oral evidence collected by James Stuart, a Natal civilservant, in the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries has been skillfullyedited in TheJames Stuart Archive.
32. Alan Smith, "The Trade ofDelagoa Bayas a Factor in Nguni Politics, 1780-
1835," in African Societies in Southern Africa, 171-90; P. L. Bonner, "The Dy-
namics of Late Eighteenth Century Northern Nguni Society:SomeHypotheses," in
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1981), 74- 81.
33. Julian Cobbing expounded his thesis in "The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts
on Dithakong and Mblompo," Journal of African History 29:3 (1988): 487-519,
and in a series of unpublished seminar papers, including "The Case against the
Mfecane" (University of the Witwatersrand, 1984), "Grasping the Nettle: The
SlaveTrade and the Early Zulu" (UniversityofNatal, Pietermaritzburg, 1990), and
"Ousting the Mfecane" (colloquium on the Mfecane aftermath, University of the
· Witwatersrand, September 6-9, 199I). Published responses include Elizabeth A.
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