die vorige artikel -deur Digby Warren geskets. Huisvestingprobleme vir die mindergegoedes en hul uitbuiring deur die betergegoedes was 'n algemene ~rskynsel, terwyl bepaalde woonge-biede reeds as toekomstige agterbuurte geldentifiseer kan word.
In haar artikel beskryfVivian Bickford-Smith die vinnige veranderinge wat in Kaapstad ingetree het met die korns van die diamant- en goudmynin-dustriee in die binneland gedurende die 1870's. Voor die tyd was daar nie veel nywerheidsontwikkeling in Kaapstad self nie, maar die gaping tussen groepe inwoners en rassebewustheid het reeds bestaan. Die ontwikkeling van die hawe met fondse wat deur die koloniale besluitnemers bewillig is, het egter gesorg dat Kaapstad sy mededingende posisie as uitvoerhawe behou het, ongeag sy ligging ver van die goud- en diamanunyne.
'The Badge of Respectability' is die titel van Andrea Badham se bydrae oar die rol van die Anglikaanse gemeenskap in die Woodstock-omgewing teen omstreeks die eeuwending. Die Anglikaanse Kerk het 'n spesifieke statussimbool verteenwoordig. Dit het opvoeding naamlik tot 'n moreel eerlike leefwyse en finansiele selfstandigheid probeer bevorder ten einde 'n oplossing vir rassevooroordeel en drankmisbruik te hied.
Die vete van vakmanne met hul werkgewers by die Soutrivierse spoorweg-werkplaas en hulle onverwagte steun aan die Suicl-Afrikaanse P:arty word in 'n volgende anikel behandel. Die cede vir diE toedrag van sake spruit klaarblyklik uit die Soutrivierarbeiders se toenemende konsetwatisme en strewe na 'n aanvaarbare middelklasgemeenskap.
Nog 'n groep wat in 'Slawe van die Fabriek' aan die orde kom, is die na-oorlogse kreefvisarbeiders van Houtbaai. Hul probleme en frustrasies word beskryf: die maatreels wat FrankrYk ingestel het om sy eie kred'bedryf te beskerm; hul vergoedingspaket -wat huisvesting ingesluit het -, ongelet-terdheid, armoede, uitbreiding van die stad, hoer tegnologiese eise en hul mislukte pogings om 'n vakbond te stig.
Vera! in die stUdies oar die meer onlangse verlede het die navorsers gebruik gemaak van mondelinge getuienis van nag lewende deelnemers. Dit het dikwels opwindende en bruikbare inligting opgelewer. Bill Nasson, hoof van die projek om mondelinge geruienis in te win, hied juis 'n insiggewende teoretiese besinning oar die metode en waarde daarvan.
In sy oorsigtelike inleidingsanikel gee Christopher Saunders 'n goeie ver-talking van die plek en bydrae van die soon srudies wat in die bundel opge-neem is. Dit laat die klem val op die betekenis van sodanige 'klein' srudies in
die plaaslike
geskiedenis.
Kaapstad
vera! het 'n Irk verlede
wat vir die doel
ontgin kan word. Dit bevestig
hierdie sesde
nommer van die reeks
dan ook.
l.I. HATTINGH
Universiteit van wes-Kaapiand
covered, usually in a variety of disciplines. No attempt is therefore made to impose any logical thematic unity on the papers chosen for publication. This book is no exception, ranging in topic from the impact of the environ-ment on pre-historic setdeenviron-ment patterns (N. Lancaster), through town plan-ning and housing policy in Cape Town between the world wars (1. Ie Grange), to contemporary English language poetry in South Africa O. Cronin).
There are two papers on Namibian history. Brigitte Lau discusses the early German impact during the 19th century, and the resistarice offered them by indigenous people. Keith Gottschalk takes up the theme with his spirited re-examination of the famous Bondelswarts Rebellion of 1922, when it small Nam~ group invited colossal state repression when they refused to pay dog tax. He describes the process of land alienation from these pas-toral people and analyses the nature of the colonial state. He concludes that the 'rebellion' was a result of the determination of the authorities to exert their power over a people who resisted the drive of local whites for labourers.
In an inter-disciplinary paper, Glen Mills criticises the tendency to read assumptions about ethniciry into vernacular building sryles. Lucien Ie Grange examines the way British urban renewal ideas were used in Cape Town to build an increasingly segregated ciry in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Jack Lewis examines the early development of migrant labour from the Ciskei, arguing that the growing ~liance on migrancy had as much to do with contradictions within African households and chiefdoms as with external forces. Ian Glenn takes us into the realm of English literature by examining the way in which the Immoraliry Act has been portrayed in English fiction; and Jeremy Cronin investigates black English-language poetry in the 1970s. Finally, educationalist Alan Morris seeks to fe-insert a sense of the importance of social-class background in any understanding of the success or failure of black and white schoolchildren respectively.
-Although lacking unity, this volume demonstrates the vitality of research being undertaken in a variety of disciplines in Cape Town.
17M KEEGAN
University of the western Cape
K. SCHOEMAN (ed.). The early days of theOrange Free State: Charles warden; W:D. Savage; Martha]ane Kirk.. Hu~an & Rousseau: Cape Town and Pretoria, 1989. 111 pp. R29,95 (exclusive). llIus.
ISBN 0 798123273.
