Browsing by Author "van Heyningen, Elizabeth"

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    The concentration camps of the South African War: A social history
    (2014-09-29) van Heyningen, Elizabeth
    Although the issue of the concentration camps of the South African War remains hugely significant to Afrikaners, there has been surprisingly little research on them. This course will provide a new look at the camps, by locating them in the context of the late nineteenth century colonial world and drawing on a range of archival sources. Since high mortality was the great tragedy of the camps, a major focus will be a fresh look at the deaths, their causes and the reasons for the decline in mortality. There were more black camps than white camps and their history has been as much a political toy as that of the white camps. The course will attempt to place the story of the black camp inmates into perspective. It will conclude by considering the legacy of the camps, from the erection of the Vrouemonument to post-apartheid reconciliation and the forging of a new Afrikaner identity. LECTURE TITLES 1. Was there ground glass in the sugar? Looking at the history of the camps 2. Meat, milk, measles and mortality: disease and death 3. Drunken British doctors and Boer probationers: the practice of medicine 4. ‘Hewers of wood and drawers of water’: the black camps in perspective 5. The legacy of the camps Recommended reading Spies, S.B. 1977. Methods of Barbarism? Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics January 1900–May 1902. Cape Town: Human & Rousseau. Van Heyningen, E.B. 2013. The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History. Auckland Park: Jacana.
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    The relations between Sir Alfred Milner and W.P. Schreiner's Ministry, 1898-1900
    (1971) van Heyningen, Elizabeth
    This thesis compasses a period in South African history to which a considerable amount of attention has been devoted in recent years. Nevertheless it seemed worthwhile making a more detailed study of the activities of the Cape government. Originally I intended limiting this study to an examination of the relations between Milner and Schreiner, but found it necessary to extend the subject to include Milner's relations with the ministry as a whole, as well as Schreiner's relations with Hofmeyr. Schreiner rarely expressed his private opinion on matters of importance, so that it is difficult to disentangle his views from those of the rest of the ministry. the frankest insight into the personal relations of the individual members of the ministry comes from J.H. Herriman's correspondence, while J.H. Hofmeyr's papers throw much light on the relations of the Cape government with the two republics before the war, and make it clear that Hofmeyr was virtually an ex officio member of the ministry. It has not been easy to find a term to describe this group of people. Only two members of the ministry were members of the Bond, while the term "South African Party”, although used both by Schreiner and Merriman on occasion to describe the Bond and its followers in parliament was not sufficiently well established or clearly defined to warrant its use. Although inadequate I have, therefore, referred to them as the Schreiner ministry, with the reservation that Hofmeyr played an important part in their deliberations.