KRONOS

southern african histories

35
NOVEMBER 2009
Editor
Andrew Bank, History Department, University of the Western Cape
Review Editors
Lance van Sittert, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town
Laura-Jayne Robinson, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town
Design
Jenny Sandler
Administrator
Lameez Lalkhen, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Editorial Board
Andrew Bank, History Department, University of the Western Cape
Teresa Barnes, History Department, University of Illinois
Helen Bradford, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, History Department, University of the Western Cape
Wayne Dooling, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Robert Gordon, Anthropology Department, University of Vermont
Nancy Jacobs, History Department, Brown University
Owen Kalinga, History Department, North Carolina State University
Premesh Lalu, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Peter Lekgoathi, History Department, University of the Witwatersrand
Julie Livingston, History Department, Rutgers University
Nigel Penn, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town
Ciraj Rassool, History Department, University of the Western Cape
Robert Ross, Department for Languages and Cultures of Africa, University of Leiden
Lance van Sittert, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town
Cherryl Walker, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Stellenbosch University
Leslie Witz, History Department, University of the Western Cape
Luvuyo Wotshela, Department of Environmental and Historical Studies, University
of Fort Hare

Kronos: Southern African Histories is published annually by the Department of History

and the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. It is an
accredited South African journal that aims to promote and publicise high quality his-
torical research on southern Africa. The journal also encourages comparative studies and
the work of scholars in allied disciplines, as well as seeking to break new ground in its
dynamic integration of visuals and text.

Manuscripts should be submitted to Andrew Bank, Department of History, University of the

Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535 (Tel: 021 959-2225; e-mail: abank@uwc.ac.za).
Submission of an article implies that it has not previously been published, and is not being consid-
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and book reviews rests solely with the individual authors or reviewers.

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CONTENTS

ARTICLES

6 An early modern entrepreneur:

Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen and the creation of wealth in Dutch
colonial Cape Town, 1702–1741
Gerald Groenewald

32 Demanding satisfaction:
Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth-century
Cape Town
Nigel Worden

48 British air shows in South Africa, 1932/33:

ʻAirmindednessʼ, ambition and anxiety
Gordon Pirie

71 A flying Springbok of wartime British skies:

A.G. ʻSailorʼ Malan
Bill Nasson

98 Utopia Live:
Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation
Paolo Israel

142 Land redistribution politics in the Eastern Cape midlands:

The case of the Lukhanji municipality, 1995–2006
Luvuyo Wotshela

159 Posters act:

Namibian poster action and the photographic poster archive
Dag Henrichsen, Giorgio Miescher, Lorena Rizzo & Jeremy Silvester
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175 Photographic portraiture, neighbourhood activism

and apartheidʼs industrial legacy:
Reflections on the Breathing Spaces exhibition
Marijke du Toit and Jenny Gordon

222 Contestations over knowledge production

or ideological bullying?:
A response to Legassick on the workersʼ movement
Jabulani Sithole

REVIEW ARTICLES

242 Nostalgia and the Native Commissioners:

A hundred years in the Old Transkei
Jeff Peires

248 Not quite fair play, old chap:

The complexion of cricket and sport in South Africa
Bill Nasson
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REVIEWS

257 By Julia Martin, A Millimetre of Dust: Visiting Ancestral

Sites (Nigel Penn)

259 Pippa Skotnes, Unconquerable Spirit: George Stowʼs

History Paintings of the San (David G. Pearce)

261 Kerry Ward, Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the

Dutch East India Company (Pedro Machado)

266 Wayne Dooling, Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule

in South Africa (Pamela Scully)

268 Shamil Jeppie, Language, Identity, Modernity: The Arabic

Study Circle of Durban (Yasien Mohamed)

270 Anna Tietze, The Abe Bailey Collection in the South

African National Gallery (Elizabeth Rankin)

275 Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien, ALEXandra: A

History (Vivian Bickford-Smith)

279 Anne Digby, Howard Phillips with Harriet Deacon and

Kirsten Thomson, At the Heart of Healing: Groote Schuur
Hospital, 1938-2008 (Julie Parle)

285 Iris Berger, South Africa in World History (Nigel Worden)

287 Contributors