This collection of reminiscences from the pioneering days in the history of the Orange Free State is the tenth publication in the series
Vrijstatza under the auspices of the prolific Karel Schoeman. In publishing memoirs, diaries, recollections and sketches of this nature from the history of the republican days, Schoeman has cenainlyrendered the history of the Orange Free State an invaluable service. Not only has forgotten and mislaid docu-mentation (e.g. the J.G. Fraser Basotho diary) been uneanhed, but an exciting window has been opened into the life and experiences of ordinary people (e.g. Sophie I.eviseur and Manha Kirk) during those distant d~ys.
The early days of the Orange Free State comprises three recollections: those of Charles Frederick Warden, William Douglas Savage and Manha Jane Kirk. Warden's recollections cover the years 1846 to 1855. He was the son of Major H.D. Warden, British resident at Bloemfontein during the Orange River Sovereignty years. His reminiscences were first published in 1899 by the Harrismith News after a talk to the Harrismith Uterary Society. A copy of this text is kept in the Mricana section of the library of the University of the OFS. Warden's recollections were recorded about 44 years after the events he described took place. He was ten years old when he lived through the first events depicted in these memoirs. It is therefore obvious that the memoirs should be treated with caution, and all the more so since he admit-ted to having relied on secondary sources such as those by G.M. Theal. The recollections of Savage, soldier, secretary, bookkeeper and town clerk of Bloemfontein (1884-1885), deal with the years between 1&53 and 1858. His 'Reminiscences of early days' was first published in De Express (1885) and in this case almost 30 years have therefore passed before pen was put to paper. Savage's memory seems to have left him in the lurch at times (e.g. he identifies De la Rey and Quigley as the two men executed after the BoomplaatS incident, while it was actUally Thomas Dreyer and Quigley). H~~ recollections should therefore also be treated circumspectly.
The final contribution is made by the memoirs of Kirk, wife of a trader and smous, who spent most of their days trading among Basotho and whites in Basiltoland and the eastern Free State. Kirk's memoirs are the most com-prehensive of the three and cover the years 1848 to 1884. They were recorded when she was over 80 years old and consequently contain, like those of the others, accountS of a dubious nature (compare, for example, the section on Brand and the diamond fields related on p. 85).
Although none of the memoirs is distinguished as being paniculatly notewonhy, they nevenheless contain some interesting anecdotes about evetyday life during those times. It is evident that the publication is intended rather for general consumption than for the specialist. Sometimes notes illuminate imponant events, places and people, while in other instances, people and places mentioned in the text are not identified. The editor has also decided to edit the original text in an attempt to lure the general public into reading histoty without having to wade through 'dreary stuff: But this has limited the scientific value of the publication since it is not always clear whether one is dealing with the edited or unedited versions.
S.E MALAN
University of South Africa
A.D. SPIEGEL
(ed.). Africa seminar: collected
papers. Volume 5. Centre for African Studies,
University of Cape Town: Cape Town, 1988.
168 pp. RI0,OO
(exclusive).
ISBN 0 79921 180 X.
This, the fifth volume in the Collected
papers
series from the weekly Africa seminar of the
Centre for African Studies, UCT, is probably
the last. The cost of production and the fact
that there are many established
academic
jour-nals available for the publication of quality
re-search,
mean that the 'collected
seminar
papers'
genre is no longer commercially
viable. In all
such collections a wide variety of topics is
T. STRAUSS (comp.) and C. SAUNDERS (ed.). Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula post 1806: a working bibliography. Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town: Cape Town, 1989. 141 pp. Price unknown.
ISBN 0 7992 1194 X.
The aim of this bibliography is to assist those researching aspects of Cape Town life and histo-ry since the British occupation of the Cape in 1806. It includes material, published up to 1987, in the J.W. Jagger Library of the Universiry of Cape Town, the Library of Parliament and the South African Library. The criteria for inclu-sion were the following: a book, if sub-stantial reference was made ~o Cape Town, and a journal article if it related directly to Cape Town. Entries are arranged by broad subject listed in the table of contents. Items are listed once only, even if they could be placed under more than one heading. At the end of sections, cross references to other entries are found and at the back of the book there is an author index. This bibliography is to a great extent a duplication of existing biblio-graphies listed in section 1, as well as the South Afiican bibliography by Sidney Mendelssohn, A South Afiican bibliography to the year 1925, Retro-spective South Afiican national bibliography and South Afiican national bibliography. Although credit is due to the compiler and the editor for attempting such a project, one must carefully consider the value of publishing a bibliography in 1989. In a small country like South Africa there is always the problem of duplication. A time-consuming and expensive exercise, not only for the compiler but also for the user, it gives in published form that which a search in SABlNET (South African Bibliographic and Information NetWork) could provide -a list of monographs on Cape Town in all South African libraries linked to the database and not only in the three principal Cape Town libraries. The bibliography could have been of some value had it included journal articles, since there is at present no central database in South Africa which includes all journal articles published in and on South Mrica for the period 1806-1986. But again the bibliography duplicates material already indexed in the Index to South Afiican penodi-cals. It also does not cover all journals available in the three libraries men-tioned.
The organization of the items by broad subject is never a very successful one for the user of a bibliography. The compiler chooses the subject most obvious to him but one which might not be the subject under which the user will search for information. The sources which the user might find useful thus remain virtually untraceable. Neither the cross references at the end of each section nor the author index compensate for the absence
