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Papers by Susan Newton-King

Canadian Journal of African Studies, 2000

List of figures page vi List of maps vii List of tables vii Acknowledgments viii Glossary xi 1 A ... more List of figures page vi List of maps vii List of tables vii Acknowledgments viii Glossary xi 1 A note on the narration of colonial beginnings 1 2 Introducing the characters 11 3 Initial encounters of an uncertain kind 37 4 'A multitude of lawless banditti' 63 5 Strong things 92 6 'The frenzy of the heathen' 105 7 The enemy within 116 8 'We do not live like beasts' 150 9 'A time of breathing' 210 10 Postscript 232 Appendix 1 Currency and measurements 235 Appendix 2 Earnings capacity of sampled estates 236 Notes 248 Bibliography 317 Index 332 v 1 Document signed by Willem de Klerk. page 2 Jeune Hottentot Gonaquoi, by François le Vaillant. 3 Transect across the eastern Cape. 4 Climograms contrasting the general climate of the Cape Fold Mountain area and the Karoo-Cape Midlands area. 5 Kraal van Kaptein Ruyter, by Johannes Schumacher. 6 Head of Housouana man, by François le Vaillant. 7 Head of Housouana woman, by François le Vaillant.

Nearly every potted histoxy of South Africa begins with the observation that the initial purpose ... more Nearly every potted histoxy of South Africa begins with the observation that the initial purpose of white settlement in the region was to provide a source of fresh provisions to the ships of the Dutch East India Company. It is also generally agreed that, owing to a combination of factors, such as the nature of shipping demand, the price of grain in Ebmpe and Batavia, the inferior quality of Cape wines, the aridity of the Cape hinterland and the difficulties of transport (l), the prime importance of the Cape to East Indian commerce, apart from its strategic position, lay in its role as a supplier of meat. But what is now under dispute is the extent to which the market for meat and other pastoral products conditioned the expansion and social organization of white settlement in the interior of the Colony.

Kronos (Bellville, South Africa), 2002

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2005

Proteus (2003; 100 min., Canada and South Africa) is a low-budget feature fi lm, directed by John... more Proteus (2003; 100 min., Canada and South Africa) is a low-budget feature fi lm, directed by John Greyson (Toronto) and Jack Lewis (Cape Town), that made the international rounds of "art cinema" and queer festivals in 2003 and 2004, with limited theatrical release in New York, Toronto, and other cities. The fi lm advances Greyson's and Lewis's experiments with political essay-narrative forms both in their respective documentary, experimental, and dramatic videos dating back to the early 1980s (including Lewis's Apostles of Civilized Vice [1999]) and in Greyson's theatrical feature fi lms beginning with Urinal in 1988. Based on an early-eighteenth-century court record, Proteus narrates the meeting, sexual relationship, and eventual trial and execution for sodomy of two prisoners in the Dutch Cape Colony, the Dutchman Rijkhaart Jacobsz and the Khoi Claas Blank. Subsidiary narratives focus on the Scottish botanist Virgil Niven, who observed the prisoners, and on the contemporaneous crackdown on sodomites in Amsterdam. GLQ initiated the following "virtual conversation" among the two directors, Israeli queer legal theorist Noa Ben-Asher, American fi lm scholar R. Bruce Brasell, American fi lm critic Daniel Garrett, and South African historian Susan Newton-King. Though it will "spoil" the plot for readers who have not seen the movie, we offer it as a lively debate about one of the more interesting entries in the new "new queer cinema." The debate explores the precarious and artful interrelationship of histories, nations, narratives, and the law; cinematic intent and spectatorial GLQ 11:3 pp. 437-455

A Dog History of Southern Africa

This is the story of Claas Holder and of my attempts to understand the circumstances of his lonel... more This is the story of Claas Holder and of my attempts to understand the circumstances of his lonely death. Claas Holder's death is mentioned only twice in the records left by the Dutch authorities at the Cape. The first entry covers only one page, but it is by far the longest. The second is no more than a scratch in the muster rolls of Drakenstein district. Each year from 1710 to 1713, ?Claas Oudom' was listed as a member of a burgher infantry division led by Captain Abraham de Villiers, but his name was crossed off the list for 1713 and someone had pencilled the word ?dood' in the margin. Leviticus 18:23 provides some insight into why it should be necessary to kill the animal: ?You will not have intercourse with any kind of animal; you would become unclean by doing so.Keywords: Captain Abraham de Villiers; Claas Holder; Claas Oudom; dog; Drakenstein district; Leviticus

