The Man Behind the Beard Deneys Schreiner: A South African Liberal Life

Author:   Graham Dominy
Publisher:   University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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9781869144449


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 February 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Deneys Schreiner was one of an illustrious family that produced a world-famous author (his great-aunt Olive); a prime minister of the Cape Colony (his grandfather, W.P, who also defended a Zulu prince against specious charges in a colonial court); and Appellate Justice O.D. Schreiner, his father, who fought against National Party efforts to remove coloured people from the common voters’ roll. Deneys was an academic, a scientist and a man of strong liberal principles, with a good sense of humour and widespread interests in the sciences, arts and public affairs. These qualities enabled him, in his quiet, steady way, to transform what was then the University of Natal and the society around it. Between the 1960s and 1980s, he supported and initiated several important endeavours to promote constitutional futures other than those imposed by the apartheid government. One of the most significant of these was the Buthelezi Commission, which he chaired. This biography sets out the contexts of Deneys’s forebears, his youth, wartime service, studies in Britain and America, family life, and tenure as vice principal, as well as the context of the times in which he lived. It is based on extensive archival research, supported by interviews with family members, former colleagues, friends and journalists. The picture that emerges is of a man who made a great contribution to the struggle for democracy in South Africa. And then there is the story of his beard, once described as a potent symbol of his presence and implacable integrity.

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Author:   Graham Dominy
Publisher:   University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Imprint:   University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781869144449


ISBN 10:   1869144449
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 February 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Graham Dominy is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of South Africa. He studied at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (BA Hons HDE) at the time that Deneys Schreiner was a major presence on the campus. He also has an MA from the National University of Ireland, a postgraduate Diploma in Museum Science (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria and he obtained his PhD from the University of London, studying under the renowned Professor Shula Marks. An archivist, museum and heritage specialist, he worked for many years in archives and museums in Natal before moving to Mpumalanga Province as Director of Arts and Culture in 1996. Graham was the National Archivist of South Africa for more than ten years and spearheaded President Thabo Mbeki's Timbuktu Manuscripts Project. His first book, Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2016. He has also published more than sixty academic and professional articles besides being a weekly columnist for the then Natal Witness for several years. More recently, he worked as Knowledge Centre and Collections Specialist at The Oman Across Ages Museum in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. He is married to Anne, a lawyer who is also a University of Natal and National University of Ireland graduate. They have a son, daughter-in-law, and a pride of cats.

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