Kronos: journal of Cape history, 2007

This article explores the interacting dynamics of race, class, status and respectability in the e... more This article explores the interacting dynamics of race, class, status and respectability in the emerging colonial society at the Cape of Good Hope in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is essentially a case study, which examines the background to the trial and execution of Gerrit Coetzee, the first freeburgher to be accused of sodomy at the Cape. By implication, it raises a number of questions about the rural community in which Gerrit was raised and it re-opens old debates about the degree of colour blindness and the determinants of status in early colonial South Africa. Was Gerrit a victim of racial or social prejudice? Was he excluded, cold-shouldered or otherwise subtly marginalised by his young male peers in Daljosafat, where he lived? Was he driven by prejudice to seek the company of other marginalised individuals and ultimately to engage in suicidally transgressive behaviour? Or was he simply a young man who wrecked his chances by going too far?

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1999

... to psychotherapy, Newton-King awakens the reader's anticipation for an innovative and di... more ... to psychotherapy, Newton-King awakens the reader's anticipation for an innovative and disruptivelook at the ... number of notable interventions, namely in its focus on the San and Khoi in the ... King contradicts Guelke's idea that the frontier was a place where any young white man ...

South African Historical Journal, 1991

... Susanna, - 9.10.1785, X Sybrand van Dyk fG Johannes Frederik, - 8.11.1789, X Helena Catharina... more ... Susanna, - 9.10.1785, X Sybrand van Dyk fG Johannes Frederik, - 8.11.1789, X Helena Catharina van der Menve g1 Willem Johannes, = 26.12.1809 f7 Susanna Catharina, 2 6.7.1794 f8 Anna Magdalena Jehanna, = 27.2 .l803 e2 Willem, 25.11.1759, burger Swellendam, X ...

The Journal of African History, 1985

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1983

South African Historical Journal, 1993

Out of History: Re-imagining South African Pasts, edited by Jung Ran Forte, Paolo Israel and Leslie Witz (HSRC Press), 2016

Breaking the chains: Slavery and its legacy in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony, edited by Nigel Worden and Clifton Crais (Witwatersrand University Press), 1994

This chapter is based on the most important chapter in my doctoral dissertation, which was publis... more This chapter is based on the most important chapter in my doctoral dissertation, which was publisghed in 1999 as Masters and servants on the Cape eastern frontier.

Cape Town between East and West: Social identities in a Dutch colonial town (edited by Nigel Worden and published by Jacana Media), 2012

This chapter explores the family relationships and wider social network of two freed slaves, Arno... more This chapter explores the family relationships and wider social network of two freed slaves, Arnoldus Koevoet and his wife, Anna Rebecca of Bengal, who lived in Cape Town in the 1730s. the chapter is based on a small but very significant collection of letters received by the couple in the 1730s, from correspondents in the Netherlands, Batavia and Ceylon.

Magnifying perspectives: Contributions to history, a Festschrift for Robert Ross, edited by Iva Pesa and Jan-Bart Gewald (Leiden: African Studies Centre, Leiden, occasional publication number 26), 2017

This article presents a detailed exploration of the status of freed slaves (called 'free blacks' ... more This article presents a detailed exploration of the status of freed slaves (called 'free blacks' by the Dutch authorities) in early colonial Cape Town and surrounds. It takes issue with the long held view that freed slaves did not share the legal or social status of freeburghers, but rather occupied an intermediate position between freeburghers and slaves.

Lance van Sittert and Sandra Swart (eds), Canis Africanis: A dog history of Southern Africa (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 2008

This article explores the background to a suicide which occurred on the banks of the Breede River... more This article explores the background to a suicide which occurred on the banks of the Breede River, not far from the present-day town of Ceres, in 1713. This was the first of my 4 articles on sodomy cases at the Cape of Good Hope in the early 18th century. As such, it devotes a lot of space to the theological and legal treatment of sodomy in West European history and law.

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